Balaenoptera Return and DNA Damage Seen in Pollution Cases and More for Monday, May 18, 2009

* Phalacrocorax carbo image licensed under Creative Commons by kaibara87

Nations urge WHO to change pandemic assessment

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/18/health-swine-flu-who-meeting-pandemic-severity-virus-spread-deadly.html


Artificial Simulator Of The Nervous System Created For Research Into Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091615.htm

EDLUT

http://code.google.com/p/edlut/

New System For Personalized Cancer Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517081157.htm

Particulates May Damage DNA In Just Three Days

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517143218.htm

Engineered antibodies fight AIDS virus in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54g20c-us-aids-vaccine/

Menstruation genes discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8046457.stm

Jump in swine flu cases in Japan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054881.stm

Painkiller Patch Can Lead To Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090515083820.htm

Change in cigarettes more dangerous to lungs?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30804744/

Biological Diversity: Islands Beat Mainland Nine To One

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180651.htm

Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_sc/us_blue_whales;_ylt=AqtFLJpssb7eU7kVZBEwx_MPLBIF

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Dolphins seen trying to kill calf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8048000/8048288.stm

Sotalia fluviatilis

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

Baby elephant's birth webcast live

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8054575.stm

Enriched Environment Improves Wound Healing In Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512202736.htm

* Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090517/ap_on_sc/us_predator_eagles;_ylt=Ao0lrUWQLYA16kNZaC6VnvAPLBIF

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

Phalacrocorax carbo

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

World's Largest Leatherback Turtle Population

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517212653.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Golden Rice An Effective Source Of Vitamin A

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121102.htm

Golden Rice

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

Vitamin A

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



New Red Alga Discovered In Mediterranean Sea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091515.htm

Leptofauchea coralligena

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908652311~db=all~jumptype=rss

Woman finds seahorse in garden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8053275.stm

Sea-level Rise and Rise of the Hippocampus & More for Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Hippocampus image licensed under Creative Commons by Tambako the Jaguar

Sonar Images Reveal Clues To Sea-level Rise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505072502.htm

Larter et al. Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. Geology, 2009; 37 (5): 411 DOI: 10.1130/G25505A.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G25505A.1

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505061838.htm

Wildfires scorch parts of California, Arizona

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/06/western.wildfires/index.html

Prince, frog and friends fight for rainforests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30599779/

The Prince’s Rainforest Project

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

Two Brown Bear Populations In Spain In Danger of Extinction Have Been Isolated For Past 50 Years


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429125243.htm


Ursus arctos



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

Hyena's laugh actually a sign of frustration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30588225/

Crocuta crocuta

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

Ecosystem Gone Haywire: Cape Gannet Bird Threatened With Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114309.htm

Morus capensis

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

Prosecutors: Smuggler hid 13 birds in his pants

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30593503/

'Sobering' Decline Of Caribbean's Big Fish, Fisheries: Overfishing Deemed Most Likely Cause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505200711.htm

Overfishing

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

Seahorses 'stood up' 25 million years ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30600080/

Hippocampus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(fish)

Ants In Southern Hemisphere Richer And More Diversified Than Northern Hemisphere Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506094103.htm

Formicidae

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

How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505124750.htm

Necrophoresis

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-necrophoresis.html

Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506093835.htm

How spicy foods can kill cancers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

Capsaicin

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

Scientists pinpoint fats danger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8033205.stm

Great apes suffer setback in EU animal testing vote

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5443is-us-eu-animals-testing/

EU and US reach deal in beef row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8036202.stm

Livestock traceback participation disappoints -USDA

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5446sw-us-livestock-tracking-study/

Car made from veg runs on chocolate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8031737.stm

Astronomer To Search Space For Precursors Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429151946.htm

Scientists hunt swine flu's mysterious origins

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/06/swine.flu.origins/index.html

Swine flu is same strain in Canada and Mexico

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/swine-flu-sequencing060.html

Does New Swine Flu Virus Kill By Causing A 'Cytokine Storm'?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174547.htm

Cytokine

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

Flu virus kills Texan, European cases reach Sweden

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5430s8-us-flu/

Flu Pandemic In Prison?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174549.htm

For Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Thylacinus cynocephalus image licensed under Creative Commons by RobotSkirts

Hair Of Tasmanian Tiger Yields Genes Of Extinct Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201131.htm

Genetic secrets from Tassie tiger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7825011.stm

Tasmanian tiger's die-off explained

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28628037/

Thylacinus cynocephalus

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

Giant Bird Feces Record Pre-human New Zealand

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112110115.htm

Dinornithidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa_(bird)

Drive to save red panda

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7826150.stm

Ailurus fulgens

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

Mink Control Vital To Save Water Voles In Britain

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090110084246.htm

Mustela lutreola

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

Arvicola amphibius

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

Rats Say: Manhattan Rules!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201212.htm

Rattus

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

Pink slips for porcupines? Zoos face cuts

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28634539/

Dino feathers 'were for display'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7825364.stm

Spate of shark attacks in Australia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7826389.stm

Humans Reshape Prey At Super-natural Speeds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201123.htm

Rabbits play while the cats are away - and penguins suffer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7824153.stm

Tagged seahorses How coloured plastics help track the fragile animals

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7796425.stm

Microscopic Morphology Adds To Scorpion Tree

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112110100.htm

Scorpionida

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

Tiny Insect Develops Long-term Memory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090112201312.htm