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Friday, June 05, 2009

Deglaciation and More for Friday, June 5, 2009

Mount Rainier and Carbon Glacier image licensed under Creative Commons by brewbooks


Deglaciation

http://antizendictionary.blogspot.com/2009/06/deglaciation.html

Younger Dryas

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

Glacier

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

History Channel: MegaDisaster Episode Archives

http://www.history.com/content/megadisasters/episode-archive

The End of Nations? And More for Friday, February 6, 2009

http://americanpoliticalhandbook.blogspot.com/2009/02/for-friday-february-6-2009.html

Stem Cells On Contact Lens Restore Sight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605081151.htm

Climate Change Models Find Staple Crops Face Ruin On Up To One Million Square Kilometers Of African Farmland

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602204259.htm

Origin of Antarctic ice revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8079767.stm

Rainforest is worth more standing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8083706.stm

Prehistoric Whale Discovered On The West Coast Of Sweden

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605110420.htm

After failed courtship, zoo helps rare birds breed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_re_us/us_national_zoo_rare_crane;_ylt=ApphHFChYBUz2VvfT6Jnt9sPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTMwaGQ4NGQ3BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNjA0L3VzX25hdGlvbmFsX3pvb19yYXJlX2NyYW5lBHBvcwMxMARzZWMDeW5fYXJ0aWNsZV9zdW1tYXJ5X2xpc3QEc2xrA2FmdGVyZmFpbG

Grus vipio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-naped_crane

Grus vipio (IUCN Red List – Vulnerable)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/143775/0



Bee-killing Parasite Genome Sequenced

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604222430.htm

Nosema ceranae

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

Sacred plants of the Maya forest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8083000/8083812.stm

Ceiba pentandra

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

Pachira aquatica

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

Pseudobombax ellipticum

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

Quararibea funebris

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

Long-standing Mystery Of How Plants Make Eggs Solved

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144332.htm

Plantae



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

Do Dinosaurs Still Exist?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/dodinosaursstillexist;_ylt=Annd33a3BTCQtYSFjiPknboDW7oF

Dinosaur

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

Bacteria From The Deep Can Clean Up Heavy Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604222432.htm

Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604181251.htm

'Beehive fence' deters elephants

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8081000/8081521.stm

Elevated Water Temperature And Acidity Boost Growth Of Key Sea Star Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090601140926.htm

Bacteria And Algae Act As Biocatalysts For Deep-sea Raw Material Deposition

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090601085918.htm

Researchers Solve 'Bloodcurdling' Mystery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144326.htm

How Humans Have Disrupted The Nitrogen Cycle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144322.htm

Nitrogen cycle

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

Diarrhea vaccine urged for all children

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31121962/

Rotavirus vaccine

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

8-Year-Old N.M. Boy Dies Of Bubonic Plague

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/05/health/main5064847.shtml

Bubonic plague

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


Is There a Lake Champlain Monster?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AmazingAnimals/story?id=7760355&page=1
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Mammuthus News and More for Thursday, June 4, 2009


The One and Only Stuffed Mammoth in the World image licensed under Creative Commons by Tanapon

'Gay penguins' rear adopted chick

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8081829.stm

Dinosaur skulls sold at auction

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8078827.stm

Changing Climate To Strengthen 'Super Weed'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090603131439.htm

Phragmites australis

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

Phragmites australis (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/1114576

Mammoths roasted in prehistoric barbecue pit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31085915/

Mammoth skeleton unearthed in Serbia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31102411/

Mammuthus

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

Shrimp crisis hits rural Newfoundland towns

http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/06/04/shrimp-crisis-604.html

Caridea

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

Origin of Antarctic ice revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8079767.stm

Alcohol And Smoking Are Key Causes For Bowel Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602082838.htm
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Bombus Returns and More for Monday, June 1, 2009

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Friday, May 01, 2009

Dinosaur-Bird Link is Real and More for May 1, 2009



Today, May 1, 2009, is the day Natural History changed. The dinosaur-bird link is real and was proven by 80 million year old soft tissue. 80 million years old. The editors are in a state of awe.




Dinosaur-Bird Link: Ancient Proteins Preserved In Soft Tissue From 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430144528.htm

Mary H. Schweitzer, Wenxia Zheng, Chris L. Organ, Recep Avci, Zhiyong Suo, Lisa M. Freimark, Valerie S. Lebleu, Michael B. Duncan, Matthew G. Vander Heiden, John M. Neveu, William S. Lane, John S. Cottrell, John R. Horner, Lewis C. Cantley, Raghu Kalluri, and John M. Asara. Biomolecular Characterization and Protein Sequences of the Campanian Hadrosaur B. canadensis. Science, 2009; 324 (5927): 626 DOI: 10.1126/science.1165069

Brachylophosaurus Canadensis

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

Tyrannosaurus rex

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


Swine Flu Or Bird Flu: Scientist Warns Of Six-month Time Lag To Manufacture Pandemic Flu Vaccine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427193234.htm

Vaccine pursued as U.S. swine flu cases top 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30471035/

Many states lack drugs to treat swine flu

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30511446/

Mexico shuts down to control flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8028169.stm

1918 Flu Resulted In Current Lineage Of H1N1 Swine Influenza Viruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430111640.htm

Pandemic Study Of 1918-1919 Outbreak Provides Background And Death Rates For 14 European Countries

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430101453.htm

1918 flu pandemic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic

Lessons from past pandemics

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/30/swine.flu.1918.lessons/index.html

‘Pandemic’ means pay attention, not panic

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30500863/

World fights new flu virus with latest science

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5400wc-us-flu-science/

New flu virus may be a real mongrel, study shows

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5400qi-us-flu-genetics/

Hong Kong's doctors prepare for battle

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/05/01/1917199.aspx

Bardot slams planned pig cull in Egypt

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090501/wl_mideast_afp/healthfluegyptfrancebardot;_ylt=ArGul0isJpL6Q8AP2ip_6d4PLBIF

Brigitte Bardot

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






Species at Risk Act lacks teeth, conservationists say

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/01/species-risk-conservation.html

Species at Risk Act

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/s-15.3/text.html

Obama Restores Endangered Species Act

http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/20090430/wl_oneworld/world3621191241124253;_ylt=AkojviUj4jXKEaoivGa73g8PLBIF

Endangered Species Act

http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa/content.html

Dolphins Keep an Eye Out While Sleeping

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090501/sc_livescience/dolphinskeepaneyeoutwhilesleeping;_ylt=AlexQpkR98vmA43VTJmkFYkPLBIF

Video evidence of birds' remarkable talent for dancing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8026592.stm

Some Vocal-mimicking Animals, Particularly Parrots, Can Move To A Musical Beat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430121936.htm

Dogs Are Aggressive If They Are Trained Badly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114315.htm

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Forest Service tries to halt spread of bat fungus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090501/ap_on_re_us/us_bat_die_off;_ylt=Av2eTVPTT_B01gPWRdSvN34PLBIF

White nose syndrome

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

Fish May Actually Feel Pain And React To It Much Like Humans Do

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430161242.htm

Fish

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

US: Air Dirty Enough To Endanger Lives

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429131158.htm

Cousin Of The 'Ice That Burns' Emerges As Greener New Way To Fight Fires

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427091548.htm

Fire Extinction Using Carbon Dioxide Hydrate

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie8019533

Why plants can survive cold, heat, drought

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/01/plant.stress/index.html

Plantae

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

Fertilisers 'reducing diversity'



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Monday, March 16, 2009

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
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
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

No Pet Primates and Stem Cell Breakthrough and More for Wednesday, February 25, 2009




Carotenoids Are Cornerstone Of Bird's Vitality

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114154.htm

Carotenoid

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

House says 'no' to pet primates

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/primates.pets.bill/index.html

Aphids' sticky suicide missions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7907643.stm

Florida tests using magnets to repel crocodiles

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51o08m-us-usa-crocodiles-magnets/

Laser imaging helps make 3D Dinosaur models

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29371294/

DNA Evidence Is In, Psychedelic Looking Bouncing Fish Is A New Species, Dubbed 'Psychedilica'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224154912.htm

Quicktime Video link of the juvenile Psychedilica

http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=47496

When Fish Farms Are Built Along The Coast, Where Does The Waste Go?






Functional Neurons From Engineered Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133154.htm

Illegal food additives still a problem in China

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29386325/

Tainted Syringes Killed 5, Prosecutors Say

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/health/main4825247.shtml

Drink a day increases cancer risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7906355.stm

Health Insurance Essential For Health And Well-being, Report Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224133201.htm

Want to live longer? You need this nutrient

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29104695/

Behavioral Link Between Insomnia And Tension-type Headaches

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151753.htm

Why Hair Turns Gray: Hair Bleaches Itself

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090223131123.htm

Long hours link to dementia risk

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7909464.stm

Molecular Motors In Cells Work Together, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213161043.htm

Common household chemicals tied to infertility

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29370044/

Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid

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

Perfluorooctanoic acid

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

666 sickened in salmonella outbreak traced to peanut products

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1035379

Salmonella strain also linked to Texas plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29376345/

Polar Year 'hailed as a success'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7906539.stm

International Polar Year

http://www.ipy.org/

'Ghost peaks' mapped under ice

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7908824.stm

Gamburtsev mountains

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

Inside Norway's Antarctic base

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7909252.stm

Greenland And Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting, Rate Unknown

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216131158.htm

Antarctic Glaciers Slipping Swiftly Seaward

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=6954089

Global warming danger threat increased

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090223/ap_on_sc/sci_climate_update;_ylt=Auz.pJpRu2XEV8gayNP0pZ.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlMmJrMTdyBHBvcwMxMDcEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNnbG9iYWx3YXJtaW4-

Great Lake's Sinkholes Host Exotic Ecosystems Akin To Iced-over Antarctic Lakes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090224163649.htm

Plan To Protect Everglades Land In Peril

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/24/national/main4826360.shtml

Antibiotic Resistance: Rising Concern In Marine Ecosystems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213161033.htm

New Research Identifies Faster Detection Of Viruses


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