8K Mile Journey of the Limosa & More for Thursday, August 6, 2009

Limosa lapponica image licensed under Creative Commons by Dave Hamster

Scientists In Northern Alaska Spot A Shorebird Tagged 8,000 Miles Away

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804215021.htm

Limosa lapponica

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

Limosa lapponica (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1049548


DNA computer 'answers questions'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8184033.stm

DNA Computer

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

'Slaughter' fears

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8186773.stm

Loxodonta

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

Loxodonta africana

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

Loxodonta cyclotis

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

Loxodonta Africana (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/289808

Loxodonta cyclotis (EOL Link) [IUCN Red List Not Evaluated]

http://www.eol.org/pages/289547

Loxodonta Africana (IUCN Red List – Near Threatened)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/12392/0

Koala that inspired Australia after bush fires dies during operation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8186991.stm

Sam the Koala

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

Gunshot riddle as beaver vanishes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8187394.stm

Castor fiber

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

Castor fiber (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1036116

Grey squirrel threat to Highlands

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8185953.stm

Sciurus carolinensis

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

Sciurus carolinensis (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/347685

Crows Can Use Three Tools In Sequence

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805144114.htm

Corvus brachyrhynchos

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

Corvus brachyrhynchos (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/1177464

Venomous Sea Snakes Play Heads Or Tails

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090805201539.htm

Laticauda colubrina

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

Laticauda colubrine (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/963373

Bringing Fish From Ocean Floor: Carefully Released Rockfish Can Survive Barotrauma

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727203302.htm

Sebastes

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

Barotrauma

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

Marine Pest Species Costing Billions In Damage To Fisheries, Coastal Communities And Infrastructure Are Spreading

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090726092331.htm

Invasive Species

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

Ancient pterosaurs were skilled fliers

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5745gj-us-china-pterosaur/

How the humble raindrop has driven flower evolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8186000/8186098.stm

Do Chicago’s Suburbs Hold The Key To Understanding West Nile Virus?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090730155551.htm

West Nile Virus

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


Popular Insect Repellent Deet Is Neurotoxic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804193230.htm

DEET

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


Structure of HIV genome 'decoded'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8186263.stm

HIV-1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV-1

Sustainable Agriculture: Perennial Plants Produce More; Landscape Diversity Creates Habitat For Pest Enemies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804071358.htm

Sustainable agriculture

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

Lead-based Consumer Paint Remains A Global Public Health Threat

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090804094641.htm

Lead paint

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

Martian methane mystery deepens

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8186314.stm

'UFO' seen on BBC News webcam

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8186289.stm

Another 'Silent Spring' & More for Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Is it another 'Silent Spring'? (No, we're not referring to the late, great Rachel Carson's classic Silent Spring...). Well, actually its now summer, but we've noticed some missing residents around here in lower eastern Michigan. We were up - quite early this morning, before sunrise - and noticed a deafening silence. 'Where were the crickets?', we wondered. Any other year, this time of day and season, you could hear their chorus. We find the complete absence of one of our favorite insects a little disturbing and eerie. We have found a couple (two, exactly) of the smaller field-variety brown crickets - during this whole season... Is it a cause for concern?

Always silent and always appearing en masse, we missed another of our insect friends - Ephemeroptera or the Mayfly. Where have they been this year? Is it too cool and wet for them, this year? Or is it some other unknown reason? Is it linked to our disappeared Gryllidae? We don't know...

Another missing resident is the common Bufo bufo and some of our other Anuran friends. Last spring, we encountered hundreds of their tadpoles in drying tire tracks. Many of which we believe to have matured and survived as we heard their croaks and groans earlier this year. Now, the areas where we had encountered them just one year ago are nearly and/or completely silent. The tire tracks are still there. They are wet. But, inexpicably they are uninhabited. Is it too late in the season? Or is there some other, more ominous reason? We hope to post video evidence of this soon, but lacking funds, we must ask for donations to do this. Otherwise, the evidence may never be posted.

We had previously posted our concerns about the anurans and bufo previously (in another venue...) and received some derogatory comments regarding that. But, we expected that. However, we did not expect a complete disappearance. Believing that the little creatures form the ecological foundation for the rest of the biosphere, we wonder if the next phase of disappearance is coming. We firmly believe that what happens to our other earthling neighbors, happens to us...

How Evolution Can Allow For Large Developmental Leaps


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163716.htm


Strange! Humans Glow in Visible Light


http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090722/sc_livescience/strangehumansglowinvisiblelight;_ylt=AltqKv8tEQee4NHSatM8xE4PLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNkMGptdnJuBGFzc2V0A2xpdmVzY2llbmNlLzIwMDkwNzIyL3N0cmFuZ2VodW1hbnNnbG93aW52aXNpYmxlbGlnaHQEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bl9oZ


Ultrasound performed on pregnant dolphin


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8161416.stm

Tursiops


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

Tursiops truncatus (EOL Link)


http://www.eol.org/pages/129548


Wolf Reintroduction Proposed In Scottish Highland Test Case


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134527.htm

Bangladesh rare leopard cub found


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8162981.stm

Neofelis nebulosa

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

Neofelis nebulosa (IUCN Red List Link – Vulnerable)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/14519/0

Neofelis nebulosa (EOL Link)

http://www.eol.org/pages/328675

Cod expert: Don't boost harvest yet

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/07/22/cod-recover-722.html

Gadus

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

Sea Lamprey Embryos Dramatically Alter Genomes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163734.htm

Petromyzon marinus

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

Petromyzon marinus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2530

Return of the Giant Jellyfish

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6721081.ece

Echizen kurage

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

Swine flu vaccine trials start in Australia

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/07/22/swine-flu-vaccine.html

H1N1 Influenza Pandemic Modeling For Public Health Action

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134227.htm

2009 flu pandemic

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

H1N1 Deaths Double in Three Weeks

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/21/health/main5177820.shtml

Infection-Causing Amoeba May be Resistant to Multiple Contact Lens Solutions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721091841.htm

Acanthamoeba

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

C. Difficile Spores Spread Superbug

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720134522.htm

Clostridium difficile

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



Embryonic-like cells repair damaged mouse hearts

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre56j51m-us-heart-stemcell/

Pre-chewed Food Could Transmit HIV

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721163126.htm

Starve A Fever, Feed A Cold, Don't Be Stressed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163719.htm

Evidence Of Clovis-age Comets Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720190719.htm

Hunt hopes to find ancient trees

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8160881.stm

New Discovery Suggests Trees Evolved Camouflage Defense Against Long Extinct Predator

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722083723.htm

Pseudopanax crassifolius

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

Dinornis

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

Warming Climate Threatens California Fruit And Nut Production

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721214622.htm

Rice Defies Its Reputation As A Thirsty Crop

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720102014.htm

Combating Iron Deficiency: Rice With Six Times More Iron Than Polished Rice Kernels Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721090129.htm

Oryza

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

DNA Of Ancient Lost Barley Could Help Modern Crops Cope With Water Stress

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721091822.htm

Hordeum

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

Too Many Trees Planted In Central Strip Of Roads Can Be Worse Than None; Can Trap Vehicle Exhaust Fumes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720105127.htm

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

EPA: CO2 is Hazardous/Dangerous and Will Rising Seas Swallow Up the Islands? and More for Sunday, April 19, 2009

Charles Darwin image licensed under Creative Commons by celerrimus

Energy secretary: Islands could disappear

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_on_sc/cb_obama_summit_energy;_ylt=ApqERs2mBlXWy0Hw9IikeJus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlbWRtN2hoBHBvcwMxMDkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNlbmVyZ3lzZWNyZXQ-

EPA: Greenhouse Gases Threaten Public Health

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417183528.htm

EPA: Greenhouse gases pose health hazard

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/17/greenhouse.gas.hazard.epa/index.html

Obama to regulate 'pollutant' CO2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8004975.stm


Carbon dioxide

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

Global Warming 'Fixes' Can Suck Up Water

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Weekend/story?id=7371405&page=1

No-gas cars soon to hit market

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2009/04/18/levs.green.cars.cnn

3 patients HIV-positive after VA clinic mistakes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30269569/

Factories dumping drugs into sewage

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30267705/

King: Waterman finds Chesapeake Bay 'dying daily'

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/17/king.sotu.chesapeake/index.html

Chesapeake Bay

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

Desert clash in West over solar potential, water

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_on_re_us/water_for_solar;_ylt=AoHmqTJrLt.IwuGFQJ.XHY6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNGIzM3N1BHBvcwMxMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNkZXNlcnRjbGFzaGk-

NYT: A possibly deadly route to beauty

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30267013/

Silicone embolism

Silicone embolism syndrome

http://www.chestjournal.org/content/127/6/2276.abstract

Embryos From IVF OKd for Research Dollars

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=7363394

'Green Nobel' for forest champion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8000936.stm


Goldman Environmental Prize

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


Reports expose holes in Canada's food safety system

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/17/listeriosis-ont.html

Food-borne bacteria cause illness in 1 in 6 annually: T.O. health report

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/17/foodborne-illness-toronto.html

New fund promises low-cost malaria treatment

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090418/ap_on_re_eu/eu_norway_malaria;_ylt=AiZbU48UdmN_HdWkYijn5oqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkY2VlbmphBHBvcwMxNDIEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA25ld2Z1bmRwcm9taQ--

Medical Micro-robots Made As Small As Bacteria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418085333.htm

Spanish wind farms' record month

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8006668.stm

Key role of forests 'may be lost'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8004517.stm

New limits to Antarctic tourism

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8005467.stm

Antarctic Treaty

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

Ocean Dead Zones Likely To Worsen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417161506.htm

Dead Zone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)

Bonobos rate food on scale from bark to grunt

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30266532/

Pan paniscus

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

China to build new panda breeding center

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090419/ap_on_re_as/as_china_pandas;_ylt=Aq5_PaP57BfbiCw5sTvcUVEPLBIF

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

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

Peek into kangaroo's pouch shows 2 tiny joeys

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30263612/

Dendrolagus matschiei

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matschie%27s_tree_kangaroo

Flying Mouse-traps Clean Up Fields

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418085935.htm

$14 million effort aims to save rare Hawaiian bird

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30270793/

‘Alala (Corvus hawaiiensis)

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

Alligators Hint At Dinosaur Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417083957.htm

Alligator

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

Dinosauria

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

Researchers Fire The Starting Gun For The Great Turtle Race

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418081508.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Rally against shark fin trade opens in Singapore

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090418/wl_asia_afp/singaporeanimalenvironmentsharkfood;_ylt=Aplil41kS11k6kEAIXxkAeQPLBIF

From Fish To Landlubber: Earlier Transition?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090417144848.htm

Scorpion Biodiversity In 'Evolution Canyon'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409185415.htm

Scorpiones

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


Neurons That Control Sociability In Worms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416193308.htm

The Life That Escaped Darwin’s Notice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090418084432.htm