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Fishing ban guards coral reefs against predatory starfish outbreaks

No-take marine reserves where fishing is banned can have benefits that extend beyond the exploited fishes they are specifically designed to protect, according to new evidence from Australia's Great Barrier Reef reported in the July 22nd issue of Current Biology , a Cell Press publication. Researc...

GM canola ban "disappointing"

The South Australian Governments decision to extend a moratorium on genetically modified canola is not supported by scientific evidence and may send the wrong message about the role of science in agriculture, experts in plant science and technology say. The experts based at the Australian Cen...

Smoking ban dramatically reduces air pollution in Irish pubs

A national workplace ban on smoking in Ireland resulted in an 83 percent reduction in air pollution in pubs, an 80 percent decrease in airborne carcinogens for patrons and staff, and an improvement in the respiratory health of bar workers, according to a one-year follow-up study. The research app...

Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint

Environmental and occupational health experts at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that major countries--including India, China and Malaysia -- still produce and sell consumer paints with dangerously high lead levels. The report appears in the early online edition of the journal Envir...

UN votes to ban human cloning

By a vote of 84 in favor, 34 against and 37 abstaining, with 36 absent, the UN today approved a declaration calling on all UN Member States to ban all forms of human cloning, including cloning for medical treatment, as incompatible with human dignity and the protection of human life. While in ge...

Lead-based consumer paint remains a global public health threat

...at lead paint exposure remains a serious global health threat. "A global ban on lead-based paint is drastically needed to protect the more than three bi...g been known to be dangerous to people." Clark says calls for a global ban on the use of lead in paintssuch as the one in made in his 2006 paperappear...

'Uphold the ban'

...rgument, we urge the CITES community to uphold the ban on wild tiger products and for all countries to continue to ban the domestic trade of wild tigers," said Keshav Va...ing the Chinese government to lift China's 16-year ban on tiger trade so that wine and other products mad...

UH team analyzes Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination

... be some new material coming in." What those new sources are remains unclear, Rifai said, and materials that were manufactured with PCBs before the ban may still be in use. "Historically with PCBs, if you've made a million transformers, you didn't have to destroy them. You use them up till they die...

Oscar Pistorius: Previously confidential study results released on amputee sprinter

... Other findings are now being released for the first time. A portion of the team's findings had been presented at the CAS to appeal the eligibility ban that had been imposed on Pistorius by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) barring him from sanctioned competitions, includin...

Gear bans 'can help save reefs'

...ource of income for poor fishers. "You can't simply impose an arbitrary ban on their use you need to consider issues like compensation, other fishing ...ople really depend on reef resources, it may not be possible to permanently ban all of these types of gear. By creating temporary bans for specific types...

Help for climate-stressed corals

...ource of income for poor fishers. "You can't simply impose an arbitrary ban on their use you need to consider issues like compensation, other fishing ...ople really depend on reef resources, it may not be possible to permanently ban all of these types of gear. By creating temporary bans for specific types...

Trans fats hinder multiple steps in blood flow regulation pathways

... six decades studying lipid biochemistry, and is a long-time advocate for a ban on trans fats in food. While the body can use trans fats as a source of ...ade trans fat-free," Kummerow said. "The industry would be helped by an FDA ban on trans fat that would save labeling costs, medical costs and lives." ...

Nontoxic hull coating resists barnacles, may save ship owners millions

...substances that resisted barnacle buildup. But those substances killed fish and other marine life in harbors, causing governments around the world to ban ships from using them. That led to increased interest in endowing the ship coatings with wrinkled topographies. The coatings share traits with sur...

Non-toxic hull coating resists barnacles, may save ship owners millions

...substances that resisted barnacle buildup. But those substances killed fish and other marine life in harbors, causing governments around the world to ban ships from using them. That led to increased interest in endowing the ship coatings with wrinkled topographies. The coatings share traits with sur...

DNA-Prokids: Genetic identification against traffic in human beings

...d Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), approximately two million people are victims of human trafficking across the world. UN Secretary-General, ban Ki-Moon, stated recently that "trafficking in weapons, drugs and blood diamonds has long been on the UN agenda" and that now is the time to "add peopl...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- May 6, 2009

...ine. C&EN senior correspondent Marc Reisch explains in the cover story that an EU regulation now restricts use of animal testing, and will totally ban it effective in 2013. "Its influence is far reaching because it will affect substances imported into the EU and because EU regulations are often adop...

Joint statement by German science organizations on green genetic engineering

...the cultivation of genetically modified maize. The ban took effect immediately on 14 April. The minister noted that the ban is an isolated decision on a particular case, not ...ring versus classical plant breeding methods. The ban poses the danger that unfounded fear could take th...

Queen's researchers shine light on compact fluorescent bulb problems

...pact fluorescents. (Europe and Asia have established minimum standards for power factor for CFLs over 25 watts, but Canada and the U.S., which plan to ban incandescent by 2012, have not.) The global market for compact fluorescents is estimated at $80 billion. The poor power factor already has ha...

New simulation shows consequences of a world without Earth's natural sunscreen

...h likely harmful effects on plants, animals and human skin cancer rates. Such is the world we would have inherited if 193 nations had not agreed to ban ozone-depleting substances, according to atmospheric chemists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimo...

Flies may spread drug-resistant bacteria from poultry operations

...production. The increase in antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a major threat to the health of the public, and policymakers should quickly phase out and ban the use of antimicrobials for non-therapeutic use in food animal production," said Lawrence. ...

'Undesirable' evolution can be reversed in fish, Stony Brook University scientists show

...read adoption of an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management." Fishery management is today largely based upon "minimum size limits," which ban capture of fish below a given size, species by species. With few exceptions, maximum size limits do not exist, so the large fish can easily be "fished...

European satellites provide new insight into ozone-depleting species

...second most important halogen species destroying ozone in the stratosphere. Since chlorine levels in the stratosphere have been dropping since the ban on man-made chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), bromine will become even more important in stratospheric ozone chemistry. Bromine's importance will increase i...

Wildlife Conservation Society helps Cameroon create new national park

...he Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and CAMRAIL (the Cameroon Railways), WCS continues to play a critical role in enforcing regulations that ban transportation of bushmeat or any other wildlife products from remote locations to urban markets by local trains. This effort in part has helped Camer...

New asthma research opposes current drug treatment, says UH prof

...increased risk of hospitalization and asthma-related deaths with the LABA-only therapy. During the same month, an FDA advisory panel urged the FDA to ban the LABA-only drugs and strengthen warnings on the combination drugs. Bond and his colleagues propose an alternative to stimulants, using antagon...

Queen's University Belfast works to save Strangford horse mussels

...nt, the project follows a multi-agency report in 2004 which said that the beds were in serious decline. DARD, supported by DOE, imposed a temporary ban on fishing in the Lough with mobile gear, from December 2003, which still remains in place. As horse mussels were one of the features used in the c...

Termite insecticide a potent greenhouse gas

... and other products damage the ozone layer. That finding led to a worldwide ban on CFCs. "Sulfuryl fluoride has a long enough lifetime in the atmosphere... increase as new uses are found for sulfuryl fluoride especially given the ban of methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide regulated under the Montrea...

To climate-change worries, add 1 more: Extended mercury threat

...nto water its main conduit to aquatic wildlife and the fish that pose a hazard to people. On the other, it means that even if policy makers manage to ban or severely restrict mercury emissions, the metal will remain a source of pollution for a long time. "From the time you cut off mercury emission to...

New national park protects world's rarest gorilla

...he Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife and CAMRAIL (the Cameroon Railways), WCS continues to play a critical role in enforcing regulations that ban transportation of bushmeat or any other wildlife products from remote locations to urban markets by local trains. This effort in part has helped Camer...

The inaudible symphony analyzed

...rate sounds from one other and to identify their sources. Nuclear Test ban Treaty Large explosions in the vicinity are easy to recognise, for examp...-ground nuclear tests. KNMI helps to enforce the Comprehensive Nuclear Test ban Treaty of 1996, which prohibits signatories from testing nuclear devices. D...

Eastern Pacific tuna hang in the balance

...s, the consensus required to adopt unanimous binding resolutions is proving impossible in the IATTC. In the absence of consensus, the default is not a ban on fishing, but an unmanaged fishery. Regrettably for the fish and for the people and businesses that depend on them, the impending ecological and eco...

Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?

...heir ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington co...ath rate that led to the international ivory trade ban nearly 20 years ago, said Samuel Wasser, a UW biol...

Study shows rise in Cornwall's dolphin, whale and porpoise deaths

...species and the habitats they depend on, working closely with the fisheries to develop and test bycatch mitigation measures and pushing for an EU wide ban of pair-trawling for seabass. The strandings and sightings data collected by Cornwall Wildlife Trust is incredibly important for monitoring the status...

More sensitive radiology monitoring in the Basque Country

...o detect the level of natural radioactivity. Also amongst its aims is to monitor the compliance with agreements such as the Comprehensive Nuclear Test ban Treaty, as well as to detect and quantify a possible nuclear or radiological accident. Depending on the frequency of the samples taken, these networks...

New CITES quotas allow more caviar export, further jeopardize endangered sturgeon

...stan, on top of having its own export quota, is especially troubling in the face of Russia's March proposal that Caspian Sea states impose a five-year ban on sturgeon fishing so that the populations can rebound. The new CITES quotas also permit export of yet another Russian caviar: that derived from stur...

Breaking news: Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter

...rn by Pistorius give him an advantage over able-bodied runners. The team concluded that the scientific evidence put forth by the IAAF investigation to ban Pistorius was fundamentally flawed. While an athletes performance in sprints of very short duration is determined almost entirely by mechanical factor...

Hunger hormone: Makes food more attractive

... to combat obesity. This research may also inform public policy. If food is thought of as potentially addictive, this would support action to limit or ban fast food from schools and junk food advertisements geared towards children, in the same way that results proving nicotine to be addictive spurred the...

Absinthe uncorked: The 'Green Fairy' was boozy -- but not psychedelic

...one levels in preban absinthe actually were about the same as those in modern absinthe, produced since 1988, when the European Union (EU) lifted its ban on absinthe production. Laboratory tests found no other compound that could explain absinthes effects. All things considered, nothing besides etha...

Oceanic sharks worldwide at serious risk from high-seas fishing, rising demand for shark products

...tional level to reduce fishing mortality. Shark populations can recover from overexploitation, Dr. Babcock said, pointing to a 1991 United Nations ban on high seas driftnet fisheries that probably allowed salmon sharks in the North Pacific to rebuild, and current domestic management measures that app...

Ocean's fiercest predators now vulnerable to extinction

...waters is unrestricted, and she supports a recently adopted United Nations resolution calling for immediate shark catch limits as well as a meaningful ban on shark finning (the practice of removing only a sharks fins and dumping the still live but now helpless shark into the ocean to die). Research a...

'Genetic corridors' are next step to saving tigers

...tigated. The meeting, hosted by UN Under-Secretary General Ambassador Joseph Verner Reed, was opened with a welcoming statement by Secretary-General ban Ki-moon and marked the first time government, business, and conservationists have come together at the United Nations for the sake of conserving a sin...