Evolution Acceleration and When Hawks Attack and More for Thursday, April 9, 2009

Complex Life Forms Linked To Nickel, Methane

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408145336.htm

Aerosols May Drive Much Arctic Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408164413.htm

Modern life's pressures may be hastening human evolution

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090408/sc_mcclatchy/3208192;_ylt=AoM5LzioADvJYFbB0_KHiooPLBIF

Powerful sonar causes deafness in dolphins: study

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090407/sc_afp/scienceanimalscetaceanssonar;_ylt=Aq1RL_vAm_xiDtssVHhiYkAPLBIF

Dolphin

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

Prehistoric Bears Also Ate Everything And Anything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408170815.htm

Arctodus simus

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

Ursus spelaeus

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

Half of Canada's boreal caribou herds in decline: report

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/08/caribou-boreal.html

Rangifer tarandus

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

Webcast shows eaglet was born on Vancouver Island

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/04/08/bc-eagle-cam-births.html

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

When Hawks Attack: Miami Student Hurt

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7292391&page=1

Accipitridae

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

Uni-flipper turtle gets it straight with swimsuit

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30116276/

Chelonia mydas

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

Federal regulators deny protection to Calif. fish

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090408/ap_on_re_us/troubled_delta;_ylt=AnC6iFmKZwHP03DTLUBknRQPLBIF

Spirinchus thaleichthys

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

Spirinchus thaleichthys

http://fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2698

Ancient Diatoms Lead To New Technology For Solar Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090408145556.htm

Diatom

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

For Thursday, January 29, 2009

Mountain Caribou's Ancient Ancestry Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128113242.htm

Rangifer tarandus

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

South Korean bio firm says dog cloning to be cheaper

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s0w6-us-korea-clones-dog/

How Does A Dog Walk? Surprisingly, Many Of Us Don't Really Know

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126121348.htm

Canis Lupus Familiaris

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

Bird discovery shows China's ecological potential

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090129/ap_on_sc/as_china_new_bird;_ylt=AuaO1JaqvQcj0qVlo.7Vjpys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlajBqa2tiBHBvcwMxMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNiaXJkZGlzY292ZXI-

Liberia faces second worm wave

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7857410.stm

Worm saviours Could this creature be key to human health?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7856095.stm

Key food, biofuel crop sorghum's genome deciphered

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50r6hk-us-sorghum-genome/

Sorghum

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

Billion-year Revision Of Plant Evolution Timeline May Stem From Discovery Of Lignin In Seaweed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127090723.htm

New Computational Technique Allows Comparison Of Whole Genomes As Easily As Whole Books

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160833.htm

'Fishy' Clue Helps Establish How Proteins Evolve

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127112043.htm

Al Gore testifies on greenhouse gasses

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Arctic thaw raises security concerns

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/29/arctic.global.warming.security/index.html

Ocean climate fix remains afloat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856144.stm

EU calls for US action on climate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7856120.stm

Geoengineering To Offset Global Warming?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127190338.htm

Global Warming Fix? Some Of Earth's Climate Troubles Should Face Burial At Sea, Scientists Say

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128212809.htm

Climate Change Irreversible, NOAA Reports

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127163403.htm

Discovery may keep millions from going hungry

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/01/29/waterproof.rice/index.html

Chemicals 'may reduce fertility'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7855323.stm

Previously Unidentified Bacteria May Cause Preterm Birth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127090730.htm

Too many babies: What went wrong?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28902137/

Stem Cells Used To Reverse Paralysis In Animals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128160933.htm

Shaken Self-confidence? Certain Products And Activities Can Fix It

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112321.htm

Stress Disrupts Human Thinking, But The Brain Can Bounce Back

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127190442.htm

'Paperless' Hospitals Are Better For Patients, Study Confirms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126173721.htm

Contagious Products: For Good Luck, Stay Close To A Winner

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126112309.htm

Zoloft, Lexapro best new antidepressants: study

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre50s00o-us-depression/

Natural Brain Substance Blocks Weight Gain In Mice, Researchers Discover

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090128074931.htm

Sepsis can strike, kill shockingly fast

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/01/29/ep.sepsis.infection/index.html

Sepsis

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

Changes needed to medical isotope production, scientist says

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/01/29/isotope-alternative.html

Gene therapy cures form of 'bubble boy disease'

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/01/29/bubble-boy.html

Peanut Corp. recalls all products back to 2007

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28899634/

FDA finds multiple problems at peanut plant

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28897859/

For Sunday, December 21, 2008

Rangifer tarandus image licensed under Creative Commons by m.prinke

Taiwan prepares for the arrival of two pandas from China

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7794572.stm

Global warming is endangering reindeer near the North Pole

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1005380

Rangifer tarandus

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

'Meaning' Within Bird Communication Deciphered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172125.htm

Pink, cyanide-oozing millipede found

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/12/17/dcl.levs.new.species.cnn

Bacteria Tricked Into Killing Themselves To Survive

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081216104309.htm

Advance In The Battle Against 'Gray Mold'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215151106.htm

New Vaccine Protects Monkeys From Pneumonic Plague

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219093756.htm

Can Large-scale Pumps Inject Oxygen And Life Into The Lifeless Seabed Of The Baltic?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081218132258.htm

Archaeological Discovery: Earliest Evidence Of Our Cave-dwelling Human Ancestors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172137.htm

Flu Drug Fails Against One U.S. Strain

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ColdandFluNews/wireStory?id=6496565

Inflamed Gums Linked To Heart Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081215184308.htm

Bowel cancer link to stem cells

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7788645.stm

Caffeine painkiller risk claimed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7013877.stm

Find 'may cut painkiller damage'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7785330.stm

New No-Cal Sweetener OK'd For Soft Drinks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/health/webmd/main4677346.shtml