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Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea

...s victoriae, a marine cone snail found in tropical waters off the coast of Australia. All cone snails produce venom which they use to paralyse prey before killing and eating them. The venom of some cone snails is toxic to humans ?as many as 30 people are known to have died from cone snail envenomation. Th...

Envisat and ERS-2 reveal hidden side of Hurricane Rita

... be used to take the temperature of the warm ocean waters that power storms during the annual Atlantic hurricane season, along with sea height anomalies related to warm upper ocean features. ...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...regulations on marine scientific research in their waters and seabed, only a few have legislation regulating...ld's unique seabed ecosystems lie in international waters beyond national jurisdiction with no international rules. And no state has yet adopted measures addr...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...regulations on marine scientific research in their waters and seabed, only a few have legislation regulating...ld's unique seabed ecosystems lie in international waters beyond national jurisdiction with no international rules. And no state has yet adopted measures addr...

Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins

...identified an individual whale sampled in Gabonese waters in 2002 that had been first seen (and sampled) with its mother in Madagascar waters in 2000. Pomilla and her colleague, Dr. Howard Rosenbaum of WCS and AMNH, suspect that the whale cou...

Toxic flood lifts lid on common urban pollution problem

...d bodies are all likely to blame for poisoning the waters being drained from New Orleans. But the water - a...ls continue to sound alarms about the contaminated waters and scum left behind by the retreating flood. Early September test results released late last week s...

Drugs from the deep blue

...e Atlantic Ocean around the Bahamas. Warm tropical waters support a wider variety of sponges, making them richer prospecting grounds. Back in the lab, the scientists put extracts from the animals they have collected through a battery of tests. If they find something with interesting properties, the researc...

Hurricane aftermath: Infectious disease threats from common, not exotic, diseases

...a bacterium that is normally present in Gulf Coast waters and is usually contracted by eating tainted seafoo...should not eat food that has been exposed to flood waters or that has not been properly refrigerated." One common misperception is that the body of a person ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...are the aquatic systems? Contamination of surface waters throughout much of Europe declined quickly through...ere not significant for humans. Levels in fish and waters are currently low, except in areas with "closed" lakes with no outflowing streams. In those lakes, l...

Fresh water affected by salt from deicing roads

...rends continue over the next century, many surface waters could become unfit for human consumption and toxic to some aquatic life throughout the region. Reversing the problem involves reducing the creation of new roads and subsequent use of deicers. Despite being a major aquatic pollutant, road salt is no...

The Antarctic Ocean floor

...ng in the Bellingshausen Sea. The reason why these waters have remained almost unexplored is due to its adverse climate which, in turn, has assured that human presence has been scarce. On this present campaign the scientists will trawl the ocean floor at up to 2000 metres depth, using both Agassiz-trawl fi...

New genetic test can detect clam disease

...archers now believe it can be found in all coastal waters but doesn't become deadly to clams until it reaches a critical concentration in the water. Gast notes that although red tide got a lot of media attention this year, QPX is actually a bigger problem. The toxins that cause red tide in clams and other ...

NRL scientists detect 'milky sea' phenomena

...nder the darkness of a moonless night. The glowing waters appear to extend to the horizon in all directions,...e region of low-level light emission. The glowing waters spanned an area roughly the size of Connecticut (over 15000 km^2) and lasted at least three nights. ...

Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action

...gan to take notice. From the warming of deep ocean waters and increased frequencies of the most intense tropical cyclones to continued reductions in ice cover in the Arctic Ocean and altered bird migratory patterns, scientific evidence for climate change built up in 2005 and non-scientists seem to have list...

Katrina floodwaters not as toxic to humans as previously thought, study says

...occurred. The samples, which included both surface waters and bottom samples, were taken within five to nine...also detected in the floodwaters, Pardue says. The waters contained chemical compounds from aerosol paints, insecticides, caulking compounds, rubber adhesives...

Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

...f the 1970's. A similar trend is found for deeper waters of the Straits, for Indonesian fisheries in the Java Sea, and indeed for most coastal fisheries of South East Asia. WorldFish says governments have recognized that the fishing capacity being rebuilt post-tsunami "should be commensurate with the pro...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

...hing one valuable species found in its surrounding waters ?the Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean s...ll number of species to colonise the sub-Antarctic waters of the Southern Ocean, playing an important role in the ecosystem there, providing sustenance to wha...

UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea

...ved phosphorus and suspended sediment in the river waters entering the lake." Both phosphorus - a fertilizer nutrient that occurs both dissolved in the river water and attached to the sediments suspended in the rivers - and silt contribute to algae growth, odors, low dissolved oxygen and fish-kills in the ...

A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns

...nds to find out what other microbes call the briny waters home. "How much diversity is there?" Mongodin asks. "We'll all be interested to learn." ...

Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health

Systematic overfishing of fresh waters occurs worldwide but is largely unrecognized becau...ssue of BioScience. Although the status of inland waters and their fish species should be of broad concern, threats to freshwater fisheries and associated bi...

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