The study was funded in part by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P01es016732 R01es010544 5r21es16446-2 and U54es012078) the National Institute of Neurological disorders and Stroke (NS038367) the Veterans Administration Healthcare
and endemism with economic opportunity costs and deforestation threats to prioritize optimal corridors. For Dr. Goetz Conserving tropical forests ultimately requires prioritizing the services they provide to people in a local setting.
Identifying lands locally valuable for agriculture or other high-value uses considering biodiversity and the threat of deforestation our analysis provides both maps and a framework for realistic conservation planning.
The data showed that stem decay caused by earlier damage from a native stem borer reduced the species'tolerance to external forces resulting in stem failure in Typhoon Chaba.
They found that each pathogen species secretes specialised substances to shut down the defences of their target hosts'Plants have called these enzymes proteases that play a key role in their defence systems'said Dr Renier van der Hoorn co-author of the study from Oxford university
The Robert A. Welch Foundation the National Science Foundation the Army Research Office and the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund supported the research.
#Drug trafficking leads to deforestation in Central Americaadd yet another threat to the list of problems facing the rapidly disappearing rainforests of Central america:
but steps could be taken to make sure the Earth's largest colony of Magellanic penguins have enough to eat by creating a marine protected reserve with regulations on fishing where penguins forage
The coming together of the genetic evidence with historical evidence of Viking raiders and traders in the Wadden islands and adjacent coastal regions suggests the folklore is right
Natural selection shapes mechanical advantage in batsmechanical advantage--the efficiency in transmitting force--can be decisive whether it be automated through an harvester in agriculture a six-foot-six swimmer
or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
valos who joined forces with Dr. Elizabeth Dumont and a mechanical engineer Dr. Ian Grosse (both of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) in a recently published paper in Evolution that lays out the team's findings relating mechanical advantage
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
My goal as a scientist is to uncover the evolutionary forces that have shaped biodiversity says Dr. Dá
study showsscientists have known for more than 40 years that the synthetic pesticide DDT is harmful to bird habitats and a threat to the environment.
when DDT breaks down were higher in the blood of late-onset Alzheimer's disease patients compared to those without the disease.
Although the exact cause of Alzheimer's disease--with five million Americans suffering now and millions more expected to fall prey with the graying of the Baby boom Generation--is known not scientists believe that late-onset Alzheimer's may be linked to a combination of genetic environmental and lifestyle factors.
#Developing new methods to assess resistance to disease in young oilseed rape plantsbeing able to measure resistance to disease in young oilseed rape plants is vital in the battle to breed new
He put a solution thick with spores on a tiny flexible silicon plank expecting to measure the humidity-driven force in a customized atomic force microscope.
The committee is likely to approve these tablets which will mark great improvement in the fight against allergy said allergist Michael Foggs MD president of the American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI.
With the joined forces with BGI we are excited to successfully complete the task of sequencing water buffalo. stated Mr. Tafsir Mohammed Awal Director of Lal Teer This will now lay the foundation of ensuring nutrition and food security in Bangladesh and other developing countries.
which gives them the high bite forces needed to pierce through the hardest figs. Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage
Tracking an alien invader of conker trees using people poweran army of citizen scientists has helped the professionals understand how a tiny'alien'moth is attacking the UK's conker (horse-chestnut trees
Scientists from Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory have shown that the peak in forest greenness as captured by digital pictures does not necessarily correspond to direct measures of peak chlorophyll content in leaves
as a result of predation or the onset of farm operations before eggs hatched or young birds were ready to fly.
If lots of plants from one species grow in the same place fungi quickly cut their population down to size levelling the playing field to give rarer species a fighting chance.
These included tree-dwelling carnivorous mammals who may have posed a threat to hoatzin nestlings which are raised in open nests.
In contrast those in colonies with fewer viral assaults survived the entire cold winter months.
Thus they call for increased surveillance of potential host-jumping events as an integrated part of insect pollinator management programs.
#How a versatile gut bacterium helps us get our daily dietary fiberuniversity of British columbia researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into The swiss Army knife of the digestive tract--helping us metabolize a main
The oldest dated 1500--1300 BC was from Nandrup in northwestern Denmark where a warrior prince had been buried in an oak coffin with a massively hafted bronze sword battle-ax
#War elephant myths debunked by DNATHROUGH DNA analysis Illinois researchers have disproved years of rumors and hearsay surrounding the ancient Battle of Raphia the only known battle between Asian and African elephants.
What everyone thinks about war elephants is said wrong Alfred Roca a Professor of Animal Sciences
and member of the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who led the research published in the Journal of Heredity.
After Alexander the great's premature death his vast kingdom was divided among his generals. being spent generals they the next three several centuries fighting over the land in-between Roca said.
The Battle took place in 217 B c. between Ptolemy IV the King of Egypt and Antiochus III the Great the King of the Seleucid kingdom that reached from modern-day Turkey to Pakistan.
According to historical records Antiochus's ancestor traded vast areas of land for 500 Asian elephants whereas Ptolemy established trading posts for war elephants in what is now Eritrea a country with the northernmost population of elephants
in East Africa. In the Battle of Raphia Ptolemy had 73 African war elephants and Antiochus had 102 Asian war elephants according to Polybius a Greek historian who described the battle at least 70 years later.
A few of Ptolemy's elephants ventured too close with those of the enemy and now the men in the towers on the back of these beasts made a gallant fight of it striking with their pikes at close quarters
and wounding each other while the elephants themselves fought still better putting forth their whole strength
and meeting forehead to forehead said Polybius in The Histories. Ptolemy's elephants however declined the combat as is the habit of African elephants;
for unable to stand the smell and the trumpeting of the Asian elephants and terrified
Did Ptolemy employ African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) or African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the Battle or Raphia?
and preservation to minimize the possibility of human conflict. That's really the issue--not having a place to go.
More than ever before, we know how to reduce some riskin 1971 President Nixon funded research to wage a war on cancer a long battle that we're still fighting today.
Later Burkholderia species were identified as the causative agent of the disease melioidosis a public health threat especially in tropical countries like Thailand and in parts of Australia.
and Surveillance Modeling Network found that while some 17.6 million Americans have died since 1964 due to smoking-related causes 8 million lives have been saved
If global tobacco control is to benefit from concerted policy action population-level surveillance of tobacco use
The authors state Such an increase likely poses an increased threat to sagebrush steppe species subject to raven depredation including sage-grouse for
We are hopeful that this gesture shows that we can win the war against poaching
and Eastern Africa's most important parks--those harboring 26000 elephants and facing the greatest threat--from Nouabalã-Ndoki in Congo to Ruaha in Tanzania and Niassa in Mozambique.
and intelligence support and tracking where guards go what they see and what they Do in Africa
At the source we build innovative intelligence networks across landscapes to preempt and prevent poaching.
and resist the forces that seek to divide you for their own--usually political--purposes.
The goal, with the help of IBM's carbon intelligence software is to reduce New york city's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017.
where they're in the war room and he puts a flash drive on a TV screen
AECOM â¢s Urban Food Jungle is conceptual design that responds to the threat of diminishing food security by bringing together sustainable food production, entertainment, education and culinary delight.
Boisvert's article is not so much an assault on grow your own as it is on the inefficiencies of growing
Adam Skolnick described how, under the leadership of mayor R. Rex Parris, the Mojave desert town of Lancaster, California home of turkey farmers, Frank zappa, Edwards Air force Base,
An unassuming warrior: Chinese environmentalist Ma Jungrowing up in Beijing in the 1970s, Ma Jun spent his summers fishing
The soft-spoken man with the quiet intensity may seem a reluctant warrior but those who know him say his work to expose labor
which is the threat of very public exposure, Â Economy said. Å Given his beginnings as a journalist, he fully understands the power of the media
I'm no eco-warrior. There are so many hare-brain environmental schemes out there and in the whisky industry that just don't work
a greener whisky rebellion Human waste now heats British homes Image: Wikipedia Commons and Flickr/Joshua Rappeneker
said Sumon Sadhu, the intelligence director at Quid. Self service health technology will become more and more common as the cost of sensors decrease and ubiquity of smartphone software increases,
Currently, Apple â¢s headquarters can only hold 2, 800 people but has 12,000 employees in the Bay area.
Instead of renting out more office buildings at a greater radius from the main office building, Steve jobs would rather house all his employees in one building.
Likening the chaotic landscape of the rapidly shifting technology industry to the cultural tumult following the Great depression and two World wars
Part of the appeal of that style-whether in architecture or design-was provided that it a sense of order after the death, turmoil and destruction of two world wars,
numerous wars of various sizes, a dragged-out global recession, multiple environmental problems, overpowering consumerism,
while other regions will have the plan for the threat of fires during dry seasons. Nonetheless, while it's an aspect of sustainable cities that's easy to overlook,
Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the massesbuenos AIRES--The new Trakã Â r agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
Smithsonian tracks bird strikes for military, airline industrydr. Carla Dove using a comparison microscope to study feather structure in the Birds Division at the Museum of Natural history.
It didn t take her long to realize that the work performed in this little lab is a big help to the military, the aviation industry and of course, the birds.
So the Federal Aviation Administration and the military fund the Smithsonian lab in order to learn more about the strikes
for the military, it mandatory. What we do know about strikes is that most happen at takeoff and landing, typically at the engine,
deer and â on overseas U s. military bases â animals including goats and pigs. Strikes also happen at all altitudes;
Apple, Google, Facebook and Samsung all have plans for new, striking and audacious, headquarters or additions.
Meanwhile, Google is building a 1. 1-million-square-foot headquarters called Bay View near its current complex in Mountain view,
Samsung plans to build a new American headquarters in Silicon valley, yet another NBBJ project, featuring a 10-story tower,
a massive Renaissance-era military fort outfitted with temporary structures for 1, 043 vendors, in the timeless city of Florence. Just as the setting mixed old and new, amid the silk, suede, linen and leather,
Light technology can combat superbugs A universal vaccine for superbugs is possible Researchers discover anti-pathogenic drugs to treat superbugs War against superbugs:
A coating that can kill MRSA upon contact The fight for life against superbugs Scientists can shut down a superbug's CPU
Big companies can actually be a force for good in every society in which we operate.
but aren't near brick-and-mortar branches. In Africa, it's very, very important
We need to start the fight against the scourge of noncommunicable diseases right now, the princess said.
And now the two have a chance to travel to Google's headquarters in California, and be a part of a year long mentorship program.
Spy black swans, and breathe in the scent of eucalyptus trees. Best Time to Visit: Spring for the sight of dozens of brides in long flowing white dresses;
The battle over tanking ethanol subsidiesthe new year may see the end to some ethanol subsidies.
But not all things bipartisan take course without a fight. Not surprisingly Midwestern senators on both sides of the aisle are clinging to the subsidies that keep federal money flowing to their constituents.
an advocacy group, leaving solar wind and the rest to fight over the remaining third. Corn ethanol cost taxpayers $17 billion from 2005 to 2009, his group estimates.
it replaced a building that had been destroyed by a terrorist bombing. Yet the inspiration for the tower unique, missile-like design was not militaristic:
Right now, biomimetic innovations have provided already revolutionary ideas for how new buildings are cooled and heated, one of the most energy intensive systems in a structure.
Pizza could help fight cancer. Yes, if the chef makes the sauce from the latest in tomato technology-genetically engineered purple tomatoes-a 16-inch pie could have the same health benefits as other foods such as blueberries and cranberries.
Anthocyanin has been shown to help fight cancer in animals. The BBC quoted John Innes'Prof Cathie Martin:
Can you summarize the dispute between the Justice department and the major publishers and Apple? MS: There are two things at issue.
and that their attack was the collusion not the model. And they, the three companies that settled, specifically said,
we don t need really to fight with two governments at the same time and we already have enough fighting going on with Britain.
SP: What about the two that continue to fight the Justice department claim? MS: The two that are fighting it, Mcmillan and Penguin,
their executives have made very clear statements, 'we did not collude, we re not going to settle this
that weakens brick and mortar. Weaker brick and mortar and weaker print means weaker publishers,
because the main thing that publishers do for authors that they can t do for themselves is put books on shelves.
FDA tackles antibiotics in livestock Agriculture's future power struggle: Land grabbing, resource control and competition Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fatty foods cause brain scarring, study shows
while keeping the money flowing to the military-industrial complex, exactly as President Eisenhower warned us.
While overextended major population centers struggle to maintain order and keep the food and fuel flowing as they descend into the zombie apocalypse,
The sheep that texted wolfsheepdogs have warned always herders of wolf attacks. But now the alert system just got a technological boost.
Jean-Marc Landry and colleagues from the research group Kora developed the system as a way to better control the increasing number of wolf attacks on sheep in Switzerland and France.
As the dogs poised to attack, the sheep s heart rate shot from a resting 60 to 80 beats per minute to 225,
Couldn't humans use some of that sweet neural intelligence? Sure they could. Imagine a plane on a search
it forces us to be our best, he says. When I asked Ronald Krupitzer, vice president, automotive market, of Steel Market Development Institute,
you can bet some of the forces controlling them won't be the designers or owners. As these connected devices age
Research at USC will help towards launching a new flagship transmedia project slated for 2012 that Orange has divulged not yet.
According to Glaberson and Foderaro, The struggle will only get more challenging: New york city is more than halfway to its goal of planting a million more trees.
The Civil war put an end to slavery, delivering a blow to the rice economy. In the early 20th century, cheaper rice from the American Southwest priced Carolina Gold out of the market.
They pounded off the hulls with an old mortar and pestle, winnowed the grains in an antique basket
(and where Union troops torched the main house in 1865). Phil Wood, from Sydney, cured swordfish like ham
The Mexicans handed out suckling pig tacos while a special Canadian contingent cooked up seabuckthorn berry BBQ beef tongue.
The jet fuel was sent to the U s. Air force Research Laboratory for analysis where it passed rigorous testing,
The fight to save biodiversity began in 1992 with the UN Convention on Biodiversity which currently has 193 parties.
It needs at least 50 ratifications to come into force. New delhi is getting ready to ratify it before the conference in Hyderabad concludes on October 19.
a drug that could fight fatigue and protect the liver. Palpu Pushpangadan, head of TBGRI, who had met the tribe in 1987
Pushpangadan, now Director General of Amity Institute for Herbal & Biotech Products Development, who remains wary of his past experience,
According to a new UN report, cities around the world are not doing enough in the fight against climate change.
battleground for climate change from the United nations Human Settlement Program, or UN-HABITAT, shows that while the world's cities only cover 2 percent of global land area,
poses a significant threat to the honey bees and their pollination services. Å Australia is the last country to not have been invaded by this disease
it will be a stronger more evolved strain posing a significant threat to honey bees and our pollination services,
Using underground air raid shelters from WORLD WAR II, Richard Ballard and Steven Dring hope to transform the space into a unique 2. 5 acre farm that would provide fresh produce to London restaurants and grocery stores.
640 crop threats and 560 wild crop relatives in Russia and neighboring countries. The maps,
saves energy New soldier uniforms will harness solar power Finally, a urinal for girls More environmentally-friendly innovations:
Future applications Both the military and police could use SAMARAI. Officers could throw the drones like boomerangs to photograph
Troops could also use them to get ground-level images from airplanes in addition to the aerial images typically used now.
They improve upon drones currently used by the military in that they can hover in place like helicopters
via Popular Science, Navy Times photo: Kobako, Wikimedia
Video: Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow gardenin Oakland, California, a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil.
their proven durability demonstrates that the structures can better withstand being bombarded by flash floods and other destructive forces.
don't minimize product protection Trade group makes case for environmentally sound packaging New battleground in beverage wars:
And it is considered by scientists to be as great a threat as climate change. As the coordinator of the UK partner response to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity 2010 International Year of Biodiversity
and the work of the CBC to mitigate threats to biodiversity. How do you make people think about their impact to an ecosystem?
I usually use the lens of threats to biodiversity. Over the last century humans have come to dominate the planet.
or aggravate, armed conflict, cause mass involuntary migrations. And this can result in negative effects in communities and age groups least able to adapt.
calls to the Apple headquarters and searches of the Web site do not provide any insight.
and had died from blunt force  trauma to the head. Right, so back to the autopsy.
because city officials continue to struggle to find how to best use the city's many vacant properties as its population has shrunk over decades.
The Royal Austro-Hungarian Army used bean leaves to cleanse encampments and U s. researchers observed the effect in the 1940s, Borel noted.
Big farms or small, the struggle to feed 10 billion peoplean article in Foreign policy this week asks a daring but realistic question:
Why the U s. Navy wants our green jet fuel What'synthetic life'could mean for the energy industry The Algaeus algae-fueled Prius hits the road Just look at that diversity!
military--you name it. But the debate really comes down to this: like genetically modified (GM) food--such as Roundup Ready soybeans--should we be concerned that scientists are tinkering with Mother Nature?
Brooklyn to host nation's largest rooftop gardena Brooklyn Navy yard warehouse will soon serve as a host to the nation's largest rooftop garden.
Brightfarms will soon be opening the nation's largest rooftop garden on top of an old Navy  warehouse  in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
The premise of Bpeace is that more jobs means less violence. Explain that. The organization started in 2002, the year after 9/11,
You have mentors in the U s. who work with entrepreneurs in countries where there has been a good deal of conflict.
We only work in post-conflict countries or what we though was Špost  at the time.
The U s. military had been in Afghanistan just under a year. Today, Rwanda is very peaceful.
which is getting squeezed by drug wars to the north and to the south. So very few countries meet your criteria?
We looked at a lot of countries where jobs could have an effect on the recurrence of violence.
and employment wont help violence there. We also looked at countries that would want us.
where idleness contributes to violence. In El salvador, most of the violence is gang violence. Working people dont belong to gangs.
How is funded Bpeace? For our Afghan work, the U s. Department of state partially funds it. We receive grants from foundations,
Our tagline is, Å More jobs means less violence. Â The women in Afghanistan would never say that means fewer suicide bombings or Taliban incidents.
They say less violence in the home. They think if there is less violence in the home,
there will be less in the streets. We know anecdotally when a women brings income into the home
and the financial stress on the household goes up, the violence decreases. So were making a leap of faith there.
Theres a Clint eastwood movie, A Fistful of Dollars, and his character lives by the creed,
I agree with that message--pro-active measures to fight climate change should be prioritized --but that doesn't remove the fact that these droughts are happening
Theres this strange conflict that emerges. Im asked about biodegradation which we want in some cases (we want the water bottle to biodegrade),
Changing elephant poo to green paperjaipur/DELHI--The elephant ride up the stone pathway of the medieval Amber fort outside Jaipur is designed to make tourists feel like Rajput warriors returning from battle-or something on those fantastical lines.
The battle to feed all humanity is said over, Chu quoting author Paul Ehrlich. A subsequent major development was the development of disease-resistant strains of wheat that could handle artificial fertilizer and produce higher yields.
During the bleakest moments of our country's history--the Civil war--you would think that the country could not spare all of its resources to something not dedicated to fighting a war
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
and established a headquarters operations in Los angeles. Lew Roth, vice president of business development for Climateminder, said the company will target its technology at farms in prime California agribusiness districts such as Oxnard, Salinas and Watsonville.
We must put cities on the front line of the struggle to adapt. Â Is this the smarter way to reverse human impact on the atmosphere?
and can better fend off the environmental assaults that inflict $700 to $800 million in damages to farmers'crops each year.
Lufa farms competitor  Brooklyn Grange has constructed already the largest rooftop farm in the United states on an old Navy  warehouse in Brooklyn.
It feels like a losing battle. But a pilot project made possible by a collaboration between TNC,
U k. trade union rebels against biometric employee scanning Could Silentsense rival Apple s iphone 5s fingerprint scanner?
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