More on Global Warming and More for Thursday, May 28, 2009

* Physeter catodon image licensed under Creative Commons by alh1

Melting Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast U.S.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527121055.htm

Methane rise detected in Arctic

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30889664/


European Shipping Routes Linked To Locations With High Nitrogen Dioxide Pollution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522132001.htm

Microfossils Challenge Prevailing Views Of 'Snowball Earth' Glaciations On Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526140846.htm

Hospital workers save orang-utan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/8068358.stm

Pongo

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

Glowing monkeys 'to aid research'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070252.stm

Rare blue whale found dead on New Zealand beach

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090528/ap_on_re_au_an/as_new_zealand_rare_whale;_ylt=AuOmTghBIBefOoNb3QKpxuWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlOW43aWU1BHBvcwMxMjIEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNyYXJlYmx1ZXdoYWw-

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Balaenoptera musculus (IUCN Link – Endangered)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2477/0

Balaenoptera musculus (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/328574

Caught on tape! How whales steal fish

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30944866/

Physeter catodon

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

Physeter catodon (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/328547

Physeter macrocephalus (IUCN link) Species notation: You may find this specie listed under Physeter catodon in the Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia of Life. You will find it listed only under Physeter macrocephalus in the IUCN Red List (Vulnerable).

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/41755/0

Notothenia microlepidota

http://fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=12014&genusname=Notothenia&speciesname=microlepidota

Pink dolphin makes splash in shipping channel

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30968596/

Tursiops truncatus

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

Tursiops truncatus (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/129548

Thais cheer surprise panda birth

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8071393.stm

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

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

Ailuropoda melanoleuca (IUCN Red List Link)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/712/0

Ailuropoda melanoleuca (EOL link)

http://eol.org/pages/328070

Mountain lion killed after escape at Kansas zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30947607/

Puma concolor

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

Puma concolor (EOL Link) Species notation: You may find this specie listed under Felius concolor in the Wikipedia, but you may find it listed only under Puma concolor in the Encyclopedia of Life.

http://eol.org/pages/311910


Mouse genome laid bare to science

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8069235.stm

Mouse Genome Informatics

http://www.informatics.jax.org/

More Genetic Differences Between Mice, Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202722.htm

Climate Change Threatens Endangered Honeycreeper Birds of Hawaii

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526140840.htm

Cyanerpes

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

Cuckoo's call becomes rarer in UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070021.stm

Cuculidae

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

Cuculus canorus

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

CBC MANITOBA Falcon cam

http://www.cbc.ca/manitoba/features/falcon/

Falco peregrinus

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

Falco peregrinus (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/1049164

Komodo dragon attacks terrorize villages

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30913500/

Varanus komodoensis

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

Varanus komodoensis (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/790179

Varanus komodoensis (IUCN Link)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22884/0


Did The North Atlantic Fisheries Collapse Due To Fisheries-induced Evolution?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202809.htm

Shellfish At Risk In High Carbon Dioxide World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202807.htm

Shellfish

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

Giant Dinosaur Posture Is All Wrong

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526213918.htm

Giant dinosaurs 'held heads high'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8068789.stm

Sauropoda

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

New Extinct Lemur Species Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527073030.htm

Palaeopropithecus kelyus

http://www.em-consulte.com/article/212118/iconosup

Cancer patient held at U.S. airport for missing fingerprint

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090527/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_cancer_fingerprints

Capecitabine

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

Australia swine flu ship isolated

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8071292.stm

Scientists develop new basis for H5N1 vaccine: WHO

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54r2yg-us-flu-who-vaccine/

British scientists make H1N1 flu strain for vaccine

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54r3ay-us-flu-britain-vaccine/

Child diabetes cases 'to double'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8068941.stm

Ocean monster shows hidden depths

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8071021.stm

Chikyu Hakken

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

Brain Activation Can Predict Strategies People Use To Make Risky Decisions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527121043.htm

Investigating The Development Of Mechanosensitivity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522101924.htm

Can you "hear" shapes and "taste" sounds?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8070210.stm

Synaesthesia

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

Watermelons Tapped For Ethanol

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522180918.htm

Citrullus lanatus

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

Postwar Food Vetch Is An Important Source Of Antioxidant Activity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528092528.htm

Vicia

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

Vicia (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/13463


Geographic Isolation Drives Evolution Of Hot Springs Microbe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527105715.htm

Viruses Are Sneakier Than We Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202724.htm

Portable Device Can Detect Viruses In Minutes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528093004.htm

Would have been an 'insult' not to accept seal heart: Gov. Gen.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/27/jean-hunt.html

More for Earth Day and Overpopulation the Worst Problem and More for Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Earth Day

http://www.earthday.net/

Ontario to mark Earth Day with cosmetic pesticide ban

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2009/04/21/ont-pesticides.html

Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418075752.htm

Overpopulation

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

Features Of Early Martian Environment And Presence Of Water Drive Search For Life Forms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125214.htm

Polo pony deaths baffle US vets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8010121.stm

Are Cyclones Feeding Global Warming?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121421.htm

Rivers Losing Water Due to Climate Change

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090421/sc_livescience/riverslosingwaterduetoclimatechange;_ylt=AgigKjoYRENA2VLrp_Q5vSYPLBIF

China says planning more dams on troubled Yangtze

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090421/wl_asia_afp/chinaenvironmentdamenergy;_ylt=Aon6jPMMKB4D4jZATNtGgqsPLBIF

Critical Turning Point Can Trigger Abrupt Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121335.htm

Oxfam warns of climate disasters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8009412.stm

Carbon Dioxide Snatched From The Air

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121342.htm

Early Oxygen Rich Atmosphere? Origins Of Sulfur In Rocks Tells Early Oxygen Story

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144527.htm

Urban Centers With Most Polluted Air: North East Of Barcelona And South East Of Madrid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105344.htm

New contaminants threaten Ontario lakes and rivers: report

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/21/water-quality.html

EU commission urges fishing cuts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8008939.stm

Nations must not 'snatch defeat from jaws of victory' by failing to save carbon markets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8000156.stm

Ecological debt: No way back from bankrupt

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988648.stm

Breastfeeding 'protects mother'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8008678.stm

Epilepsy: Exposure To Valproate During Pregnancy Can Impair A Child's Cognitive Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415172227.htm

Cancer brake 'could halt disease'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8007023.stm

Human Brains Make Their Own 'Marijuana'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420151240.htm

Humanized Mouse Infected With HIV Vaginally And Rectally Allows Testing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103740.htm

Smoke From Cigarettes, Cooking Oil, Wood, Shift Male Cardiovascular System Into Overdrive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417084119.htm

Fears over web health revolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8008361.stm

First Broad-spectrum Anti-microbial Paint To Kill 'Superbugs'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121425.htm

Food agency chief under fire at listeriosis probe

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/21/listeriosis-probe-cfia021.html


Damage To Forests From Climate Change Could Cost The Planet Its Major Keeper Of Greenhouse Gases, Study Warns

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417084128.htm

Dramatic Baby Lemur Rescue

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7383252

Rejected baby kangaroo gets life-saving milk at Belgrade zoo

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/090421/K042102AU.html

Lizards Bask In The Sun For A Vitamin D Boost

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420182224.htm

Lizard

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

Millions pledged to reverse bee decline

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/21/britain.bees.decline/index.html

Colony Collapse Disorder

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

Tulip Entered Europe Through Al-Andalus Five Centuries Earlier Than Believed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105353.htm

Tulipa

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

Al-Andalus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Andalus

Mangrove Forests Save Lives In Storms, Study Of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414172924.htm

Mangrove forest

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

Chemists Synthesize Herbal Alkaloid

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415172239.htm

Club moss (Lycopodium serratum)

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


'Natural' Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria Protect Soybeans From Aphids

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090414110818.htm

Complex molecules seen in space

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8009014.stm

ethyl formate and n-propyl cyanide

Primitive Interstellar Dust Samples Provide Pre-solar Time Capsules

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421080504.htm

Bottling moonshine... do lunar cycles affect the taste of wine?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8008167.stm

Best Intentions: Presence Of Healthy Food Can Lead To Unhealthy Choices

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420170915.htm

Turmeric: India's 'Holy Powder' Finally Reveals Its Centuries-old Secret

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420123051.htm

Curcuma longa

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

Curcumin

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

Following the Bronze Age DNA trail from the Mediterranean to Wales

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8007969.stm

2 Calif. animal rights activists indicted

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_us/animal_rights_violence;_ylt=AodPM1o53ZzoELBFNXlUengPLBIF

Former astronaut: Man not alone in universe

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/20/ufo.conference/index.html

Edgar Mitchell

For Sunday, October 26, 2008

"Remains of Karema" image from Virunga National Park licensed under Creative Commons by WildlifeDirect

Donate to WildlifeDirect

http://wildlifedirect.org/

Congo rebels seize gorilla park

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/10/26/congo.gorillapark/index.html

Virunga National Park

http://www.gorilla.cd/

Seaweed farms 'could fuel future'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7690973.stm

Toxic waste verdict disappoints

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7687612.stm

2006 Ivory Coast toxic waste spill

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7687612.stm

Premier says China to ensure safe food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27380609/

Protein Compass Guides Amoebas Toward Prey

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023144057.htm

Australia scientists say bees can count to four

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081026/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_australia_science;_ylt=AlViAg4RYRGe_FcMTgGzv6_tiBIF

Seabass And Chips: Harnessing Science To Predict Ocean Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023222558.htm

Dolphins Use Complex Coordination During Predation, High-tech Acoustics Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021093946.htm

Making Flies Sick Reveals New Role For Growth Factors In Immunity

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023175137.htm

Hippocratic Oath What's in the famous medical promise and why?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7654432.stm

Hippocratic Oath

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

A guide to the Hippocratic Oath

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7654432.stm

Acupuncture Used For Animal Ailments

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081026100516.htm

'Cheshire Cat' Escape Strategy In Response To Marine Viruses

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081026094351.htm

Why Some Marine Algae Is Shaped Like Crumpled Paper

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081026094936.htm

WPBF: Bees attack home, kill dogs

http://www.wpbf.com/cnn-news/17802980/detail.html

Dog risks life for kittens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7691667.stm

"Green" Burial: From Ashes To Reef

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/tech/livinggreen/main4540779.shtml

U.K. Approves Animal-Human Embryo Testing

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/23/tech/main4540636.shtml

Forgotten Fossil Bed Found Again After 150 Years

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443964,00.html

More lights seen in sky at UFO hotspot

Post-cardiac Arrest Care Key To Survival

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023100850.htm

Alternative Medicine And Heavy Metal Poisoning

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023101226.htm

Heavy Metal

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

Vaccine slashes diarrheal illness in kids

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081026/ap_on_he_me/med_childhood_vaccines;_ylt=AljCr_dpLudapcdwLbdNUXGs0NUE

Rotavirus

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

Cleaning Infected Blood

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0602-cleaning_infected_blood.htm

Atmospheric Scientists And Engineers Demonstrate Amount Of Pollution In U.S. Originating Overseas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0710-overseas_pollution_hitting_the_us.htm

Climate Change, Acid Rain Could Be Good For Forests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021214850.htm

For Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Magpie can 'recognise reflection'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7570291.stm

Pica pica

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

Wild dolphin 'is teaching others to tail-walk'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7570097.stm

Coal's toxic legacy to the Arctic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7568748.stm

Brain's counting skill 'built-in'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7563265.stm

Rare frog gains legal protection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7568882.stm

Ancient tree helps birds survive

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7566522.stm

Quercus cerris

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

Newfound Air Pollutant Mimics Cigarette Smoke

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080817223432.htm

Limbs Saved By Menstrual Blood Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080818220609.htm

DEET's Not Sweet To Mosquitoes, Groundbreaking Research Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080818183942.htm

N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide

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

Plastics Suspect In Lobster Illness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080814104833.htm

Experts Urge Industry To Broaden Carbon Footprint Calculations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080815170631.htm


Confused sea turtles march into restaurant

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080818/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_turtles;_ylt=AgoGfW3w4.G14BPwvVi04pas0NUE

For Monday, August 18, 2008

Camera spots rare clouded leopard

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/green_room/7561940.stm

Neofelis diardi

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

Lost whale bonds with yacht

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7567784.stm

Wastewater fears for urban farms

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7563295.stm

Lab animal use 'tops 100 million'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7561614.stm

Ant eye view

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7563372.stm


Do Yetis exist? British scientists test 'unknown' hair

http://www.yahoo.com/s/937332


Dinosaurs Are Back

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