Decreased Ice Melt - Due to Lead? and More for Friday, May 15, 2009

Ice sheet melt threat reassessed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8050094.stm

Global Warming Curbed By Lead Pollution?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093542.htm

Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130942.htm

Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121048.htm

New Tissue Scaffold Regrows Cartilage And Bone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122429.htm

Brain chemical may play key role in anxiety

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54b6v6-us-anxiety-brain/

Basic fibroblast growth factor 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroblast_growth_factor_2

Eating Fish, Nuts And Olive Oil May Be Associated With Reduced Risk Of Age-related Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511164235.htm

Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm

Homo neanderthalensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_neanderthalensis

Swine flu closes schools

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1072102

Human noses too cold for bird flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8050523.stm

Tall story: Scientists fail to get to the bottom of giraffe evolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8050000/8050298.stm

Giraffa camelopardalis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe

Australian court halts killing of kangaroos

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090514/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_killing_kangaroos;_ylt=Agc3N8_zytePmxJ1kQqSndkPLBIF

Surfer rescues drowning kangaroo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8051264.stm

Exhibit explores world of weird mammals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090514/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_extreme_mammals;_ylt=AhDkxpY1r0cufJYY10XK0VOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkMG9zMzhkBHBvcwMxNjUEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl90cmF2ZWwEc2xrA2V4aGliaXRleHBsbw--

More Critically Endangered Birds On Red List

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513224124.htm

Anodorhynchus leari

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anodorhynchus_leari

Eriocnemis isabellae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriocnemis_isabellae

Heteromirafra sidamoensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteromirafra_sidamoensis

Camarhynchus pauper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camarhynchus_pauper

Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090515/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_bird_beach;_ylt=ArSGvqRjbESsUhuzXXiZ7gIPLBIF

Macrocephalon maleo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleo

Hopes of fitting tags to ospreys

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8050529.stm

Fish that triggers hallucinations found off British coast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5318202/Fish-that-triggers-hallucinations-found-off-British-coast.html

Sarpa salpa

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=204&genusname=Sarpa&speciesname=salpa

For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507145749.htm

Pandalus borealis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandalus_borealis

Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514153139.htm

George O Poinar Jr. Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution. Parasites & Vectors, 2009; 2 (12) DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-12

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-2-12



Dire warnings of insect extinctions may be wide of the mark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8040000/8040926.stm

Scorpion Sting: Antivenom Results In Prompt Recovery From Nerve Poisoning, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513173452.htm

How Bees Hold Onto Flowers: 'Velcro'-like Structures On Flower Petals Help Bees Stick

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514125148.htm

Coral: Climate Change Could Displace Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130953.htm

The plant that can water itself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8049000/8049850.stm

Rheum palaestinum

http://www.zipcodezoo.com/Plants/R/Rheum_palaestinum.asp

Ginger Found to Ease Nausea of Cancer Treatment

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/health/15cancer.html?ref=global-home

Medicinal Plant Kava Safe And Effective In Reducing Anxiety, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122619.htm

Piper methysticum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kava

Potential Anti-ulcer Herb Medicine: Rocket 'Eruca Sativa'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507101824.htm

Eruca sativa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruca_sativa

Medicinal Plant, St John's Wort, May Reduce Neuronal Degeneration Caused By Parkinson's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181252.htm

Hypericum perforatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Wort

Switchgrass Genome May Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134651.htm

Panicum virgatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchgrass

Grilling With Charcoal Less Climate-friendly Than Grilling With Propane, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093254.htm