Tackling issues like infrastructure transport storage prices and the role of women in an integrated way as both the FAO and the Feed the Future initiatives do is the only serious approach to the world hunger problem.
New world cows On Columbus'second trip to The americas in 1493 he brought cattle. To untangle the history of these New world breeds Mctavish
but it consists of huge sprawling suburbs connected by giant roads and canals in exactly the same way as the freeways link up Los angeles said Roland Fletcher of the University of Sydney.
Lost medieval city To the north of central Angkor the Lidar data revealed a previously unknown city hidden beneath the forest its roadways temples and other urban infrastructure etched into the surface of the holy Phnom Kulen mountain.
Someone gets into the car to go to the grocery store and suddenly can't remember how to get there.
which is known for its roles in memory and navigation. Â As a rat walked around the enclosure a neuron in the entorhinal cortex fired;
Even after rainfall levels bounced back in the next several years the forest continued to suffer according to a NASA-led group of scientists.
The study's leader Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory Pasadena Calif. said that more frequent droughts due to climate change could drag on rainforest ecosystems and the carbon cycle in the long run.
The researchers located the bears from a helicopter and flew in close to dart the bears.
#MERS Virus Found in Camels Camels are carriers of the new Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus according to a new study.
5 Animals With a Moral Compass The researchers then investigated what happens when both actors have a container.
#More than 30,000 Miles of Roads Built in Amazon in 3 Years How long does it take to build a little more than 30000 miles (50000 kilometers) of new roads through the rain forest?
While roads cover only a tiny fraction of the total land surface of South america's largest nation their effect on local ecosystems particularly rain forests may be huge.
The team's report which was published this month in the journal Regional Environmental Change concluded that approximately 10000 miles (17000 km) of roads were built every year in Brazil between 2004 and 2007.
This rampant road-building may be a major contributor to deforestation and habitat loss in one of planet Earth's most biologically diverse regions.
But by mapping road construction researchers think they can aid future efforts to stop destruction of the Brazilian rain forest.
Knowing where the roads are speed and the at which they are built is key to predicting deforestation Rob Ewers Imperial College London scientist
The effects that roads have on local ecosystems extend far beyond the locations of the roads themselves.
Such a network allows roads to be built far enough away from one another that animals and connected ecosystems can continue to thrive despite the intrusion of human infrastructure.
But road construction is just one of many factors leading to the continued deforestation of the world's largest rain forest.
Forest fires alone destroyed more than 33000 square miles (85500 square km) of forest between 1999 and 2010 according to a recent NASA release.
And consumption of millet may have been linked to overall social status with relatively poorer suburbanites eating more of the grain than did wealthier city dwellers.
</p><p>The mansion which is being excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Givati Parking lot is located in
</a p><p></p><p>How can you make roads safer for drivers? One company known as Pro-Teq is testing glow-in-the-dark material that can be sprayed onto roadways to help illuminate the way for night drivers.</
</p><p>The U k.-based company developed a waterproof photoluminescent coating called Starpath which absorbs light during the day
which could reduce the number of accidents on motorways reported Treehugger. Starpath-covered roads could also help communities save money
and energy since they are bright enough without street lamps.</</p><p>Full Story:<<a href=http://www. livescience. com/40622-starpath-glow-in-the-dark-roads. html target=blank>Glow-in-the-Dark Spray Could Make Night Driving Safer</a p><p
></p><p>A Mississippi baby born with HIV and treated in the early hours of her life remains free of the infection three years later
and transportation in the heavily populated towns surrounding the mountain. History of eruptions Mount etna has a longer written record of eruptions than any other volcano.
U s. Marines were then called upon to help with oeoperation Volcano Buster by flying cargo helicopters to drop huge concrete blocks at the edge of the lava tunnel.
Additional blocks suspended underneath the helicopters were used like croquet mallets to knock the grounded blocks into the mouth of the tunnel.
Tourism thrives as visitors come to ski or to marvel at the display of fire fountains during an eruption.
Keith put the plane into a steep dive to gain the speed to outrun the cloud of incandescent gas;
Dorothy continued to photograph the eruption through the rear windows of the plane as they made their escape.
More than 185 miles of roads and 15 miles of railways were damaged. Ash clogged sewage systems damaged cars and buildings and temporarily shut down air traffic over the Northwest.
The International Trade Commission estimated damages to timber civil works and agriculture to be $1. 1 billion.
and organizes trips to the jungle. Gallice said based on his observations that the feeding likely does little direct harm to the turtles.
Some of the rocks contained grains of iron called magnetite and showed magnetic properties by deflecting a compass needle.
Autumn's Best Colors The area is currently at 80 percent of its peak fall color according to New hampshire's tourism website with the best bets for amazing views in upland areas where sugar maples are a riot of yellow and orange.
The area is currently at 85 percent of its peak with the full peak expected in the third week of October according to Wisconsin's tourism site.
and its website suggests a weekday trip to avoid the crowds. Find out more: http://www. tpwd. state. tx. us/state-parks/lost-maples) King-Castle Trail Ore.
which winds for 2 miles up through the forest ending along an abandoned logging road that offers a stunning view of the triplet of volcanic peaks known as the Three Sisters according to Oregon Lakes & Rivers.
Hotels motels airports movie theaters hospitals and many more public and private spaces have been affected. What's worse the bugs demonstrate increasing pesticide resistance.
#New Earth Explorer Satellite to Map Global Forests The European space agency hopes to launch a new Earth Explorer satellite in 2020 that will map the extent and composition of the world s forests.
The ESA hopes the resulting data and 3d forest maps will help researchers measure the total amount of carbon stored in forests
and global warming Hank Shugart an environmental scientist at the University of Virginia and member of the BIOMASS advisory committee to the ESA said in a statement.
and is the seventh in ESA's fleet of Earth Explorer satellites of which three are currently in orbit.
and truckers to work hauling wood to the manufacturing plants which would help our critical forest products industry much
According to a study published in October in the journal Epidemiologic Reviews marijuana use increases the risk of car crashes.
People who took to the road within three hours of smoking pot as well as those who tested positive for the drug were more than twice as likely as other drivers to be<a href=http://www. myhealthnewsdaily. com/1771-smoking-pot-raises
-risk-of-car-crashes. -html>involved in a car crash</a >.And that risk increased for those who smoked more frequently and those showing a higher level of the drug in their urine.</
</p><p>Sorry but that double cheeseburger is still not your friend. Scientists found that eating lots of saturated fat-filled red meat
Taking a cab or driving one's own car was slower than an ambulance ride
and delayed crucial treatment the study found.</</p><p>If you haven't heard by
and theatrical courtship displays peahens almost always gazed at the lower part of the peacock's train of feathers particularly below the neck.
or the length of a male's train influenced a female's mating decisions. Others thought peahens were drawn likely to the distinctive eyespots on a peacock's display of feathers.
Peahen gaze Yorzinski is unsure why peahens focus primarily on the lower part of a peacock's train.
She suggests the peacock's upper train may help females spot males across long distances since in India where peacocks are typically found thick vegetation could obscure everything except the top part of the males'display of feathers.
when they're far away females use the upper train to find the males and then as they get closer they start directing their eyes to the lower part of the train Yorzinski said.
She also noticed that females seem to look back and forth across the lower part of the train which could indicate that they are assessing its width she added.
The width of the male's train could reveal some information about his age since a young male won't have as big a train as a more mature one Yorzinski explained.
A symmetrical train could also give indications about a male's quality such as his immune function
or some other aspects of him that may be indicators to females that he might provide healthy offspring.
Yorzinski intends to follow up this study by manipulating some of the male peacock's traits
The 10 Most Controversial Psychiatric Disorders Jobs Lindbergh and other high-fliers are the subject of Kendall's recent book America's Obsessives:
 That's the same distance as up to six trips from the Earth to the moon and back.
The closest modern analogue is a Greek wine flavored with pine resin called retsina study researcher Assaf Yasur-Landau of the University of Haifa told reporters.
I guess you get something quite similar Yasur-Landau said. The find is important less for the wine's palate and more for
See Images of the Oldest Wine cellar Discovery Yasur-Landau and his colleagues said. Texts and inscriptions from the era describe herbal wines
The results revealed a luxurious ancient concoction Yasur-Landau said. Tartaric and syringic acids both hallmarks of wine proved that the jars indeed held vino.
Cattle bones and other signs of meat consumption have been found in the palace Yasur-Landau said.
Texts from the ancient town of Mari Syria describe herbed wines from this time period Yasur-Landau said.
So why was I nervous about this trip? Well for the same reasons my friend is always in awe of his seedlings so much can go wrong.
Well because dietary diversity is a strong indicator of many health outcomes such as poor diversity leading to micronutrient deficiency the key driver behind childhood stunting.
The tallest rocket ever constructed is NASA's massive Saturn V a three-stage booster used to launch American astronauts to the moon in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The towering Saturn V launched from the Kennedy space center in Florida. It stood 363 feet (110 m) high
High above Earth's surface extreme ultraviolet radiation from the sun reacts with air molecules to produce gigantic jets of lightning up to 56 miles (90 kilometers) tall that shoot up to the edge of space.
In 2001 scientists discovered these jets of lightning arcing from clouds in the lowest portion of the atmosphere the troposphere up to the ionosphere.
The German process uses a special conveying system to load de-stemmed grapes onto a belt that travels past a sorting module.
Based on its analysis of the colors of individual items on the belt it controls air jets that blow bad grapes and detritus off the belt and sorts the remaining berries into grades for production of various qualities
If you think about today's consumption rate per billion people as a shopping cart people are filling 7 shopping carts.
By 2050 9 billion people will be filling twice as many carts per billion for a total of 18 shopping carts.
or banqueting hall Overall the palace was built to impress. oeversailles is a mirage a sumptuous and theatrical entertainment.
and went on hunting trips. At the time much of the land around Versailles was uncultivated allowing wild animals to flourish.
He ruled France for 72 years and in that time transformed Versailles by encompassing LOUIS XIII s chateau with a palace that contained north and south wings as well as nearby buildings housing ministries.
It also forced the nobles to travel to Versailles and seek lodging in the palace something that impeded their ability to build up regional power bases that could potentially challenge the king.
and holding a thunderbolt like a projectile Louis sits godlike on a silver chariot pushed by Hercules while riding roughshod over female personifications of nearby enemy towns.
and all are worth a trip to the doctor. More benignly eating a lot of beets can turn your pee pink.
The pesticides travel to the mountains as aerosols tiny particles that waft into the atmosphere on warm rising air currents.
The animals which travel long distances are considered environmental indicators of healthy forests. Since we often work in remote locations we sometimes make surprising discoveries in this case one that appears to be important for our understanding of human cultural history in the region Alexine Keuroghlian a researcher with WCS's Brazil program said in a statement.
 The cave art is described (in Portuguese) in the journal Revista Clio Arqueolã gica. These discoveries of cave drawings emphasize the importance of protecting the Cerrado
and crippling a tourism industry that generates more than $10 billion in revenue annually. March 15 the New york times. The environmental devastation of Lake erie is a tragedy.
<a href=http://www. space. com/20867-astronauts-drink-urine-and-other-wastewater-video. html>Video:
Astronauts Drink Urine and Other Waste</a p><p>The trend of new moms eating their placenta after giving birth has been on the rise in certain segments of the U s. population for years now.
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about
That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.
Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
With the help of well-organized criminal syndicates the ivory is most likely already in transit to Asia to feed the voracious appetite for this white gold from newly affluent individuals.
Central african republic (CAR) has been rocked by violence and chaos since the beginning of the year and the 17 poachers ominously presented themselves as part of the country's transitional government forces.
These elephants travel far and carry no passports as they cross international borders throughout the Sangha Trinational.
and Thailand to live up to their obligations under the CITES Convention on International Wildlife Trade in Endangered Species. Central african republic has few tourists
and the vast majority travel to Dzanga Sangha bringing much needed income and exposure to a country little known to the outside world.
But with the help of Mekema and his people the government of CAR was able to protect Dzanga Sangha
One of those scientists was Grant Harley a dendrochronologist (someone who studies tree rings) at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Harley was intrigued and together with geographer Kristine Delong of Louisiana State university set out to discover the site's secrets.
The research team created a sonar map of the area and analyzed two samples Raines took from trees Delong is planning her own dive at the site later this year.
and there are so many of them the trees could contain thousands of years of climate history for the region Harley said.
These stumps are so big they're upwards of two meters in diameter the size of trucks Harley told Ouramazingplanet.
Harley estimates they have just two years. The longer this wood sits on the bottom of the ocean the more marine organisms burrow into the wood
when we are trying to get radiocarbon dates Harley said. It can really make the sample undatable unusable.
Though the United states phased out leaded gasoline in cars and trucks during the 1970s and 1980s soil in high-traffic
and urban areas may still contain high levels of the metal. Some plants can take up lead in contaminated soil through their root systems.
Because lead travels more readily into the roots of plants when soil conditions are acidic increasing the alkalinity of the soil may halt the plant's absorption of lead.
Carlton Owen is president and CEO of the U s. Endowment for Forestry and Communities. The authors contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
Well-managed private forests offer many advantages such as keeping land on the tax rolls while still providing the myriad benefits that flow from forests renewable wood and paper products wildlife habitat places for recreation and much more.
#Radar Plane Scans South american Landscapes NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
The small Gulfstream-III passenger plane carries a 10-foot-long (3 meters) radar pod the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR.
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
We can fly within a 10-meter tube said Naiara Pinto UAVSAR science coordinator at the Dryden flight demo.
#Radar Plane Scans Volcanoes, Archaeological Sites NASA's globetrotting remote-sensing plane wrapped up a month-long trip to Central
The small Gulfstream-III passenger plane carries a 10-foot-long (3 meters) radar pod the unmanned aerial vehicle synthetic aperture radar (UAVSAR.
and soil moisture constrains a lot of ecosystem processes Yang Zheng UAVSAR operational processing lead told Ouramazingplanet during a UAVSAR demo at NASA's Dryden Flight Research center in January.
and understanding carbon processes said Zheng who is based at NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. The UAVSAR data is higher resolution with less interfering noise than most such data from satellites according to NASA.
Its GPS SYSTEM flies the plane in a line with real-time corrections via satellite phone providing global coverage.
We can fly within a 10-meter tube said Naiara Pinto UAVSAR science coordinator at the Dryden flight demo.
This dominant female nicknamed Trike is believed to have lost a hand and lower arm in a snare accident before the creation of the protected forest in the southern highlands of Tanzania.
The frozen body of<a href=http://www. livescience. com/37311-otzi-iceman-death-clues. html>Ãzi the Iceman</a>was discovered in 1991 in the Ãztal Alps on the Austrian-Italian
Death Shall Come on Swift Wings to Him Who Disturbs the Peace of the King. Undeterred Egyptologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the tomb to worldwide fanfare in 1922.
After Evalyn Walsh Mclean bought the stone in 1912 her son was killed in a car accident her daughter committed suicide
but a truck hit the postman who delivered the jewel (he survived). His wife and dog died not long after
But on your road to good health the raw vegan diet would likely be a U-turn.
After generating massive amounts of data using next-generation gene sequencers they used the Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to align organize
Before we had access to Ranger it would take weeks and months to run. Ranger does the same analyses in hours.
So it's been a very powerful tool to give us quick ideas about how different strains are related to each other.
The time that Ranger saves the researchers doesn't just get them to an answer faster.
With Ranger we can redirect our time away from just finding the best tree for a dataset towards asking how different that best tree is from
It's amazing Simpson said of the Salton Sea's smell during his 2013 trip.
It was like licking down a car. The greatest numbers of fish balls in 2013 showed up on the northern beaches where wind-driven waves pushed the balls up to the high-water mark said Elizabeth Heness a collaborator who is now a graduate student at the University of Texas at El paso. The rotting fish balls
Essentially slow-flying planes send constant laser pulses groundward as they pass over the rain forest imaging the topography below the thick forest canopy.
and what the new images reveal are features that could be ancient ruins including canals roads building foundations
 It was as it turns out bugs said Robert Kennedy a remote sensing specialist at Boston University who designed the computer program inâ a NASA statement.
but will if the insects return in following years NASA reported. Landtrendr is still in development
but has changed already the way the U s. Forest Service monitors ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest according to the NASA statement.
when there are problems in Earth's ecosystems from harmful toxins to the drivers of habitat loss for birds or their response to climate change.
Working for the government as a scientist gives her the freedom to do research travel and conduct field work without the commitment to teach that she would have at an academic institution.
 Plus within the scientific community a restriction on any travel is detrimental to professional development.
The nation needs a reliable coherent and uniform food-dating system that provides useful guidance to consumers.
because the road would traverse the iconic Serengeti which is home to some of the world s most magnificent wildlife and habitat.
The plan to build any kind of road through the Serengeti is controversial because of concerns about the road's impact on the many animals that migrate through the area.
Truckers currently have to take a road that circumvents Tanazania's Serengeti National park and Kenya's Maasai Mara National Reserve a long journey.
But demand for a road is growing and many see construction as inevitable. A grand spectacle Speaking yesterday (May 14) at a conference on wildlife crime and poaching here at Rutgers University Leakey son of famed paleontologist and fossil hunters Louis and Mary Leakey
The 30-mile-long (48 kilometers) road would also allow drivers to see the creatures pass by.
Currently the plan for the road is at a standstill and Leakey said little will be accomplished by people continuing to talk talk talk.
but they didn't have big broad wings Persons said. What else are used pygostyles for?
Past research has suggested that dinosaurs may have evolved first feathers for show not flight. Persons and his colleagues found that at least four known oviraptor species separated by 45 million years had pygostyles.
With the Rim Fire nearly out and major roads reopened visitors were finally returning to Yosemite for camping and the park's fall foliage display.
Day trippers will be kicked out immediately and overnight visitors will be given 48 hours to leave. For Yosemite national park the good news is the shutdown won't stop firefighters from battling the blaze.
It reminded me of a dead deer on the side of the road in the Florida Everglades with a big pile of really soggy moldy laundry next to it.
Snow leopards often travel huge distances along ridge lines and cliff bases but increasing threats from a growing human footprint are dissecting their habitat putting the survival of these animals at risk.
Gagliano and her colleagues recently showed corn seedling's roots lean toward a 220-Hertz purr
when they sense a bat's sonar clicks. Earthworms flee the vibrations of oncoming moles.
How many times have sat you next to someone who has their car stereo at full blast?
And like the wind sound is a wave that travels through air. In fact a tree needs wind to grow Telewski said.
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