It harbors hundreds of mummies buried in large wooden coffins that resembled upside-down boats which were covered then with cowhide that sealed the coffins from the air.
But this isolated rocky haven is perhaps most famous for its extinct inhabitants. While most woolly mammoths died out in Siberia about 10000 years ago dwarf mammoths survived in Wrangel Island until 3700 years ago.
#Floating Islands of Rock Tracked in Pacific A computer model could help track rafts of floating rock in the ocean perhaps giving scientists a way to warn ship captains to stay away.
Pumice is so light it can float. The floating rock can occasionally cause problems. Island or undersea volcanoes can create massive amounts of pumice in a single eruption resulting in huge rafts of rock that can float hundreds of miles.
After the enormous eruption of Krakatoa in 1884 pumice rafts clogged harbors in Indonesia. Ships today are at risk too said study researcher Martin Jutzeler a volcanologist at the University of Southampton in the United kingdom. Water intakes on ships can become damaged by pumice stalling the engine Jutzeler told Live Science.
In Photos: A Floating'Island'of Rocks An undersea eruption gave Jutzeler and his colleagues a rare opportunity to track rafts from a known source
and to use ocean models to see if computers could predict where pumice will float.
The researchers used moderate-resolution satellite imagery as well as reports from ship captains and airline pilots to track a pumice raft from the Havre Seamount a submarine volcano in the southwest Pacific near New zealand.
The volcano erupted in 2012 creating a raft of pumice measuring 155 square miles (400 square kilometers) in a single day.
It was the first concrete evidence that deep-sea volcanoes not just shallow ones can create pumice rafts Jutzeler
and his colleagues wrote Wednesday (April 23) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used an ocean model called the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO)
which pulls together information on currents and wind from 1988 to 2010 to see if they could match a simulated pumice raft with the Havre floating island.
They found that using the model they could create near-real-time forecasts of where the pumice
but nothing exists for these rafts Jutzeler said. We really feel that something should be done.
and terrestrial eruptions of island volcanoes could also send rafts of pumice into the sea.
But there is little understanding of how pumice rafts and their associated ash eventually sink to the seafloor
Next year Jutzeler and his colleagues will use submersibles to explore the products of volcanic eruptions he said.
what didn't make it into the raft and fell down to the seafloor Jutzeler said.
#Origins of Mysterious World trade center Ship Revealed In July 2010 amid the gargantuan rebuilding effort at the site of the World trade center in Lower Manhattan construction workers halted the backhoes
and parking complex excavators found the mangled skeleton of a long-forgotten wooden ship. Now a new report finds that tree rings in those waterlogged ribs show the vessel was built likely in 1773 or soon after in a small shipyard near Philadelphia.
What's more the ship was made perhaps from the same kind of white oak trees used to build parts of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence
and U s. Constitution were signed according to the study published this month in the journal Tree-Ring Research.
See Photos of the Ship and Its Tree Rings Archaeologists had been on-site throughout the excavation of the World trade center's Vehicular Security Center.
when the 32-foot-long (9. 75 m) partial hull of the ship emerged from the dirt.
The team established that the trees used to build the ship some of which had lived to be more than 100 years old were mostly cut down around 1773.
Martin-Benito and his colleagues at Columbia's Tree Ring Lab narrowed their search to trees in the eastern United states thanks to the keel of the ship which contained hickory a tree found only in eastern North america and Eastern asia.
Secrets of the Deep The ship's signature pattern most closely matched with the rings found in old living trees
whether the ship sank accidently or if it was submerged purposely to become part of a landfill used to bulk up Lower Manhattan's coastline.
Oysters found fixed to the ship's hull suggest it at least languished in the water for some time before being buried by layers of trash and dirt.
Previous investigations found that the vessel's timbers had been damaged by burrowing holes of Lyrodus pedicellatus a type of shipworm typically found in high-salinity warm waters a sign that the ship at some point in its life made a trip to the Caribbean perhaps on a trading voyage.
Martin-Benito speculated that the infestation might have been one of the reasons the ship met its demise just 20
I don't know much about the life expectancy for boats but that doesn't seem like too long for something that would take so long to build Martin-Benito said.
and White or Black rhinoceros and are viewed as a safe haven for brown hyaena. Surrounding these two protected areas is unprotected farmland where a mixture of game livestock
#Sophisticated 600-Year-Old Canoe Discovered in New zealand Sophisticated oceangoing canoes and favorable winds may have helped early human settlers colonize New zealand a pair of new studies shows.
when intrepid voyagers arrived by boat through several journeys over some generations. A piece of that early heritage was revealed recently on a beach in New zealand
when a 600-year-old canoe with a turtle carved on its hull emerged from a sand dune after a harsh storm.
The researchers who examined the shipwreck say the vessel is more impressive than any other canoe previously linked to this period in New zealand.
Canoe on the coast The canoe was revealed near the sheltered Anaweka estuary on the northwestern end of New zealand's South Island.
The boat had carved interior ribs and clear evidence of repair and reuse. Carbon dating tests showed that the vessel was last caulked with wads of bark in 1400.
and together these vessels formed a double canoe (though the researchers haven't ruled out the possibility that the find could have been a single canoe with an outrigger).
If the ship was a double canoe it probably had a deck a shelter and a sail that was pitched forward much like the historic canoes of the Society islands (a group that includes Bora Bora and Tahiti) and the Southern Cook islands.
These island chains have been identified as likely Polynesian homelands of the Maori the group of indigenous people who settled New zealand.
The boat was sophisticated surprisingly more than the canoes described centuries later by the first Europeans to arrive in New zealand Johns told Live Science.
At the time of European contact the Maori were using dugout canoes which were hollowed out from single big trees with no internal frames.
In the smaller islands of Polynesia boat builders didn't have access to trees that were big enough to make an entire canoe;
The newly described canoe seems to represent a mix of that ancestral plank technology and an adaptation to the new resources on New zealand since the boat has hollowed some big-out portions
but also sophisticated internal ribs Johns and colleagues wrote. The turtle carving on the boat also seems to link back to the settlers'homeland.
Turtle designs are rare in pre-European carvings in New zealand but widespread in Polynesia where turtles were important in mythology
There are these persistent 20-year periods where there are extreme shifts in climate system the study's head author Ian Goodwin a marine climatologist
and marine geologist at Macquarie University in Sydney told Live Science. We show that the sailing canoe in its basic form would have been able to make these voyages purely through downwind sailing.
Goodwin added that a downwind journey from an island in central East Polynesia might take about two weeks in a sailing canoe.
But the trip would take four times that if the voyagers had to travel upwind. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
We could probably do with having a fleet of 20 of these satellites, because the issue is so important,
points out that with his $5-million annual budget, he can monitor 84 spots, mostly in North america, via ground-based sites, aircraft, or ships.
Greenhouse-gas emissions for an automobile company's entire fleet would be limited to an average of 250 grams of carbon dioxide per mile,
Marina Silva, an environmental advocate who resigned as Brazil's environment minister last year amid internal opposition to her policies
mounted under its carrier aeroplane Whiteknighttwo) on 7 december at Mojave Air and Space Port, California. The rocket ship, developed by aviation designer Burt Rutan
and bankrolled by British billionaire Richard Branson, will carry passengers to the edge of outer space for US$200, 000 a ticket.
which will recommend ways to manage ship-borne tourism to Antarctica. go. nature. com/cujgwi 10 december This year's Nobel science laureates receive their awards in Stockholm,
When the International Census of Marine Microbes (ICOMM) kicked off in 2003 microbiologists had identified 6,
Marine protection: The british government has announced that it will create a huge marine reserve around the Chagos islands, an archipelago of more than 50 islands in The british Indian ocean Territory.
Synchrotrons and ships: The UK government has approved an earmarked £97. 4 million (US$148 million) to expand the country's Diamond synchrotron in Harwell, Oxfordshire;
In addition, on 30 march the country's Natural Environment Research Council announced that it had commissioned a £75-million replacement vessel for its ageing research ship, the RSS Discovery.
The order, due mid-2013, was postponed in March 2009 frustrating British marine scientists because of rising costs due to exchange rate fluctuations.
These included projects on marine tourism mangrove restoration and agroforestry. But more often, the team found, projects had little or no economic benefit for the poorest people.
while a ship monitors the air off the coast and two electric vehicles zip about collecting samples upwind and downwind of selected sites.
Robot submarines are now being deployed to cap the well. See page 532 for more. Eye in the sky The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has made its first airborne observations
it's possible that we missed the boat by starting treatment at that age. The prevailing wisdom is that the IGF1 deficiency
if people expert in other areas were in the same boat, then that makes me wonder.
NASA expects the craft to ferry astronauts, supplies and research materials to the International Space station when its shuttle fleet retires next year.
Drifting buoys 墉 increasingly used since 2000 墉 tend to report a cooler temperature relative to ships'measurements
Dictyostelium farmers seem sometimes to benefit from their husbandry skills even in natural soil that harbours a variety of bacteria,
director of the marine climate change programme at Conservation International, the environmental group in WASHINGTON DC that has been promoting the concept alongside the International Union for Conservation of Nature in Gland, Switzerland,
But Crooks points out that marine carbon circulation models have tended to consider wetlands'current carbon sequestration abilities,
Shuttles at rest The four remaining vehicles of the US Space shuttle fleet were assigned their final resting places on 12 april.
-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
with iodine-131 and caesium-137 being the most abundant (see'Radiation release will hit marine life').
or so researchers in attendance last week at the Honey Bee Genomics & Biology meeting, held at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New york. It was dedicated the first conference on the topic
when the US fiscal year ends, said Pier Oddone, director of the lab, on 5 may. The US Department of energy had said in January that it would not fund the collider into 2012,
Coming up 14 18 may The science and politics of protecting marine life is the focus of the 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress in Victoria,
and lifestyles the captive pandas eat a more diverse diet that includes fruit and milk they tended to harbour similar microbe species in their guts.
Ancient greek ships carried more than just wine: Nature Newsa DNA analysis of ancient storage jars suggests that Greek sailors traded a wide range of foods not just wine,
of the ancient world from sunken ships dating from the fifth to the third centuries BC.
Amphorae have been found in their thousands in wrecks all over the Mediterranean sea. Some of them contain residues of food,
He says the DNA approach offers great promise for advances in terms of analysing amphora contents from archaeologically documented wrecks,
where DNA data can be combined with other sources of information about a ship and its contents.
Marine reserve Australia has unveiled plans to create one of the world's biggest marine reserves.
such as that in Gutianshan National Nature Reserve in Zhejiang Province, China, have confirmed already that plantations can be a haven for biodiversity."
They say that the air-launch-to-orbit system (intended to carry both cargo and human payloads) would be cheaper and more flexible than the conventional launch-pad approach.
marine mammals and other sometimes controversial topics, prohibits agency employees from distorting science and protects the rights of NOAA scientists to speak openly about their work
So using Vibrio splendidus, a marine microbe that can digest brown seaweed, Yoshikuni and his team isolated a biochemical pathway that breaks down alginate.
"Even though a large investor would prefer to have his thousands or millions of hectares near a port or road, in reality,
"We haven t detected a saola yet, but it s a very promising method for finding it and pretty much any other mammal in the forest
and Shell did not respond to Nature's questions. In the past decade growing concerns about climate change, rising energy consumption and dependence on foreign oil  have prompted countries
Marine reserves Australia s government has unveiled its final plans to create what will be the world s largest network of marine reserves,
covering 3. 1 Â million square kilometres of ocean along the nation s coasts. Researchers were worried by draft proposals last year (see Nature 480,14-15;
allows sensitive measurements of calcium carbonate uptake in the skeletons of marine organisms, affected by acidifying oceans.
marine scientists plan out an international network to monitor the acidification of the oceans. go. nature. com/lopgt6
probably carried by pirates and whalers. Using DNA from museum specimens the researchers went on to show5,
Fermilab change Pier Oddone, the director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, announced on 2 august that he would step down from his post in July 2013.
and gas resources off the coast of Alaska have been abandoned following damage to oil containers on the spill-cleanup barge Arctic Challenger,
Chimp haven The US National institutes of health (NIH) said on 17 Â October that it will send 20 Â chimpanzees to permanent retirement in a federally funded sanctuary by August 2013 double the number it announced last month.
The animals are among 110 Â NIH-owned chimpanzees that the agency is removing from the New Iberia Research center in Lafayette, Louisiana Officials at the 80-hectare Chimp Haven sanctuary in Keithville,
including microbiologist Sarkis Mazmanian, astronomer Olivier Guyon and marine ecologist Nancy Rabalais. The awards, popularly known as genius grants, come with no strings attached as to how the money is spent. see go. nature. com/ru2vgy for more.
according to the German reinsurance group Munich re. Sandy alone accounted for an estimated $50 Â billion. 17 billion Number of stars in the Milky way that harbour a roughly Earth-sized planet in a close orbit,
"They haven t really done anything to resolve this ongoing dispute
Alert over South korea toxic leaksby Mid-december, the chill winter winds had stripped South korea s trees bare.
Previously, CITES delegates have hesitated to interfere with trade in commercially valuable marine species, say many campaigners.
In the second study, a team led by St andrews marine mammal science student Jenny Allen examined 27 years of whale-watching data from the Gulf of Maine, off the eastern coast of the United states,
The flight puts NASA one step closer to having two US cargo carriers available to resupply the International Space station."
The past year has seen a raft of papers about the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bees.
Deep-sea dive The film-maker James cameron is donating his deep-sea submersible to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts,
the disease probably arrived at the port of Antwerp in Belgium in the summer of 1845,
saying that US patent law"provides no haven for propagating crops from such seeds. See go. nature. com/uil764 for more.
"We eat marine food too, she says.""Maybe they will stop and think,'what can we do to keep the oceans clean
"There haven t been any tests that have tested plant-based omega-3s alone and showed benefit.
Plastic wood is no green guaranteeishmael Tirado watches as his fellow construction workers rebuild the Steeplechase Pier, a central feature of New york s iconic Coney island boardwalk.
When the pier reopens this summer, visitors will encounter a shiny expanse of recycled plastic jutting out to sea on a platform of steel-reinforced concrete."
On a recent weekend, construction crews were busy replacing small sections of boardwalk near the Steeplechase Pier with fresh ip
A thousand years later, Greek and Phoenician merchants had begun shipping wine throughout the Mediterranean region, each in their own distinctively shaped jars called amphorae.
Marine-reserve veto Proposals to create two huge marine reserves in Antarctic waters were blocked by Russia on 16 Â July at an international meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany.
"We ve done studies in Iowa, we haven t always found CC398. That s not too shocking, says Tara Smith, a microbiologist at Kent State university in Ohio,
"We haven t described every step in the path.""It s a pretty interesting and provocative observation, says Robert Daum,
and implementing biological control with natural enemies means that"there haven t been major outbreaks since 2009,
which ministry is in charge of inspection and monitoring of the cargo. Moreover, tackling invasive species often involves multiple ministries."
Having said that, I think the good ship Rothamsted is on a very good course
iv, was started by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press in New york, and went live on 11 november. Unlike the arxiv. org preprint server popular among physicists, the site will allow readers to comment on articles,
Rodriguez counters that"in all the field work we ve done over 15 years we haven t seen anything suggesting metabolic cost.
of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, which ended on 9 Â January.
3 9 january 2014cold comfort Scientists, journalists and tourists were rescued from the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy in the Antarctic on 2 Â January.
Chinese icebreaker Xue Long transferred the stranded passengers to an Australian icebreaker, but later reported that it,
A US icebreaker was dispatched on 5 Â January to assist the Russian and Chinese vessels.
following its arrival on board a Russian cargo vessel on 2 december. They also installed a multi-spectra camera,
such as the media and organizations wishing to monitor traffic, ports and industrial plants. Urthecast will also make its streams free to the public on its website,
People will use these tools in ways we haven t even thought of yet predicts Larson.
This is the conclusion of two reports published on 20 Â February detailing the state of the continent s marine ecosystems.
and freight piling up at railroad depots and piers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.""Transmission between horses and humans seems to have been key to some epidemics
just as dogs and cats Do it's simple to reduce say a dog's vocalizations to bark
The most commonly heard red fox vocalizations are a quick series of barks and a scream-y variation on a howl.
The barks are a sort of ow-wow-wow-wow but very high-pitched almost yippy. It's commonly mistaken for an owl hooting.
That bark sequence is thought to be an identification system; studies indicate that foxes can tell each other apart by this call.
The bark and scream and very loud so they're often heard but most other fox vocalizations are quiet
which up close sounds like a cough but from afar sounds like a sharp bark and is used mostly by fox parents to alert youngsters to danger.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
They must achieve a fleet-wide average of 54.5 mpg by 2025; autonomous technology could help them get there faster.
when exiting the store with a boat-load of groceries in the pouring rain. Automated Carsthis is a good project
I'm in the same boat as you GGENUA! I also like Starz advice. I definitely believe we should be encouraging people to purchase physical hard copies of all forms of literature.
We can`t let more people onto our boat called earth or else it will sink!
Then with the panic out of the way we can start discussing how to take advantage of slightly longer growing seasons slightly deeper ports and slightly closer seashores.
of annual magnetic north pole coordinates going back to the year 1590 derived from early measurements from ships logs to modern day techniques...
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
Two technicians in a nearby Boston Whaler cradle a small torpedo-shaped craft then lower it into the water.
which received a grant from the U s. Office of Naval Research. The funding enables oceanographers to test new technologies
and adjacent harbors and clear the way for an amphibious assault. These people died defending usthat September the U s. Marines landed on the island of Peleliu.
He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.
After the group found it Scannon hired a local guide to take him to other wreck sites where he eventually discovered the wing of A b-24.
They alerted the owner of a dive shop who passed photos of the wreck along to Bentprop.
Two of its crew had bailed out midair landing in Malakal Harbor to the east where the Japanese took them into custody;
if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.
WORLD WAR II wrecks attract dive tourists and salvagers. The next morning at the coral-reef lab Terrill debriefs Scannon and the Bentprop group.
Reuter had used an archival map of observed plane crashes to mark Google earth layers with known wreck sites;
and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane. If that's intact it tells me it was speed a low impact perhaps ditching says Daniel O'brien a former skydiver
But existing ships that were moored still had antiaircraft. So for him to come in and land here it would have been to pick somebody up.
With the boat now directly over the plane the dive teams begin to suit up.
Eventually the team determines that the wreck has all the characteristics of a Kawanishi E15k1 Shiun code-named Norm by the Allies.
and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack. It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
He launched his life raft and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.
Suzanne Finney an American archaeologist working with Palau's Bureau of Arts and Culture joins us for the 45-minute boat ride to the site of the Corsair.
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
There are a lot of wrecks in water that's inaccessible to diving she says so you need remote-sensing equipment.
If it pans out it'll be a great archaeological tool to baseline a lot of these wrecks.
Scientists and naval historians could use such technology to document how wreck sites decay. Oceanographers and biologists studying living structures such as coral reefs could also benefit from it;
when for example patent interests allow the companies to deny the right to grow the rice already have their raft of reasons.
I know of at least one Level III NIJ hard plate armour that uses bed liner (polyurethane) to prevent shrapnel
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