Gillard's predecessor Kevin Rudd twice failed to get a carbon-cutting bill past his Senate.
-and fish and marine algae to doses several thousand times greater-than are considered generally safe. Radioecologists with The french Institute of Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (ISRN) in Cadarache converted concentrations of radioisotopes measured in the soil and seawater into the actual doses that various groups of wildlife were likely
The team found that flatfish, molluscs, crustaceans and brown seaweed offshore of Fukushima received radiation doses that,
Nature Newsmany UK ecosystem services, including fish catches and soil quality, are declining or have already become degraded as a result of over exploitation, poor management and habitat change,
such as olive pits and fish bones, but the vast majority of them are discovered empty and unmarked.
as well as fruit, fish, meat and resin. He says the DNA approach offers great promise for advances in terms of analysing amphora contents from archaeologically documented wrecks,
Russia's Mars mission, Phobos-Grunt, is not faring so well: stuck in low-Earth orbit,
Fish and rice flourish together in paddieswhen fish were introduced into flooded paddy fields, farmers were able to grow the same amount of grain as in conventional rice monocultures
These rice-fish co-cultures could lessen the environmental impact of agricultural chemicals and help make rice farming more profitable,
In areas where land and water are limited for developing both rice and fish production it is important to conduct RF rice-fish co-culture,
Xin Chen, lead author of the study and a professor at Zhejiang University, China, told Scidev.
The fish used in the study were an indigenous carp species that is considered a delicacy,
Fish significantly lower the risk of rice sheath blast disease and reduce the amount of weeds and harmful pests such as the rice planthopper.
and allowing fish to remain active even during the hottest months. And insects attracted to the plants provided extra food for the fish.
More from Scidev. Net. Zainul Abedin, a farming systems specialist at the International Rice Research Institute, in the Philippines, said:
As fish catches are becoming smaller, this approach will be increasingly important for ensuring that food production provides people with enough protein.
With many fish stocks being harvested at unsustainable levels and many suffering from a lack of data on actual catch levels the resolution also encouraged states to"increase their reliance on scientific advice to manage fisheries.
Phobos-Grunt, is expected to fall back to Earth
Rules tighten on use of antibiotics on farmsthe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now moving to protect key antibiotics known as cephalosporins,
because"H5n1 is not the sole pandemic candidate, and low pathogenic viruses are just as likely, if not more likely,
which genes get turned on and off in insects and fish, but this is the first study to look at nonhuman primates,
a salmon with a gene prompting faster growth, and a hog engineered to excrete less-toxic manure.
Aquabounty, the GE salmon company, based in Maynard, Massachusetts, fears that it, too, may have to pull its product
With salmon frozen in the pipeline, Exemplar s piglets might skip to the front of the queue."
improving yields and profits of crops, fish and livestock; improving sustainability and environmental integrity, and climate change adaptation and mitigation;
and pledged to return fish stocks to levels that produce the maximum sustainable yield by 2020.
elevated mercury levels were much more common in those who ate a lot of fish: 18%of people who ate 12 Â
or more fish meals each month had unhealthy mercury levels, in contrast to just 6%and 7%of low and moderate fish consumers, respectively.
Fernandez discovered that the most-consumed fish species in Madre de dios, such as the mota (Calophysus macropterus) and doncella (Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum), had the highest levels of mercury.
Fernandez is now leading a project to conduct a more extensive survey of the levels of mercury in fish and humans.
and the Phobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon Phobos in November. E. Mik/Polfoto/PA Imagesmisconduct fall out A prominent Danish neuroscientist could lose her Phd and medical-sciences doctorate,
Sputnik 1. Lovell also worked on radar and cosmic rays; he was knighted in 1961 for his contributions to radio astronomy.
establishing a"pollution diet for the Bay that will help restore the natural habitat for fish and other wildlife.
Waldrappteamiconic ibis shot A bird that had been reared hand by researchers as part of a project to save a rare species of ibis was killed by poachers in Italy on 13 october.
A fast-growing salmon developed by Aquabounty in Maynard, Massachusetts, has been under review since 1995; in 2010, an FDA scientific advisory panel evaluated 21 Â years of data on the fish
and deemed it safe for the environment and human consumption (see Nature 467,259; 2010), yet the agency has announced still not a final decision.
and Aquabounty s salmon is swimming against the tide of politics. Legislation introduced last year in the US House of representatives
The protest in Congress comes mainly from salmon-exporting states such as Alaska, Washington and Oregon,
amid fears that an inexpensive new source of salmon would undermine the industry. Politicians also reference unforeseen dangers from GE foodstuffs.
In the 17 Â years that the salmon has been under review Aquabounty has spent more than US$60 Â million on,
for example, showing that its allergenic potential is no greater than that of Atlantic fish. To ensure that the mainly sterile GE salmon can t mate with native species,
the company keeps them in multiwalled tanks on a mountain in Panama. If the fish were to be sold commercially,
they would be reared similarly isolated from the ocean. The prospects for research are better outside the United states. Last year,
including a fast-growing carp and cows that produce milk with reduced allergenic potential. However, a Chinese researcher who asked to remain anonymous
the government has proposed a cull of coastal sharks in response to a swimmer s death,
and a bit of a red herring, says Oliver Phillips, a tropical ecologist at the University of Leeds, UK.
) It includes $150 Â million each for the National Academy of Sciences and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
Although some animals, including sharks, are known to have an electric sense, this is the first time the ability has been documented in insects.
This ark maintained at a steady-197 degrees Celsius, holds the cells of 503 mammals, 170 birds, 70 reptiles and 12 amphibians and fish out of an estimated 10 million animal
At this moment, brave conservationists are risking their lives to protect forest elephants from armed poachers, noted biologist David Ehrenfeld of Rutgers University at TEDX.
and Flora (CITES) took the unprecedented step of granting protection to sharks and various species of tropical timber tree in their final vote today.
Members of CITES also accepted that several species of shark including the oceanic whitetip (Carcharhinus longimanus), scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini
great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena) and porbeagle (Lamna nasus) should be added to appendix II of the convention,
to determine whether social cues helped an innovative feeding method to proliferate among humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) 2. Humpbacks everywhere feed by blowing bubbles under schools of fish,
they can gulp down a super-sized serving of fish. But in 1980, observers in the gulf saw something new:
said NASA launch commentator Kyle Herring. See go. nature. com/b6oeoz for more. Lawsuit settlement Cancer researcher Philippe Bois has settled a lawsuit against the US Department of health and human services (DHHS) over scientific misconduct, according to an announcement on 18 Â April.
Salmon farming The Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation (HSRC), a salmon breeding and biotechnology company on the Queen Charlotte Islands in Canada, is disputing the legality of a search of its offices by the government agency Environment Canada last month.
The agency said that the corporation had dumped iron compounds off the west coast of Canada illegally.
boosting ocean productivity and salmon populations. On 17 april, the corporation filed a court brief arguing that Canadian anti-dumping regulations do not apply to"ocean pasture replenishment and restoration.
the researchers also detected large amounts of POPS in various components of the ecosystems such as soil, grass trees and fish in The himalayas and in the Tibetan plateau, especially at the highest elevations."
humans can be exposed to POPS by eating meat and fish. And the mountain communities are hit hardest,
Studies show that the types of omega-3 fatty acids found in oily fish help to protect against heart disease, arthritis, Alzheimer s disease and even depression.
GM salmon Genetically modified (GM) salmon have moved one step closer to US grocery stores. On 26 april, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) closed a public consultation on its finding that the engineered fish pose no significant environmental concern.
The FDA must now evaluate the comments before finalizing its decision. See page 17 for more.
Transgenic salmon nears approvalin the remote highlands of Panama, in tanks protected by netting, barbed wire and guard dogs, swim the world s most expensive
and scrutinized fish. These swift-growing salmon have been at the centre of a 18-year,
US$60-million battle to bring the first genetically modified (GM) animal to US dinner tables   a struggle that may be nearing its end.
Last week marked the end of the public s opportunity to weigh in on a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) draft assessment of the salmon.
the fish pose no significant environmental threat to the United states when grown in landlocked tanks,
whether to approve the fish for human consumption. The number of opportunities for a surprise delay   a recurring theme in the history of these salmon   is dwindling (see Against the current.
Aquabountythe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been slow to approve a genetically modified (GM) salmon made by Aquabounty of Maynard, Massachusetts.
The fish would be the first GM animal authorized for human consumption. 1989 â Canadian researchers engineer wild Atlantic salmon to overexpress growth hormone. 1995 Aquabounty files an Investigational New Animal
Drug application with the FDA. 2001 â Aquabounty submits its first regulatory study to the FDA. 2009 â The FDA releases guidance for its evaluation of genetically engineered animals as veterinary drugs;
Aquabounty completes its FDA submission. 2010 â The FDA says that GM salmon is safe to eat. 2012 The FDA completes its draft environmental assessment in May,
Environmental groups are preparing to take the battle to consumers by fighting the sale of the fish in grocery stores across the country.
Others point out that it will be years before the salmon are anything more than a curiosity. At full capacity
the Panama facility can produce only about 100 tonnes of salmon a year, says Gregory Jaffe, director of biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public interest, a consumer group in WASHINGTON DC that monitors the regulation of GM foods.
That amount is compared a trifle to the roughly 230,000 tonnes of farmed Atlantic salmon that the United states imported in 2012."
but it will be close. nature. com/gmcropsfor the firm that developed the fish, Aquabounty Technologies of Maynard, Massachusetts,
In 1989, the salmon were engineered to overexpress a growth-hormone gene. The result: Aquadvantage fish that grew to full size in around 18 Â months rather than the usual 3 Â years.
and gauge the environmental risk of the sterile fish escaping its tanks and successfully mating with wild salmon.
With salmon selling for around $6. 50 per kilogram, Aquabounty would make less than $1 Â million each year from the salmon.
Following FDA approval, Aquabounty hopes to sell its salmon eggs to farmers and expand to markets in Argentina, Canada, Chile and China.
but because the food safety of the fish has already been vetted, the approval process would require only an environmental evaluation,
Yet even with regulatory approval, the battle over Aquabounty s salmon will be far from over.
Texas, said that they would not sell Aquadvantage fish. Lawmakers in Alaska and Oregon, which both export wild salmon, have tried repeatedly to block the GM fish
because they fear contamination of the wild stock and worry that it could drive down the price of farmed salmon.
Aquabounty s long struggle has discouraged other US companies from producing GM animals for food. Mark Walton, chief marketing officer at Recombinetics, an animal-biotechnology company in St paul, Minnesota, says that his company will focus initially on medical applications   using modified farm animals as disease models
Dietler concedes that some amphorae could have held olive oil or fish paste, but says that jars found at Lattera had typically been coated with pitch to help seal the ceramic.
Carbon tax scrapped Australia will shift from a carbon tax to an emissions trading system for greenhouse gases one year ahead of schedule, announced Prime minister Kevin Rudd on 16 Â July.
and feeding ground for more than 60 Â fish species including the critically endangered Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis).
Brent Stirton/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013in'Ivory trash'by Brent Stirton, a Kenyan ranger inspects elephants killed by poachers.
Mike Veitch/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013'The fish trap'by Mike Veitch shows a whale shark (Rhincodon typus) actively sucking on a fishing net in Indonesian waters.
from viruses to fish and mammals, have become invasive in the country (see Space invaders).
featuring the actual moment an elephant was killed by poachers (see video). The low-frequency recording, which sounds almost abstract,
which is funded largely by the US Fish and Wildlife Service programme Wildlife Without Borders. For a species that uses acoustic communication
Because the enforcement against poachers in savannah areas is better, we think that forest elephants are taking the brunt of ivory poaching more and more.
These are the places that poachers will look for them and where protection needs to be increased.
Thousands have been killed as poachers rush to cash in on soaring ivory prices, which have reached hundreds of dollars per kilogram.
which poachers are willing to go. Official numbers for elephant killings in 2013 are still being prepared,
ministers and scientists will discuss measures to fight poaching including national task forces, tougher legal action against ivory traffickers and greater use of the military against heavily armed poachers."
although Alaska has mandated labels for GM fish if they go on sale. Ivory crush The US Fish
and Wildlife Service will destroy its stockpile of contraband elephant ivory on 14 Â November, officials announced last week.
sit at trophic level 3. Cod, a fish that eats other fish, claims level 4. Polar bears and orcas,
such as pigs and anchovies, in the global food web.""We are closer to herbivore than carnivore,
fish or dairy, have seen their trophic levels decline as they diversified their daily fare. Calculating human trophic levels reveals our place in the ecosystem
including futurist Ray Kurzweil and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton (see Nature 505,146-148; 2014). ) The company may use artificial intelligence to improve picture tagging, voice recognition and search engines.
But the US Fish and Wildlife Service is expected now to lift the legal safeguards, after a government advisory panel of wildlife officials endorsed delisting the bear last month.
invasive fish have crowded out native cutthroat trout in Yellowstone Lake at the heart of the park,
For Christopher Servheen, a biologist who oversees grizzly-bear recovery efforts at the Fish and Wildlife Service in Missoula, Montana, that is not surprising."
At that point, the Fish and Wildlife Service would open a 60-day public-comment period to seek reaction.
88%of the assessed fish stocks in the Mediterranean sea and Black sea were overfished in 2013.
Stewart also warned that the rising price of illegal wildlife products is driving poachers to become increasingly ruthless."
the poachers are armed better â Â We re seeing increasing levels of violence, he said.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) says that wolves in the lower 48 Â states no longer face extinction (see Nature 501,143-144;
Fish farming contributed 40%of total supply in 2010, and is projected to expand to meet growing demand from regions including Asia,
Depleted wild fish stocks will also contribute to the growth in farmed fish, the report notes.
USGS scientists found embryos (pictured) of bigheaded carp about to hatch in the river running through Lynxville, Wisconsin.
The fish were imported originally from Southeast asia to the southern United states for aquaculture and to help clean ponds in wastewater-treatment facilities.
and is located on a major Walleye fishery. The camp ground itself could be likened to a large town or small city in population size through the summer camp months!
Both sides need to recognize that wolves are just animals like deer fish rats dogs cats
The panda is still capable of eating fish eggs and a number of other foods but it can not get them in the quantities needed to survive.)
Sharks are considered ugly by many people yet many are against finning them. Elephants are considered ugly by many people yet many are against killing them for their tusks.
I have heard never of anyone calling sharks and elephants.**plus I have heard never of anyone calling sharks
and elephants ugly stupid typos@Smokeymcrib My mistake then also you may not have heard of sharks/elephants being called ugly but
I know a particular friend who does think they're ugly. Simply google searching Elephants are ugly/why are elephants so ugly?
considering allowing a company to sell genetically modified salmon that would be farmed in inland tanks.)
and Oman The results of the study which has also been published in US scientific journal Geology lend support to a controversial theory published a decade ago by Danish astrophysicist Henrik Svensmark who claimed the climate was influenced highly by galactic cosmic ray (GCR
If changes in the magnetic field which occur independently of the earth's climate can be linked to changes in precipitation then it can only be explained through the magnetic field's blocking of the cosmetic rays he said.
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book to be published this week they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet.
Henrik Svensmark a weather scientist at the Danish National Space Centre who led the team behind the research believes that the planet is experiencing a natural period of low cloud cover due to fewer cosmic rays entering the atmosphere.
One additional worry is that a weakening and eventual reversal in the field would disorient all those species that rely on geomagnetism for navigation including bees salmon turtles whales bacteria and pigeons.
and migrating birds fish and turtles are going to be confused very. Just when this will happen how long it will take and
what is going to happen to all those birds fish and other animals that migrate vast distances using their own internal magnetic compass?
and protects us from the sun's charged particles and cosmic rays by focusing them towards the poles.
Christopher Columbus mostly ate pickled and preserved meat and fish and bread products. His voyage also included livestock beginning a legacy that would lead to the extermination of many native animals in the New world through predation
Farmers also promote them as feed for fish and traditional livestock and as a treat for people.
Virgin births sometimes occur among hammerhead sharks turkeys boa constrictors and komodo dragons. But nearly all animals engage in sex at some point in their lives.
Research suggests that traditionally the Inuit ate any number of meats including seal whale caribou and fish.
And meat comes in soo many diff forms that you could get everything you need. birdmeat cattle pigs fish craps/lobster snails and maggots and oysters...
and coral is beneficial to other species (note that the era where cartiledge fish like sharks developed was a high free carbon era
and winds in the stratosphere and has been hypothesised to influence clouds through cosmic rays (Section 2. 7. 1. 3). Note that there is substantial uncertainty in the identification of climate response to solar cycle variations
Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth's climate than global warming experts previously thought.
In a book to be published this week they claim that fluctuations in the number of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere directly alter the amount of cloud covering the planet...
and some fish all use the field for navigation. So do sea turtles whose long lives
Two technicians in a nearby Boston Whaler cradle a small torpedo-shaped craft then lower it into the water.
The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
We have crossed never a fish or bacteria with a plant through natural means though. If you can't see the difference...
How do you get a strawberry or any other plant to breed with a fish?
Who's advocating crossing fish with vegetables and equating that it's no different than crossing white corn with yellow corn??
For an excellent example of how management works look no further than the link to the U s. Fish
The wolf hunting is being managed by the Fish Wildlife and Parks department there which I have worked at.
and diversity of fish and bird populations trap silt and expand the riparian border. I'm curious
while a backup is encased in a cage a feature added after an experiment was ruined largely by hungry six-gilled sharks.
it's physically impossible for the sun to ever just go'poof'via some hypothetical evil Zeno and his magical death ray.
Fish would probably start dying soon too since the food chain in rivers/oceans would be disrupted by the end of photosynthesis so even canned tuna/salmon would be used up within a few weeks.
Assuming you stop eating at the point the sun stops shining âÂ#Âwhich would be the case for some of us âÂ#Âhow long would it take to starve
#And America's Unhealthiest Restaurant Meal Isã¢Â# Like a tale-telling fisherman fast-seafood restaurant Long John Silver's may have exaggerated the size and nutritional value of its fish.
and found less fish and more saturated fat and sodium than advertised. In addition the center has named Long John Silver's Big Catch with a side of onion rings as the unhealthiest restaurant meal in America.
All fish is naturally trans-fat free and contains healthy omega-3 fatty acids. The Big Catch's haddock in particular has saturated little fat.
So the meal's high amounts of trans fats saturated fat and sodium come from its battering and side dishes.
Big Catch fish pieces are seven ounces to eight ounces of 100 percent premium haddock chief marketing officer Charles st.
But the Center for Science in the Public interest found a Big Catch fish piece had 4. 5 ounces of fish and three ounces of batter.
Long John Silver's offers a variety of meal choices including baked fish and shrimp that can satisfy almost every diner's dietary choices.
Or Illegalone way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant first.
whom the poachers then shoot too as Scientific American reported in 2009. That Scientific American article described a DNA tool for tracing the country of origin of ivory.
In spite of the international ban poachers kill about 25000 elephants each year according to the conservation groups. About 423000 African elephants live in the wild today according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's estimates.
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But if you would like to cede more control of the economy to the flathead society in government that manages to get just about everything wrong economically go ahead.
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You can then use the chicken manure to fertilize duckweed ponds use the duckweed to feed tilapia filter the tilapia water thru a gravel growbed use the gravel growbed to grow vegetables
and eat the tilapia and the vegetables use the tilapia guts and veggie scraps to feed the black soldier fly larvae
and the cycle starts again. Aquaponics for the win! All better than eating bugs. Plain and simple.
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As the magnetic polar shift they lower to almost nothing in reflecting the sun s rays adding warming to the Earth.
For the most part it does not cause extinction from the additional solar rays because our atmosphere is so thick to filter it out.
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