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Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...der way to build a new holding pen along the coast south of Big Sur where seals frequently haul out. "Free-flying condors are just not finding these areas yet so we need to encourage them to do so," he adds. Other major haul-outs can be found from Baja California to British Columbia. "If we can train cond...

Why the Amazon rainforest is so rich in species

Tropical areas of south and central America such as the Amazon rainforest ...ld's species can be found in the tropical areas of south and central America. Scientists have long believed that the wealth of species in tropical climes was...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...he New York Academy of Medicine. Located directly south of San Diego California, Tijuana is a city of 1.2 million people located amidst the busiest land border crossing in the world. Data in this study suggest that Tijuana's HIV infection rate may be close to three times higher than Mexico's national ave...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...WDFW), traveled by snowmobile to a remote location south of the Pasayten Wilderness in Okanogan County. After immobilizing the wolverine with a sedative, Aubry and his team quickly went to work to evaluate the health of the animal, take measurements and tissue samples for genetic analyses, and install a r...

Multi-million pound UK Biobank underway

...anning. Up to three thousand people living in the south Manchester area are being given the opportunity to trailblaze the project before it goes nationwide later this year. They are being sent invitations to take part in the start-up phase of UK Biobank ?a revolutionary research undertaking that will eve...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...east coast northwards to the River Tyne and on the south coast westwards to the River Teign. Dr Matt Bentley, one of the research team*, said: "The pattern of the spread in the UK since the 1970s mirrors the spread in mainland Europe and in the Baltic region which experienced an major outbreak. This i...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...ek, for example, is a small stream that flows into south Puget Sound and since 1968 has had chum salmon in high-enough densities that they have caused the amount of algae and stream insects to decline. Scientists have long known of the habitat-changing activities such as dam building by beavers, but much ...

Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...heir many communications with veterinarians as far south as Georgia. "Every day, we're hearing reports from veterinarians in the East and Southeast who have treated dogs that have died from liver damage this past month or so," said Center. "We're also concerned about the long-term health of dogs that su...

One fish, two fish: New MIT sensor improves fish counts

... researchers focused their attention on the waters south of Long Island, New York. When they first started, they weren't looking for fish at all - they wanted to see if their device could locate ancient riverbeds under the ocean floor. But when their reconnaissance images did not match the riverbeds, the r...

Indonesia - disaster relief aid in action

...Friday 26 May. Flattening a densely populated area south of the city of Yogyakarta, near the southern coast of Java, its path has claimed more than 3,000 people, with thousands more injured. The disaster relief team left from Brussels 19:00, Sunday 28 May, reaching Jakarta the following day. Their immedia...

Mosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds

...ed on Aug. 8, 9 and 10, and a 104-square mile area south of the American River was treated Aug. 20, 21 and 22. Sediment and water samples were taken from the northern creeks on Aug. 12, about 34 hours after the third night's application of the pesticide. In the southern creeks, samples were collected on ...

Marine 'dead zone' off Oregon is spreading

...s of bottom fish have been found dead on the beach south of the Quinault River in Washington. In Oregon, the most vulnerable area in recent years has been the central third of the coast between about Newport and Florence, where conditions seem to be conducive to the development of low-oxygen waters. It's ...

It's all in the genes

...uge along the lower Colorado River, about 20 miles south of Blythe, Calif., to examine how genetic diversity at the stand level influences communities and ecosystem processes. "The Bureau of Reclamation gets restoration out of this project, and we get this incredible experiment," said Whitham. All of t...

Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast

...cated off the coastal town of Caravelas in the far south of Bahia, northeast Brazil, is home to mangrove forests and restinga (a uniquely Brazilian ecosystem of sparsely vegetated sand ridges) and a complex of small islands, coral and algal reefs. Its natural resources directly support more than 100,000 pe...

Precision biochemistry tracks DNA damage in fish

...uwamish flows through an industrialized section of south Seattle, Wash., and in 2001 a section of the lower river was added to the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list because of contaminants including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), mercury and other ...

More than drought affecting wheat yields

...They came from as far north as Nebraska and as far south as Dallas and the Hill Country, Rush said, making this one of the most widespread years for wheat streak mosaic damage. "Without question, wheat streak mosaic virus is the No. 1 pathogen of wheat year in and year out," he said. An early indicatio...

Important gene controlling tree growth and development found

...erent latitudes (different origins in the north to south direction, so called "provenances", display different critical daylengths. For instance, an aspen tree from the middle of Germany stops growing and sets buds when the days get shorter than 16 hours. Compare this with a tree from northern Sweden which...

Ground spider diversity studied in research project

...tion and abundance in the 515-acre Lick Creek Park south of College Station. She has caught 1,000 specimens in 111 species over two years. The most common were several species of wolf spiders, she said. A total of 989 species of spiders have been identified in Texas; 280 of these are found in Brazos Co...

New evidence of early horse domestication

...sub-zero climates and therefore needed to be taken south in winter. The tradeoff, she says, was that cows and sheep give far fattier milk year round, which can be made into yogurt and cheese. Sheep also provide wool. Kazakh people today still eat horsemeat. They were forced to abandon their nomadic lifes...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

...ly launches of weather balloons from Rice's campus south of downtown. The balloons measured ozone levels from the ground to altitudes of more than 100,000 feet, offering the first clear picture of how much ozone was present in each layer of the atmosphere above the city. While NASA scientists and Morris w...

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