For Thursday, January 22, 2009

Industrialization Of China Increases Fragility Of Global Food Supply

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121122826.htm

Chinese milk scam duo face death

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7843972.stm

Scientists develop test for melamine in milk

Hobbit Is Not Human, Skull Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120144508.htm

Why cross-breeding poses a threat to Scotland's wild deer

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7842458.stm

Inside Dubai's Camel Hospital

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7840690.stm

New Portable Device Detects Salmonella In Under An Hour

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090122080922.htm

Cleaner air 'adds months to life'



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7839336.stm

Is plague still a killer?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7837594.stm

Humans And Mice Express The Same Olfactory Preferences

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121092401.htm

A billion frogs on world's plates

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7845306.stm

Frogs Are Being Eaten To Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090120195731.htm

Anura

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

Fish Out Of Water: New Species of Climbing Fish from Remote Venezuela Shakes the Catfish Family Tree

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121122947.htm

A Pest That Knows No Borders: Balkan States Consider Sterile Insect Technique Against Mediterranean Fruit Fly

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090121122940.htm

Ceratitis capitata

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

For Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Photo by Timothy K. Hamilton, licensed under Creative Commons

Today we explore; Vog, a city sized reservoir planned for the Everglades, global warming threat to tropical species, a bionic beak for an injured Bald eagle, rescued reptiles, Argentinian dinosaur egg return, rice super gene, city-dwelling mating pair Peregrines, the lethality of Bubonic plague, plants that text message stress levels to farmers, and the lethal fungus threat to the Golden frog.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_us/hawaii_volcanic_gas;_ylt=AhcX2nma2mw23_u9hRdyN7Cs0NUE

Vog — volcanic smog — kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii - Yahoo! News

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

Vog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_re_us/everglades_reservoir;_ylt=AvCmgXozgIV2NnvRNQIivROs0NUE

Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades - Yahoo! News

http://www.evergladesplan.org/index.aspx

Welcome to the official website of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_sc/warming_tropics;_ylt=AlOo6jbIqmy7jRpqua0CBzys0NUE

Scientists: Warming may greatest threat to tropical species - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7384807.stm

BBC NEWS Science/Nature Tropics insects 'face extinction'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080505211835.htm

Trouble In Paradise: Global Warming A Greater Danger To Tropical Species

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080506/ap_on_sc/bionic_beak;_ylt=Ar7Tqx_XGIpdyNo2ZxTbFQMPLBIF

Idaho team readies artificial beak for wounded bald eagle - Yahoo! News

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

Haliaeetus leucocephalus

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_wildlife;_ylt=AjKkvjaqCYxkDkVm8G7ENSoPLBIF

Conservationists rescue almost 300 Cambodian reptiles - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080504/sc_afp/sciencefarmfoodricegenes;_ylt=AsPD15GgC2dElFUIr0._GYoPLBIF

Is this the rice super-gene? - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/argentina_dinosaur_eggs;_ylt=AuOkWsMzD0tXvhteTaG4UQwPLBIF

US to return Argentine dinosaur eggs - Yahoo! News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7385329.stm

BBC NEWS UK Falcons take up city-centre perch

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

Falco peregrinus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080504194238.htm

Scientists Discover Why Plague Is So Lethal

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

Bubonic plague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24454529/

Who should doctors let die in a pandemic? - Infectious diseases- msnbc.com

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

Aspartic acid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080502171010.htm

Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty

http://www.smartcrop.net/

Smart Crop

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24466460/

Deadly fungus threatens golden frog - Science- msnbc.com

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

Atelopus zeteki

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

Chytridiomycota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Golden frog photo licensed under Creative Commons by ucumari