Tag: "mitigation" at biology news

Massive herds of animals found to still exist in Southern Sudan

...t appropriate environmental impact assessments and mitigation plans in place. Resettlement in areas depopulated during the war is putting stress on the land. Thousands of refugees and internally displaced people are on the move back into this area, which is causing deforestation east of the Sudd wetlands.” “W...

Confirmed -- deforestation plays critical climate change role

...ducing deforestation is just one of a portfolio of mitigation options needed to reduce concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. "Globally, we need a range of actions to reduce the build up of carbon in the atmosphere," Dr Canadell says. "This study ensures we have a sound scientific basis behin...

Plants do not emit methane

...s conclude that there is no reason to reassess the mitigation potential of plants. The researchers stress that questions still remain and that the gap in the global methane budget needs to be properly addressed. ...

South Pacific plant may be missing link in evolution of flowering plants

... Author, Dr. Jonathan David, MCIWEM, suggests that mitigation measures be put in place to help prevent any adverse impacts upon dolphin populations. Operations should be restricted to low tide and suspended during calving season, an exclusion zone should be monitored before any activity starts and marine work s...

Dolphins at risk

... Author, Dr. Jonathan David, MCIWEM, suggests that mitigation measures be put in place to help prevent any adverse impacts upon dolphin populations. Operations should be restricted to low tide and suspended during calving season, an exclusion zone should be monitored before any activity starts and marine work s...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

... Division. "Based on our results, combinations of mitigation strategies such as stockpiling vaccines or antivir...ot be enough to stop the spread; a mixture of many mitigation strategies is more likely to be effective than a few strictly enforced ones," said Kadau, also of Lo...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...n options, making it a powerful tool for long-term mitigation of climate change. In fact we have calculated that up to 12 percent of the carbon emissions produced by human activity could be offset annually if slash-and-burn were replaced by slash-and-char." In addition, many biofuel production methods, such as...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...n options, making it a powerful tool for long-term mitigation of climate change. In fact we have calculated that up to 12 percent of the carbon emissions produced by human activity could be offset annually if slash-and-burn were replaced by slash-and-char." In addition, many biofuel production methods, such as...

Storing carbon to combat global warming may cause other environmental problems, study suggests

...mated. And additional planting of trees for carbon mitigation will likely have large impacts on water resources of many nations that net less than 30 percent of what precipitation provides for their total annual supplies of fresh water, the authors predicted. "The places that are most likely to grow trees for ...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow or nonexistent. "These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, low-cost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters. Slight modifications i...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

...much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow or nonexistent. "These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, low-cost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters. Slight modifications i...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

...much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow or nonexistent. "These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, low-cost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters. Slight modifications i...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

...much of the rest of the world, progress on bycatch mitigation has been slow or nonexistent. "These accidental deaths can be significantly reduced, often with very simple, low-cost solutions. The United States and several other countries have significantly reduced bycatch in their waters. Slight modifications i...

Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

...lvania Department of Transportation constructed as mitigation wetlands to replace all the ones that were destroyed by the new road," says Dr. Pamela Silver, professor of biology, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. In November 2003, PennDOT completed a four-lane highway connecting Interstate 90 with the Erie...

White Blood Cell 'Waste Disposal' System Plays Critical Regulatory Role

... to the treatment of inflammatory diseases and the mitigation of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia," says Dr. Ley. ### Matthew A. Stark, Yuqing Huo, Tracy L. Burcin, Margaret A. Morris, Timothy S. Olson, and Klaus Ley: "Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Neutrophils Regulates Granulopoiesis via IL-23 and IL-17" ...

White blood cell waste disposal system plays critical regulatory role

... to the treatment of inflammatory diseases and the mitigation of chemotherapy-induced neutropenia," says Dr. Ley. ### Matthew A. Stark, Yuqing Huo, Tracy L. Burcin, Margaret A. Morris, Timothy S. Olson, and Klaus Ley: "Phagocytosis of Apoptotic Neutrophils Regulates Granulopoiesis via IL-23 and IL-17" ...

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