Scripps scientists peg wind as the force behind fish booms and busts

The mid-20th century crash of the sardine fishery off California for decades has vexed marine ecologists searching for the root causes of large fluctuations in the sardine population. Before its collapse, the fishery was one of the worlds most productive and formed the setting of John Steinbecks C...

Natural Healers Launches "Wellness Community Bulletin"

...edicine Craze" - How celebrities like Oprah, Madonna, Goldie, Gwyneth and Uma prescribe to alternative medicine. "Alternative Medicine booms in the U.S." - More Americans are seeking preventative care and alternative medicine wellness benefits. "Emerging Alternative Medicine ...

On Independence Day, Think Fireworks Safety First

...pros FRIDAY, July 4 (HealthDay News) -- Fireworks can be breathtaking spectacles, creating glittering showers of sparks and earth-rumbling booms that thrill people for miles around. Backyard fireworks can produce their own thrills, but mainly for young boys who love to blow stuff up. And the...

Japanese Flower Art Helps Calm a Frantic Moscow

...ears since, Midori Yamada has taught Russians to search for harmony in the lines of branches, flowers and vases -- as attempted coups, and spectacular booms and busts played out on the streets outside. "Our school is very strict, each flower has its laws," she said. "With constant work you finall...

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Booms in Biological News

Climate-caused biodiversity booms and busts in ancient plants and mammals

ANN ARBOR, Mich.---A period of global warming from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced plants and animals, spurring a biodiversity boom in western North America, researchers from three research museums report in a paper published online this week in the Proceedings of the Natio...

Three-way mating game of North American lizard found in distant European relative

...he rock-paper-scissors game all over the place." Showy male lizards could be just the most obvious examples. Sinervo speculated that the population booms and busts of lemmings, voles, and hares could come from a similar interplay among reproductive genes in females. Humans are not immune to the dyna...

Climate change could trigger 'boom and bust' population cycles leading to extinction

...dies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Favorable environmental conditions that produce abundant supplies of food and stimulate population booms appear to set the stage for population crashes that occur when several "good years" in a row are followed by a bad year. "It's almost paradoxical, bec...

Booms in Biological Technology

Medical University of South Carolina Opens State-of-the-Art Facility

...sign of this new facility, recognizing future needs and technology will change over the years. In the operating room, most equipment is suspended from booms in the ceiling rather than taking up space on the floor, making it easier for equipment to be replaced. All patient rooms can easily be converted to a...

In 2004, Can Wisconsins Economy Keep Pace with the National Recovery?

... FITCHBURG -- The rule of thumb about Wisconsins economic boom-and-bust cycle has always been that the booms werent as high as the nation as a whole and the busts werent as low. The recession that began in 2003 proved half of that equation wrong. Wisconsin...