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Location: Cambridge, United States
Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a
daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of
Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a sharp variation in marine currents that traps...
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Location: Wisconsin, United States
Looking at the site today, it’s easy to forget that a dam and pond stood for
43 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Franbrook Farm Research
Station in southwestern Wisconsin. All traces of the structure are gone, and...
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Location: 445 N. Fifth Street,Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States
Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today
announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only
stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells.
In a potentially major...
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
The environmental damage caused by rich nations disproportionately impacts
poor nations and costs them more than their combined foreign debt, according to
a first-ever global accounting of the dollar costs of countries' ecological...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
By 2100, warmer oceans with more carbon
dioxide may no longer sustain 1 of the world's most productive fisheries,
says
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Location: American Institute of Biological Sciences, United States
The January 2008 issue of BioScience includes a special section entitled
“Managing for Resilience in Coastal Marine Ecosystems.” The four articles in the
section highlight different aspects of attempts to incorporate modern concepts
from...
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Location: Coral Reef Targeted Research (CRTR), Australia
If world leaders do not immediately engage in a race against time to save the
Earth's coral reefs, these vital ecosystems will not survive the global warming
and acidification predicted for later this century. That is the conclusion of a...
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Location: Conservation International, United States
Climate
change will affect national parks, forest reserves and other protected areas
around the world, in some cases altering conditions so severely that the
resulting...
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Location: Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, United States
Early puberty in girls has been found to negatively affect these teenagers’
health in areas such as mood disorders, substance abuse, adolescent pregnancy,
and cancers of the reproductive system. Given these findings, it is critical to...
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Location: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, United States
For more than 40 years, researchers have suspected there must be a natural
hormone that could safely flush sodium out of the body and could be harnessed to
develop more effective and safer treatments for high blood pressure, or
hypertension....
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Location: University of Michigan, 412 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1399, United States
Stroll around any university campus, and you're bound to see students
text-messaging friends, posting their thoughts on blogs, playing computer games
and listening to downloaded music in their free moments. The iPod-Myspace weblog...
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Location: UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 93106, United States
We are ocean biologists and biogeochemists who use
NASA satellite data to study
the ocean's biosphere, its changes in time and how it is affected by and
responds to humankind's activities. Our...
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Location: 2019 Kraus Natural Science Building,830 North University,Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1048,p: 734.615.4917 // f: 734.763.0544, United States
It is easy to observe that many networks naturally divide into communities or
modules, where links within modules are stronger and denser than those across
modules - like the way people from the same age group tend to interact more with
each...
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Location: Hydrogeology Program,Dept. of Geological and Environmental Sciences,Stanford University,Stanford, CA 94305-2115, United States
Construction of Searsville Dam in the 1890s created a biotically
important lake in a watershed with a high sediment load. Siltation has
now reduced the capacity of the lake by about 90 percent. With a grant
from the...
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