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Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath

...s policy makers turn increasingly to carbon-credit trading as a means of grappling with the impacts of human-induced climate change, knowing how much carbon can be stored ?and where and for how long ?is critical, the authors say. "Our results were surprising because those who've previously made measurements...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

...spoilage due to inadequate landing, processing and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still marketed as dried and/or smoked products. Investments to support small-scale businesses, most of them headed by women entrepreneurs, in processing and ...

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

...spoilage due to inadequate landing, processing and trading sites exceed 30% of the catch. Weak market infrastructure in rural areas means most fish is still marketed as dried and/or smoked products. Investments to support small-scale businesses, most of them headed by women entrepreneurs, in processing and ...

Study identifies gene in mice that may control risk-taking behavior in humans

...other prefers to read a book and wouldn't think of trading places. Why these differences exist is a mystery, but for the first time researchers have identified a possible genetic explanation behind risk-seeking behavior. Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that a specific neurod...

Controlling wildlife trade key to preventing health crises, study says

... destabilizing trade. Even in a relatively managed trading system, livestock diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy, foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza, swine flu and others have cost global economies some $80 billion, the authors of the study say. The results from the poorly regulated tra...

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

...ic incentives are provided under so-called "carbon trading exchanges" encouraged by the Kyoto Protocol and the European Union's Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme, the study noted. Co-authors Roni Avissar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke's Pratt School of Engineering, and his...

Some good news for the world's poor

...ews just in time for Christmas. While the world's trading nations remain deadlocked on how to move ahead with agricultural reforms that could benefit the poor farmers of the developing world, research just published has confirmed details of a proven strategy to reduce poverty in the planet's two most populo...

'Scent of a woman' tells male redback spiders to find a mate

...hen males can smell females, they develop rapidly, trading a smaller body size and less fat reserves against getting to virgin females sooner. The competition is tough -- you'll often find up to eight males on a female's web, says Andrade. The density of males is also critical -- in areas with many males, th...

New study finds similarities between monkey business and human business

... They found that monkeys doing business ?including trading and gambling ?behave in ways that closely mirror our own behavioral inclinations. "Traditionally, economists have remained agnostic as to the origins of human preferences," write M. Keith Chen, Venkat Lakshminarayanan, and Laurie R. Santos. "[But] i...

Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection

...stablished as a museum in 1923, it had served as a trading depot for Turkish merchants. "Often museums are seen as places where people just go and see things," said Garbelotto, who is doing this work during a sabbatical leave from UC Berkeley. "This shows that museums are actually involved in cutting-edge...

Altered perception of reward in human cocaine addiction

...duals to disadvantageous decisions -- for example, trading a car for a couple of cocaine hits. Without a relative context, drug use and its intense effects -- craving, anticipation, and high -- could become all the more overpowering," she said. The behavioral data collected during fMRI further suggested t...

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