BPA - Chances are its Inside of You and More for Friday, May 22, 2009

* Sarcophilus harrisii image licensed under Creative Commons by nicolas.boullosa

BPA, Chemical Used To Make Plastics, Found To Leach From Polycarbonate Drinking Bottles Into Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141208.htm

BPA

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

US CO2 goals 'to be compromised'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8061929.stm

Steven Chu

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

New worries on Arctic permafrost thaw

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54l34w-us-climate-methane/

Permafrost

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

U.S. to rely more on scientists for air rules: EPA

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54k5i1-us-epa-air-science/

EPA

http://www.epa.gov/

Biologists Call For Network Of Protected Rivers

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520140613.htm

Biofilms As River Sentinels

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519152601.htm

Water Framework Directive

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

Earth’s Climate And Ocean Acidification History

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519111031.htm

Whaling Commission head says Japan must compromise

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090521/wl_asia_afp/usjapanwhaling;_ylt=AuzS6VsELp9oqK4NaND1x6wPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJscjR2Nmt2BGFzc2V0A2FmcC8yMDA5MDUyMS91c2phcGFud2hhbGluZwRwb3MDMTUEc2VjA3luX2FydGljbGVfc3VtbWFyeV9saXN0BHNsawN3aGFsaW5nY29tbWk-

*Tasmanian devils now endangered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8062840.stm

Sarcophilus harrisii

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

Rare deer reveals signs of life

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8061000/8061899.stm

Rusa alfredi IUCN Red List

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/4273

Cervus alfredi

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

The UK's endangered dormice population showing signs of a possible recovery

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8062757.stm

Muscardinus avellanarius (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/13992/0

Muscardinus avellanarius

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

Internet followers of eagle cam watch helplessly as eaglet dies in B.C. nest

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/05/21/bc-trapped-eaglet-dies.html

Habitat loss 'hitting shellfish'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8061532.stm



Unusually Large Family Of Green Fluorescent Proteins Discovered In Marine Creature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161325.htm

Cephalochordata

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

Bumblebee flight is not quite in sync

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30875114/

Bombus

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

Heat-tolerant Coral Reefs Discovered: May Survive Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520100515.htm

Zooxanthellae

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

Genetic Pathway Responsible For Much Of Plant Growth Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520100511.htm

Beneficial Plant 'Spillover' Effect Seen From Landscape Corridors

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520151441.htm

Landscape Ecology

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

New Species of Yeast Discovered in Amazon Jungle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521084717.htm

Fundamental Mechanism For Cell Organization Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521141204.htm

Swine flu will keep spreading globally: WHO chief

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/22/swine-flu-who.html

Swine flu genes circulated undetected for years

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30886851/

CDC to swimmers: Don't pee in the pool!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/22/pools.urinate.hygiene/index.html

CDC

http://www.cdc.gov/


Face Protection Effective In Preventing The Spread Of Influenza, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090520161332.htm

New Vaccine Strategy Might Offer Protection Against Pandemic Influenza Strains

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518120954.htm

Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519172045.htm

Safe For Passengers With Lung Disease To Travel By Air, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519075418.htm

Cigarette companies lose appeal in landmark ruling

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1075254



Anti-inflammatory Effect Of 'Rotten Eggs' Gas

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521084542.htm

Hydrogen Sulfide

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

Sick Of The Same Old Thing? Researcher Finds Satiation Solution

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519134713.htm

Note: If you search for “Satiety” on the Wikipedia, the response is: Cholecystokinin

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

UK 'worst electrical recycler'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8063115.stm

Mars' Windy, Wet And Wild Past

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521161526.htm

Mars probes unravel watery mysteries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30870498/

Balaenoptera Return and DNA Damage Seen in Pollution Cases and More for Monday, May 18, 2009

* Phalacrocorax carbo image licensed under Creative Commons by kaibara87

Nations urge WHO to change pandemic assessment

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/05/18/health-swine-flu-who-meeting-pandemic-severity-virus-spread-deadly.html


Artificial Simulator Of The Nervous System Created For Research Into Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091615.htm

EDLUT

http://code.google.com/p/edlut/

New System For Personalized Cancer Treatment

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517081157.htm

Particulates May Damage DNA In Just Three Days

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517143218.htm

Engineered antibodies fight AIDS virus in monkeys

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54g20c-us-aids-vaccine/

Menstruation genes discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8046457.stm

Jump in swine flu cases in Japan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8054881.stm

Painkiller Patch Can Lead To Addiction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090515083820.htm

Change in cigarettes more dangerous to lungs?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30804744/

Biological Diversity: Islands Beat Mainland Nine To One

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511180651.htm

Blue whales returning to former Alaska waters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090518/ap_on_sc/us_blue_whales;_ylt=AqtFLJpssb7eU7kVZBEwx_MPLBIF

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Dolphins seen trying to kill calf

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8048000/8048288.stm

Sotalia fluviatilis

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

Baby elephant's birth webcast live

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8054575.stm

Enriched Environment Improves Wound Healing In Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512202736.htm

* Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090517/ap_on_sc/us_predator_eagles;_ylt=Ao0lrUWQLYA16kNZaC6VnvAPLBIF

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

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

Phalacrocorax carbo

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

World's Largest Leatherback Turtle Population

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090517212653.htm

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Golden Rice An Effective Source Of Vitamin A

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121102.htm

Golden Rice

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

Vitamin A

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



New Red Alga Discovered In Mediterranean Sea

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513091515.htm

Leptofauchea coralligena

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908652311~db=all~jumptype=rss

Woman finds seahorse in garden

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8053275.stm

For Sunday, December 7, 2007

Ursus spelaeus image licensed under Creative Commons by unforth

Japan sells Icelandic whale meat

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7767716.stm

Japan to arrest anti-whaling activists: report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081206/ts_afp/environmentwhalingjapan;_ylt=AvJhFRYGHR0FKMpTbcfaIAwPLBIF

21 new species in danger of extinction: UN convention

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081205/sc_afp/unanimalsconservation;_ylt=Au8xRVP1_wfkrIPl6iEw2XAPLBIF



Climate Change Wiped Out Cave Bears 13 Millennia Earlier Than Thought

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081125203143.htm

Ursus spelaeus

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

German zoo finds escaped red pandas

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28070856/

Glimmer of hope for rare monkey

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7767360.stm

Crocodile fears What's behind deaths of S African crocs?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7767047.stm

Nature 'boost' for Welsh island

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7765183.stm

Skokholm

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

Carbon Dioxide Helped Ancient Earth Escape Deathly Deep Freeze

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081130164511.htm

EPA's Air Pollution Target: Flatulent Cows

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/tech/main4651448.shtml

Scientist says ancient technique cuts greenhouse gas

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b45kb-us-climate-biochar/

Roman Empire Decline Driven By Climate Change?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205171005.htm

Cell Phones Found To Affect Memory In Lab Rats

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081205095956.htm

Food body says 'avoid Irish pork'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7770164.stm

Ireland says tainted pork feed source contained

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4b60q2-us-ireland-food-recall-sb/

Alcoholic 'cure' France abuzz over doctor who used drug to beat bottle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7768141.stm

Baclofen

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

FYI: Baclofen (Lioresal®)

http://www.oasas.state.ny.us/AdMed/FYI/fyibaclofen.cfm

Heart attack patients get 'big chill' treatment

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28072269/

Work really may be bad for health, survey says

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28070699/

WHO sets strict limits on melamine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28074270/

Montanans Have Right To Assisted Suicide

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/06/national/main4652125.shtml

Inner Workings Of The Immune System Filmed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203185020.htm

Poor Children's Brains Like Stroke Victims'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081203092429.htm

For Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Japan approves whalemeat import

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7735355.stm

Bird killings 'deeply troubling'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7733759.stm

Fears for UK honey supply

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7734769.stm

Indian 'transfusion tiger' dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7735631.stm

Bolivian farmer leads to dinosaur discovery

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre4ah5fk-us-bolivia-dinosaurs/

Damage Inflicted During Cardiac Attacks More Widespread, Researchers Find

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081111130844.htm

How Cells Take Out The Trash To Prevent Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110154032.htm

Ethanol Will Curb Farm Income Until Economy Rebounds, Economist Says

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081110153944.htm

Water Vapor Important In Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081117193013.htm


Drug-resistant ward bug concern

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7732860.stm

Indigo plant may treat chronic skin disease

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27783645/

Experts warn of water shortage by '80

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27781117/

Tainted meats point to superbug C. diff in food

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27774614/