To try to reverse the frightening fact that 94%of lemur species are under threat myself
However black mambas use their incredible speed to escape threats not to hunt. Black mambas hunt and are active during the day and return to the same place every night to sleep.
This is a defensive posture aiming to scare away the threat. If black mambas need to attack to defend themselves they will strike quickly several times then scurry away as fast as possible.
The black mamba has no specific predators. Its greatest threat is habitat destruction. Black mambas typically eat small mammals
and birds though there have been reports of mambas found with whole parrots or full-grown cobras in their stomachs.
and productivity on farms as well as help us monitor for any biosecurity threats including Colony Collapse Disorder a global phenomenon where worker bees from a beehive
This will help us understand how to maximise their productivity as well as monitor for any biosecurity threats.
The major threat facing gazelles is hunting. The Queen of Sheba's gazelle became extinct when it was hunted for food in 1951 by soldiers according to the IUCN.
Because livestock particularly horses have been identified as a significant threat to panda survival. The reason: Horses have been beating pandas to the bamboo buffet.
Michigan State university (MSU) panda habitat experts revealed the oft-hidden yet significant conservation conflict between pandas and horses in a recent article in the Journal for Nature Conservation.
For years timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat. But conservation programs limiting timber harvesting have chalked up wins in preserving panda habitat.
or burnout operations and lowered the threat of the fire to Flagstaff. The San juan fire also provided lessons about how treated areas did
this is one of the highest levels of threat ever recorded for a group of mammals.
and the threats those species face in the wild. Zoos and aquariums are living museums where children
Taking a Page from Eliot Ness to Fight Wildlife Trafficking (Op-Ed) Our presence at the AZA's Winter Meeting gave more institutions an opportunity to hear our message
and blast loud music through their spouse's headphones behaviors that indicate at least some level of ill intent according to the researchers who published their findings in April in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Sorry no rat Armageddon The population of Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) whose numbers are almost wholly dependent on humans for food may drop somewhat this year as a result of wintry blasts.
Waiting too long to take allergy medications Treat allergies at the onset of pollen season rather than waiting until symptoms get more severe Bassett said.
During the rut males fight for the right to breed with the females by pushing their heads together.
We were stepping over all these dead trees on the ground that had been killed by the initial blast Tim Mousseau a professor of biology at the University of South carolina said in a statement.
and political battles but researchers disagree on the ultimate cause. No one knows where the Cahokia people went
They found that the effects vary from region to region with sea level rise posing the biggest threat to the Atlantic
Heat and humidity pose public health threats as higher humidity disrupts the body s natural ability to cool itself
U s. agriculture faces threats as a changing climate shifts where and how well particular crops grow.
and it may lead to great advances in the fight against cancer the researchers are not making that claim just yet.
And this time his fight affects not only how the U s. government protects us and our children from tobacco but also fast food alcohol and even gambling.
After the battle he fled Cao Cao s army to rejoin Liu Bei. Cao Cao was said to have been impressed
and martial prowess that he ordered his troops to let Guan Go over the next two decades Guan would work with Liu Bei in a series of military campaigns that would eventually lead to the foundation of the Kingdom of Shu.
During this battle Cao Cao s army pressing south tried to reunify China by destroying the forces of Liu Bei
The battle was a disaster for Cao Cao and he suffered a defeat that allowed the three kingdoms to come into existence.
Laying siege he was concerned that the forces of Sun Quan would betray and attack him (the alliance between Liu Bei
and Sun had grown cold since the Battle of Red Cliffs). His fear was unfounded not. The Chinese historian Ssu-ma Kuang writes that Sun s general Lu Meng started plotting against him.
whom Guan thought would pose no threat. This led Guan to withdraw troops from his rear guard to support the siege.
Sun also sent a letter to Cao Cao offering to launch a joint attack against Guan.
Cao Cao decided to publish Sun Quan s letter hoping that Guan would abandon the siege of Fancheng to fight Sun (Cao Cao wanted to have his enemies fight against each other.
A counterattack by Cao Cao s forces forced Guan to break it off. Guan suddenly found himself commanding a weakened force trapped between two enemy armies those of Cao Cao and Sun Quan.
Lu Meng Sun Quan s general made Guan s situation worse by capturing the city of Jiangling
This led to desertions shrinking Guan s forces even further. Still Guan refused offers to surrender at one point pretending to surrender to Sun Quan s troops before running away.
Eventually his remaining force was trapped and Guan Yu and his son Guan Ping were captured and executed.
In 2008 and 2009 a movie dramatizing the Battle of Red Cliffs was released in two parts and featured actor Batdorj-in Baasanjab as Guan Yu.
Monarch butterflies in particular face a highly specific threat from humans: the weed-killer commonly known as Roundup or glyphosate.
This knowledge gives the EPA an opportunity to muzzle a direct threat to butterflies. Immediately limiting the use of glyphosate
which pose serious threats to human health and wildlife pollute water and deplete nutrients in the soil.
#Prehistoric Poop Reveals Neanderthals Ate Plants Don't call them brutes. Neanderthals ate their veggies. Traces of 50000-year-old poop found at a caveman campground in Spain suggest that modern humans'prehistoric cousins may have had a healthy dose of plants in their diet researchers say.
Recent research has upended the image of Neanderthals as dim-witted bruisers. These long-gone cousins may have controlled fire made tools buried their dead in graves adorned themselves with feathers
If we appear to be losing the battle what difference does yet another meeting and round of press conferences make other than to worsen traffic conditions in lower Manhattan?
91 kilograms) of force. Now new research finds that these aggressive crustaceans are weird in another way:
Kenya's former president Daniel arap Moi attempted to quiet her with threats reportedly calling for her to abide by tradition respect men and keep quiet.
Heavy emigration since WORLD WAR II has left only a small community of Jews in Italy today.
April 25 is the Liberation Day marking the 1945 liberation ending WORLD WAR II in Italy in 1945 n
We've also witnessed threats to the domestic tranquility of these birds. Raccoons are pretty bad they can eat eagle eggs
The dispute over ractopamine speaks to a broader illness in the nation's pork industry.
Folded surface rocks (shaped by tectonic forces) dip lower than the surrounding land creating long linear valleys filled with pine forests.
and will fight to the death to defend their area. Mother squirrels are the most vicious when defending their babies.
or take the risk of timber smuggling in conflict-ridden border regions such as Kachin at the border with Yunnan province China one of the main rosewood smuggling routes.
Besides the fact that logging in the tropics is rated as one of the most dangerous jobs there is in Myanmar an added danger of being shot in a timber-related conflict.
Such long-term investment is commendable but unlikely in a conflict-ridden poor country like Myanmar with unstable land tenure and an explosive political climate.
The BBC reports that storms have uncovered unexploded WORLD WAR II bombs on beaches with the Royal Navy's Southern Dive Unit responding to an emergency call almost every day
#Pandas'Latest Threat: Horses? The 1600 pandas left living in the wild face a new threat:
Horses. Seeking a safe investment farmers in China's Sichuan Province have been increasingly buying up horses
Grinning or pulling the lip is a sign of aggression in monkeys along with yawning head bobbing
and make a new start. 10 Epic Battles That Changed History He loved the idea of American democracy he actually watched it very closely from Holland
So how did he survive the buzzing attack? Turns out the man's attackers probably Africanized honeybees according to the local fire department are not as deadly as their name may suggest.
To be lethal the bees would likely have had to sting the man several hundred more times experts say.
because not all attacks are reported and partly because oftentimes people aren't quite sure what stung them.
While the victim of Thursday's attack in Wichita Falls Texas survived the incident not all killer bee victims have been as lucky.
and make sure the enemy doesn't repeat the threat Berenbaum told Live Science. Unfortunately for the victims of killer bee attacks the insects aren't very good at distinguishing between a true threat
and an accidental nudge from a noisy mower. Africanized honeybees are extremely protective of their hive and brood much more so than European honeybees.
Wayne Trivelpiece an Antarctic penguin researcher with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric administration's Southwest Fisheries science Center based in La jolla Calif. agrees that climate change is a serious threat to these and other penguin populations around the world.
For instance whether Dutch women suffered through post-WORLD WAR II famines during pregnancy apparently influenced how skinny
Immune system Glutathione is a powerful antioxidant that helps fight free radicals promoting immune system and nervous system health.
Many medium-to large-sized carnivores have come into direct conflict with humans leading to localised extinctions.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature suggests that brown hyaenas are under threat from human persecution
The fights that the males have are pretty ferocious up in the trees said Bill Ellis a koala researcher with the University of Queensland in Australia.
We think that by and large the fighting is a really significant biological event for them and that's probably why they are not so common.
#Another fundamental element in the fight against child cavities is watching what kids drink and how they drink it.
There are several forces creating this phenomenon. The coconut oil industry is working hard to win public favor.
and all by following the trail of a plant biologist who had collected maple branches there more than 40 years ago during the height of the Nixon administration and the Vietnam war.
while colonies with fewer cloudlike viral assaults survived the winter. The increasing prevalence of TRSV in conjunction with other bee viruses is associated with a gradual decline of host populations
and poisons millions of animals including about 100000 native carnivores ostensibly to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.
and many more are killed before any conflict has occurred even. How can that be? As NRDC's recently released film Wild Things explains the short answer is
and the size and strength of a wolf require that minimum breaking forces must be high...
It was practiced also in Japan during WORLD WAR II; sporadic reports indicate crucifixion has been used as recently as 2002 in the handful of countries where it is permitted still.
The Department of defense provided some funding for the work as one early application might be for veterans.
Sadly this traditional way of life is under threat from two principal trends. First children inheriting ranches from their parents are subdividing their properties.
and increases the chance of conflict between people their cows and predators with fewer and fewer prey options.
Top 10 Cancer-Fighting Foods And in addition to the cashew's known nutritional benefits researchers have explored also the possibility of using the toxic oil found in the nut's shell as an antibiotic.
It is the crazy ones who will change the world not the worrywarts who think fear force
The author's most recent Op-Ed was Is Climate Change Response'Fight or Flight'or'Rest and Digest'?
or enforce community forest rights communities are often powerless to keep external forces such as unscrupulous actors in the timber
and other threats to their critically important soda lakes where they feed and breed. African Grey Parrots aggregate in tremendous numbers around fruiting trees and at forest openings rich in salts in Central African forests.
Vitamin c also helps keep skin looking beautiful by helping fight against skin damage caused by the sun and pollution.
Climate change might also postpone the onset of leaf-color changes and leave fall hues lingering later into the year.
But as America braces for an onslaught of Super bowl snacks these words have a whole new relevance.
Before WORLD WAR II there were just a few recipes for what's now called dip though people had been dunking bread
Rams fight to decide who will be the dominant male in their group. During the fight the males will face each other rear up on their back legs and crash their huge horns into each other.
Sometimes they charge as fast as 40 mph (64 km h). ) Eventually one of the rams ends up submitting
in western Africa, was prepared simply not to deal with the threat, he says. The caterpillars have munched through cocoa, bananas and maize (corn),
Liberia was unable to deal with the threat fast enough. Initially farmers who could not get hold of pesticides set fire to worms
and raised fears of a potential threat to human health. Last week, a joint mission of 22 international health and veterinary experts returned from investigating the outbreak with more questions than answers about the virus's pathology and epidemiology.
But there seems to be little threat to human health from the current form of the virus. It is destroyed by cooking,
similar to its mode of attack in monkeys. Further pathology tests are due to begin in spring at the Australian Animal health Laboratory in Geelong, Victoria.
and the threat of infection could be reduced by moving fruit trees, where the bats roost, away from pig farms,
said at the symposium that the greatest threat to tropical species today is climate change.
And I don't deny the force of environmental questions but I think there are equally compelling
The force of economic development is beyond our imagination, says Chen Jin, director of the XTBG.
the conflict between development and conservation will never be reconciled, says Joachim Sauerborn, an agriculture researcher at the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart,
It is an uphill struggle this is why conservation and poverty reduction go hand-in-hand, says Hasan Moinuddin of the Manila-based Asian Development Bank.
Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
Wheat genes could help fight fungal epidemics: Nature Newsas farmers around the world anxiously monitor the march of a deadly orange fungus across their wheat fields,
two research groups have reported progress in the battle against the lethal scourge: the cloning of two fungus-fighting genes.
Meanwhile, new types of stripe rust that can overcome the defences bred into commercial varieties have sparked a separate epidemic in the United states. It is amazing that we are still fighting this battle,
A similar synergistic effect between genes may also be useful in the fight against Ug99,
which finally came into force in 2004, allows the EU to approve GM CROPS when there is no scientific evidence of danger to health or environment;
Combined with record-breaking temperatures, unusually strong winds and alleged arson attacks, the fires have been particularly quick to spread through suburban areas that back onto bushland.
So, are we in danger of losing our closest allies in the fight against climate change?
Climate change and deforestation pose a double threat to rainforests. Keeping alive large amounts of forest will require big areas to remain undisturbed from logging and clearing.
Earliest onset date of swine flu reaching the United states, according to the CDC. 18 march 2009: Federal district of Mexico 0424/en/index. html>begins to pick up cases of swine flu.
US environment agency declares greenhouse gases a threat: Nature Newsthe US Environmental protection agency (EPA) today declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare, a move that gives the Obama administration broad powers to regulate greenhouse gases without going through Congress.
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said the proposed endangerment finding confirms that greenhouse gases pose a serious problem for current and future generations,
also represented a threat. Under President George w bush, EPA scientists and officials prepared an endangerment finding,
But they have maintained also the threat of direct regulation if Congress fails to enact legislation.
Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat: Nature Newspublic-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1n1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs.
This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain,
Pig surveillance is largely the remit of animal health organizations, agriculture ministries and the farming industry.
But some experts say that is an artefact of patchy to nonexistent flu surveillance in pigs.
and his colleagues concluded that the lack of systematic swine surveillance allowed for the undetected persistence and evolution of this potentially pandemic strain for many years.
which coordinates work done by animal-flu surveillance labs worldwide, and former chief executive of the Veterinary Laboratories Agency.
Whereas flu surveillance has improved over the past six years in poultry and wild birds, pigs have been below the radar,
Surveillance for swine flu is not something that has been high on the agenda of government services,
Most flu surveillance in pigs is passive, relying on farmers or vets sending material to government labs. Active targeted surveillance with diagnostic tests is rarer,
as it is more expensive. OFFLU has called on labs worldwide to share what information they have on swine flu,
and THE WHO on 21 may the conclusions of which were made public last week recommended scaling up flu surveillance efforts in pigs,
European union funding for one of the world's largest pig surveillance networks expired in March. The European Surveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs,
which was created in 2001, comprises nine European labs and one in Hong kong. Although the network has detected not yet the new virus in pigs, its coordinator Kristien Van Reeth,
Network members hope that with the pandemic highlighting the need for better pig surveillance new funding will be forthcoming.
as is customary when their maize crops struggle because of drought. But this year, they have a second backstop against hunger:
and other animals for years before they emerge as a worldwide threat to human health.
It reinforces the idea that systematic surveillance, not only in humans but in other mammalian and avian hosts,
The dispute centres on four words common but differentiated responsibilities that are in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change signed at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de janeiro, Brazil.
Saran's only promise is that India won't exceed the per-capita emissions of the developed world more a threat than a promise,
including the terrorist attacks on Mumbai last November and national elections in May. But the government is now moving forward,
One way to reduce this threat is to adopt a'pyramid'approach and create crops that produce multiple toxins that target the same pest.
Missouri, intends to launch a line of maize (corn) that contains eight different genes that make the crop resistant to herbicides and to attack by insects.
But this does not pose a threat for control by the current pyramided Bt cotton of this insect Tabashnik says.
Nevertheless, the results do highlight the continued threat of resistance, adds Tabashnik. Pyramids are not a panacea,
I'm someone who believes that habitat change is as big a threat to our world today
The Nature study focused on the threat posed by deep flooding, which affects more than 25%of global rice-producing land.
Flooding is not the only threat to the world's largest diet staple. Rice blast disease destroys around 10-30%of global rice crops enough food to feed about 60 million people each year.
Some rice plants are resistant to the pernicious fungus responsible the disease, but the rice from these plants often has undesirable qualities,
Some researchers have speculated that blast-immunity genes might directly confer terrible taste, but Fukuoka and his colleagues have shown that resistance
and showed that plants with two rare deletions had around 10 times fewer blast lesions than wild-type rice,
That food crisis reminded people of the imminent threat in the 1960s and 1970s that Asia wouldn't be feed able to its population,
The researchers report in the Journal of Zoology1 that the bats had an average maximum bite force of 10.9 newtons,
Hyenas have large bite forces that allow them access to a wider array of foods
and is currently in a patent dispute with the University of Texas in Austin, where the material was developed.
Fungus genome boosts fight to save North american forests: Nature Newscanadian researchers have decoded the DNA of the tree-killing fungus found in the mouths of mountain pine beetles,
two days after he says FBI AGENTS raided his home. The bureau confirmed an ongoing investigation into his activities.
They have lost already the battle over Bt cotton the only GM crop grown in India
Abraham announced the new numbers on biodiversity threats compiled over 20 years of laboratory and field studies last month,
at a meeting in Buenos aires of the parties to the United nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
The board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the major funding channel for controlling these diseases, last week approved US$2. 4 billion in extra funding over two years.
although no violence was reported. German education minister Annette Schavan called on the country's federal states to streamline degree requirements.
He is known as the force behind Snuppy, the world's first cloned dog1. It was the one major paper from the Hwang laboratory that was dismissed not as fraud in January 2006 (see'Verdict:
while the UN's Food and agriculture organization (FAO) warned of further attacks to come (see'Halting the African armyworm').
The situation was exacerbated by an early misidentification of the caterpillar as an armyworm (a devastating crop pest that regularly attacks eastern Africa,
Apart from the initial destruction of a few tree crops like cocoa, coffee and plantain, Achaea did not pose any threat to food crops like rice,
to improve the capacity of rural communities to manage such attacks. A lot of things went wrong;
In the near term, the Pentagon must warn private companies and other nations about possible collisions.
Anthropologists in conflict: A panel of anthropologists has criticized again the Human Terrain System, a controversial US Department of defense project to embed social scientists in military units in Iraq
and Afghanistan to gain cultural understanding (see Nature 455,583-588; 2008). ) In a report presented by the American Anthropological Association at its annual meeting on 3 december,
and surveillance needed to ensure that the virus is gone. It's a huge task when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia,
to carry out monitoring and surveillance, he says. By the 1970s, smallpox, too, was found only in the war-torn Horn of Africa,
because 12 countries are yet to submit their final test and surveillance results to the organization.
The dispute over the VB10 planet says Boss, is another example of how hard it is to detect extrasolar planets using astrometry from the ground.
The blast was seen first on 6 april 2007, but unlike most supernovae, which fade over a matter of weeks,
and surveillance needed to ensure that the virus is gone. It's a huge task when you have the virus in developing countries and war zones, such as Somalia,
to carry out monitoring and surveillance, he says. Although the vaccine can provide lifelong protection, it has caused also some problems.
because 12 countries have not yet submitted their final test and surveillance results to the organization.
The language states that Congress disapproves of the EPA's December 2009 assessment that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health.
By declaring greenhouse gases a public health threat, the EPA is now legally bound to regulate emissions.
Environmentalists and major industry supporters are taking the Murkowski threat seriously, recognizing that even a symbolic vote against climate regulation would qualify as a major setback.
Conservationists worry about such inbreeding because it means that more animals rely on the same set of genetic defences to overcome environmental threats,
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