For Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day 2009

http://www.earthday.net/

Earth Day (Wikipedia)

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

Growing Antarctic Sea Ice Tied To Ozone Hole

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101629.htm

Plants Could Override Climate Change Effects On Wildfires

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111701.htm

New hope for rainforests in Panama

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/21/panama.deforestation/index.html

Lab finds new method to turn biomass into gasoline

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k4uu-us-biofuels-usa-study/

Secret To Night Vision Found In DNA's Unconventional 'Architecture'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125159.htm

Ancestor of T rex found in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8010292.stm

Sightings show cougars expanding into central US

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_re_us/us_living_with_lions;_ylt=AguTZXpy3OIvYdTA4BJz01Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMjJpNjU5BHBvcwM1OQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3Vfc19uZXdzBHNsawNzaWdodGluZ3NzaG8-

Puma concolor

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

Woman attacked by 200-pound wild hog in her yard

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_fe_st/odd_wild_hog_attack;_ylt=Apn8YaZcQdH1CIEkxtguDsPtiBIF

Seabirds' Suitability As A Mate Tied To Crest Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416190948.htm

Aethia cristatella

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

Guam Rhino Beetles Got Rhythm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414102657.htm

Dynastinae

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

Are ants better than people at finding a home?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8011998.stm

Pools become nasty mosquito havens in foreclosure

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30344932/

Gambusia affinis or Gambusia holbrooki

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

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

Egyptian boy dies of bird flu

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k5tg-us-birdflu-egypt/

Swine flu cases in Calif. worry health officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30329560/

Swine flu

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

Walnuts May Prevent Breast Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154325.htm

Juglans

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

Sugary drinks 'worsen vomit bug'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8010346.stm

Charred Meat May Increase Risk Of Pancreatic Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421154327.htm

Ultrasound Imaging Now Possible With Smartphone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120858.htm

Environmentally Friendly Beer Brewing: Repaired Gene Improves Commercial Lager Fermentation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421101635.htm

UK to bid for Mars sample centre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8011299.stm

Search For Unusual Alien Life On Earth And Life That Can Survive On Mars

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421120906.htm

Ecologists Put Price Tag On Invasive Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103542.htm

For Sunday, January 25, 2009

China reports 4th bird flu death this year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28841978/

Avian flu detected in southern B.C.: CFIA

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/24/bc-avian-flu-detected.html

Possible Salmonella Deaths Rise to 11

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diet/story?id=6722921&page=1

Minn. meningitis cases worry CDC officials

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28814862/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://cdc.gov/

Haemophilus influenzae Serotype b

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?queryText=Haemophilus+influenzae+Serotype+b&action=search&searchButton.x=52&searchButton.y=8

Haemophilus influenzae

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

Mystery Heart Ailment Strikes New Moms

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartHealth/story?id=6724565&page=1

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?q=peripartum+cardiomyopathy&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&ud=1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&btnG.x=30&btnG.y=5

Peripartum cardiomyopathy

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

5 more stranded whales die in Australia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28813287/

Physeter macrocephalus or Physeter catodon

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

Last whale stranded in Australia dies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_stranded_whales;_ylt=AsyfLL5J4OVRkwoZ.srJ8UIPLBIF

Lizards Adapting To Escape Attacks By Fire Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121123041.htm

Sceloporus undulatus

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

Sceloporus occidentalis

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

Fish call the mountains home

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Infidelity Produces Faster Sperm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121093339.htm

Clam Cleanup

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0110-clam_cleanup.htm

Bivalvia

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

Fossils seized in Mexico

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Climate shift 'killing US trees'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7841030.stm

Tree Deaths Double Across Western U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122141222.htm

China dams reveal flaws in climate-change weapon

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/china_s_golden_dams;_ylt=AnujgZbIpx6RxKnCpmDIVzes0NUE

Mexico City vows 'green' dumps

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28777897/

Mexico City

http://www.df.gob.mx/

How Natural Oils Can Be Hydrogenated Without Making Unhealthy Trans Fats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123143908.htm

Apple Juice Can Delay Onset Of Alzheimer's Disease, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122100826.htm

Blueberries May Shrink Tumors In Babies

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/22/health/webmd/main4746918.shtml

Cyanococcus

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

A third 'drink over daily limit'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7844449.stm

Merck: New pill may decrease MS relapse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28815289/

NOAA Gives Navy Marine Mammal Protection Measures For Sonar Training Off The Atlantic Coast And Gulf Of Mexico

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090124122305.htm

NOAA

http://www.noaa.gov/

World's highest drug levels entering India stream

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090125/ap_on_re_as/pharmawater_india;_ylt=Alu2U8oR8V66p3dduIGc4Oms0NUE

Seal brain and penguin breasts off Antarctic menus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_antarctica_food;_ylt=AgB40im5ejK7bl1_KL4RZ5LtiBIF

For Tuesday, January 20, 2009

China bird flu 'epidemic' warning

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7839099.stm

New death from bird flu in China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7836791.stm

China announces third bird flu death this year

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50j2fn-us-birdflu/

Doctors report 'alarming' rise of MRSA in kids

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28736696/

FDA confirms salmonella in Kellogg's crackers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28736688/

Two Chinese leopard cubs born in Paris zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28750845/

Panthera pardus

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

Panthera pardus japonensis

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

Jaguars quarantined after zookeeper attacked

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28735971/

Panthera onca

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_(animal)


Fish Guts Explain Marine Carbon Cycle Mystery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115164607.htm

New Invasive Fish Spreads Through The Ebro Delta

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090114095105.htm

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus
http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=3016&genusname=Misgurnus&speciesname=anguillicaudatus


Scientists Unravel Mystery Of Camouflage

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115164615.htm

Bacterial Pathogens And Rising Temperatures Threaten Coral Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120074629.htm

Flowering In Different Environments Predicted

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115164526.htm

Possible New Hope For Crops Battling Parasitic Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073207.htm

Five Invasive Plants Threatening Southern Forests In 2009 Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201210.htm

Irony of EU pesticide ban

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7828059.stm

Staying calm 'prevents dementia'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7833707.stm

Key Protein That May Cause Cancer Cell Death Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116164055.htm

Research Exposes Risk To Infants From Chemicals Used In Liquid Medicines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120074826.htm

Surprising New Health And Environmental Concerns About Tungsten

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119091051.htm

Tungsten

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

Paintballs Can Cause 'Devastating' Eye Injuries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090115081739.htm

Adaptation Plays Significant Role In Human Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073211.htm

Parasites In The Genome? Molecular Parasite Could Play An Important Role In Human Evolution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119081342.htm

Language Driven By Culture, Not Biology?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210614.htm

Game Theory Explains Why You Can’t Hurry Love

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090116073603.htm