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African wetland managers armed with new technology

...but they are under threat. GlobWetland, an ESA-led initiative in collaboration with the Ramsar Convention Secret.... In addition, all attendees received an ESA TIGER initiative training kit. GlobWetland makes up an integral part of the TIGER initiative, which focuses on the us...

Light-sensitive photoswitches could restore sight to those with macular degeneration

...Institutes of Health (NIH), part of a nanomedicine initiative within NIH's Roadmap for Medical Research. The initiative, which has funded eight Nanomedicine Development Centers around the country, including one last year at UCSF that involves UC Berkeley collaborators, is designed to "take cutting edge technolo...

A cleaner, greener rice industry

...tion, land degradation, and water. Announcing the initiative at a special World Environment Day event (held on ... comparison with each other. "This is an exciting initiative for rice production in the region that will lead not only to a cleaner, greener rice industry in Asi...

Robots manipulating animal behaviour

...ommission's Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) initiative of the IST programme as the project Leurre, the insbots are fitted with two motors, wheels, a rechargeable battery, several computer processors, a light-sensing camera and an array of infrared proximity sensors. When dropped into a small experiment...

UNH researcher restoring oyster reefs to Great Bay

...d by live oysters atop mounds of empty shells; one initiative of Grizzle's lab is soliciting "recycled" empty shells from oyster harvesters that will eventually be returned to the bay to provide substrate. Grizzle likens his role in oyster reef restoration to an "ecological physician." Just as an orthopedist ...

Major initiative proposed to address amphibian crisis

... a new Amphibian Survival Alliance, a $400 million initiative to help reduce and prevent amphibian declines and extinctions, an ecological crisis of growing proportion that is continuing to get worse. In a policy statement to be published Friday in the journal Science, the scientists say that 32 percent of all ...

Tigers get a business plan

... get results," said Cline. "WCS's Tiger's Forever initiative has brought together two key initiatives ?superb p...rs Forever will get results." The Tigers Forever initiative begins today and the clock is running. ...

Scientific issues associated with carbon-neutral energy sources such as cellulosic ethanol

...n. The Advanced Energy Initiative(AEI), a research initiative announced by President Bush in his 2006 State of t...s. Somerville called the AEI a visionary research initiative that will help transition the nation's transportation sector to use of domestically produced biofuel...

Smell of success for nanobiosensors

...ommission's FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, will ultimately lead to electronic noses based on natural olfactory receptors that could be used not only in healthcare but also in agriculture, industry, environmental protection or security. "The potential uses of smell techn...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

...eserve, South Africa. The project is a decade-old initiative led by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Pretoria. A study earlier this year by Dr Young and Professor Clutton-Brock reported that subordinate female meerkats, if...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...ch arm Warwick HRI have received a £295,000 Darwin initiative grant to develop a butterfly farming industry in Guyana that will help support 5000 people in 16 rainforest communities and help save the rainforest itself. The University of Warwick team will work with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain For...

Wild meerkats school their young

...eserve, South Africa. The project is a decade-old initiative by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS in collaboration with the University of Pretoria. A study earlier this year by Dr Andrew Young and Professor Clutton-Brock reported that dominant female meerkats kill and eat their rival's young. ...

FDA approves first medical device using rutgers biomaterial

...rials, based at Rutgers, is a cooperative research initiative sponsored by Rutgers, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and New Jersey Institute of Technology. Established in 1766, Rutgers is America's eighth oldest institution of higher learning and one of the nation's premier public resear...

The diversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine region is much greater than previously thought

...hers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future. The Gulf of Maine Census, which is based at the University of Southern Maine, is one of 17 projects worldwide and serves as a...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...s asthma, arthritis and Alzheimer's disease. One initiative boosts funding at the National Institutes of Healt...ental underpinnings of common illnesses. The other initiative launches a public-private partnership between NIH, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Hea...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...ucia Heritage Tourism Programme, a community-based initiative of the St. Lucia Ministry of Tourism, provides support to community activities that promote heritage tourism products and services. Atlantis Adventures operates electric submarine tours in 13 destinations, including cruise destinations throughout t...

Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease

...a protective immune response to the disease. "This initiative took just three years, after many years of scientists trying other methods," remarks Vishvanath Nene, a study author and molecular biologist at TIGR. "It's a huge jump forward." To make the jump, researchers used the genome sequence of the parasite ...

Researchers get neurons and silicon talking

...pean Commission's Future and Emerging Technologies initiative of the IST programme. NACHIP's core achievement was to develop a working interface between the living tissue of individual neurons and the inorganic compounds of silicon chips. It was a difficult task. "We had a lot of problems to overcome," says V...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

... scientific publisher Springer will be part of the initiative Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), a digital library for developing countries. Public and non-profit institutions in underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe will have free access to th...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

...f the Philippines Los Baños and IRRI. The research initiative was originally spearheaded and funded by the Washington-based International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), with support from the Asian Development Bank and the Micronutrient Initiative. HarvestPlus, an international, interdisciplinary resear...

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