New Species Discoveries and Puppy Mill Busted (?) and More for Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Gorilla diary Rangers in Africa's oldest national park photograph a first-time mum with its new baby


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7549444.stm

Gorilla beringei beringei

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

Virunga National Park

http://www.gorilla.cd/

Nearly 70 dogs rescued from alleged puppy mill

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29865929/

Wales reveals badger cull areas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7961770.stm

Melinae

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

Welcome visitor: Long-tailed tit flies into RSPB's top 10

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7962676.stm

Aegithalos caudatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-tailed_tit

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

http://www.rspb.org.uk/

New species found in Papua-New Guinea

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52o0vm-us-spiders-papuanewguinea/

Conservation International

http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx

New Species Of Spiders Discovered In Papua New Guinea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325091815.htm

The Prestige Oil Spill Caused Changes In The Cell Structure Of Mussels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325091832.htm

Prestige Oil Spill

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

Gene Decides Whether Coral Relative Will Fuse Or Fight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319132913.htm

AAAS, Leading Texas Scientists Urge State Board To Reject Anti-evolution Effort

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111556.htm

AAAS

http://www.aaas.org/

Al Gore pens sequel to ‘Inconvenient Truth’

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29875493/

EPA Halts Mountaintop Mining Permits

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/24/national/main4889433.shtml

Study IDs Variations in Black, White Genomes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090325/hl_hsn/studyidsvariationsinblackwhitegenomes;_ylt=Ag_T8rBY7GGnF9vj5IBJh38PLBIF

Erasing TB could take 1,000 years, official says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29864238/

WHO issues pessimistic global tuberculosis report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_he_me/lt_med_who_tb_report;_ylt=AqMr1uW8q4vTPw.ExoWuTUWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkNGtuaDY3BHBvcwMxNDAEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3dob2lzc3Vlc3Blcw--

Study: Range of pharmaceuticals in fish across US

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090325/ap_on_he_me/pharmawater_fish;_ylt=AswfRqNeuy7PfPCFVWsyWBms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkNGk4cWFnBHBvcwMxMzgEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3N0dWR5cmFuZ2VvZg--

Single embryo best for fertility treatment: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52o05f-us-reproduction-embryos/

Source of drywall rotten egg smell found

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/03/24/chinese.drywall/index.html

Strontium sulfide

http://cameochemicals.noaa.gov/chemical/21036

Vets may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/24/florida.va.facilities/index.html

To Fight Drug Addiction, Researchers Target The Brain With Nanoparticles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101747.htm

Codeine Use And Accident Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324101749.htm

Codeine

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

Insurers offer to stop charging sick people more

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29864220/

Tobacco Makes Medicine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318211236.htm

Nicotiana

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

IL-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin_10

Frankincense Oil -- A Wise Man's Remedy For Bladder Cancer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317215312.htm

Boswellia carteri

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

'Master Regulator' Of Skin Formation Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171608.htm

O'Hare UFO video surfaces on Youtube

http://www.examiner.com/x-2363-UFO-Examiner~y2009m3d24-OHare-UFO-video-surfaces-on-Youtube

Twitter 4: Pandemics? Global Crises? Global Melts? Wildfires? and More for Thursday, March 19, 2009

Will Twitter be the essential new technology tool to help us predict; Pandemics, Global Melting and flooding, Wildfires/Bushfires, Potential Extinctions, and other Catastrophes? (Too late for the Beddington 2030 Global Crisis Projection, see below...). Is this the "real" usefulness or utility for Twitter? Are these "Twittersentials"?

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951838.stm

Prof John Beddington

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

Big melt seen in Antarctic past, and maybe future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica_melt

Predicting The Next Pandemic Via Twitter?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4874828.shtml

Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i047-us-tobacco-medicine/

Interleukin-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-10

Nicotiana

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

Wildlife center heals survivors of Australia fires

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29769243/

Sexy Beasts: Apes Make Love, Not War

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=7114519&page=1

Pan paniscus

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

Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm

Hippopotamidae

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

Indohyus

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

Badgers to be given anti-TB jabs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7952282.stm

Melinae

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

Mycobacterium bovis

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

Bat's fate after shuttle launch appears grim

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754578/

Tadarida brasiliensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Free-tailed_Bat

Rare reptile hatchling found on NZ mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_au_an/as_new_zealand_rare_reptile;_ylt=Ao5BuTb7J1m6.ORMBiWUxfGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhMDFtNmxwBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3JhcmVyZXB0aWxlaA--

Sphenondon

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

Dinosaurs may have been fuzzy, not scaly, a fossil find suggests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950871.stm

Behind the scenes at The Walking with Dinosaurs live show

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7951777.stm

Killing Young Fish: Population Growth Paradox

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317143155.htm

Mont. Man Ties State Record By Catching Tiny Fish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/19/ap/strange/main4875591.shtml

Dying bees 'were not a priority'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7951009.stm

Microscope Reveals How Soil Bacteria 'Breathe' Toxic Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316151031.htm

Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150729.htm

Number Of U.S. Births Breaks Record

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4873969.shtml

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/18/hurricane.forecast/index.html

Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane Ike

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313110752.htm

Hurricane Rita

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

Hurricane Ike

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

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients For Atlanta's Perfect Storm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111013.htm

2008 Atlanta Tornado Outbreak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Atlanta_tornado_outbreak

Ozone: New Simulation Shows Consequences Of A World Without Earth's Natural Sunscreen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319090754.htm

Ozone layer

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

Ozone depletion

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

Montreal Protocol

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

Food supplies reach Arctic team

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7952165.stm