Besides its beautiful appearance and usefulness as a pollinator the monarch's long-distance round-trip journey is a unique phenomenon that scientists still don't fully understand.
In theory produce that is in-season is less likely to have traveled a great distance and it's more likely to be cheaper per pound than out-of-season produce. 5. Shake it off.
the lab's shipment of supplies and crew could travel along with those for the ISS.
#Earth's Oldest Living things Immortalized in Stunning Photos Photographer Rachel Sussman traveled the planet for a decade in search of organisms that have witnessed thousands of years of history.
There are occasions in the course of a travelling Magister's duties where he or she might not be able to draw a weapon either
But just last week on Aug 2 an unidentified tourist crashed a drone straight into the famous rainbow-colored Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone national park in Wyoming.
while park officials aren't yet certain the tourist was likely flying the drone over the hot spring to capture an image or video.
but Bartlett said that other park visitors did witness a tourist on a nearby boardwalk controlling a drone that later fell into Grand Prismatic.
If you took a cruise along the northern stretch of the Nile some 6000 years ago you wouldn't have seen any pyramids
History's Most Mysterious Extinctions Justin Yeakel a researcher out of the University of California Santa cruz who is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa fe Institute in New mexico said the work was inspired first by a trip with a colleague
and Woodside Calif. before traveling through Palo alto and into the south San francisco bay. Unlike most urban streams the San Francisquito is channelized not
and other Front Range cities but a long-term plan is needed to keep thirsty residents happy while protecting recreation tourism and agriculture.</
Wolves hunt and travel in packs. Packs don't consist of many members though. Usually a pack will have only one male and female and their young.
They are known to travel as far as 12 miles (20 kilometers) per day. Wolves have friends.
and a growing tourism Trade in 2012 Lansing s research was used to win recognition for the subaks as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Now he is working with Julia Watson an assistant professor of architecture at the Rensselaer Polytechnic institute in New york to design a sustainable World Heritage destination that will preserve the culture benefit the people of Bali
In October 1995 NASA and the University of Wisconsin created the technology to do so with the goal of feeding astronauts on long space voyages
There are several genera of spider that sometimes survive the long trip from banana-producing nations such as Brazil Mexico Nicaragua and Costa rica to other parts of the world.
Dinets never saw any crocs in the process of climbing just at their destinations and when approached the animals in trees always jumped
In recent years changes in the distribution of sea ice have forced the penguins to travel farther
The team traveled down to the eastern coast of Antarctica to observe a colony during a breeding season from Mid-november 2009 through Mid-february 2010
It is 1825 miles from New haven Conn. to Austin Tex. which typically means 30 hours of driving and three nights in motels not an easy trip for anyone.
and son 28 years ago after a hiking trip near Utah's Bears Ears Buttes.
Travelling through the transition zone The sun's sphere of influence in the solar system is known as the heliosphere.
which travels along a no-less-pristine and isolated 7000-foot Lost Trail Pass that intersects the borders of Idaho and Montana.
Now 70 days from Umatilla Oregon the mega-load has traveled 900 miles averaging 13 miles per day.
and then in 600 more its tar sands destination. In November Omega Morgan predicted 20 days for the entire trip.
As these megaloads make their way up Highway 93 I remember a popular bumper sticker in Montana that morosely joked Pray for me I drive Hwy 93!
This is no place for megaloads of truckloads of oil-processing equipment to travel in the first place. It is yet another example of why we need to reign in the climate-threatening operations of the tar sands industry not shipments of oil equipment through our nation's environmental treasures.
and traveling about 10000 mph (16100 kph) when it hit triggering large fires a global winter
How Off-road Tech Aids Conservation Google earth and Google street view have made it possible for anyone with an Internet connection to explore some of the world's most spectacular destinations right from their computer tablet or smartphone.
Now homebodies and wannabe globetrotters can dive into the Great Barrier reef uncover the history of the Roman Colosseum and even climb Mount everest for free and without the airport hassles.
But the search-engine giant's mapping and imaging technology has uses beyond navigation and armchair travel.
Amazing Dinosaur Illustrations Last of the diplodocids Gallina and his collagues excavated the fossil during three trips to Patagonia in 2010 2012 and 2013.
Although a less-frequent cause of spread lice can travel from one person to another via shared clothing and accessories such as hats brushes and hair accessories.
More than an hour later we arrived at our destination: a tiny heated shed plopped on top of a large hole drilled in the middle of the Ross Sea ice.
On previous trips the divers had carefully spatulaed up batches of dragonfish eggs extraordinary pearlescent orbs laid on a single rock.
On this trip the dive team gathered about 200 juvenile emerald rock cod primarily using little green fishing nets the kind you d use in a child s aquarium.
I was fortunate to lead a few nature hikes during my trip and the attendees found more millipedes than I did.
though mistakenly think leads to a major environmental impact due to the reduced travel miles to transport the food).
despite for example the fact that wolves commonly travel near and among livestock while completely ignoring them.
and jellyfish were on the menu here at the Waldorf Astoria hotel Saturday night (March 15).
Sussman's art practice really came into focus however after a serendipitous moment during a trip to Japan.
The literal journey was this trip to Japan that I took 10 years ago. It was 2004...
#When you re traveling you have these expectations of what a place is going to be like before you get there.
It ended up being one of the most rewarding travel experiences I'd ever had in part because
but the idea was probably a couple of years in the making considering the time both before and after the trip.
and demand across source transit and destination countries. The study was published today (Aug 18) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Farther north the Carlton Complex the largest fire in Washington state's history is still smoldering behind containment lines.
and recreation-based jobs the tourist dollars that ultimately flowed elsewhere the drop in property values and the deflation of tax collections.
and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae. Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to defecate providing a breeding ground for moths that live in the animals'fur
If just 10 percent of Chinese families making more than $16000 per year buy one two-ounce ivory carving about the size of a piece of hotel soap 32600 elephants must die.
Western nations warned their nationals against all but essential travel to Madagascar and tourism to the world s fourth largest island plummeted overnight.
There are currently 106 species of lemurs in Madagascar (new species continue to be discovered) and their natural forest habitats especially suffered from this political turmoil.
Figuring out where insects spend their time how far they travel and what they are doing has traditionally been very difficult to do in real time.
and destroy some of the state's most coveted recreational tourist attractions and they didn't. They are the fires that didn't make the headlines.
Half of them are strict conservation areas some appropriate for tourists others only for biological research.
#Bumble Inn: New england Gets New'Hotel'for Pollinators An unusual hotel in New england is generating a lot of buzz in scientific circles.
The newly constructed bee hotel at the University of New hampshire's Woodman Farm isn't much to look at with its cinder block floors
and pine cone-littered suites but for the region's pollinators it's as appealing as any five-star resort.
The bee hotel is at the center of the first-ever comprehensive study of New england's bee population.
The bee hotel at Woodman Farm represents one part of this project with other monitoring sites at NHAES facilities also contributing much-needed data.
The researchers plan to use genomic screening on the winged guests of the bee hotel to identify which species suffer low genetic variability.
or even extinction of a species. John Wraith NHAES director and dean of the College of Life sciences and Agriculture expressed enthusiasm for the bee hotel project and its related studies noting the impact that pollinators
During a recent trip to Utah I came across an iconic gnarly tree clinging to the top of the canyon wall at Dead Horse Point State Park and
and technology to provide cost effective tools to reach our goal of providing safe passable roadways and bridges for the traveling public.
Clearing snow and ice from roadways is of the utmost importance to provide the highest level of safety for travelers.
The Hadley circulation features air rising near the equator and traveling toward higher latitudes where it sinks
and these sluggish tree-dwellers also serve as a hotel for moths and algae.</</p><p>Three-toed sloths descend from the trees once a week to defecate providing a breeding ground for moths that live in the animals'fur
and a supply of no. 2 pencils Byrd travels through eight hours of banks dives
According to the region's tourism department people visit the lake's waters as well as the rich mud at the lake's bottom for healing purposes.
which travels through the plant body and causes some sort of response Chamovitz said. In Photos:
This would have involved a voyage of more than 2200 kilometers 1367 miles from its native New guinea
and its arrival on the island is consistent with other known maritime voyages in the region at that time evidence that people imported the sago seeds
When the kits leave the nest they don't travel farther than 2 miles from home according to the Massachusetts Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
At the city the archaeologists found evidence that a series of long buildings called galleries held troops who could have participated in voyages to the Levant and possibly guarded VIPS while at Giza.
Eventually people will have to travel farther afield to get large animals. The alternative is to raise animals yourself.
and then travel down to Mummy Lake along the ditch; from there some of it could then travel to the rest of the village providing water for drinking
and irrigating crops. I think it's appealing to think of Mummy Lake as a reservoir Benson told Live Science noting that the Ancestral Puebloans of Mesa verde lived in a region without any natural bodies of water.
The lengthwise trip crosses through the redrock sandstone canyon country so iconic of the Southwest and passes into ponderosa pine-covered high plateaus desert scrubland clad with low piã on and juniper
However in 1783 when the American Revolutionary War ended Houckgeest decided to travel to Charleston South carolina
The weary travelers would arrive on Jan 9 1795. A number of the laborers died en route Maclaren told the Toronto audience.
When they entered the Forbidden city the travelers entered a seemingly fantastical world. In his journal Houckgeest found himself struggling to describe the palaces temples and other sights that he saw within and near the Forbidden city.
Return to America While Houckgeest traveled to China as a representative of Holland he would return home to Philadelphia.
Previous investigations found that the vessel's timbers had been damaged by burrowing holes of Lyrodus pedicellatus a type of shipworm typically found in high-salinity warm waters a sign that the ship at some point in its life made a trip to the Caribbean perhaps on a trading voyage.
when a female hears a bellow she likes she will go on an excursion to find him in his home range.
The first trip to the dentist is called a well-baby#visit. According to the American Dental Association during this appointment the dentist will look for early problems in the child s teeth
The 9 Craziest Ocean Voyages Separately another group of scientists discovered a climate anomaly in the South Pacific during this era that would have eased sailing from central East Polynesia southwest to New zealand.
We show that the sailing canoe in its basic form would have been able to make these voyages purely through downwind sailing.
But the trip would take four times that if the voyagers had to travel upwind. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitter and Google+.
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#As Plant virus Jumps to Bees, Does it Cause Colony Collapse? Jeff Nesbit was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies.
not only travel and migrate but how they systemically infect the bodies of honeybees and lead to the collapse of hives.
and technology that will allow us to travel in our driverless cars on solar roadways in our smart cities with no negative impacts on the environment.
Christopher Columbus took sweet potatoes to Europe after his first voyage to the New world in 1492.
and why it is happening now may have to do with the travel patterns of bats across Africa
Few people travel between those two regions and Guã ckã dou the remote epicenter of first cases of disease is far off the beaten path Bausch said.
If Ebola virus was introduced into Guinea from afar the more likely traveler was a bat he said.
When they are ready to travel they will stand and turn in the direction they want to go.
so species don't have to travel far to resettle. Just how much secondary forest exists worldwide is a difficult question to answer.
come from travelers returning from affected areas. The CDC reports that hospitalization rates in the US are coming down, to 3. 5,
Nature Newsvehicles propelled by biomass-fired electricity would travel farther on a given crop and produce fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than vehicles powered by ethanol,
suggests that, on average, an electric vehicle powered by biomass will travel 81%farther than an internal-combustion vehicle powered by cellulosic ethanol
These grains travel out into space in the plumes along with salt-poor ice grains that are formed like snowflakes from pure water vapour.
Research voyage: A US research vessel left Oregon on 22 august for Canadian waters to conduct seismic studies imaging seafloor structures, after a Canadian court declined to halt the cruise.
As Nature went to press, environmental groups seeking to block the use of air guns during the tests (see Nature 460,939;
The team presented their results on 13 august at a meeting on climate science convened at a Beijing hotel by the US Department of energy and China's Ministry of Science and Technology.
and travel through the rocks. Jobb ¡gy presented his team's results last month at the World Forestry Congress in Buenos aires. A second study presented at the conference,
In 2007, the team made this trip every day as they excavated in a dark chamber 20 metres from the cave entrance, identifying animal bones along with more than 500 quartz artefacts.
Events Space tourism's new era: Enthusiastic space tourists got their first public viewing of the commercial passenger vehicle Spaceshiptwo (pictured,
centre: mounted under its carrier aeroplane Whiteknighttwo) on 7 december at Mojave Air and Space Port, California.
which will recommend ways to manage ship-borne tourism to Antarctica. go. nature. com/cujgwi 10 december This year's Nobel science laureates receive their awards in Stockholm,
says Erasmus Tarimo, the director of wildlife at Tanzania's Ministry of Natural resources and Tourism.
These included projects on marine tourism mangrove restoration and agroforestry. But more often, the team found, projects had little or no economic benefit for the poorest people.
Last week, during Tunnell's most recent trip, the first stop was a rocky limestone shoreline near the town of Champot  n on the Yucat ¡
After leaving Champot  n, Tunnell and his colleagues travelled about 125 kilometres north to the tiny village of Isla Arena,
Then there were the trips on horseback in 1947 into the roadless Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey where she was the co-discoverer of the Hittite fortress at Karatepe.
As the first surge travelled south, it gave northern regions some respite from the fast-flowing floods as the ground began to absorb some of the water.
The biggest impact I made was in bringing more scientists to our embassies through my own travels, the State department Jefferson fellowships and the AAAS science fellowships,
which travels to the liver and spurs the production and release of IGF1. The researchers found abnormally low levels of growth hormone in pituitary slices from the mutant pigs
the doctor is travelling the world assisting scientists both in the field and when they contract life-threatening diseases (see'Profile:
and candidates will begin making trips and promises to corn-growing country, just like they always have.
Such a round-trip has only ever been performed by government agencies.
Climate change threatens Europe's living standards: Nature Newsjust a few key aspects of climate change could wipe out up to half of the annual gain in the standard of living for the average European household by 2080.
Dividing Europe into five regions, they tallied for each region how this climate regime would affect today's economy in five areas agriculture, human health, coastal flooding, river flooding and tourism.
and that the destinations tourists choose are based on the weather. Such assumptions aren't realistic,
and 25%more tourists might flock to its shores. Throughout Europe, the expected decrease in deaths thanks to warmer winters could outweigh the increase from summer heatwaves,
along with a 4%drop in tourists staying overnight. And all areas would see vast increases in the number of people affected by coastal flooding.
the amoebae are seed able to a new food source at their destination. The study published today in Nature1,
because carrying your own food source means that you don't have to travel as far to find lunch.
and more like just bringing lunch along on the trip, says Purugganan. Farmers don't eat their seed.
Trip to virtual Mars Humans have walked on the surface of Mars 墉 in a simulated expedition (pictured.
is useful to palaeontologists because of the way that it differs in shape between tree climbers and land walkers.
and others who are tied economically to the forest, such as trappers and tourism organizations. But some forestry companies oppose that approach,
What that destination ends up looking like is still in the air.
The 8, 000-year-old climate puzzle: Nature Newsscientists have come up with new evidence in support of the controversial idea that humanity's influence on climate began not during the industrial revolution,
It offers travel to Australia and unspecified remuneration to serve on an advisory panel considering a juicy scientific question:
A flight test vehicle, Enterprise, will travel to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New york city.
One of the team, Anders M ¸ller from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, donned a radiation-protection suit to make four bird-watching trips between 2006 and 2009 to the Red
(or'flavour')seem to disappear as they travel. But the observations at the Super-Kamiokande detector (pictured) near Hida, Japan, are the strongest evidence yet that they reappear as neutrinos of a different flavour.
travelling to urban areas when drastic action is needed to feed themselves or urgently acquire income. I was surprised that poor people did not rely on forests as a safety net,
but the direction of travel is still not where we want it to be, he told Nature.
It will spend the next nine months travelling to Mars and is scheduled to land in August 2012.
and expanding prospects for a low-carbon market and tourism. Although the study has been lauded for its innovative methodology,
allegedly caused by a tourist, and by 5 january, five of six pockets of fire in the park region had been controlled.
Plans stall for biodefence labfor Katharine Bossart, a trip to the lab can involve a 22-hour flight.
As the Sun travels through the Galaxy the bubble stops electrically charged atoms in their tracks
and travel to the inner Solar system, where they are caught by  IBEX.""I call it the 15-billion-mile hole-in-one,
including the downstream Lower Lakes and Coorong regions, in the form of increased tourism and improved water quality, for example.
the malaria-prevention pills that many tourists take when they visit these countries. At this low price
which is one of the reasons why it is recommended no longer for tourists today. Â Toxicity is one reason that African children have received never medicine to prevent the potentially lethal disease,
despite the fact that tourists have taken preventative treatments since the 1960s. Another argument was based on the idea that African children are more vulnerable to severe malaria than adults
and all are diverging into separate species. Genetic differences suggest that Lonesome George s own ancestors somehow travelled to Pinta from the island of Espa  ola about 300,000  years ago,
which travel out from the hive in search of pollen. Again the two types have very different methylation patterns in their DNA.
The virus gained two new mutations in its trip between the cages one from aspartic acid to glycine in the haemagglutinin protein (HA225G),
In an era of constant and rapid international travel, what steps should the United states take to protect our population from emerging diseases,
There is only so much you can save by reducing travel or not making phone calls
Growth of ethanol fuel stalls in Brazil"A new moment for mankind. That was how Brazil s former president, Luiz In ¡
enter the spinal fluid and travel straight to the brain, an environment where the immune system has a very difficult time eliminating or even just controlling infection.
or was a transit point or the stated destination for seven ivory shipments of more than 800 kilograms each."
He adds that Cambodia first emerged as a destination in late 2011. Data from ETIS, compiled by TRAFFIC on behalf of Parties to CITESTHE Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has banned trading in elephant ivory since 1989, apart from in specific circumstances,
or otherwise travelled over long distances to explain the wide distribution of placentals today.""What fascinates me most is the tremendous incongruence between the morphological and molecular data,
Estimated numbers of people residing within two hours'travel time of destination airport calculated using gridded population-density maps and a data set of global travel times.
and can travel a long distance.""They tend to evaporate in hot places, hitch a ride on winds,
when he travelled to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of 10,
One example of this time travel might be happening right now in north-central Cincinnati, at least 500 kilometres from Brood  II s range.
and physicians to boost GSK drug sales, funnelling the money through travel agencies. The executives are suspected of giving 3 Â billion renminbi (US$489 Â million) in bribes since 2007
As more farmland is converted to hotels, amusement parks and golf courses in Chongming, local officials are pressed increasingly to find lands to replace them as required by the central government.
which components of the multibillion-euro ITER thermonuclear reactor will travel for assembly in St-paul-l  s-Durance.
The convoy travelled at night along roads and bridges that have been modified at a cost of  112  million (US$151  million).
It will travel, with several breaks in time, through the Moenkopi formation and stop in rocks about 235 Â million years old.
It is pathetic how much is spent to have VIPS travel across the world to meet and talk and promise all sorts of things,
MAVEN should reach its destination next September; once there, it will carry out a one-year nominal mission (see Nature 503,178;
20 january The European space agency s Rosetta spacecraft comes out of hibernation in preparation for reaching its destination later this year:
3 9 january 2014cold comfort Scientists, journalists and tourists were rescued from the Russian ship Akademik Shokalskiy in the Antarctic on 2 Â January.
The vessel had been on a research voyage when it became trapped by ice near Commonwealth Bay on 24 Â December.
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