MIT: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton
...are concentrated in a few "genomic islands," small zones where different kinds of genes get swapped in and swapped out, known among molecular geneticists as "hot spots" for gene exchange. The distributors or carriers of new genes, they suspect, are the massive numbers of viruses also known to exist in seaw...Environmentalists' 'marine reserve' proposals misguided, report suggests
...clare small areas of the North Sea as 'no-fishing' zones would not save our flagging fish stocks, suggests a new report by Newcastle University for the British Government's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. (DEFRA). Marine protected areas (MPAs) would need to be tens of thousands of squa...Pacific Islands paradise protected
...her sustainable economic development in designated zones of the protected area. In creating the protected area, the Republic of Kiribati took a significant step toward meeting protected area commitments for 2010/12 under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Island Biodiversity Program of Work. "T...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...ea life. Fish and other creatures trapped in these zones often die. Those that escape may be more vulnerabl... stresses. This new study, Wu says, suggests these zones potentially pose a third threat to these species an inability of their offspring to find mates and ...Book on avian hybrids gives startling new insights into birds' breeding habits
...any hybrids are produced on an ongoing basis. Such zones lie between the ranges of the two interbreeding ty...tions; however, in many cases the position of such zones doesn't seem to be determined by any particular environmental factor. In fact, some hybrid zones cha...'Dead zone' summer killed billions of ocean state mussels
...e may be losing the ability to prevent future dead zones from forming," Altieri said. "So these sorts of ex...ctions may trigger a downward spiral, with coastal zones less able to handle environmental degradation." According to a 2004 United Nations Environment Progr...Improvement of the treatments against brucellosis and ovine salmonella
...l and economic means which can be applied in those zones where the disease is endemic, as is the case in Spain....Physicians and engineers pool resources to prevent stroke
...everal hundred thousand elements that are discrete zones within a geometric mesh, and then there are 700 steps representing intervals of time over the cycle of each heart beat." Requiring extremely fast computers, the group uses the Beowolf cluster at UH's Texas Learning and Computation Center (TLC2) to ...Keeping cool in a war zone: Device promises relief for desert soldiers
... of the deadliest obstacles soldiers in desert war zones have to face is heat. The gear soldiers wear and carry can contribute 10 additional degrees to the outside temperature, a dangerously significant increase on a 95-degree day, for instance. In collaboration with the U.S. Army Research Institute of Env...Scientists develop first comprehensive theory explaining Madagascar's rich biodiversity
...th their sources at relatively low elevations were zones of isolation and hence led to the speciation of lo...assify different portions of the island as special zones of micro-endemism and then overlaying them on maps of Madagascar showing reserves and parks reveals ...Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast
...s the humpback whales. Under Brazilian law, buffer zones around protected areas offer strong protection, with special permits from environmental authorities required for any economic use. "The buffer zone will guarantee the biodiversity integrity in the Park and ensure that local communities can continue ...Satellite images obtained by AAAS program provide strong evidence of Zimbabwe repression
...ones and mathematical modeling of potential crisis zones may someday prove useful. In cases where destruction to buildings, farms or towns was widespread across an area or region, Bromley said, analysts could use algorithms in addition to manual analysis to measure and assess the human rights impact. If th...Fundacin BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
...otect pregnant women against malaria, above all in zones there it is endemic. Pedro Alonso and Clara Menndez's group is also studying the possibilities of the malaria intermittent treatment as a preventive strategy in pregnant women. Approximately 1,000 volunteer women of the Manhia district, in the regi...A new look at the state of the oceans
...r will be on utilisation and monitoring of coastal zones and their potential benefits for industries and society. Friedhelm Schrder and Wilhelm Petersen of the GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht, together with Prof Dr Karen Wiltshire of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, will be organ...Yale dean addresses biggest environmental threats in new book
...trogen -- all of which contribute to creating dead zones in the world's oceans. The book also tells how i...ver-fertilization has contributed to over 150 dead zones in the oceans. ...Global coral reef assessment built on NASA images
...rld have created these protected ocean and coastal zones where human activities such as shipping, fishing, ...is small. The study also found that most protected zones are too small to provide protection for fish species that routinely swim outside the boundaries. Onl...African water authorities receive space tool training
...cultural exploitation and to detect the vulnerable zones regarding excessive damping of ground water. "When I return to Morocco we are planning to organise a training session with our partners and colleagues so I can share this information with them," Er Raji said. ...Ammonia-loving archaea win landslide majority
...stine and agricultural lands across three climatic zones to see if such ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms were present in terrestrial ecosystems as well. "We measured the abundance of the particular crenarchaeota gene alongside the same type of gene from bacteria," explains Schleper. The tally sugges...Coral reef conservation by means of the global network of Marine Protected Areas
...ween countries, but it is particularly low for the zones of high coral diversity like the Indo-Pacific region or the Caribbean.The aim of setting up Marine Protected Areas is to limit the impact of human activities. However, 85% of coral reefs situated within the MPAs are prey to local threats such as sedi...... grant will fund a 5-year study examining why dead zones have returned to Lake Erie, and researchers hope the findings will allow them to detect the cause and stop the spread before the fishery and tourism industries suffer. "This is a very serious problem," said University of Michigan's Donald Scavia, p...