Tortoises/Turtles/Herptiles in the News, The Permian Extinction and More for Friday, May 29, 2009

* Dermochelys coriacea image (right) and image (left) licensed under Creative Commons by Paul Mannix

China volcano may have caused mass extinction

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_sc/us_sci_volcano_extinction;_ylt=AqqENEvXU52v1UvNNVj5B2.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNG90bDliBHBvcwMxMTkEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNjaGluYXZvbGNhbm8-

Permian Extinction

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

Red Glow Sheds Light on Ocean Health

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090529/sc_livescience/redglowshedslightonoceanhealth;_ylt=AicPkj8Ey5KgBPtJxMWKzGYPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTNsZTYxZnVxBGFzc2V0Ay9saXZlc2NpZW5jZS8yMDA5MDUyOS9zY19saXZlc2NpZW5jZS9yZWRnbG93c2hlZHNsaWdodG9ub2NlYW5oZWFsdGgEcG9zAzEEc2

Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html

Climate pressure 'building on US'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8073434.stm

Most Polluted Ecosystems Can Recover, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527105713.htm

Greening Arctic Not Likely To Offset Permafrost Carbon Release

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527130826.htm

Spring Agricultural Fires Have Large Impact On Melting Arctic

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526140850.htm

U.S. company finds "safer" way to make stem-like cells

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54r6ti-us-stemcells-reprogramming/

Why Coral Reefs Around The World Are Collapsing

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142819.htm

Malaria parasites 'resist drugs'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8073118.stm

Beavers return after 400-year gap

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8072443.stm

Castor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_(genus)

Rare Madagascan tortoises stolen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8072000/8072511.stm

Geochelone yniphora

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

Astrochelys yniphora (IUCN Red List Link Species notation: Geochelone yniphora nomenclature not located in the IUCN Red List nor the EOL pages. Only Astrochelys yniphora could be located). Critically endangered.

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/9016/0

Astrochelys yniphora (EOL Link – no image)

http://eol.org/pages/794291

* 'Crazy' woman saves sea turtles from slaughter

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/28/cnnheroes.suzan.lakhan.baptiste/index.html

Dermochelys coriacea

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

Dermochelys coriacea (IUCN Red List Link)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/6494/0

Dermochelys coriacea (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/815711

Everglades swamped with invading pythons

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090528/od_nm/us_everglades_pythons;_ylt=AmBwHA7bgxDK5Rw39xaTnmqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFmaDY5MHJyBHBvcwMyMDYEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9vZGRfbmV3cwRzbGsDZXZlcmdsYWRlc3N3

Pythonidae

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

Toothy sharks once ruled Tuscany

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30987630/


Non-toxic Hull Coating Resists Barnacles, May Save Ship Owners Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528110623.htm

Cirripedia

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

Honey Bee Colony Losses In U.S. Almost 30 Percent From All Causes From September 2008 To April 2009

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522180642.htm


Waxy Plant Substance Key For Absorption Of Water, Nutrients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522154506.htm

Suberin

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

Discoveries Upend Traditional Thinking About How Plants Make Certain Compounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526094249.htm

Unexpected Bacterial Diversity On Human Skin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142821.htm

New killer virus found in Africa

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30989694/

Lujo virus

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


Virtual Reconstruction Of A Neanderthal Woman’s Birth Canal Reveals Insights Into Evolution Of Human Child Birth

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528133423.htm

Homo neandethalensis

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

Study: Climate change kills 300,000 a year

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30998907/

Lessons From The Past: Research Examines How Past Communities Coped With Climate Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527103528.htm

Climate change

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


Antibiotic Multi-resistance: Why Bacteria Are So Effective

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527170308.htm

Carbon capture technology tested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8072583.stm

Aker Clean Carbon

http://www.akercleancarbon.com/index.cfm

Ancient Mudstones Could Provide Alternative Source Of Energy

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527110137.htm

Mudstone

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

Obama moves to curb road-building in forests

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090529/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_roadless_forests;_ylt=AvTmbw5.dA7uNp__kF5jGoCs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFlNjlocG03BHBvcwMxMjEEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNvYmFtYW1vdmVzdG8-

News on the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event and Giant Trilobites and More for Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Permian diorama image licensed under Creative Commons by quantumdtell

Poison bacteria set up worst extinction

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30563213/

Chlorobium

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

Permian extinction

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

US supports reducing climate-warming gases

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090504/ap_on_re_us/un_un_ozone_treaty;_ylt=AhognnvvI1fu0K43Yfl5UEIPLBIF

Climate Debate: Short-Term Data 'Misleading'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504141047.htm

Global warming

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

Earth Still Recovering From A Glacial Hangover

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429180955.htm

New Energy Source? Structure Of Highly Efficient Light-harvesting Molecules In Green Bacteria Determined

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504171947.htm

Mercury Levels In Arctic Seals May Be Linked To Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165950.htm

Mercury (Hg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(element)

European Parliament approves ban on seal products

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2009/05/05/eu-seal-ban-505.html

EU ban looms over seal products

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8033498.stm

Norwegian Red Foxes Have More Trichina, But Less Scabies Than Previously

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427075414.htm

Vulpes vulpes

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

Trichinella

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

Scabies

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

About 200 New Species Of Amphibians In Madagascar Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505061942.htm

White Blood Cells Can Sprout 'Legs' And Move Like Millipedes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094424.htm

Leucocyte

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

Lithium May Help Radiation Target Cancer, Spare Healthy Tissue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504141841.htm

Lithium (Li)

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

New Light Shed On Enigma Of Salt Intake And Hypertension

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504094428.htm

Cellular On And Off Switch For Allergies And Asthma Discovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430101451.htm

Toward Giving Artificial Cells The Ability For Sustained Movement

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165810.htm

Is The Channel Creature The Loch Ness Monster?

http://www.allnewsweb.com/page6756754.php

Loch Ness Monster

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

Man pays $1k for freak 'kiwi fruit'

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/05/2561032.htm

Feijoa sellowiana

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

Giant Trilobites And Trilobite Clusters From The Ordovician Of Portugal

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505072714.htm

Trilobite

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

FDA Pistachio Warning and Where Martian Life Might Be and More for Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Geronticus image licensed under Creative Commons by Allan Ferguson

FDA: Avoid pistachios

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1051345

Video: Salmonella scare hits pistachios

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Setton Farms Web Page

http://www.settonfarms.com/

Pistacia vera

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

New Theory On Largest Known Mass Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330102659.htm

Permian–Triassic extinction event

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

Zechstein

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

South Downs National Park agreed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7973417.stm

South Downs National Park Wiki page

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

Many Natural-selection Studies Could Be Wrong

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200821.htm

You Big Baby! An Elephant Is Born

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=7207172

The Secret To Chimp Strength

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200829.htm

Pan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(biology)

Nine Lives: Cats' Central Nervous System Can Repair Itself And Restore Function

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200722.htm

Felidae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feline_(cat)

New hope for endangered bald ibis

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7973836.stm

Geronticus

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

Genes tell butterflies to head south

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52u2kn-us-butterflies/

Danaus plexippus

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

Ants really are random wanderers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29960401/

Formicidae

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

Ice Storms Devastating To Pecan Orchards

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324131456.htm

Carya illinoinensis

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

Can talking to plants really bear fruit?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7973727.stm

'Green' Hair Bleach May Become Environmentally Friendly Consumer Product

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171420.htm

Cancer Genomics Browser Gives Cancer Researchers A Powerful New Tool

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330142425.htm

UCSC Cancer Genomics Browser Site

http://genome-cancer.ucsc.edu

Fauci: Why there is no AIDS vaccine

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898087/

Why Some People Shake Off The Flu In A Couple Of Days, While Others Suffer Longer, Or Die

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090326100706.htm

Superbug Risk To War Wounded

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Antibiotic resistance

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205451.htm

Slow-growing TB Bacteria Point The Way To New Drug Development

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090329205447.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

Month Of Conception Linked To Birth Defects

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330130235.htm

Licorice May Block Effectiveness Of Drug Widely Used By Transplant Patients

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324171417.htm

Cyclosporine

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

Glycyrrhizin

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

Polypill 'could become a reality'


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7971456.stm

Polypill

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

Portable Energy Source Utilizes Microbes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330111257.htm

Methanogen

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

Green power from algae?

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/30/1871113.aspx

'Alarming' Use Of Energy In Modern Manufacturing Methods

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090327112547.htm


Island nears energy independence

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7951286.stm

El Hierro

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

'Most Habitable Zone' on Mars Revealed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090330/sc_space/mosthabitablezoneonmarsrevealed;_ylt=AiHk25cKujJiceJQ.APHfisPLBIF