For Friday, July 11, 2008

Urban farming photo licensed under Creative Commons by ambienttraffic

http://www.livescience.com/animals/080709-fish-eyes.html

Freaky Fish Was Cockeyed LiveScience

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709144213.htm

Flatfish Fossils Fill In Evolutionary Missing Link

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080708092228.htm

Popular Fish, Tilapia, Contains Potentially Dangerous Fatty Acid Combination

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-6_fatty_acid

Omega-6 fatty acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7495717.stm

BBC NEWS Americas Urban farming takes root in Detroit


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

Urban agriculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_sc/taiwan_mammoth_display;_ylt=Age3itL5xj1g1U_y0Mp5Vt6s0NUE

Siberian mammoths on display in Taiwan - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/global_warming_smog;_ylt=AsovcfyE5hA9lLMvaj7YKTGs0NUE

EPA: Smog could get worse with global warming - Yahoo! News


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080710/sc_livescience/antarcticiceshelfallbutlost;_ylt=Antxt9XGFDd1QLQ2xrazXlYPLBIF

Antarctic Ice Shelf All But Lost - Yahoo! News

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

Wilkins Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7498502.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature 'Alarming' plight of coral reefs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7498195.stm

BBC NEWS UK Wales South East Wales Worm-eating slug found in garden

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

Selenochlamys ysbryda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7499834.stm

BBC NEWS UK Scotland Highlands and Islands Fall in tiny animals a 'disaster'

http://www.buglife.org.uk/

Buglife Welcome to Buglife


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080709110839.htm

Big Brains Arose Twice In Higher Primates

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

New World monkey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

Catarrhini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080711090057.htm

Disproving Conventional Wisdom On Diversity Of Marine Fossils And Extinction Rates


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/07/11/dnt.mysterious.reptile.kgo

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

For Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Photo by Timothy K. Hamilton, licensed under Creative Commons

Today we explore; Vog, a city sized reservoir planned for the Everglades, global warming threat to tropical species, a bionic beak for an injured Bald eagle, rescued reptiles, Argentinian dinosaur egg return, rice super gene, city-dwelling mating pair Peregrines, the lethality of Bubonic plague, plants that text message stress levels to farmers, and the lethal fungus threat to the Golden frog.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_us/hawaii_volcanic_gas;_ylt=AhcX2nma2mw23_u9hRdyN7Cs0NUE

Vog — volcanic smog — kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii - Yahoo! News

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

Vog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_us/everglades_reservoir;_ylt=AvCmgXozgIV2NnvRNQIivROs0NUE

Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades - Yahoo! News

http://www.evergladesplan.org/index.aspx

Welcome to the official website of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_sc/warming_tropics;_ylt=AlOo6jbIqmy7jRpqua0CBzys0NUE

Scientists: Warming may greatest threat to tropical species - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7384807.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Tropics insects 'face extinction'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505211835.htm

Trouble In Paradise: Global Warming A Greater Danger To Tropical Species

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_sc/bionic_beak;_ylt=Ar7Tqx_XGIpdyNo2ZxTbFQMPLBIF

Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle - Yahoo! News

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

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_wildlife;_ylt=AjKkvjaqCYxkDkVm8G7ENSoPLBIF

Conservationists rescue almost 300 Cambodian reptiles - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080504/sc_afp/sciencefarmfoodricegenes;_ylt=AsPD15GgC2dElFUIr0._GYoPLBIF

Is this the rice super-gene? - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_dinosaur_eggs;_ylt=AuOkWsMzD0tXvhteTaG4UQwPLBIF

US to return Argentine dinosaur eggs - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7385329.stm

BBC NEWS UK Falcons take up city-centre perch

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

Falco peregrinus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080504194238.htm

Scientists Discover Why Plague Is So Lethal

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

Bubonic plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24454529/

Who should doctors let die in a pandemic? - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com

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

Aspartic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080502171010.htm

Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty

http://www.smartcrop.net/

Smart Crop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24466460/

Deadly fungus threatens golden frog - Science- msnbc.com

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

Atelopus zeteki

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

Chytridiomycota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Golden frog photo licensed under Creative Commons by ucumari