Africa Megadroughts and More for Friday, April 17, 2009

Antipathella subpinnata image licensed under Creative Commons by Tim Sheerman-Chase

West Africa faces 'megadroughts'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8003060.stm

Mega-droughts In Africa Expected To Worsen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144520.htm

Our 'Inner Fish' Seen In Conserved Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415193249.htm

New Nucleotide Could Revolutionize Epigenetics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144639.htm

New Clues To How Stem Cells Form

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125205.htm

C. elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Uncovering Secrets Of Salmonella's Stealth Attack

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125203.htm

Coordinate response better for outbreaks like listeria: report

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/17/listeriosis-ont.html

Breaking The Animal Kingdom's Color Code

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105348.htm

Patent for meatier pigs gets European trotters in a mix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8002503.stm

Researchers discover vast black coral forest

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250258/

Antipathella subpinnata

http://www.arkive.org/black-corals/antipathella-spp/info.html

Forgotten nut could save lives and forests

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/16/cnnheroes.erika.vohman/index.html

Brosimum alicastrum

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

Fake 'trees' designed to trap CO2


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30251856/

Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144512.htm


'Two-handed' Marine Microbes Point To New Method For Isolating Harmful Forms Of Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102121.htm

Protein That Concentrates Carbon Dioxide In Algae Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409103423.htm

Chemists Uncover Green Catalysts For Industrial Chemical Processes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413185726.htm

Fishermen Dine on Megachasma and DNA Help for Rhincodon and More for Wednesday, April 8, 2008

Fancy some meat? Chimpanzees exchange hunting booty for sex

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988169.stm

Pan

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

Studies Of Hyena Skull Development Put Teeth Into New Female Dominance Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112851.htm

Crocuta crocuta

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

Poison -- It's What's For Dinner: Hunt Narrows For Genes That Let Packrats Eat Creosote

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406072919.htm

Neotoma

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

Creosote

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

Rare megamouth shark caught, eaten in Philippines

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_rare_shark

Megachasma pelagios

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

DNA Tracks Threatened Whale Sharks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407145159.htm

Rhincodon typus

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

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Data Now Online

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133539.htm

Antarctic marine biodiversity link

http://www.scarmarbin.be/

Cat found alive after 5 weeks under rubble

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090407/od_nm/us_germany_cat

Felis catus

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

Fish farms to fight back with EU help

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7989295.stm

Butterflies hit by damp summers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988232.stm

Tanzania Study Reopens Debate On Targeting Mosquito Larvae To Control Malaria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200718.htm

Malaria

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

Control, Treatment Of Bed Bugs Challenging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183504.htm

Cimicidae

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

To Swim Or To Crawl: For The Worm It's A No Brainer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091254.htm

Caenorhabditis elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Fragility Of World's Coral Is Revealed Through Study Of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132609.htm

Anthozoa

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

Mouse Models Of Leukemia That Predict Response To Chemotherapy Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183753.htm

Leukemia

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

Bad Mix Of Bacterial Remnants And Genetics Leads To Arthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331101111.htm

‘Junk’ DNA assists evolution

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090604-18994.html

Mysterious mouth reaction linked to pollen

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/08/oral.allergy.syndrome/index.html

Oral sex throat cancer link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6639461.stm

Warning issued over some ground beef sold in Manitoba, Sask., Ontario

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/08/mb-beeef-recall.html


More pistachios recalled as salmonella verified

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30078271/

Pistacia vera

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

Use Of Native Southern African Plants In Veterinary Medicine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330123245.htm

Going Bananas For Sustainable Research: Scientists Create Fuel From African Crop Waste

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132819.htm

Musa

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

Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots To Come?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223642.htm

PM heralds 'green economy' Budget

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7989015.stm

Beach rubbish problem 'piling up'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7988726.stm

What's In Your Water? Disinfectants Create Toxic By-products In Drinking Water And Public Swimming Pools


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112725.htm

Whale Monitoring Ends and Rabies Death Reduction? and More for Monday, March 16, 2009

Monitoring of rare whales near NY harbor ends

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_sc/whale_watch_ny;_ylt=AkSAp.uq0yI2y2coYJnZChKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMWxidTM0BHBvcwMxMDcEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNtb25pdG9yaW5nb2Y-

Eubalaena

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

Elephant born at San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_us/baby_elephant;_ylt=Ah4_R3hEUgHp0JD1b2zs9I8PLBIF

Loxodonta

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

Leatherback Turtle Threatened By Plastic Garbage In Ocean

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315224258.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Female Birds 'Jam' Their Mates' Flirtatious Songs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312134637.htm

China's Gobi Desert source of rare dinosaur find

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/16/ostrich-dinosaur.html

Teen Dinosaurs Got into Trouble

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090316/sc_livescience/teendinosaursgotintotrouble;_ylt=Anh1alnDfBrkcabuv9BEdbEPLBIF

Aphids Borrowed Bacterial Genes To Play Host

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309205327.htm

Buchnera aphidicola

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

Mechanism Discovered For Wind Detection In Fruit Flies' Antennae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140858.htm

Optimistic Worms Are Ready For Rapid Recovery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309162119.htm

Caenorhabditis elegans

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

Coral reefs to 'disappear'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7945138.stm

Biofilms: Even Stickier Than Suspected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150731.htm

Biofilm

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

First Discovery Of 'Animals-only' Pigment Bilirubin In Plants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316093001.htm

Bilirubin

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

Simple Filter Delivers Clean, Safe Drinking Water, Potentially To Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309211938.htm

Northeast US to suffer most from future sea rise

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090315/ap_on_re_us/sci_northeast_sea_rise;_ylt=AtkQEe3dDiUEOZfG5mu4i4.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlcTNpc2ljBHBvcwMxMDgEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNub3J0aGVhc3R1c3Q-

Ninth Warmest February For Globe, NOAA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315092035.htm

The Agulhas Current, In The Southern Hemisphere, May Influence Climate In Europe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310122430.htm

Agulhas Current

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

Rabies Deaths From Dog Bites Could Be Eliminated Globally

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150738.htm

Rabies

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

Anger And Hostility Harmful To Men's Hearts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309191505.htm

Alcohol, Nicotine, Cocaine Addiction Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310142912.htm

Single Question Can Identify Unhealthy Alcohol Use In Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111011.htm

Seaweed And Fireflies Brew May Guide Stem Cell Treatment For Peripheral Artery Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090310100709.htm

Peripheral vascular disease

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

Stem cell payoff could take decades not days

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29719086/

Vegetarians 'get fewer cancers'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7942479.stm

Kiwifruit: Curious Chromosomes Of A Curious Fruit

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090309205325.htm

Actinidia deliciosa

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

New U.S. food-label rules likely to affect Canadian cattle producers

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/16/label.html

Consumers To Find More Info On Meat Labels

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/health/main4867991.shtml

Black Sea Pollution Could Be Harnessed As Renewable Future Energy Source

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316075849.htm

Did Hospital Kill Teen For His Organs?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/16/earlyshow/health/main4868744.shtml

Human remains found after crocodile attack

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29718278/

For Friday, January 30, 2009

Locust swarm image licensed under Creative Commons by [niv]

Tadpoles may hold cancer clue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7851932.stm

New Insights Into A Leading Poultry Disease And Its Risks To Human Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127094038.htm

How Ebola Virus Avoids The Immune System

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127152838.htm

Five Cases Of Ebola Virus In Philippines

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/health/main4763711.shtml

Ebola

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

New Disease, Comparable To BSE, Created In Laboratory Mice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127214430.htm

BSE

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

Cases of sexually spread diseases on the rise

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28639521/

Lowly worm offers new clues on stroke, heart drugs

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s5zo-us-heart-worms/

Caenorhabditis elegans

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

Physically Fit Kids Do Better In School

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128113246.htm

American Seniors Living Longer On Less

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128122816.htm

New Stem Cell-like Functions In Plants Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128132645.htm

Thirsty Plants Text For Help

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2009/0101-thirsty_plants_text_for_help.htm

Climate Change's Impact On Invasive Plants In Western US May Create Restoration Opportunities

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127112055.htm

Gene's Past Could Improve The Future Of Rice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090123164359.htm

Rice

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



FrankenBeasts: Do Pet Clones Really Match?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/story?id=6762235&page=1


Indonesia welcomes baby elephants


http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=AlCONJFFZth5NAg.pzVyArSs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTE0dmZlMG5lBHBvcwM4BHNlYwN5bl92aWRlb3MEc2xrA2luZG9uZXNpYXdlbA--?ch=4226713&cl=11786829&lang=en

Locust swarms 'high' on serotonin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7858996.stm

Serotonin

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

Termite Insecticide Found To Be Potent Greenhouse Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121144059.htm

Sulfuryl fluoride

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

New Technology For Purifying Exhaust Gas From Diesel Engines

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090130084125.htm

Is Eight Too Much? Ethics Experts Weigh In

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=6767745&page=1

'Mittens' the cat hits slopes on sled

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/ireports/2009/01/29/vo.sledding.cat.ireport

'Green' light bulb fears rejected

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7858156.stm

Britain warned over air quality

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7858655.stm

Zimbabwe cholera cases pass 60,000

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/01/30/Zimbabwe.cholera.cases/index.html

MS stem-cell treatment 'success'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7858559.stm

Bad peanuts found weeks before outbreak

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28931141/

Plants don't have to report contamination

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28919975/

Peanut plant problem forces fresh recall

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28899634/

"Filthy, Putrid" Substance On Peanuts

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/30/health/main4763753.shtml

Georgia wants answers for PB contamination

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/01/30/georgia.peanuts/index.html

Surgical Implants Coated With One Of 'Nature's Antibiotics' Could Prevent Infection
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090129180313.htm