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...Conservation Area of northwest Costa Rica, a 1,000 square km (400 square mile) United Nations World Heritage Site that features habitats ranging from rain forests to savanna......ve in acoustic herds, communicating over 1000’s of square miles of ocean by using sound. “This is like using the Hubble telescope of ocean acoustics right now,?says Clark. “The Navy had heard the whales for years but hadn’t focused on the significance of their low voices. To me it was like —ohmygawd!?/p>...Purdue proves concept of using nano-materials for drug discovery
...he researchers created a chip about one centimeter square that holds thousands of tiny vessels sitting on to...uce "laboratories-on-a-chip" less than a half-inch square that might contain up to a million test chambers, or "reactors," each capable of screening an indivi...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
...pecies.The Salton Sea covers a surface area of 376 square miles insoutheastern California. Its current elevation is about 227 feet belowmean sea level, its maximum depth reaches 51 feet and its total volumeis about 7.5 million acre-feet. It was formed in the early 1900s, whenflow from the Colorado River was...First real-time view of developing neurons reveals surprises, say Stanford researchers
...ey sensed only one type of movement. When the tiny square moved left to right, a distinct population of neur...cent colors to indicate their activity. Moving the square the reverse direction triggered a different population of neurons to light up. "At first we felt li...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
...iversity experts warn. Covering more than 165,000 square kilometers ?an area roughly equal to Florida ?in t...ane and cotton monoculture transformed millions of square kilometers of savannah, into open fields. Riparian forests along rivers have been cut down or degrad...Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger
... the forests -- one per tiger home range (about 40 square miles) -- and checks them every 3-4 weeks. Because the cameras have been placed in remote locations, it takes at least a day to hike to each (the team can check all 30 within a month). Cameras must be moved occasionally because the flash often alerts...Dead zone area in Gulf could be increasing, researchers say
...is present. The dead zone area covers about 6,000 square miles in the Gulf. The dead zone is located along the Louisiana coast where the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers empty into the gulf. The dead zone area typically develops in late spring and early summer following the spring flood stage of the riv...New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible
... 80 feet in diameter, making for a total of 12,000 square feet of lobster larvae-snagging surface area. In 2004, with $50,000 in funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Small Business Innovation Research program, the company began working with Harbor Branch's aquaculture program ...Advancements In Genomics Foster Deep Sea Discoveries
... freezing temperatures and up to 15,000 pounds per square inch of “skull-crushing?pressure. Scientists say p...rium that copes with pressures of 4,000 pounds per square inch. The researchers grow the microbes in high-pressure cylinders kept cold and dark in Bartlett’s ...Oceans more vulnerable to agricultural runoff than previously thought, study finds
...oom was enormous, he said, covering from 19 to 223 square miles (50 to 577 square kilometers) of the gulf and lasting several days. "Sometimes eddies actually pulled the plumes acros...Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
...the United States ?ultimately turn more than 7,000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico into a "dead zone," a condition known as hypoxia. Hypoxia happens when excess nutrients, such as nitrates and phosphorus, accumulate in a body of water and cause excessive growth of algae and algal blooms. These blooms th...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
... New Zealand, Belgium, Chile. Covering 35 million square kilometers (10 per cent of the world's ocean surfa...02. Roughly 500 billion tonnes of ice sheet (3,250 square kilometers, about the size of Rhode Island) disintegrated in less than a month, what scientists have...Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees
...s exceeding 2,000 in a large area (8,232 to 41,900 square kilometres), while five "important sites" have ape...2000 individuals in a site covering 1,219 to 9,011 square kilometres. Two other areas labelled "priority survey sites" have known ape populations that require...Researchers use 3-D imaging system to unveil swimming behavior of microscopic plankton
...nt zooplankton are found under the surface of each square meter of the world's oceans. These animals play a key role in the marine food web as a crucial link between primary producers and predators. The imaging system, Fish TV, uses multibeam sonar to uniquely measure animal movement. The system allowed th...Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest
... Every year, low intensity fires burn thousands of square miles of Amazon forest. To study the effects of th...esearch Center scientists will burn two and a half square kilometers of forest in the transition forest of northern Mato Grosso state, at Fazenda Tanguro in Q...Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf
...ub-ice setting, which covers more than 1.5 million square kilometers [nearly 580,000 square miles] of seafloor, or an area of the same magnitude as the Amazon basin in Brazil or the Sahara Des...'Shifty-eyed' Monkeys Offer Window Into Brain's Social Reflexes
...e. The subjects would then be shown either another square or an image of a monkey looking either left or rig...ar and to the left or right on the screen a yellow square would flash. The researchers used a magnetic coil technique to measure with high accuracy and speed...'Sinkers' provide missing piece in deep-sea puzzle
...an average of about four sinkers per day for every square meter of deep seafloor. In other words, a patch of seafloor the size of a large dinner plate might receive carbon from about 100 sinkers over a year's time. To complete their study, the scientists also needed to know how much carbon each sinker tran...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...cies diversity is known to be as high as 1,000 per square meter in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Significantly, the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds is higher in marine than terrestrial organisms. There is, therefore, a higher probability of commercial success with marine-sourced material. The odds o...A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing
...cies diversity is known to be as high as 1,000 per square meter in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. Significantly, the ratio of potentially useful natural compounds is higher in marine than terrestrial organisms. There is, therefore, a higher probability of commercial success with marine-sourced material. The odds o...Disappearing arctic lakes linked to climate change
...anges of more than 10,000 large lakes over 200,000 square miles. "This is the first paper that demonstrates that the changes we are seeing in Alaskan lakes in response to a warming climate is also occurring in Siberia," said Hinzman, who has also compared satellite data of tundra ponds on the Seward Penins...New law for resolution allows unprecedented sharpness in fluorescence microscopy
...om Abbe's original formula in a crucial factor - a square root term [1,2]: In one of their latest publications [2], the Göttingen-based research team verifies this new law with their experiments. They show that even with conventional objectives and focused light, resolutions of 16 nm are feasible. Therefor...India's smoking gun: Dino-killing eruptions
... of basaltic lava extending over more than 500,000 square kilometers. Its original volume likely exceeded 2 to 3 million cubic kilometers, says Chenet. The entire volcanic episode that created the traps took place over about one million years. The source of the massive lava flows is thought to have been the...New partnership to clear landmines for African Elephants
...cotourism programs in the area. The roughly 1,500 square kilometers to be demined are in the Luiana Partial Game Reserve in southeastern Angola (See Map ?Page 2). Emplaced during the Angolan conflict that ended in 2002, landmines have formed deadly barriers for humans and wildlife in Kuando-Kubango Provinc...NASA satellite data provides rapid analysis of Amazon deforestation
...r-cutting and burning of forests cover about 7,700 square miles or about the area of New Jersey. This study found a marked trend of larger and more extensive deforestation events between 2001 and 2004 in Mato Grosso State, Brazil, which was later confirmed on the ground. Information like this is so valuab...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...ed for ten days and contaminated more than 200,000 square kilometers of Europe. The extent of deposition varied depending on whether it was raining when contaminated air masses passed. Most of the strontium and plutonium isotopes were deposited within 100 kilometers of the damaged reactor. Radioactive iodi......ple we can quantify the number of each species per square metre, its biomass, and so on. Thus it is known as a quantified sample of the ocean floor. When the samples arrive on deck they are washed and classified on board in large groups or rows: sponges, corals, polyquets, molluscs, echinoderms, fish, etc....DNA self-assembly used to mass-produce patterned nanostructures
... of a meter square. The smallest features on these square DNA lattices are approximately five to 10 billionths of a meter (nanometers), according to the scientists, compared with about 65 nanometers in silicon circuits created using photolithography. To demonstrate their ability to mass-produce grids with ...Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank
...ery Management Council's (SAFMC) designation of 92 square miles of the Oculina reefs as a coral Habitat Area...ited. In 2000, the Coral HAPC was expanded to 300 square miles and now extends from Fort Pierce to Cape Canaveral. The original 92 square-mile area, now kno...Underlying cause of massive pinyon pine die-off revealed
... significant tree die-off covering more than 4,600 square miles (12,000 square km). The effect was so dramatic it could be detected by satellite. Rich and his colleagues at LANL...Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish
...veillance net. The EEZ totals nearby one million square kilometres of ocean ?too great an area for naval vessels to police effectively. So the French maritime authority turned to satellite surveillance ?employing ESA's Envisat satellite in conjunction with Canada's Radarsat-1. The radar sensors aboard...Health of coral reefs detected from orbit
...rge (the Great Barrier Reef has an area of 350 000 square kilometres) for an event that happens within a fortnight. Bleached corals may rapidly be colonised by blue-green to brown algae, more difficult to distinguish from live coral. Repetitive, objective and broad-scale satellite coverage is the alterna...Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management
...orthern boundary, which stretches across 1 000 000 square kilometres of Algerian, Libyan and Tunisian territory and is one of the working areas of the Aquifer project. The two sites have significant differences: Ben Gardane to the south suffers from wind erosion and its groundwater is undergoing salinizat...Research: Snails were overlooked contributors to marsh destruction
...red "extreme densities" of 400 to 2,000 snails per square meter (about 10 square feet) on the borders between healthy and dying marsh. Those numbers compared to almost no snails on ...NASA's AURA satellite peers into Earth's ozone hole
...2004. This year's ozone hole measured 9.4 million square miles at its peak between September and mid-Octobe..., the largest ever recorded, averaged 10.1 million square miles. For 10 of the past 12 years, the Antarctic ozone hole has been larger than 7.7 million square...New book on rain forests, slash-and-burn agriculture
...d consequences of the annual destruction of 80,000 square miles of rain forest. The forests are cleared by rural farmers to feed their families and by other interests seeking to convert forests to agriculture. The loss of the forests threatens Earth's biodiversity and climate. The new book also identifies ...Predators keep the world green, ecologists find
...Within Venezuela's Caroni Valley, an area of 4,300 square kilometres was flooded in 1986 to create a lake (Lago Guri) containing hundreds of islands that were formerly fragments of a continuous landscape. Terborgh and his team monitored the vegetation at 14 sites of differing size. Nine of the sites were o...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...ce, a dead zone the size of New Jersey, some 7,000 square miles, develops each summer. Other affected areas of the United States include coastal Florida and California, the Chesapeake Bay and Long Island Sound. ...Pacific Islands paradise protected
...e protected area in the Pacific Islands at 184,700 square kilometers (73,800 square miles), twice the size of Portugal. It contains a near pristine coral archipelago with abundant mari...Rice bioengineers pioneer techniques for knee repair
... to withstand up to an astounding 2,400 pounds per square inch of compressive pressure. ...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...protected areas would spare the Amazon one million square kilometers of deforestation (one fifth of the entire forest area), avoiding 17 billion tons of carbon emissions to the atmosphere, the elimination of several forest formations, and the degradation of several major watersheds. According to Britaldo...Amazon rainforest greens up in the dry season
... the Earth. Each pixel in the images represents a square of about 820 feet (250 meters) on a side. If it's too cloudy at one spot one day, the next day's picture may be fine. Five years' worth of pictures means the scientists have at least one good image of every spot for every month of the year. To be ab...Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo, despite poaching
...rve the "Heart of Borneo" ?a total of about 84,942 square miles of equatorial rain forest ?through a network of protected areas and sustainably managed forest, and through international cooperation led by the Bornean governments and supported by a global effort. ...UC Riverside psychologist explores human perception, finds 'wow factor'
...attempting to identify -- a triangle, a disc and a square cut from sound-insulating foam board covered with black tape. The undergrads also saw an array of eight horn-style loudspeakers that the shapes would block, and were told that the speakers would make a white-noise sound. Blindfolded, they were asked...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
...asin. The river basin covers approximately 600,000 square kilometers, 60 percent of it within Brazilian territory. It includes the Pantanal, which comprises 41 percent of the entire basin. The Pantanal is a Brazilian National Heritage site, a significant site of international relevance according to the RAMS...Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
... nearly a foot and a half deep and extend up to 17 square yards –about the size of two parking-lot stalls. The rims around these craters can be the bane of boaters who, even with boats meant to navigate in shallow waters, can find their vessels grounded. Smaller species of salmon that spawn at higher densi...One fish, two fish: New MIT sensor improves fish counts
...entional technology that can survey only about 100 square meters at a time. "We're able to see for the first time what a large group of fish looks like," said Makris, who compared the dramatic improvement to the difference between seeing everything on a television screen and seeing only one pixel. The ne...Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad
...to perhaps 10,000 today. Encompassing nearly 1,900 square miles, Zakouma is now one of the last bastions of wildlife in all of central Africa, thanks to funding from the EU. Fay led a survey team also commissioned by the Chadian government and CURESS in 2005 that counted 3,885 elephants in Zakouma Park. A ...Healthy coral reefs of Madagascar resisting damage from climate change
...otal protected areas to 6 million hectares (23,000 square miles), including 1 million hectares (3,800 square miles) of marine protected areas. "In the end, these expeditions have doubled the number of marine ...How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles
... over ranges that covered more than half a million square kilometres. Dr Brendan Godley, of the University of Exeter, said: "We were surprised to find such large turtles looking for food out in the open ocean, as it was previously thought that animals of this size would have moved back to forage in coastal...Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast
...tural Resources (IBAMA), encompasses nearly 95,000 square kilometers ?an area larger than Portugal ?and protects the entire Abrolhos region off Brazil's central coast, including several types of coastal and marine ecosystems with unique and endangered species, such as the humpback whales. Under Brazilian l...Virus has 'catastrophic' affect on red squirrels, research shows
...dscape scale, and found the annual distance was 76 square kilometres in Cumbria and 96 sq km in Norfolk. In contrast, the annual retreat in Italy was just 3.6 sq km and 4.4 sq km in Scotland. The red squirrel decline - measured in terms of the area they inhabit rather than population numbers - was 17-25...Corn waste potentially more than ethanol
... electrical production is about one watt for every square meter of surface area at about 0.5 volts. A typical light bulb uses 60 watts. To increase wattage, the surface area needs to increase. To increase voltage, fuel cells can be linked in series. "Producing electricity from steam exploded corn stover ad...Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever
...researchers, who surveyed 21 sites and over 50,000 square metres of coral reefs in the inner islands of the Seychelles in 1994 and 2005. Their report is the first to show the long-term impact of the 1998 event where global warming caused Indian Ocean surface temperatures to increase to unprecedented and ...Species unique to tidal marshes face threats
Tidal marshes cover only about 45,000 square kilometers worldwide--about the area of Denmark. In comparison with other habitats, tidal marshes support few nonaquatic vertebrate species, but their unique characteristics have led to the evolution of species and subspecies that are endemic (found ...K-Staters design and build a low-cost remote sensing tool for environmental studies
...vegetation in a field-sized area, for example, one square section." Schinstock said the concept of using th...nformation down to pixels representing less than a square foot of land area." ...Biotech cotton provides same yield with fewer pesticides
...elds in a region of Arizona that spans about 2,500 square miles (6,600 square kilometers). Much of the field and lab work was done by Manda G. Cattaneo as part of her master's r......point, for thousands of trillions of electrons per square centimeter shuttled by the OmcA-donor. The function is a relic of respiration, in which the cell depends on the protein to dump electrons to maintain a steady flow of energy and prevent the organism-damaging accumulation of electrons. PNNL staff sc......ites, "The Builder's Pencil", covers about 180 000 square metres (0.18 square kilometre), making it one of the largest seep sites in the world', says Dr Rowden. A few cold seep...Other ContentsmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelmodelfluidfluidfluidfluidfluidfluidfluidfluidfluidfoliosefolliclesfolliclesfolliclesfolliclespyramidpyramidwebwebwebwebwebwebwebwebfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfoodfounderfounderfounderfounderfounderfounderOther TagsSpeculumIncision
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(Date:8/7/2008)...nson,s Research (MJFF) will host its second annual...5, in Chicago. , Chaired by Jeffrey Kordower, P... Jean-Schweppe Armour Professor of Neurological Sc...erence will bring together academic and industry s...cting development of improved disease-modifying an...
(Date:8/7/2008)...bles a fetus to get nutrition and oxygen from its ...ues, researchers say. , That crosstalk allows th... and get just a single cell layer away from the fe...in the Medical College of Georgia School of Medici... of mother and fetus is courtesy of the placenta r...
(Date:8/7/2008)...l biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technolog...eins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diab... at the University of Sheffield in laboratories su...es Research Council (BBSRC). This work is reporte...quarterly research highlights magazine of the Biot...
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