Thousands of homes torched The threat posed by eucalyptus groves spreading beyond Australia was highlighted in 1991
but they suspect the fuzzy hairs on bees'bodies bristle up under an electrostatic force just like human hair in front of a television screen.
and her colleagues identified several chemicals in honey that could play a role in helping bees fight parasites and pesticides.
Bee immunity The bees that ate the honey chemicals showed activation in genes that are known to help bees fight parasites
If I asked you to name some of the current threats to your health oeinternational trade law probably wouldn t be on the tip of your tongue.
Other parts of the TPP are disturbing too Like many other trade agreements the TPP contains an investor/country dispute settlement mechanism a procedure that foreign investors can use to challenge countries that have broken allegedly trade and investment commitments.
and consciousness turning us into a near-geologic force on the Earth. In the end every hominid species went extinct except one.
Archeologists have strong evidence from the tool culture that points to an astounding leap in human intelligence between about 100000 and 60000 years ago.</
Most of the characteristics of the today s world now appeared including centralized government and power military forces and warfare institutionalized religion patriarchy monetary systems poverty large-scale agriculture trade networks and empire.<
By inserting a gene from bioluminescent marine bacteria researchers at Bioglow Inc. developed a tobacco plant with faintly glowing green leaves.
At the same time climate change increases the vulnerability of forests to bark beetle attacks. It does so by triggering droughts that subject trees to water stress
Surveillance cameras allow keepers to watch the nesting areas closely so that when an egg is laid it can be dug out of the sand immediately
With mother serving as drill sergeant each new panda recruit learns survival skills such as how to forage for food
Black and white and Wanted All over Threats to panda survival include poaching and smuggling which is promoted by the black market for panda fur.
but not cancer cells less susceptible to damage from radiation said study co-author Dr. Eliot Rosen a radiation oncologist at Georgetown University in Washington D c. Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods Deadly effects
which included barracks housing 20-40 men and a large administrative center. Food was prepared in central kitchens and distributed.
and remind King that his constituents don't support the amendment's attack on states'rights.
fortunately we learned last week that the plant owners decided to rescind their request to USDA for a grant of inspection meaning that the immediate threat in Iowa of the plant opening is resolved.
There's also the fight over banning barren battery cages and supporting the national effort to give laying hens more space.
The Meatless Monday campaign was adopted by the U s. government as a resource-saving measure during World war i.
War Zone Sad experience is teaching that some old tornado safety tricks aren't as effective as hoped particularly
How the Myth Began The myth that carrots improve your eyesight may have its roots in a WORLD WAR II propaganda campaign.
During the war The british Royal air force developed a new type of radar technology that helped pilots shoot down German enemy planes at night according to Smithsonian Magazine.
But in order to keep the new technology a secret the government said carrots were behind the pilots'success. Advertisements during the war touted the benefits of carrots for nighttime vision including one that read Carrots keep you healthy
because China occupies a pivotal strategic position in the global fight for wildlife protection. With the global economic balance of power shifting eastward the rising purchasing power in East asia has made it a new destination for illegal ivory and other wildlife products.
Furthermore reports of the involvement of organized militia and terrorist groups in elephant poaching are highly troubling
This article is adapted from Battle to Protect World's Wildlife Depends on Beijing's Commitment which first appeared in the Global Times.
and their grant reviewers recognized that the activity called SOD blitzes had a strong educational component
The cost of the blitzes has doubled almost in six years but $200000 would have supported only three or four technicians to do the fieldwork without the volunteers.
Volunteers have stepped definitely up with the SOD blitzes but it is another project that truly highlights how volunteers can be scientific peers to their academic counterparts.
Fighting the worsening infernos will likely involve combating invasive species like cheatgrass thinning forests in some areas
A new nonprofit group is shipping 18-inch (46 centimeters) saplings of the trees for people to plant to help fight deforestation
But Costa rica of course cannot battle climate change on its own. The country produces just a few-hundredths-of-a-percent of global carbon pollution.
#Cold war Nuclear Radiation Creates Anti-Poaching Tool (ISNS)--Radioactive carbon atoms created during 20th-century nuclear bomb tests could help save elephants
while population growth drought and climate change pose imminent threats to water sources and the ecosystems communities and businesses that depend on them.
><p>A training text used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class has been deciphered revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and
Written for samurai students about to learn<i>Takenouchi-ryå</i>a martial arts system it would have prepared students for the challenges awaiting them.</
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Greenland</a p><p></p><p>In June 1908 a mysterious blast occurred above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska Siberia with 1000 times more power than the Hiroshima bomb flattening trees over an area
It's part of a struggle for paternity in utero where babies of different fathers compete to be born.</
and analyzes radio telescope data in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). The network called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) harnesses about 360000 processors operating at 150 trillion calculations per second.
and because battle wounds on the bones matched accounts of RICHARD III's death in the War of the roses.</
Wisdom and her young chick inhabit Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) which is famous for its Laysan albatross population.</
</p><p>The crystal was found amongst the wreckage of the Alderney an Elizabethan warship that sank near the Channel Islands in 1592.
SAN MATEO Calif. The word drone tends to conjure up images of planes that kill terrorists or of creepy surveillance tools.
and mixed together by temperatures consistent with the blast impact of an asteroid about 6 miles (10 km) across striking the Earth at this point.
when an extraterrestrial object strikes the Earth with great force. These remains are found as far north as Colorado.
and intelligence that is behind the patterns not in the form of hoaxers but some sort of global psychic power that manifests itself in wheat and other crops.
after all if mysterious earthly forces are at work there's no reason to think that they wouldn't happen
and operating on the ground through organized rebel groups has been responsible for the loss of some three-quarters of all African forest elephants in the past decade.
As a global leader in the fight to confront this crisis the United states must do the same.
In the fight to end the elephant poaching crisis nations must take a three-pronged approach:
They are carnivorous hermaphroditic marine creatures that do not sting. The sea walnut (M. leidyi) is native to the western Atlantic
 After WORLD WAR II was not a good time to be a geneticist in Russia. Darwinism was seen as a justification that capitalists should have millions
because the capitalists had superior strength or intelligence. In 1948 genetics was banned in Russia. Genetic institutions were closed
The researchers analyzed information from nearly 4000 adults living in Stockholm who had had not a previous heart attack or stroke.
and rejected back then about a possible relationship between intelligence and suffering are still being considered even in light of a plethora of new data on the cognitive and emotional lives of other animals.
It has also become clear that the word intelligence needs to be considered in light of what an individual needs to do to be a card-carrying member of his
if a struggle for survival is accompanied not by a particular mental state then it fails to reveal a preference to live.
Degrazia's claim forces the following issue: we must be sure that there is not a particular mental state perhaps a mental state with
All this makes finding breed differences in qualities like intelligence and behavior all the more difficult. That does not mean there are no breed differences
Organisms that grow with age without stopping at a certain size like some trees may be less vulnerable in old age to environmental fluctuations or other threats.
and these suits have resulted in some significant changes in the way the agency fights fires.
or to prevent future parasitic attacks of an animal or its offspring according to the paper published online today (April 11) in the journal Science.
and bring it back to their hives to help them fight infection. Beekeepers have selected against this trait
#Elephants Vanish in Congo Reserve The Okapi Faunal Reserve was thought to be a safe haven for forest elephants in the otherwise conflict-stricken eastern region of the Democratic Republic of congo.
Before a civil war broke out in the region in the late 1990s the WCS counted about 6800 forest elephants in the reserve.
In 2007 after the war officially ended the WCS's elephant count was down to 2700.
In one unsettling incident last June armed attackers descended on the park headquarters killing park rangers
We urge the international community to support the DRC in the fight against the threat of extinction of the forest elephant.
or flagship species like giant pandas can give a boost to other species that share its habitat.
The images demonstrate that through the conservation of the giant panda a flagship umbrella species we can also protect other threatened wildlife from the same habitat
China has more than 10 flagship species including Amur tigers musk deer and the Yangtze finless porpoise according to WWF.
The main threat has been the habitat loss and fragmentation due to invasive human activities. The conservation organization released the footage to mark the International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22) first designated by the United nations two decades ago.
10 Tales from the Crypt & Beyond A modern problem As an example of the modern rhetoric that Sachs believes sets back the environmental movement he read from a plea he had received from actor Robert Redford supporting a Natural resources Defense Council fight
Ancient mortars and grinding tools unearthed in a large mound in the Zagros Mountains of Iran reveal that people were grinding wheat and barley about 11000 years ago.
The site contained mortars and grinding tools stone figurines and other tools suggesting a large social group lived there under fairly stable economic conditions.
The idea is that you coordinate treatments to change fire behavior across a landscape a big landscape said John J. Battles a Berkeley forest ecologist who helped develop the method.
The idea is that by treating only a portion of an area typically about a third fire managers can slow the spread of fire across the entire landscape Battles said.
By treating in certain spots the fire never really gets rolling hot Battles told Livescience.
And PEDV strikes young pigs with menacing force: The mortality rate among piglets is almost 100 percent.
and was even against a federal policy to help pets in disasters the amendment is an attack on states'rights to impose reasonable standards on agriculture to protect animals workers the environment and consumers.
In a bipartisan show of force against the King amendment 166 House lawmakers wrote to the leadership of their chamber's agriculture committee expressing opposition.
since you want to speak with your lawmaker about the threats posed to animals by the King amendment.
Kazakhstan is also in the frontline of the war on drugs it borders Afghanistan and is in the process of securing stretches of its border with Uzbekistan by building an 8-foot-high (2. 5-meter-high wire fence.
Firebreaks can help fire fighters battle small burns in chaparral. Without fire fighters at the breaks however flames skip past the gaps found a study led by ecologist Alexandra Syphard of the Conservation Biology Institute in the June 2011 issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management.
#Fighting to Save an Endangered Bird With Vomit A psychological warfare program centered on vomit could help save the marbled murrelet an endangered seabird that nests in California's old-growth redwood forests.
while evading peregrine falcon and hawk attacks. After the chick hatches it pecks off its redwood-colored down and flying solo launches straight for the ocean.
The art of avian war With cash earmarked for murrelets from offshore-oil-spill restoration funds the parks have the rare ability to fund research studies
In 2012 the smallest cutback in egg attacks by Steller's jays and other predators was 44 percent
Future development The crumb clean push comes as Big Basin gears up for a struggle over its first general plan
and regenerate an important marine plant depends on animals to eat its seeds and poop them out around the ocean according to recent research.
and co-author of a study published recently in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. It's hard to understate the importance of eelgrass
A potentially more serious threat to the animals than predators is future sea level rise associated with climate change.
'In the film's trailer where some disturbing images are matched to beautiful prose Mcarthur says she feels like a war photographer
because society is really waging a war against other animals as we wantonly exploit them in myriad ways.
and irradiated so that militaries can find more efficient ways to kill other human beings in the wars in
We also know that humpback whales protect gray whales from orca attacks; combat dogs and other animals suffer from PTSD;
We need to stop ignoring nature and end the widespread and heartless war on other animals now.
#Forests Recover Quickly After Bark beetles Attack SAN FRANCISCO A forest ravaged by the red hand of death also known as a bark beetle attack recovers quickly with little ecosystem damage scientists said here today (Dec 9) at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
The potential effects of massive tree die offs in Western forests have been a concern since a sudden uptick in bark beetle attacks in the late 1990s.
Forests look awful after a beetle attack but the wound isn't as terrible as it looks according to two separate studies by researchers from the University of Wyoming and the U s. Forest Service (USFS.
Even though the bark beetle visual impact is really impressive and striking there's many things going on in that forest that makes it resilient to the attack
Their biggest threats are habitat loss and hunting by humans either for trade or to protect livestock.
Male giraffes use their horns to playfully fight with one another. They also spar by swinging their heads at one another
During the day they rest play and sometimes fight in lakes rivers and swamps. They get down to business at night grazing on land for hours at a time.
Their main threats are illegal poaching for their meat and canine teeth which are made of ivory and the loss of freshwater habitats throughout Africa.
They often live in groups known as mobs troops or courts which can range in size from 10 to more than 100 kangaroos.
Least concern There are no major threats for these kangaroo species although they may be affected by land development loss of habitat wildfires and hunting.
Though they are subject to threats particularly habitat encroachment and fragmentation as well as disease fire drought and road deaths the koala is considered a species of least concern by the IUCN because of its comparatively large population and wide distribution.
In April 2012 the Australian government listed koalas as a threatened species facing threats from both urban expansion and climate change.
and can lead to spectacular fights between males competing for the right to mate with a particular female.
and there was a suggestion to develop a moose-mounted cavalry. Such proposals remained unimplemented mainly
Road vehicles are also a threat as devils are difficult to see on roads. Odd facts about Tasmanian devils:
To challenge other devils to a fight they use a sharp sneeze. Because they store extra fat in their tails unhealthy animals have limp skinny tails.
and kick or bite its attacker. Where food is mostly plentiful year-round such as the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania they lead a sedentary life.
The spider then goes out and attacks. These spiders usually eat insects or small vertebrates like lizards or frogs.
and a brother named James. When George was only a few weeks old Confederate raiders invaded the farm kidnapping George his mother and sister.
During World war i Carver was asked to assist Henry ford in producing a peanut-based replacement for rubber.
Also during the war when dyes from Europe became difficult to obtain he helped the American textile industry by developing more than 30 colors of dye from Alabama soils.
After the War George added A w to his name to honor Booker T. Washington. Carver continued to experiment with peanut products
There are two U s. military vessels named in his honor. There are also numerous scholarships and schools named for him.
While China has made achievements in saving the pandas in recent years a group of conservations says the government's plans to free up forests for commercial use could be a blow to the endangered species. This change puts these vital habitats potentially under threat from commercial
and Kings Canyon National parks. So the main threat to giant sequoias has been past fire management Keeley told Livescience.
But I think the Rim Fire those kind of fire intensities are just not something that's been typical in the past Parsons told Livescience Recognizing the threat forest fires pose to giant sequoias the National park service started prescribed burns in giant sequoia groves beginning in the 1960s.
The battle for and against GMO crops and the foods containing them isn't likely to end soon.
The onset of symptoms is usually gradual and characterized by a time lag of months or years after gluten introduction.
An angry mobster trying to send a threat but unable to find a horse? No it is a response to a supposed Billy goat curse that dates back to 1945
Bartman was blamed widely for the Cubs'loss by both fans and the news media and received harassment and death threats.
Attacks on individual scientists. Recent revelations in two separate court cases spotlight an often hidden form of fraud:
but can pose a serious threat to people's health. For an egregious example look no further than the recently revealed scheme of Georgia-pacific a subsidiary of Koch Industries.
Ghostwritten articles compromised science In the Georgia pacific asbestos case the court documents suggest that the company hired experts who had conflicts of interest specifically to write articles downplaying the cancer risk posed by asbestos
and yet those conflicts of interest were disclosed not by the authors when they submitted the studies for publication.
People with serious conflicts of interest who have a financial stake or receive direct payments from a company have no business publishing in scientific journals without clear and full disclosure of the conflict especially
when the results pertain directly to an assessment of the safety of one of the company's products.
They not only undermine the scientific enterprise they pose an enormous potential threat to the public.
Bear battle The fight over the delisting of the Yellowstone grizzly population is a years-long saga.
We work with existing social structures 100 year-old missions a domestic violence shelter schools a veteran's organization
and by a desire for unity after the Civil war to declare the fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving day.
In fact Thanksgiving was associated initially so with the North that Southerners embittered by the Civil war took some time to warm to the proceedings Smith said.
Thutmose I was a warrior king who launched successful campaigns into Nubia and Syria expanding the territory under Egyptian rule.
Like his predecessor he fought in Nubia. oethe Egyptian army continued to quell uprisings in Nubia
and attacks on pets and humans are incredibly rare. A new documentary called EXPOSED: USDA's Secret War on Wildlife highlights the wanton and brutal killing ways of an agency called Wildlife Services
and it is well worth your time to watch it and to read the summary of this film provided by the organization Predator Defense.
The secret war on wildlife refers to and results from the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA)' s Wildlife Services'wanton assault on numerous species of animals.
and expose the government's secret war on wildlife for what it really is: A repugnant uncontrolled and brutal attack on a plethora of different species. EXPOSED is one of the most disturbing films
I have seen ever. Wildlife Services could easily be called Murder Inc. Their horrific intentional and secret slaughter of millions of animals in the name of coexistence is appalling.
and unrelenting war on wildlife that will be even more violent and irreversible than it is now.
Another nefarious threat is white-nose syndrome a disease that is wiping out many bat populations in North america.
Others target military spending or federal boosts to individual industries such as winemakers or fruit-growers.
The threat level for each of these gases varies based on several factors most notably their lifetime in the atmosphere and their potential to influence global warming.
The threat level of a gas is determined in part by its global-warming potential (GWP) a measurement of how much heat a gas can trap in the atmosphere.
Geophysical tools have proven useful in several real human cases such as finding the so-called Disappeared people in Northern ireland thought to have been killed by The irish Republican Army.
Other ongoing research aims to detect mass graves from Spain's civil war. Traditional techniques for finding dead bodies include using metal detectors large-scale excavations
The onset of wet conditions in the Taklamakan Desert corresponds with the rise of Genghis khan and the Mongol Empire the largest contiguous land empire in history.
Sparta reached the height of its power in 404 B c. after its victory against Athens in the second Peloponnesian war.
its inhabitants it seems preferred to defend it with men rather than mortar. However within a few decades after a defeat against the Thebans at the Battle of leuctra the city found itself reduced to a oesecond-rate power a status from which it never recovered.
The prowess and fearlessness of Sparta's warriors has inspired the Western world for millennia and even in the 21st century has been incorporated into Hollywood films like 300
and the futuristic video game series Halo (where a group of super-soldiers are called oespartans). Yet the real-life story of the city is complicated more than popular mythology makes it out to be.
The task of sorting out what is real about the Spartans from what is myth has been made more difficult
and some of it such as from Tyrtaeus reflects the development of the martial values that Sparta would become famous for there is also work that appears to reflect a society concerned with art rather than just war.
The incorporation of the people of Messenia into Sparta s slave population was important as it provided Sparta with oethe means to maintain the nearest thing to a standing army in Greece Kennell writes oeby freeing all its adult male citizens from the need
  oethe magistrates from time to time sent out into the country at large the most discreet of the young warriors equipped only with daggers
Here is a man who proves himself to be valiant in war...Translation by Richmond Lattimore from the book Greek Lyrics University of Chicago Press 1960) The presence of large numbers of slaves relieved Spartan men from manual labor and allowed Sparta to build a citizen
training system that prepared the city s children for the harshness of war. oeat seven a Spartan boy was taken from his mother
and raised in barracks beneath the eyes of older boys writes University of Virginia professor J. E. Lendon in his book Soldiers and Ghosts:
A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (Yale university Press 2005. oeboys were whipped to inculcate respect (aidos) and obedience;
. and was repulsed by a mainly Athenian force at the Battle of marathon in 490 B c. The second invasion was launched by Xerxes in 480 B c. the Persians crossing the Hellespont (the narrow strait between the Aegean
Ancient sources indicate that Leonidas started the battle with a few thousand troops (including 300 Spartans at its core.
He faced a Persian force many times its size. After spying on the Spartan-led force
if they would surrender Xerxes ordered an attack. The oemedes rushed forward and charged the Greeks
and especially to the king that though he had plenty of combatants he had but very few warriors.
The struggle however continued during the whole day wrote Herodotus. Translation by George Rawlinson) After this beaten force withdrew Xerxes sent an elite unit called the oeimmortals after the Spartan-led force but they too failed.
Herodotus noted the battle tactics the Spartans employed. oethe Lacedaemonians fought in a way worthy of note
and showed themselves far more skillful in fight than their adversaries often turning their backs and making as though they were all flying away on
Eventually a Greek man showed Xerxes a pass that allowed part of the Persian force to outmaneuver the Greeks and attack them on both flanks.
Many of the troops who were with Leonidas withdrew (possibly because the Spartan king ordered them to).
The Persian army proceeded south sacking Athens and threatening to break into the Peloponnese. A Greek naval victory at the Battle of Salamis halted this approach the Persian king Xerxes going home
and leaving an army behind that would later be destroyed. The Greeks led by the now dead Leonidas had prevailed.
 When the threat from the Persians receded the Greeks resumed their inter-city rivalries.
Two of the most powerful city states were Athens and Sparta and tensions between the two escalated in the decades after their victory over Persia.
In 465/464 B c. powerful earthquakes hit Sparta and the helots took advantage of the situation to revolt.
The Battle of Tanagra fought in 457 B c. heralded a period of conflict between the two cities that continued off and on for more than 50 years.
At times Athens appeared to have the advantage such as the battle of Sphacteria in 425 B c
. when shockingly 120 Spartans surrendered. oenothing that happened in the war surprised the Hellenes so much as this.
It was the opinion that no force or famine could make the Lacedaemonians give up their arms
Ultimately the conflict between Sparta and Athens resolved itself on the sea. While the Athenians had the naval advantage throughout much of the war the situation changed
when a man named Lysander was named commander of Sparta s navy. He sought out Persian financial support to help the Spartans build up their fleet.
He convinced a Persian prince named Cyrus to provide him with money. The prince oehad brought with him he said five hundred talents;
which was of silver and gold wrote Xenophon (430-355 B c.).Translation by Carleton Brownson via Perseus Digital Library) With Persian financial support Lysander built up his navy
A series of events and missteps led Sparta from being the preeminent force in the Aegean to becoming a second rate power.
The city was forced to surrender against this unorthodox onslaught. More challenges affected Spartan hegemony. In 378 B c. Athens formed the second naval confederacy a group that challenged Spartan control of the seas.
and in 371 B c. a pivotal battle took place at Leuctra. oethe power of Lacedaemon was shattered by Thebes upon the field of Leuctra.
Although an ally of Sparta during the long Peloponnesian war Thebes had become the lodestar of resistance
At Leuctra oefor reasons unclear the Spartans posted their cavalry in front of their phalanx. The Lacedaemonian cavalry was poor
because good Spartan warriors still insisted on serving as hoplites infantrymen...he writes. oethe Thebans by contrast had an old cavalry tradition
and their excellent horses much exercised in recent wars quickly routed the Spartan cavalry and drove them back into the phalanx confusing its order.
With confusion in the Spartan lines the slaughter was on. oecleombrotus fighting in the phalanx as Spartan kings did was struck down
and was carried dying out of the battle...Other leading Spartans were killed soon fighting as well writes Lendon.
The Theban general Epaminondas is said to have called out oegrant me one step and we will have the victory!
And that is apparently what happened. Lendon writes that oethe Thebans pushed the Spartans back one fateful step
and then the leaderless Spartans were in flight and their allies with them. Of the seven hundred full Spartan citizens at the battle four hundred died...
The Thebans pressed south gaining support from communities as they marched and liberating Messinia depriving the Spartans of much of their helot labor.
 There were efforts to restore Sparta to its former military might. The Spartan kings Agis IV (244-241 B c.)and later Cleomenes III (235-221 B c.)brought in reforms that canceled debt redistributed land allowed foreigners
because it was made from spoils taken in the Persian wars. In course of time they have altered it until it is as large and as splendid as it is now.
the first is that of Pausanias the general at Plataea the second is that of Leonidas.
and their fathers'names of those who endured the fight at Thermopylae against the Persians.
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