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Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...the test is now being piloted in four hospitals in south India, one of which, the Government Children's Hospital in Chennai, is the biggest children's hospital in Asia. Once any further improvements are made following these trials, then Professor Williams expects the technique to spread round other clini...

Shrinking ponds signal warmer, dryer Alaska

...ounded on the north by the Brooks Range and on the south by the Alaska Range. To contrast the semi-arid, su...permafrost is continuous, and a more maritime site south of the Alaska Range. All ponds in the study regions in subarctic Alaska showed a reduction in area...

Fish growth changes enhanced by climate change

...stal and long-lived deep-ocean fish species in the south west Pacific are consistent with shifts in wind sy...r to the apparent changes in growth rates. In the south west Pacific east of Tasmania sea surface temperatures have risen nearly two degrees, based on the r...

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number

... other mountain gorilla stronghold is located just south of Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in the Virunga Volcanoes on the borders of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The last census of the Virunga gorilla population in 2003 revealed 380 gorillas, up from 324 individuals counted in ...

Gene study shows three distinct groups of chimpanzees

... separated. They estimate that bonobos, which live south of the Congo River, split off from the ancestors of modern chimpanzees about 800,000 years ago. Western chimps appear to have separated from central and eastern chimpanzees about 500,000 years ago and central and eastern chimps divided about 250,000 ...

Antarctic warming to reduce animals at base of ecosystem, shift some penguin populations southward

... has already forced penguin populations to migrate south and perhaps diminished the abundance of krill that... said. "Gentoo and chinstrap penguins are shifting south into areas now populated by adelie penguins, and the adelies are being forced further south, all bec...

Iowa State University botanists identify new species of North American bamboo

...rn and Southeastern United States, from New Jersey south to Florida and west to Texas. River cane (Arundinaria gigantea) occurs in low woods and along riverbanks. Switch cane (Arundinaria tecta) is found in non-alluvial swamps, moist pine barrens, live oak woods and along sandy margins of streams. "Most...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...Murdo Research Station on the Antarctic continent, south of New Zealand. The Oden was chartered by NSF to break through the ice and create a 25-mile long shipping channel that would allow for the delivery of annual supplies to NSF's McMurdo Research Station. On route to Antarctica, the ship passed throug...

UCI scientists reconstruct migration of avian flu virus

...ve spread to other provinces and countries. To the south in nearby Indochina, the strains appear largely limited to dispersal among local areas. Genetic sequences the scientists analyzed suggest that parallel evolution of different H5N1 strains lets the virus infect and cycle through different host spec...

Cornell lab confirms deadly fish virus spreading to new species

...ake Winnebago chain of inland lakes about 25 miles south of Green Bay on Lake Michigan; confirmation is pending. And millions of dead freshwater drum formed windrows of carcasses along the beaches of Lake Erie in 2006, all victims of VHSV. Other species from the Great Lakes Basin area that have tested po...

'Short-circuit' found in ocean circulation

...th America and in the small region in the Atlantic south of the Falklands, called the Scotia Sea. Co-author Prof Andrew Watson, from the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, said they were fundamental findings. “The Southern Ocean is the least well understood part of the wo...

Ice Age extinction claimed highly carnivorous Alaskan wolves

...t was probably recolonized by wolves that survived south of the ice sheet in the continental United States, Leonard said. The ancient Alaskan wolves differed from modern wolves not only in their genes, but also in their skulls and teeth, which were robust and more adapted for forceful bites and shearing...

UI anthropologist, colleagues discover remains of earliest giant panda

...known ancestor of the giant panda -- that lived in south China some two million years ago. The ancestor of...ll. The new find, made about 18 months ago in a south China karst (limestone) cave by Chinese researchers and co-authors Changzhu Jin and Jinyi Liu of the...

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