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

Swine Flu 2009 and More for Monday, April 27, 2009

U.S. advises against travel to Mexico as swine flu spreads

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1063663

American swine flu cases climb to 40

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/

Mexico closes schools as deaths climb to 149

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30434921/

Swine Flu Outbreak 2009

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak

Swine flu case confirmed in Spain

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8020552.stm

Asia on high alert for flu virus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8019907.stm

Swine flu cases confirmed in UK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8020222.stm



Kenya poachers admit ivory haul

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8021094.stm

Poaching

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

Gray whales granted rare reprieve

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8017291.stm

Eschrichtius robustus

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

Cow genome 'to transform farming'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8014598.stm

Rare albino buffalo seen in Kenya

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8017328.stm

EU acts to save 'hungry vultures'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8018115.stm

Shark fins protection welcomed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8018284.stm

'Bleach bath' benefit for eczema

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8015995.stm

Eczema

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

Type Of Vitamin B1 Could Treat Common Cause Of Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423180237.htm

Adding Walnuts To Good Diet May Help Older People Improve Motor And Behavioral Skills

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419201207.htm

Juglans

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

How Plants Protect Us From Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419202029.htm

Search For Alien Life Gets A Hand(edness)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423105846.htm

'Super Reefs' Fend Off Climate Change, Study Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423132612.htm

Anthozoa

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

Sea shells used to clean up heavy metals

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30435640/

'Moderately Large' Potential For Red Tide Outbreak In Gulf Of Maine Region

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422085146.htm

Red tide

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

Greenhouse Gases Climb Despite Economic Slump

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424195920.htm

Blood Testing, Mosquito Style

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114218.htm

Could Climate Change Worsen Lyme Disease?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090426182944.htm

Lyme disease

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

Computational Biology Illuminates How Cells Change Gears

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420182226.htm

Most Distant Detection Of Water In The Universe

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422085756.htm