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Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

...erritory of Réunion Island, around 3000 kilometres west of Kerguelen. However this region has proved increasingly popular with pirate vessels intent on defying the law. Réunion is the second largest producer of Patagonian toothfish behind Chile. So the toothfish is very important to it, earning in the r...

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

...ths to 50 metres in the Straits of Malacca off the west coast of Malaysia declined to 11% of levels at the beginning of 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 sa...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...l complete an extensive survey next week along the west coast of Aceh Province, Indonesia, to determine the impact of last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami on the region's coral reefs. The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation, Reef Check and The World Conservation Union (IUCN) will carry ...

Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality

... plumes are linked to power plants. Further to the west there is also sulphur dioxide produced from smouldering underground coal seam fires. Burrows is the scientist who - supported by an international team - proposed both GOME and SCIAMACHY to national space agencies and ESA in the first place. He exp...

Shade trees getting 'scorched' by plant disease

...ll woodlots throughout the eastern U.S. and as far west as Texas. According to Gould, BLS affects as many as 35 percent of susceptible street and landscape oaks in some central New Jersey communities. Current loss of value plus replacement costs for older trees affected by this disease is estimated at $...

Human brain is still evolving

...r the Middle East and spread more readily east and west due to human migrations, as opposed to south to Africa because of geographic barriers. Or, they could have arisen in Africa, and increased in frequency once early humans migrated out of Africa." While the roles of Microcephalin and ASPM in regulatin...

Ships bring alien jellyfish invaders to our shores

...Japan, California, western Europe and the east and west Australian coastlines. Introduced species are believed to cost the United States $122 billion per year. About 3,000 species of marine organisms are believed to travel the world in ships' ballast water each day. Ships take in water for stability befo...

Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

...gely to protected areas north of interstate 75 and west of State Highway 29. "I think they were surviving in this area because they had the least trouble there," Pimm said. In contrast, hybrid offspring have been moving successfully south and east into new sections of the Everglades National Park and Big ...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

... year; Atlantic humpback dolphins off the coast of west Africa; and franciscana dolphins in South America. Most of the species on the list are threatened by the widespread use of one type of fishing gear ?gillnets. These nets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to spot visually or detect with their s...

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

... year; Atlantic humpback dolphins off the coast of west Africa; and franciscana dolphins in South America. Most of the species on the list are threatened by the widespread use of one type of fishing gear ?gillnets. These nets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to spot visually or detect with their s...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

... year; Atlantic humpback dolphins off the coast of west Africa; and franciscana dolphins in South America. Most of the species on the list are threatened by the widespread use of one type of fishing gear ?gillnets. These nets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to spot visually or detect with their s...

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

... year; Atlantic humpback dolphins off the coast of west Africa; and franciscana dolphins in South America. Most of the species on the list are threatened by the widespread use of one type of fishing gear ?gillnets. These nets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to spot visually or detect with their s...

Envisat and ERS-2 reveal hidden side of Hurricane Rita

...ight Saving Time), when Hurricane Rita was passing west of Florida and Cuba. The image was acquired in Wid... when the ASAR image was acquired. As it continues west through the Gulf of Mexico it has weakened to a still-dangerous Category Four. Rita is expected to m...

Monkeypox mystery: New research may explain why 2003 outbreak in the US wasn't deadly

...biological strains of monkeypox virus - one on the west coast of Africa, and the other in the Congo basin," Buller said. "The 2003 outbreak in the United States was from West Africa. If it had come from Congo, we might have had a bigger problem on our hands and very well might have seen patient deaths." ...

More animals join the learning circle

... meeting in Snowbird, Utah. Wild dolphins off the west coast of Australia were the first marine mammals in which cultural learning was observed. They apparently learn from group-mates how to use sponges to protect their snouts while scavenging (New Scientist, 11 June, p 12). But the evidence from killer ...

Tufts researchers shine light on firefly mysteries

This summer, in a darkened meadow west of Boston, Tufts University biologists are continuing to shine new light on the frenzied love life of fireflies. For the first time, researchers will explore the question of whether male fireflies' flashing light ?previously shown in one species to ...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...Circumpolar Current, a powerful force flowing from west to east moving 145 million cubic meters of water per second, more than the combined flow of all world rivers. Piecing together the history of marine evolution Because they now understand the physical churn that goes on in the Southern Ocean, biolog...

Climatologists discover deep-sea secret

...wards across the Atlantic and southwards along the west coast of Europe, bringing a mild climate. The strength of the current is dependent on the salinity of the water travelling from the south. If the salinity decreases, the current weakens. Scientists predict that global warming could cause part of the ...

Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh

.... It is located in prime agricultural territory in west central Ohio ?on the shores of Great Miami River, a tributary that flows into a local lake and then on to the Ohio River, which drains to the Mississippi River. The researchers studied the wetland for two years, collecting and analyzing water sample...

Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma

... wings, or cyclic moieties, can bind to either the west or the east in the integrase enzyme. "These compou...n integrase mutation arises in the west, or to the west if a mutation arises in the east. And because emerging HIV-1 mutations have significantly reduced th...

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