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

For Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Video: 'I had to' stab my pet

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Owner describes chimp’s horrific rampage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29255129/

Pan

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

No Joy In Discoveries Of New Mammal Species, Only A Warning For Humanity, Paul Ehrlich Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209205309.htm

Grizzly bears reveal their fancy footwork secrets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7879581.stm

Ursus arctos horribilis

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

If You're Aggressive, Your Dog Will Be Too

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141540.htm

How to train your cat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7895280.stm?lss

Mutant Rats Resist Warfarin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205214433.htm

Warfarin

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

Water voles rescued from sewage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7893573.stm

Arvicola amphibius

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

Vast Cache Of Ice-age Fossils Uncovered At La Brea Tar Pits In Los Angeles

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218090539.htm

LaBrea Tar Pits

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

Air-filled Bones Extended Lung Capacity And Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Take First Flight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217212305.htm

'Middle Class' Coral Reef Fish Feel The Economic Squeeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209122546.htm

Threat To Cod Fisheries: Pathogenic Bacterium Identified In Cod

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093856.htm

Growing Peppers: Does Hotter Mean Healthier?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203142519.htm

Sweet Potato Takes A Ride On Space Shuttle Columbia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125730.htm

Ipomoea batatas

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

Dinner dispute raises alarm at truffle body

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090217/od_nm/us_truffle_dispute_odd;_ylt=AvKeWuu7o5LvSUj4INUky9qs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmazJka2ZlBHBvcwMxOTQEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDZGlubmVyZGlzcHV0

Adaptations Key To Extreme Microbe's Survival

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210125435.htm

New Way That Bacteria Evolve Into Something That Can Make You Sick

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216175124.htm

Viruses' Protective Shield Deciphered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216175205.htm

Report: FDA scaled back enforcement at labs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_go_ot/fda_lab_quality;_ylt=ArlDajD8_U5A5g516H6UA_us0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkYjFxcjk4BHBvcwMxNDAEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA3JlcG9ydGZkYXNjYQ--

Tiny 'Lab-on-a-chip' Detects Pollutants, Disease And Biological Weapons

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125732.htm

Secrets Of Potential Bioterror Virus Uncovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217102149.htm

Rift Valley fever virus

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

AIDS becomes top infectious disease in China

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29240222/

Hospitals see big drop in staph superbugs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29241041/

Engineers Create Intelligent Molecules That Seek And Destroy Diseased Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213114323.htm

Fetal stem cells trigger tumors in ill boy

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29243132/

Engineer Develops Method To Combat Congenital Heart Disease In Children

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152418.htm

Man's family finds kidney donor on Craigslist

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/18/kidney.donor.craigslist/index.html

Gene Linked To Aggressive Progression Of Liver Cancer Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216175114.htm

Smoker's widow seeks $130 million US in damages

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/02/18/cigarette-lawsuit.html

Fibromyalgia Pain Linked To Central Nervous System Dysfunction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217123124.htm

Statistical Analysis Could Yield New Drug Target For Multiple Sclerosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213103053.htm

Working Toward Artificial Corneas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172052.htm

Does An Apple A Day Keeps Breast Cancer Away?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217125742.htm

Robots Sense Emotions Of Children With Autism

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090217141544.htm

Loneliness Affects How The Brain Operates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151800.htm

Multiracial Identity Associated With Better Social And Personal Well-being

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210110045.htm

Multilingualism Brings Communities Closer Together

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092721.htm

Environmental Impact Of Building Construction Can Now Be Predicted

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204140815.htm

Climate curbs need 'people power'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7892992.stm

Cancer-causing Toxins Linked To Unexploded Munitions In Oceans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218091930.htm

New Botanical Drug May Silence Peanut Allergies, Animal Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213105713.htm

For Monday, February 16, 2009

Parasitic wasp image licensed under Creative Commons by Arthur Chapman

Amazon dieback 'overstated'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7892066.stm

Amazon rainforest

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

Burp of Arctic laughing gas is no joke

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16602-burp-of-arctic-laughing-gas-is-no-joke.html

Ancient Geologic Escape Hatches Mistaken For Tube Worms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090204121506.htm

First carbon-free polar station opens in Antarctica

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e1s3-us-climate-antarctica/

Air Pollution Too High Near Some US Schools

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090214103104.htm

Synthetic Biology Yields Clues To Evolution And Origin Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151611.htm

Baboons And Pigeons Are Capable Of Higher-level Cognition, Behavioral Studies Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141143.htm

Columbidae

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

Biologist Gets The Straight Poop On Baboons: Execretion Analysis Aids Primate Social Studies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090215151451.htm

Papio

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

Ivory trade hits Asia's elephants

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7891908.stm

Elephas maximus

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

DNA testing fails on ancient British polar bear remains

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7874602.stm

Ursus maritimus

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

Songbirds Fly 3 Times Faster Than Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212141152.htm

Passeri

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

Turbines' impact on birds probed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7892277.stm

Japanese turtle to get prosthetic limbs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090216/sc_afp/japanenvironmentanimaloffbeat;_ylt=AlI.ppx0qZBZqorj2Xu8YpkPLBIF

Caretta caretta

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



Cleaner waters attract sharks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090213/od_nm/us_sharks_odd;_ylt=Av653pT1suuO.UV0nBvHiO.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmM280c2gwBHBvcwMxOTMEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDY2xlYW5lcndhdGVy

Climate Change And Fisheries: US Atlantic Cod Population To Drop By Half By 2050

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212171941.htm

Gadus

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

Study: 'Astonishing richness' in polar species

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29212190/

Parasite Wasps Have Practiced Gene Therapy For A Hundred Million Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090216100425.htm

Braconidae

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

Honeybees under attack on all fronts

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126954.600-honeybees-under-attack-on-all-fronts.html

How to hunt for shadow life

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/how-to-hunt-for-shadow-life.html

Heart pill could 'erase bad memories'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7892272.stm

Cancer Diagnosis: Now In 3-D

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090209152416.htm

Nanoparticle 'Smart Bomb' Targets Drug Delivery To Cancer Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212125139.htm

Stem Cells In Hair Follicles Point To General Model Of Organ Regeneration

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213112923.htm

HIV gene therapy trial promising


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7883023.stm

Empathy Partly Based On Genes: Mouse Study

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211082354.htm

Internal Choices Are Weaker Than Those Dictated By The Outside World

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211094036.htm

New Test For Mysterious Metabolic Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211094040.htm

Evolutionary Link To Modern-day Obesity, Other Problems

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212150826.htm

Genetic Risk For Substance Use Can Be Neutralized By Good Parenting

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210125437.htm

First Brain Study Reveals Benefits Of Exercise On Quitting Smoking

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090210092738.htm

Study pinpoints genes tied to high blood pressure

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre51e1ig-us-heart-genes/

Deciphering The Body's Healing Secrets

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090212093710.htm

New Surgical Option For Wrist Arthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213172055.htm

Painless Shoulder

http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/0113-painless_shoulder.htm

For Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Raphus cucullatus image licensed under Creative Commons by happy via

Dodo and friends Inside the Natural History Museum's bird collection

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7725086.stm

Raphus cucullatus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_(bird)

Scientists find new penguin, extinct for 500 years

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_sc/as_sci_new_zealand_new_penguin

Megadyptes antipodes

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

Tiny, long-lost primate rediscovered in Indonesia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081118/sc_nm/us_primate_indonesia

Tarsius pumilus

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

World's oldest polar bear dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7737193.stm

EU agrees cod stocks rescue plans

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7737485.stm

Rights group: Video shows turkey abuse

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27803335/

Meleagris

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_(bird)

Japanese scientists clone embryo of endangered rabbit

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081118/sc_afp/sciencejapanbiotechcloning;_ylt=AkQt38eAEo5GMXWK5qazkxcPLBIF

Pentalagus furnessi

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

ARKive link for Amami Rabbit

http://www.arkive.org/amami-rabbit/pentalagus-furnessi/


Ancient turtle discovered on Skye

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7736786.stm

Big cat fossil found in North Sea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7735544.stm

Homotherium crenatidens

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


How Cockroaches Keep Their Predators 'Guessing'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081113140312.htm

Blattaria

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

Ginkgo Biloba Does Not Reduce Dementia Risk, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081118161234.htm

Gingko biloba

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

Garlic Chemical Tablet Treats Diabetes I And II, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081119084835.htm

Allium sativum

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



New Bacteria Discovered In Raw Milk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117082051.htm

Pied Piper required as rats return to Hamelin

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7737604.stm

Cougar Attack During Burglary

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6273112