Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra
...cts of the introduced foxes rippled through entire island ecosystems, transforming the vegetation from lush ...ersisted into the late 1990s). "When you go to an island that had foxes, it's very easy to walk around because the plants don't grow much higher than your an...Cricket's finicky mating behavior boosts biodiversity
...es, especially on Hawaii, the largest and youngest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, say the two scientist...8 different species of the cricket now inhabit the island chain. Among all animals, say Mendelson and Shaw, only the African cichlid fish spawns new species ...Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?
...survive the winter and den on Victoria Island, the island separated from Melville to the north by Viscount Melville Sound. The geologists, now bitten with the grizzly bear research, emphasize that they are not wildlife biology experts. Nonetheless, they say the discovery of a grizzly bear on Melville Islan...New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible
...single-file lines when crossing open areas between island coasts and reefs, will be the focus of the next Harbor Branch Ocean Science Lecture Series event, on March 9. "Spiny lobsters are one of the most highly-prized fisheries species in the world, and especially in our Florida waters," said Megan Davis, ...Rhesus monkeys can assess the visual perspective of others when competing for food
...rking with semi-free-ranging rhesus monkeys on the island of Cayo Santiago in Puerto Rico, Flombaum and Santos set up a food competition game: Lone monkeys were approached by two human "competitors." Each competitor had a grape affixed to a platform by his feet. In each experiment, one of the competitors co...Coveted vacation "disconnect" was elusive
... last we met our hero, she was heading to the tiny island nation of The Maldives , hovering just north of t...gine my surprise when our boat sidled up to a tiny island and there, standing tall among the palm trees, was a communications tower. I went below deck, retrie...An upside down view of the future
...ansas Frodo; in fact, its Auckland , on the north island of New Zealand. After dashing through customs, I am back on a plane, this time headed to my final destination Wellington , the capital city of New Zealand. Wellington sits on a peninsula at the very bottom of the North Island. It is reminiscent of...Midwest shines among best hospitals in U.S.
...y childhood summers were spent on a former whaling island off the coast of Massachusetts known as Martha's V...neyed haven it is today, and the other half of the island where we stayed (in places like Menemsha, Chilmark, Lobsterville) was pretty rural and simple, with ...Anthropology professor's blog raises public interest
...he discovery of skeletal remains in Flores, a tiny island in Indonesia, purported to be a species of tiny humans that roamed the island 18,000 years ago. Hawks was one of many anthropologists skeptical of the finding, and his posts prom......vibrating arm topped by a gold tip, or island. The island nestles between two electrodes, known as the source and drain. When the researchers apply voltage to the source, the arm begins vibrating at a frequency of 350 to 400 million cycles per second between the electrodes. Each time the arm swings into con...Link between Constipation and Parkinson's Disease
...dying health data from 6,790 male residents of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, aged 51 to 75 at the beginning of the study in the 1960's. Out fo which, 96 men eventually developed Parkinson's disease. Men who reported constipation were nearly three times as likely to develop Parkinson's disease over the 24 year...Discovering cholesterol-absorbing genes
...ckefeller is studying the population of Kosrae, an island in Micronesia. The Kosraeans have a very high prevalence of syndrome X - a cluster of heart disease risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and diabetes. It's to be hoped that this study will yield up some of the genes res......world's fastest growing outbreak. Hospitals on the island are struggling to cope with the latest increase in cases. Taiwan has a total number of 538 confirmed cases -- the third highest after China and Hong Kong. Sixty people have died of SARS in Taiwan. The situation in Taiwan has led the WHO to broaden it...SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight
... Friday it expected to announce the removal of the island from what was once a long list of infected regions or countries where new cases of the deadly virus had been reported within the previous 20 days. The normal incubation period for the disease is 10 days, and twice that time is the mandatory transmis......awake and in good spirits.Raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, she grew up tending to cows and farming potatoes. The same island also produced the Japanese record-holder for longevity, a woman who died at the age of 120.The world...