and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to verify the finding. By sequencing the genomic regions that harbor the MATE1 gene in aluminum-tolerant
and aluminum-sensitive plants she found a similar MATE1 allele (version of a gene) in both types of plants.
and others may require bulky energy storage that will limit their cargo and passenger capacity.
if the on-road fleet is to meet desired performance goals. Strong policies and technology advances are critical in overcoming this challenge.
and their bark peels back he said. Buchalski and Fontaine share first authorship of the paper.
To stop trafficking WCS works with governments to detect smuggled ivory at key ports and airports at different points in the trade chain in Africa and East asia.
Up until now the prevailing theory was that marine resources not agriculture and corn provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.
Many of these marine processes are understood poorly in this context. We know very little about how the shrinking sea ice cover disturbs the balance of greenhouse gases in the sea in the long term says Dr Parmentier.
Within 25 years practically no ash trees may remain on either side of the St lawrence Seaway said Akhlesh Lakhtakia Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering science and Mechanics at Penn State.
Although the potential for CO2 sequestration in the ocean is associated large the risks to the marine environment need to be assessed adequately the authors concluded.
Marina Gálvez-Peralta and Daniel Nebert of the University of Cincinnati Medical center; Ryan Pavlovicz and Chenglong Li of Ohio State's Biophysics Program (Li is also in the College of Pharmacy;
and water and provide anchorage. The researchers conducted experiments over two years growing resistant and non-resistant crops and applying five different amounts of nitrogen.
About Albatrossalbatross are legendary birds for many reasons--in Samuel Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner a sailor has to wear an albatross around his neck as punishment for killing the bird.
The birds ingest large amounts of marine debris--by some estimates 5 tons of plastic are fed unknowingly to albatross chicks each year by their parents.
#Plant scientists demonstrate new means of boosting maize yieldsa team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated successfully
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The combination of marine and terrestrial data enable us to link the environmental record at specific fossil sites to regional ecological
The hypothesis suggests for example that marine ecosystem managers who want to help tropical fish should focus on sustaining foundational species in the ecosystem such as corals.
Ditches claimed only 2 percent of the marsh compared with the 70 percent affected by roads houses restaurants marinas and other hallmarks of a modern coastal community.
#New control strategies for bipolar bark beetlespopulation explosions of pine beetles which have been decimating North american forests in recent decades may be prevented by boosting competitor
Reporting this month in the journal Geology a team of researchers from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
A raft of control measures were introduced into the poultry industry including movement restrictions compulsory slaughter
The Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative M-I SWACO and the Air force Office of Scientific research funded work at Rice.
The chicken which not only barks out orders to sneaky snackers but even tweets that person's Twitter account to publicly shame them if they stray uses a Raspberry Pi--a tiny single-board computer.
Our work shows that wild tomato species harbor alleles that could be useful for improvement of antioxidant traits in cultivated tomato Doä anlar noted.
What's more we're counting on Seafarm's cultivation of algae being able to favour the marine environment as a whole
Another problem the researchers will investigate in more detail is that really large cultivations of algae may prove to have a certain wave-damping effect that can influence movements in the water and the marine environment.
#Key to identifying spiders in international cargospiders found in international cargo brought into North america are submitted sometimes to arachnologists for identification.
and international fruit importers to provide data on specimens they found in international cargo that had been submitted to them for identification.
He also asked that they identify spiders in their museum collections that had previously been found in cargo.
Together with colleagues from Canada and Washington state Vetter identified 135 spiders taken from international cargo between 1926 to June 2014
and facilitate the proper identification of cargo-borne spiders because misidentifications can lead to costly and unwarranted eradication measures unnecessary employee health education heightened employee anxiety
The authors found that the most frequently submitted spiders were the pantropical huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) and the redfaced banana spider (Cupiennius chiapanensis) and that the most common cargo from
Spiders found in international cargo especially those in banana cartons are typically harmless species they wrote.
or other livestock in severely affected marshes can reduce the stem density of phragmites cover by about half in around three weeks said Brian R. Silliman lead author of the new study and Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation
The LA megacity sprawls across five counties 150 municipalities many freeways landfills oil wells gas pipelines America's largest seaport mountains and even dairies all within an area
#Changes in coastal upwelling linked to temporary declines in marine ecosystemin findings of relevance to conservationists
Along the west coast of North america winds lift deep nutrient-rich water into sunlit surface layers fueling vast phytoplankton blooms that ultimately support fish seabirds and marine mammals.
The new study led by Bryan Black at The University of Texas at Austin's Marine Science Institute
Our study underscores the fact that California is a place of high coastal upwelling variability said Black assistant professor of marine science
To study the effects of changing strength of upwelling on marine life the team integrated data on how quickly fish grew every year since the 1940s the timing of seabird egg laying since the 1970s and the fledgling success of seabirds since the 1970s.
what a synchronizing force it is especially across marine and terrestrial systems said Black. Researchers have used tree rings to reconstruct climate patterns such as ENSO before
Increased feeding by plant-eating tropical fish in temperate waters as a result of ocean warming is an issue of global importance that has the potential to transform marine ecosystems as has also been seen in Japan.
The Lockheed martin Aerospace Co. through the LANCER IV Program the Office of Naval Research's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the research.
the state of their habitats our national wildlife refuges national parks national seashores and other public lands are critical safe havens for many of these species--especially in the face of climate change--one of the biggest
Enhanced ocean CO2 uptake alters the marine carbonate system and lead to increasing acidity. The ocean's acidity increase is already measurable as oceans take up about 4 kilogrammes of CO2 per day per person.
The potential consequences of ocean acidification on marine organisms are complex. A major concern is the response of calcifying organisms such as corals algae mollusks
of which were published recently in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. For their study the scientists evaluated data from six forest censuses conducted over the past decades on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama canal.
GEDI will be a tremendous new resource for studying Earth's vegetation said Piers Sellers deputy director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate.
#Improving how companies use technology to ship fresh producea University of Florida-led research team's development of a tracking system could change the way companies ship fresh fruits
and tomato coffee harbors larger families of genes that relate to the production of alkaloid
Using a 40-meter-tall canopy crane equipped with a gondola they were able to collect leaves from the very top of trees in Panama and the United states. They measured leaf vein density in 132 species from two
Last December online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery suggesting that fleets of flying robots might serve as autonomous messengers that shuttle packages to customers within 30 minutes of an order.
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This surge was correlated directly to a more than quadrupling of local black-market ivory prices paid to poachers and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit.
and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems said Rebecca G. Martone of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford university.
In coastal North america sea otters help maintain healthy kelp forests which benefits other marine species dependent on this habitat.
Many fish marine mammals and birds are also found in kelp forest communities including rockfish seals sea lions whales gulls terns snowy egrets as well as some shore birds.
The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.
Speakers for the symposia include marine freshwater and terrestrial experimental ecologists who will present their research
and decorated with figurines of the marine monster Skylla de Grummond said. Another was adorned with a bronze finial of the head of a feline with the mane of a lion
Clearly there are things that you can do to reduce loss--you can put bed liners in trucks you can adjust your combine you can harvest more slowly
Morris has widened his research to include marine food chains and is also studying the effects of a range of organic flame retardants on the same terrestrial food chain.
and fishing--relying mainly on marine foods--to the arrival of'Corded Ware'settlements which we now know saw the introduction of animal domestication.
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Research has demonstrated that firewood harbors many bark-and wood-boring insects. In 2008 co-author Robert Haack of the Forest Service's Northern Research Station found that nearly 25 percent of firewood intercepted at the Mackinac bridge between Michigan's Upper
In their new system a Remotely Operated Gardening Rover or ROGR travels around the habitat tending to a fleet of Smartpots or SPOTS
The report also shows that some of the healthiest Caribbean coral reefs are those that harbour vigorous populations of grazing parrotfish.
and grazing sea urchins and set aside one-third of its coastal waters as marine reserves says Ayana Johnson of the Waitt Institute's Blue Halo Initiative which is collaborating with Barbuda in the development of its new management plan.
and suggest that it is the chemistry of plant biomass added to soil rather than the total amount of biomass that has the greatest influence on the ability of soil to harbor stable carbon.
The potential consequences of warming in the Arctic include changes in freshwater runoff and atmospheric water vapor and decreases in salinity that can affect marine biology and seawater circulation dynamics.
To finally get some data on the Eocene marine environment using these shark teeth will help us to begin filling in the gaps.
Analyses showed that total farm-to-gate-gate variable costs (the seedling liner and field production phases combined) was $37. 74 per marketable tree;
along with rising gasoline prices has led to the world's largest fleet of flex-fuel vehicles fueled by the over 36 million tonnes of sugar cane currently grown in the country.
Within healthy nerve pathways each nerve cell sends an electric pulse down itself until it reaches a synapse where it triggers the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters that float across the gap
Grasslands especially in agricultural landscapes also provide tremendous benefits to humans through erosion reduction and water filtration as well as offering habitat to numerous grassland-obligate species from black-footed ferrets to Dakota skippers.
training and disease management at the source careful inspection of plants at ports of entry fungicide treatment of rooted cuttings to eliminate latent infection and training and disease management in nurseries at lucky
According to one of the authors Dr Piers Mitchell at the University of Cambridge UK the discovery might be among the oldest evidence of human-made technology inadvertently causing disease outbreaks.
Additionally increasing the algae blooms would likely wreak havoc by decreasing the oxygen available for other marine life.
Alternative sustainable fuels are needed urgently in the marine transport sector due to stringent upcoming regulations demanding reduced sulphur
The most promising fuels will then be tested engine to assess their quality and use for potential marine transport.
This project will establish a knowledge platform for cost-effective production of all new sustainable fuels which have the potential to completely alter marine travel.
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when the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) sent a remotely operated submersible vehicle into holes that had been drilled into the ice.
Part of a marine family known as skeleton shrimp only distantly related to the ones some humans love to dip in cocktail sauce this crustacean is the first of its genus to be reported in the northeastern Pacific.
#International standards significantly reducing insect stowaways in wood packaging materiala new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark-and wood
Ocean waters are becoming warmer and more acidic broadly affecting ocean circulation chemistry ecosystems and marine life.
and productivity of many marine species. The rising temperature and changing chemistry of ocean water combine with other stresses such as overfishing and coastal and marine pollution to alter marine-based food production
and are becoming more acidic as a result leading to concerns about intensifying impacts on marine ecosystems.
Clayton says the parasitic nest fly may have invaded Ecuador's Galapagos islands via ships and boats from the mainland at an unknown time and showed up in large numbers in the 1990s.
So the birds have no history with these flies which is why they are sitting ducks.
A boat carrying students photographers and aquatic ecologist Carlos de la Rosa was passing slowing
The observed effects of climate change have an impact on people's health land and marine ecosystems water supplies and people's livelihoods from the polar regions to the tropics and from small islands to continents.
Severe and wide-ranging global changeswarming acidification and decreasing oxygen levels will change marine life. Warming has resulted already in plankton fish
As marine and coastal ecosystems change their diversity and the products and services derived from them will weaken.
#Cow manure harbors diverse new antibiotic resistance genesmanure from dairy cows which is used commonly as a farm soil fertilizer contains a surprising number of newly identified antibiotic resistance genes from the cows'gut bacteria.
During the Spacex-3 mission the Dragon capsule not only will deliver cargo to the orbiting laboratory
and only occasionally gets snagged by a passing marine particle. I'm surprised that given how much black carbon is produced most of it remains in the ocean for thousands of years Coppola said.
The research was supported by the Army Research Office the Semiconductor Research Corporation's FAME Center the Office of Naval Research and Singapore's MOE Academic Research Fund.
while working on her degree at the University of New Haven conducted an essential experiment to verify that sugars play a key role in apical dominance and the regulation of plant bud growth.
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and the Carnegie Institute for Science Stanford Calif. NASA monitors Earth's vital signs from land air and space with a fleet of satellites and ambitious airborne and ground-based observation campaigns.
The new species of bark mantises were discovered in tropical forests and also found among existing museum collections.
This group the Neotropical bark mantises are incredibly fast runners that live on the trunks and branches of trees said Svenson of The Cleveland Museum of Natural history.
They can combine into larger molecular machines that grab other molecules walk cargoes within a cell
and chickens settlers were also foraging for a variety of marine food and consuming wild animals--especially fruit bats--and that whatever horticultural food they produced was relied not heavily on she says.
This research was supported by the James H. Ferry Jr. Fund for Innovation in Research Education.
#Sterile flies save food crops, millions of dollars in eradication effortsirradiated sterile flies dropped over seaports
and is considered a much preferable alternative to spraying pesticides over urban or suburban areas near major ports.
but swaying with the tide could be an especially effective way to restore disappearing marine meadows of eelgrass according to a new study.
Sea grass meadows are a key marine environment under siege. In their healthy state they stabilize coastal sediment
Simple and primitive a duckweed plant consists of a single small kidney-shaped leaf about the size of a pencil-top eraser that floats on the surface of the water with a few thin roots underwater.
The work was supported by the Office of Naval Research. The researchers utilized the Data analysis and Visualization Cyberinfrastructure (DAVINCI supercomputer supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF)
The absence of lipid residues of marine foods in hundreds of cooking pots is really significant.
Its developers foresee electrical generators driven by changes in humidity from sun-warmed ponds and harbors.
We think this is related to the positive effect of marine nutrients on non-nitrogen fixing trees explains Gilles Havik a former master student at Wageningen University
These findings highlight the important interactions between marine and terrestrial environments and the need to understand such interaction to guide conservation efforts.
which analyzed data from ranches in western Montana including 15 years of records on ranch husbandry satellite-generated climatological data spatial data on wolf pack locations and confirmed depredations on 18
and how those pollutants vary by where the seals feed said Lohmann who has conducted studies of marine pollutants around the world.
Few studies of marine pollutants have been conducted in Antarctica in part because there are greater concerns about pollutant levels in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere.
The new findings come from a team effort involving MIT and several other institutions and coordinated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR.
and turbulence they produce and marine navigation in the region. This team's research he says contributed to a massive advance in our understanding of how these waves get generated and dissipated.
but I haven â¢t seen it being used in furniture and construction. I want to push this project to show people we could eliminate the use of plywood by using what â¢s basically trash.
The owner is a former marine biologist. He always steering me toward what most sustainable,
and other entertainment. 3. London, England Hyde park is the city's largest, with 350-plus acres along a lake, boat rentals, horseback riding, Speakers'Corner,
So Random House and the two publishers that haven t settled, Penguin and Mcmillan, are at least for the moment,
maybe for reasons that haven t been invented yet, but it not easy to see from here.
and North america is the best source of new supply, thanks to its healthy and growing forests, good infrastructure, efficient domestic logistics and supply chains, attractive pricing, access to ports
Shipping by barge is by far the cheapest method, followed by rail. But much of the North american supply is too far from an inland waterway
and finished pellets to oceanic ports can make or break an entire supply chain. While some areas of the U s. have excess capacity in freight rail
like Maine (which sports the lowest shipping cost to Europe at $28 a ton), much of it is either too far from the feedstock supply,
Wood pellets being loaded onto a barge. Source:
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& Co. showed that the average age of the US vehicle fleet has reached a record high 10.8 years.
Build your own lifeboat As I speculated in my 2012 outlook, our path into the Great Contraction will be decline by default.
but you can build a lifeboat. And if your country doesn't sink, you'll still be an important part of the solution.)
But you don't start building a lifeboat when the water's up to your knees, and as you can probably feel,
An infographic (below) created by Float Mobile Learning suggests that a growing number of North american farmers are now using smartphones
By 1860, Charleston Harbor was shipping out 141 million pounds of it per year. The Civil war put an end to slavery,
and that funding for protecting the marine ecosystem was top priority. Jishnu said that CBD parties had been asked to submit suggestions on innovative ways of funding biodiversity
coastal and marine biodiversity and operationalization of Nagoya Protocol (explained below). Khosla stressed that India in its role as a leader needed to push for a fair deal, new technology from developed nations and research from both developed and developing nations.
In Boston, the rooftop of the Sea Port hotel houses hundreds of thousands of bees (pollinating hundreds of local gardens throughout the city.
a hack of the traditional Port-a-Potty but one that could address the need for more public urination facilities
and those in the food deserts, in places that haven t had grocery stores for decades. I think there will be a further segmentation of the fresh fruit market that s not just organic
Over seven days, Groupon plans to put a limited number onions on sale (limited to one kilo per customer) and ship them for free to customers in 78 cities throughout India.
Part of the reason people haven t caught on is because the value of the services provided free by nature,
such as the cleaning of our air and water and the provision of fertile soil simply haven t been accounted for oe they do not figure in a country's GDP,
and their marine equivalents in coral reef systems. Here among other things is the high genetic variety
Let's say they need to ship to a Wal-mart warehouse in California. We d likely pick it up in A j. B. truck,
Well, we haven t quite figured that out yet. Some researchers have pointed out that the only anatomical structures in the vicinity of
With ports in the Pacific and Gulf of mexico, Mexico has always been a crossroads, he said.
because algae are the base of the marine food chain. For example: Screw up and over-engineer a strain,
Trains and planes and ships revolutionized the food market, he said. It really transformed the way people move
cities would still continue to ship in citrus to Cleveland (and other desired foods that can't grow in certain climates) to meet demand,
 If you haven t been up on these things Baker s idea to build an urban structure made of wood has been gaining momentum for a few years.
But they haven t been really tall. The highest in the world topped out at 10 floors in January, with Melbourne s Forte Development in Victoria Harbour.
It only modestly eclipsed the 2009 world record-holder: the nine-floor Stadthaus in London. Both are important successes
But they haven t reached a critical mass, the 40-plus stories that would cover 90 percent of all residential urban habitats.
And they haven t been brought to market by a well-known powerhouse like Baker and SOM.
We haven t even built one and it s already a game changer out there.
but haven t started a program. I usually get overwhelmed at the first step buying the container.
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I grew up in the industrial boat. I've dealt a lot with the power industry,
and are greater than those of all  cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.
As one of the world s biggest ports, Hong kong is seen as a gateway to the rest of Asia for much of the ivory coming from Africa.
Across the fleet, average delivery times were reduced about 25 percent, Gilbert said. Route optimization: Indianapolis Fruit was able to study each of its routes more closely
Operators of small fleets, like Phoenix-based HVAC repair shop George Brazil Services, try to maximize their fuel efficiency by switching to more efficient vehicles
and increasing the size of their fleets so drivers don't have to travel as far on each call.
Larger fleet operators are turning to logistics services to optimize their fleet activities, using GPS devices to track their drivers on a minute-by-minute basis
Larger fleets, in the 1200-vehicle range, could save $1. 2 million per year. For national delivery services like UPS who have optimized already their drivers'habits
and engaged in a long campaign to upgrade the fuel economy of their fleets, the main recourse is to simply keep raising their fuel surcharges.
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