Deglaciation and More for Friday, June 5, 2009

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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

Overpopulation Warning and More for Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Earth population 'exceeds limits'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7974995.stm

Nina Fedoroff

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

Long-necked dinos never held their heads high

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992795/

Sauropoda

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

Signs of hope for chimp attack victim

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'Supersize' lions roamed Britain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm

Panthera leo spelaea

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

Panthera leo fossilis

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

Judge orders feds to reconsider help for jaguar

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_us/jaguar_ruling;_ylt=Ai35qt29ThYexqSmivdSl0cPLBIF

Panthera onca

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

Saving Rare Venomous Mammal From Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133537.htm

Solenodon paradoxus

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

6,000 rare Irrawaddy dolphins found in waters of South Asia

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051942

Orcaella brevirostris

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

Imperial Eagle Numbers Have Increased Six-fold In Spain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161225.htm

Aquila adalberti

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

Bird survives with arrow 'clean through it'

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29992304/

Grus canadensis

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

Baby chicks do basic arithmetic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7975260.stm

Gallus gallus

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

Meet Florida's python catchers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7967587.stm

Pythonidae

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

37-year-old frog found in New Zealand

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/victorianews/ViewNews.aspx?id=2607&newslabel=hn

Leiopelma pakeka

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

Connectivity In Marine Fish Populations: Larvae Spawned In Marine Reserves Can Travel Long Distances

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325132336.htm

Cause Of Mussel Poisoning Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111558.htm

Mussel

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

Azaspiracid

http://www.curehunter.com/public/pubmed11330704.do

Azadinium spinosum

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/13057.php?from=133484

Atlantic Snails Increase Dramatically In Size

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171604.htm

DNA From Old Insects: No Need To Destroy The Specimen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331201522.htm

If you can't afford it, grow it

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/04/01/recession.garden/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed

Palm Oil Development May Threaten Amazon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101755.htm

Palm oil

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

'First Economical Process' For Making Biodiesel Fuel From Algae

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325222006.htm

Biodiesel

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

New Insights Into How Brain Responds To Viral Infection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133341.htm

Stem Cell Breakthrough: 'Switch' Created That Turns Stem Cells Into Muscle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330154806.htm

Amniotic Fluid May Provide New Source Of Stem Cells For Future Therapies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112645.htm

Mechanism That Regulates Movement Of Blood-forming Stem Cells In The Body Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325142509.htm

Stem cell

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

Amniotic fluid

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

Drug-resistant TB is a ‘time bomb,’ WHO says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990199/

Bill Gates, China Join Forces Against TB

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909669.shtml

Discovery Of Tuberculosis Bacterium Enzyme Paves Way For New TB Drugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327152401.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

How infection may spark leukemia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7973678.stm

Leukemia

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

Pregnancy With Male Fetus Riskier, Study Claims

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112729.htm

People who live in the tropics have more baby girls

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7972993.stm

Talking in color: imaging helps social skills

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53000z-us-computer-autism/

Salmonella Fear Prompts Mayonnaise Recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/01/health/main4909585.shtml

Raw pistachios may be the source of salmonella

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29978103/

Pistachio warning could signal food safety shift

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29990231/

Ecologists Question Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401112448.htm

Climate change 'fans Nepal fires'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7968745.stm

Nitrate Stimulates Greenhouse Gas Production In Small Streams

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111259.htm

Can 'biochar' save the planet?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/03/30/biochar.warming.energy/index.html

Biochar

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

Predicting Mosquito Outbreaks For Disease Control

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101757.htm

Anopheles

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



Satellite Snow Maps Help Reindeer Herders Adapt To A Changing Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401102938.htm

Arctic

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

Rangifer tarandus

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

Isoptera Asexual Reproduction and More for Sunday, March 29, 2009

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Recruited to serve and sniff — again

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29941206/

Canis lupus familiaris

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

Weekend Window: Sandhill Crane Migration

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7189778&page=1

Grus canadensis

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

Zoo reports rare captive birth of Asian bird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29917044/

Garrulax leucolophus

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

American Birds Sending Troubling Message About The Environment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323113103.htm

Study Assesses Impact Of Fish Stocking On Aquatic Insects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326162749.htm

Termites Can Reproduce Sexually And Asexually

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141549.htm

Isoptera

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

Nobel laureate Obama adviser on a new era for science in the US

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/7968205.stm

Harold E. Varmus

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

10 colonoscopy patients have hepatitis, VA says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916792/

Hepatitis

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

College closes after virus sickens 100

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29933995/

Babson

http://www.babson.edu/

Norovirus

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

Film sheds light on shadowy world of germ warfare

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/03/27/f-tech-090327-anthrax-war.html

Anthrax War (documentary)

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/anthraxwar/

Biological Warfare

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

Structure Of Protein That Makes Cancer Cells Resistant To Chemotherapy Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141555.htm

Smokers face a hit as tobacco taxes spike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax;_ylt=AkH.vdjT7r04CWbDD1305e2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhN2dlanA3BHBvcwM0BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3Ntb2tlcnNmYWNlYQ--

Insight Into The Way Nicotine Works In The Brain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323161121.htm

Nicotine

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

Health Canada puts foot down on electronic cigarettes

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/03/27/electronic-smoking.html


Time (and PPAR-beta/delta) Heals All Wounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323092709.htm

Researchers Pump Up Artificial Muscles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163057.htm

Hollow Gold Nanospheres Show Promise For Biomedical And Other Applications

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090322154415.htm

New Device Helps Control Disease-causing Ticks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328152625.htm

Ixodes scapularis

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

Amblyomma americanum

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

U.S. to push for U.N. climate deal

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52q2ck-us-climate/

Solar Activity And Climate Change: New Sun-Watching Satellite To Monitor Sunlight Fluctuations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090328163643.htm

Glory satellite mission profile

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=GLORY

Atlantic Warming Mainly Due To Dust Reduction?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326141553.htm

Airborne Acid May Help Soot Turn Into Cloud Seeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325155535.htm

Climate Change Redraws the Map

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/GlobalWarming/story?id=7191533&page=1