No relief for Pacific Northwest drought
It does not appear there will be any major relief this spring or summer from the unusually dry weather that has recently hit the Pacific Northwest, according to new projections of drought severity and fire risk that are based on "general circulation" models that forecast global climate. The analysis, which was developed by researchers at the U.S.D.A. Forest Service and Oregon State Univers...First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest
The closest encounter most wildlife biologists have with wolverines in the Pacific Northwest is seeing a set of the animal's tracks in the snow. But wildlife biologist Keith Aubry recently got the call he had eagerly anticipated for several weeks. A member of his research team called from a site high in the northern Cascade Range of Washington to report that a wolverine had just been capt...Northwestern Mutual, American Family make Computerworld's best IT workplaces
Northwestern Mutual ranked 25th among the top 100 IT workplaces, while American Family was number 66 on the list....Northwestern adds to its Imago microscope
Northwester...Imago microscope leads to Northwestern research advance
Researchers at Northwestern University have announced that a type of atom probe developed by Madison-based Imago Scientific allowed them to produce data on the arrangement of individual gold atoms they couldn't have gotten otherwise. The local electrode atom probe, or LEAP, microscope was used to map the position of atoms in three dimensions. Imago developed the system based on Universit...Northwest Wis. Manufacturing Outreach Center honored by DOC, NIST
Unit...China Reports New Bird Flu Outbreak in Northwest
China today announced that there has been an outbreak of the deadly H5N1-type bird flu in a north-western region which killed 3,045 chickens and led to culling of over 3.5 lakh poultry.// The outbreak occurred on July 14 in a community in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's Aksu city, and the H5N1 virus was found in the samples of the dead poultry by the national bird flu laboratory, the...Northwest China Region Reports Six New Cases of HIV Daily
Alongside China’s breathtaking economic development, it is undergoing some tough time on the health front, especially on account// of AIDS. International agencies have warned China that it stood on the brink of an explosive AIDS epidemic. Several estimates including those by the UN show that the number of HIV infected people could soar to 10 millions by the end of the decade if there...Allergens, Inhalants/Foods, Pacific Northwest Profile
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