Africa Megadroughts and More for Friday, April 17, 2009

Antipathella subpinnata image licensed under Creative Commons by Tim Sheerman-Chase

West Africa faces 'megadroughts'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8003060.stm

Mega-droughts In Africa Expected To Worsen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144520.htm

Our 'Inner Fish' Seen In Conserved Genes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415193249.htm

New Nucleotide Could Revolutionize Epigenetics

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144639.htm

New Clues To How Stem Cells Form

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125205.htm

C. elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Uncovering Secrets Of Salmonella's Stealth Attack

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416125203.htm

Coordinate response better for outbreaks like listeria: report

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

Breaking The Animal Kingdom's Color Code

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105348.htm

Patent for meatier pigs gets European trotters in a mix

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8002503.stm

Researchers discover vast black coral forest

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30250258/

Antipathella subpinnata

http://www.arkive.org/black-corals/antipathella-spp/info.html

Forgotten nut could save lives and forests

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/04/16/cnnheroes.erika.vohman/index.html

Brosimum alicastrum

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

Fake 'trees' designed to trap CO2


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30251856/

Newly Discovered Iron-breathing Species Have Lived In Cold Isolation For Millions Of Years

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144512.htm


'Two-handed' Marine Microbes Point To New Method For Isolating Harmful Forms Of Chemicals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415102121.htm

Protein That Concentrates Carbon Dioxide In Algae Identified

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409103423.htm

Chemists Uncover Green Catalysts For Industrial Chemical Processes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090413185726.htm

New Ways to Fight MRSA, Arsenic, Carbon, Salmonella, Autism, Listeria, Diseases, Blindness, Cancer and Cocaine and More for Thursday, April 2, 2009

Hunt for Sumatra's killer tigers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7978127.stm

Panthera tigris sumatrae

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

Mating music helps produce a baby cheetah

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Acinonyx jubatus

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

DNA Analysis Uncovers The Prehistory Of Norwegian Red Deer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326152509.htm

http://www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?id=14200355

'Stock-take' of garden creatures

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7977971.stm

Caution drivers! Butterfly crossing ahead

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30011694/

Danainae

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

Mollusks Taste Memories To Build Shells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402092714.htm

Mollusca

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

Hot Solution To Bean Sprout Safety

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401200435.htm

Vigna radiata

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

Listeria monocytogenes

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

Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30007954/

Restoring Teeth: Glass Fiber Posts Favor More Resistant And More Beautiful Smiles, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324111816.htm

New Way To Battle MRSA And Superbugs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324202521.htm

MRSA

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

Ionic liquid

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

How Probiotics Can Prevent Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401200433.htm

Probiotic

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

Diet Affects Diversity Of Microbes In Human Gut, And In Turn, Colon Cancer Risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200714.htm

Mutated Gene In Zebrafish Sheds Light On Blindness In Humans

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131548.htm

Danio rerio

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

Could Autism Symptoms Be Reversible?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401145312.htm

Autism

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

Source Of Major Health Benefits In Olive Oil

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401200447.htm

DHPEA-EDA strongest antioxidant in virgin olive oil

http://ihealthbulletin.com/blog/2009/04/01/dhpea-eda-strongest-antioxidant-virgin-olive-oil/

Reductions In Cancer And Overall Mortality Persist 10 Years After Vitamin And Mineral Supplementation

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324215806.htm

Factor D

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

New Way To Fight Cocaine Addiction Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401164049.htm

Cocaine dependence

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



New Solutions For The Arsenic-poisoning Crisis In Asia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090325091830.htm

Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater

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

Carbon Capture Has A Sparkling Future

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401134602.htm

Carbon Capture

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

Evolution's Impact On Ecosystems Shown Directly For First Time

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090401181234.htm

For Monday, February 2, 2009

WRTV: Road sign hacked to say, 'Raptors Ahead'

Japanese whalers fire water at activists

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28975732/

Gorilla Diary Convincing militia leaders to lay down their weapons

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7549444.stm

Humans share lemur gaze tendency

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7863997.stm

Lemuriformes

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

Tigers 'Took The Silk Road' To Russia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090126163011.htm

Panthera tigris virgata

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

Extinct ibex is resurrected by cloning

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4409958/Extinct-ibex-is-resurrected-by-cloning.html

Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4409958/Extinct-ibex-is-resurrected-by-cloning.html

States fail in latest prairie dog report card

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_re_us/prairie_dogs;_ylt=AkihPt02GThtdtD7ODZSFjys0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFla2tjbXFjBHBvcwMxMDUEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNzdGF0ZXNmYWlsaW4-

Cynomys

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

Toad haul Stunning pictures of Tanzania's hidden amphibians

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7856513.stm

Tortoise thieves make quick getaway

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090202/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_singapore_tortoise;_ylt=Auj7st4FhPxyikH6yscXHvDtiBIF

Secretive Immune System Of Salmon

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090127123117.htm

Salmonidae

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

"Immortal" Jellyfish Swarm World's Oceans

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/01/090130-immortal-jellyfish-swarm.html

Scyphozoa

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

Plant Soybeans Early To Increase Yield

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202102942.htm

Glycine max

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

Connectivity Illuminates Risk Of Spread Of Crop Pests, Diseases

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202074854.htm

Tainted mushrooms hit shelves, recall ordered

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/02/enoki.mushrooms.recalled/index.html

Phillips Mushroom Farms Link

http://www.phillipsmushroomfarms.com/

Flammulina

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

Listeria

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

$27M settlement reached in Maple Leaf listeriosis suits

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/02/02/maple.html

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. Link

http://www.mapleleaf.ca/

Inspection reports from peanut plant varied widely

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090201/ap_on_bi_ge/salmonella_outbreak_the_plant;_ylt=AtMAyQAEifOT3bxSMSXAY66s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkYmhjNm9kBHBvcwMxNDAEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9oZWFsdGgEc2xrA2luc3BlY3Rpb25yZQ--

WRTV: Road sign hacked to say, 'Raptors Ahead'

http://www.theindychannel.com/cnn-news/18620871/detail.html

For Monday, December 22, 2008

Aztec Ruins Nat'l Monument licensed under Creative Commons by Steve Farris

Arctic Greening Linked To Retreating Sea Ice

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217203316.htm

Malaysia 'to double tiger stock'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7795944.stm

Pangolin meat seized

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081222/wl_asia_afp/vietnamanimalspangolin;_ylt=Akasx9bN0gFtQyWQE9avoGUDW7oF

Manis

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



Plea for help spotting bat killer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7779793.stm

Stitch-up to save puffin chicks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7793919.stm

'Illegal threat' to hen harriers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7794682.stm

Circus cyaneus

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

Bees get plants' pests in a flap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7796138.stm

Length Of Root Hairs On Plants Made To Grow Longer: Potential Broad Implications For Agriculture

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081214191012.htm

'Little Ice Age' hastened fall of Aztecs, Incans

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28353083/

Gene disease 'recreated in lab'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7791283.stm

Yeast Mimics Severity Of Mutations Leading To Fatal Childhood Illness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081222074557.htm

Breathing Life Into Injured Lungs: World First

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081219172039.htm

Selflessness Has Neuropsychological Connection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/12/081217124156.htm

Blind man navigates maze

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7794783.stm

New guidelines boost web access

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7789622.stm

How technology helps the blind shop online

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7792662.stm

Brazil remembers slain activist

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7795194.stm

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho

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

Nostrano brand sausage recalled for possible listeria contamination

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2008/12/22/listeria-recall.html