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Friday, July 10, 2009

Dino Burrows Discovered and Rhino Poaching Rising and More for Friday/Thursday, July 10/9, 2009

G8 pledges to boost food supplies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8143566.stm

Oldest dinosaur burrow discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8144000/8144199.stm

How much CO2 does this article produce?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/07/10/green.internet.CO2/index.html

Bisphenol A traces found in baby food: Health Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/10/bisphenola-bpa-baby-food-bottled-water-health-canada.html

Bisphenol A

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

Whale and dolphins washed up on Senegal coast: WWF

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090710/sc_afp/senegalenvironmentanimal;_ylt=AtA5L.LHICjUeDrQuLVqLloPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJ1aWZpZHBkBGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDcxMC9zZW5lZ2FsZW52aXJvbm1lbnRhbmltYWwEcG9zAzkEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawN3aGFsZWFuZGRvbHA-

Speedy cheetahs put through paces

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8137962.stm

Acinonyx jubatus

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

Concern over Ebola virus in pigs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8143823.stm

Ebola

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

WATCH: Great Moose Chase Hits Suburbs

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=8015166

Alces alces

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


Seals Quickly Respond To Gain And Loss Of Habitat Under Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709201849.htm

Mirounga

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

Mirounga leonina

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

Mirounga leonine (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328639

Prairie Dogs: Influencing The Accumulation Of Metals In Plants?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623162121.htm

Cynomys

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

Baby boom at Tokyo zoo

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A trio of monkey babies in Indonesia

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Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below The 40°N Latitude

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709132057.htm

Mammuthus

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

Straighten Up And Fly Right: Moths Benefit More From Flexible Wings Than Rigid


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090629200836.htm

Methane-eating Microbes Use Oxides To 'Breathe'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709140815.htm

Nestle dough’s E. coli doesn’t match outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31836583/ns/health-food_safety/

Attractive Males Release Fewer Sperm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709095425.htm

Withdrawal Syndrome After Consumption Of Designer Drug 'Spice Gold'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090709072911.htm

Spice (*drug*)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(drug)

For Thursday, July 9, 2009

Life Exploded In Earth's Early Greening

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708153235.htm

Ice Volume Of Switzerland’s Glaciers Calculated

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622064813.htm

Some Particles Cool Climate, Others Add To Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125905.htm

'15-year high' for rhino poaching

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8142180.stm

First Evidence That Weed Killers Improve Nutritional Value Of A Key Food Crop

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094830.htm

Tests raise life extension hopes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8139816.stm

Sirolimus

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

Low-calorie diet slows aging in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5684q6-us-monkeys-diet/

How Proteins Assemble Into Complex Patterns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708132820.htm

Life without men

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8142104.stm

The Disappearing Male - CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/doczone/2008/disappearingmale/

Domestication Of Chile Pepper Provides Insights Into Crop Origin And Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619152137.htm

Chili pepper

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

Saharan Dust Storms Linked To Enigmatic Fertilizer Plankton In Ocean

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125903.htm

World’s First-hydrogen Powered Yacht With A Fully Integrated Laboratory Will Study Mediterranean Pollution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619125909.htm

Video: New questions about bottled water

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Mammalian Northward Migration Due to Warming and More for Wednesday, May 13, 2009



Changes In Sun Not Causing Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122425.htm

Climate change threatens millions who live off sea

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090513/ap_on_sc/as_coral_crisis;_ylt=AtCGb9arFfBaxKJKqdXNEKcPLBIF

Advance Toward Producing Biofuels Without Stressing Global Food Supply

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511115003.htm

Bacteria Create Aquatic Superbugs In Waste Treatment Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512193238.htm

Climate Change Driving Michigan Mammals North

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512193300.htm

Michigan

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

New Dinosaur Species Possible In Northwestern Alberta

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134657.htm

Troodon

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

Blue Whales Re-establishing Former Migration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511140953.htm

Balaenoptera musculus

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

DNA Analysis Reveals The Prime Stock Of Indonesian Cattle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512202738.htm

Bos primigenius indicus

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

Bos javanicus

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

Motorist: 500-pound moose 'fell out of the sky'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090513/ap_on_fe_st/odd_falling_moose;_ylt=AmbQO2IQZwAmegFN8IDvOv_tiBIF

Alces alces

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

Largest herd of gazelles sighted

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8034000/8034392.stm

Procapra gutturosa



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

Penguin mystery solved

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1071148

Eudyptes chrysolophus

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

Predators Ignore Peculiar Prey, Bird And Salamander Study Finds


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512102555.htm

Project launched to fight frog-killing fungus

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30686761/

Chytridiomycota

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

Earwig mums 'sniff out' best babies for lavishing with care

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8040259.stm

Dermaptera

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

U.S. scientists fight fire ants with parasite that makes them 'zombies'

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/13/tech-090613-fire-ant-parasite-zombies-texas.html

Solenopsis

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

Phoridae

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

Why Silkworms Find Mulberries Attractive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507121951.htm

Bombyx mori

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

Morus

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



New Method Used To Detect Antibiotics In Honey

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090508045723.htm

Honey

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

Insect Gene Expression Responds To Diet

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506202939.htm

Trichoplusia ni

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

Fungi Pathogenic To Insects Are New Tool In Fight Against Chagas Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511210409.htm

Chagas disease

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

Old Genes Can Learn New Tricks, Horned Beetles Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180655.htm

Color-shifting cuttlefish inspire TV screens

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30702154/

Sepiida

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

True Grit: How Sea Urchins Carve Hiding Holes in Limestone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094304.htm

Echinoidea

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

Key coral reefs 'could disappear'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8047138.stm


Rules Proposed To Save The World's Coral Reefs


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511101735.htm

Coral Triangle could die by century's end: WWF


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090513/sc_afp/environmentoceansclimateindonesia;_ylt=Aq6rmZ0b1tqdAZIsHgO56G8PLBIF

Coral Triangle


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

Rare island species 'undervalued'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8043907.stm

How banana waste could make new fuel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8047155.stm

Musa

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

Unprecedented Data On Circadian Rhythms Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507072824.htm

Circadian rhythm

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

Mexican Genome Reveals Significant Variation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512081744.htm

The Mexican Genome Diversity Project (Web Page)

http://diversity.inmegen.gob.mx

Swine flu fears evident as world's cases top 6,000

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090513/ap_on_he_me/med_swine_flu;_ylt=AmFkaEXrKzlYGLGlx5EBOGis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkY2ZzODE1BHBvcwMxMzkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3N3aW5lZmx1ZmVhcg--

Molecular Structure Could Help Explain Albinism, Melanoma

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512121255.htm

Winnipeg researcher charged with smuggling biological material into U.S.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/13/border-biological-agents.html

Canada's environment minister to speak against U.S. green tariff proposal

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/13/tech-090613-prentice-greenhouse-carbon-tariffs-emissions-us-imports.html

Jim Prentice

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

Belgian city plans 'veggie' days

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8046970.stm

Ghent

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

CNNMoney:
Cheerios warned on health claims

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/13/news/companies/General_Mills_FDA/index.htm?postversion=2009051310

Cheerios

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

Sunday, February 08, 2009

For Sunday, February 8, 2009




Climate history 'helps conserve'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7870717.stm

Injured bears rescued from bile farms in China

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090207/ap_on_re_as/as_china_bear_bile;_ylt=AhAL0O0oy_Flupn_aeOOeqys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNnJlcGhsBHBvcwMxMDgEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNpbmp1cmVkYmVhcnM-

Asian Black Bear

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

Neighborhood 'Adopts' Baby Moose

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6806541

Alces alces

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

Preparing For Climate Change: Analyzing Genome Of Heat And Drought Resistant Cereal Plant

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130084122.htm

Link Between Stink Bug And Cotton Disease Explained

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090131122244.htm

Landscape-scale Treatment Promising For Slowing Beetle Spread

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202175109.htm

Photosynthesis viewed in a flash

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7873294.stm

Super-resolution Microscopy In 3-D

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174654.htm

Test spots contaminated equipment






Monday, January 12, 2009

For Monday, January 12, 2009