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Alien woodwasp, threat to US pine trees, found in N.Y.

Despite dozens of interceptions at U.S. ports, a public enemy has infiltrated the nation's borders. Taken captive in Fulton County, N.Y., and identified by a Cornell University expert, the adult female alien is the only one of its kind ever discovered in the eastern United States. The discovery of a single specimen of Sirex noctilio Fabricius, an Old World woodwasp, raises red flags across...

Researchers: Treated wood poses long-term threat

Arsenic from treated lumber used in decks, utility poles and fences will likely leach into the environment for decades to come, possibly threatening groundwater, according to two research papers published online Wednesday. Researchers from the University of Miami, the University of Florida and Florida International University examined arsenic leaching from chromated copper arsenate, or CCA...

Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest

Fire is an important agent of transformation in the Amazon landscape. Every year, low intensity fires burn thousands of square miles of Amazon forest. To study the effects of these fires on the forest, and the forests' ability to recover from repeated burning, Woods Hole Research Center scientists will burn two and a half square kilometers of forest in the transition forest of northern Mato Gross...

Independent researchers confirm the existence of ivory-billed woodpecker

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Invasive species harms native hardwoods by killing soil fungus

An invasive weed that has spread across much of the U.S. harms native maples, ashes, and other hardwood trees by releasing chemicals harmful to a soil fungus the trees depend on for growth and survival, scientists report this week in the Public Library of Science. The tree-stifling alien, garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), first introduced into the U.S. in the 1860s, has since spread to Canada...

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Technology in the Northwoods

Unless a community or region has a major medical research institution in its backyard, it simply won't become the nation's next biotechnology "hot spot," even if free land and tax inc...

Use of X-rays to advance wood-decay knowledge leads to honor for Forest Products Lab biologist

A biologist at the USDA Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory in Madison has been honored for her innovative use of physics technology that has led to advances in understanding the molecular and chemical processes involved in fungal wood decay, opening the way to the development of new, environmentally preferable methods for protecting wood, the <a href="http://www.fpl...

Northwoods Software co-owner distills 30 years of business experience

Early in his management career, Bob Weisenberg read a lot of books on management and leadership. One day, when he was about one-third of the way through yet another book, he realized he had read it before. Now retired after a 30-year career in the software industry, Weisenberg says the way to excel at leadership is by getting good at applying a very limited number of skills, not by readi...

Untangling the Web: Northwoods Software in profile

sets itself apart by keeping things simple for clients. Forget the gearhead techno-speak. The Milwaukee area firm is about helping people solve communications and business issues through plain talk and better Web design.<...

North-woods beef jerky maker adopts RFID to track shipments

With the help of Wisconsin-based Jack Links is headquartered in Minong, Wisconsin. ABC Comp...
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Hollywood Actress Hunter criticises Hatcher for weight loss.

Los Angeles, Aug 28. Older women who try to lose weight apparently have to choose between their face or bottom In an interesting comment on weight loss , the supermodel Rachel Hunter has criticized "Desperate Housewives" // actress Terri Hatcher on her recent weight loss. Hunter said that Hatcher's face looked older as a result of her dangerously slim body. Hunter, who was once mar...

Woodruff Foundation Grant To Support Doctorate Of Nursing Practice Program

In a step which is expected to alleviate the national nursing shortage by producing more qualified nursing professors, allowing nursing schools to enroll more students, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation has awarded // $995,000 to the Medical College of Georgia School of Nursing to support its new doctorate of nursing practice program, the 10th of its kind in the nation. Thanking the A...

Legionnaires Investigation in Chatswood's Shopping Area

Legionnaires' disease is caused by a bacteria belonging to the Legionella family, Legionella pneumophilia. // It has already infected two women one aged in her 50s and the other in her 70s. They were admitted in the Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. New South Wales (NSW) health officials are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease. Both said that they...

Wood Appointed As the First Chair of SAADAT

Tom Wood who headed the city's drug and alcohol team is now appointed to chair the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams (SAADAT). Of late Scotland suffers from an increase in the number of people taking to alcohol and drugs. // He was appointed as the head of SAADAT at the first meeting of the new association in Glasgow. SAADAT is actually a group which consists of bot...

Medicos' Plan Anti-Quota Stir In Mumbai; Bollywood To Join Up

Mumbai doctors will be joined by other professionals including Bollywood stars in a peace march on May 21 to protest against the quota// increase for OBCs in higher educational institutions. "We will assemble at Birla Matorshri Hall in south Mumbai and march towards Azad Maidan," Ashish Tiwari, convener of the Indian Medical Association Mumbai Chapter told reporters. The march will als...

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