The ivory crush was taking place at the Rocky mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City Colo. just outside of Denver with a star-studded list of speakers including Kristin Bauer
and operations including the ivory crush scheduled for Tuesday (Oct 8) at the Rocky mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City Colo. just north of Denver.
The ivory crush will take place at the Rocky mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in Commerce City Colo. just outside of Denver.
These characteristics make anthrax an extremely dangerous bioterrorism weapon. Anthrax has been used in bioterrorism and warfare since World war i when Scandinavia deployed anthrax against the Imperial Russian Army.
It was used also by The british army during WORLD WAR II to weaken German livestock. More recently anthrax has been used in bioterrorism attacks in both Japan
which have chemical defenses against herbivory. So when elk hang around in the canyons all year it s harder for young saplings of these deciduous trees to grow large enough to then produce their own seedlings.
#Old english rhyme Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.#'#'All's Well that Ends Well'by William Shakespear s
The San francisco Bay is contaminated with mercury due to mining in California's mountains starting in the 1800s.
At a public hearing on the rule in November in Philadelphia the United Mine Workers of America asked the EPA for more time for the coal power industry to adapt before new emissions regulations kick in said the union s international vice-president
Farmers and ranchers have tried controlling the population with poisons guns and traps but the populations are still growing according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
They argue in an article just published in Science that an arms race between plants and plant-eaters is what drives evolutionary changes.
Also in such an arms race plants have it harder than herbivores because their lifespan can be hundreds of times longer than the average leaf-eater
That is why a single tropical tree may have hundreds of distinct chemical compounds in its defence arsenal against herbivores which makes the analysis harder.
which would be needed as a control to validate the hypothesis. Perhaps such an arms race also occurs in temperate regions that have been studied less.
Worse still only nine out of 56 comparisons showed that chemical defences were higher in tropical plants than in temperate ones.
and his orders are that these men lay down their weapons and come with us. No law makes a Duke sovereign of the roads
Trattari you are ordered hereby to lay down your weapons. Well now this was a bind. Brasti and Kest looked at me for instruction but
If she told us to drop our weapons we had to drop our weapons. Also we were trapped between the men the Duke had sent to arrest us
You're saying we have to lay down our weapons but not get arrested? What are supposed we to do-fight them barehanded?
Because he said dropping his sword to the ground and unrolling the bottom of his coat sleeves now we get to play cuffs.
Oh you could pierce it with an arrow if you get enough force behind it
They can take a hit from just about anything-Kest believes that they could even block the ball from a pistol
or she might not be able to draw a weapon either because the physical space is too tight
You now have a way of parrying swords maces or other weapons that might otherwise do you harm.
That is of course if you move really really fast and don't miss any of your blocks.
and use those crossbows to pick us off at a distance. You'll figure something out he replied.
Using rapiers as your primary weapon you have to learn precision and I was never much good with a shield
so that their friends with the crossbows couldn't get a clear shot. Even if we could hold them off though this Knight
If they couldn't get us with swords eventually they'd just pull back and let the crossbowmen do the job.
and kept their own crossbows on our opponents we'd have stood a better chance. Unfortunately just then they were rooting for the other guys.
and if there's not and I get killed going hand-to-sword with a bunch of Duke's men then
In my periphery Brasti was using both hands in a downwards block to counter a thrust from a war-sword.
you never want to use both hands to block a single weapon as it leaves you vulnerable to the next man.
One of the men with the crossbows tried to get a shot in but I'd been waiting for just such an occasion.
I got on the other side of him in time for the crossbow bolt to take him square in the chest.
if you think that you can#I let the dying man who'd been my shield slide down to the ground only to see another soldier with a crossbow raising it towards me.
The crossbow bolt narrowly missed me but fortunately it didn't miss the man who had worked his way behind me.
We'd taken out half of them but that just left more openings for the crossbows.
and if one of the men with crossbows saw the chance...To make things worse the ground beneath our feet was turning into mud
Two of the men with crossbows were reloading but the third was taking aim. My God knows I am his to command#At his shout the rest of the Knight's men pulled back
and not seeing the crossbow aimed squarely at his chest not twenty feet away. I tried to push past my own last men in a futile effort to get there in time.
and saw the crossbow too late. His hands started to move reflexively to guard his face
and looked behind me at a man in one of our wagons holding an empty crossbow.
The song is swifter than the sword. I turned back to the fight. Most of the captain's men were on the ground now.
He had taken the cocked crossbow from his dead man. Knights don't normally use bows-they consider them coward's weapons.
And knives are good enough for a soldier's need perhaps but not good enough for a Knight's honor.
In my entire life I'd never seen a Knight who would even touch a crossbow.
But Lynniac had lost a fight and a Knight's sense of honor could not forgive that.
He had watched his men beaten by outlaws he considered less than dogs and without weapons. And apparently he had no more use for honor
if the sword which I had grabbed just off the ground and thrown at him like an amateur had hit him
when Kest struck me down with the pommel of one of the fallen Knight's swords.
Thinking about a problem more holistically may leave you with a daunting new problem tree like mine
Bats roost in trees caves mines and barns anyplace that provides shelter from the weather protection from predators
of refinery and mining equipment headed for the<a href=http://www. livescience. com/38452-tar-sands-well-blowout. html>tar sands</a>of northern Alberta in Canada American Rivers reports.
For several years now NRDC has helped local groups fight the transport of massive truckloads of tar sands mining equipment through one of the nation's most remote and scenic parts of the United states shipments
In 2012 NRDC challenged Exxonmobil's plan to truck megaloads of mining equipment up to Canada through one of the most scenic mountainous highways in the country U s. Route 12
These megaloads shipments are prefabricated mining components and they are preposterously large approaching 400 feet long 22 feet in width and over 20 feet high.
Most of the characteristics of 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.
Because the warrior had crafted well weapons in his tomb he was likely of high status. Pure mead was probably a drink for the elite
and is spitting out up to six firebombs each day. More than an hour later we arrived at our destination:
and jumped into the hole each making a cannonball splash. After all that commotion the water smoothed back over and it was eerily still and quiet.
and subjected it to a process called shotgun metagenomics. Instead of searching for a particular DNA signature shotgun metagenomics takes the approach of simply sampling all the DNA present just to see what turns Up to the researchers'surprise the man did not have tuberculosis.
Instead the bony nodule held the DNA signature of the bacterium Brucella melitensis the microbe that causes brucellosis.
#Does'Offsetting'Work to Make up for Habitat Lost to Mining?(Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
#oebiodiversity offsetting#protecting animals and plants in one area to make up for negative impacts in another is used increasingly by companies such as mining firms as a way to boost their corporate responsibility
Mining opportunities are very difficult for host countries both rich and poor to pass up. If the damage is truly to be offset we need to make sure the process works properly.
For example a local community that is excluded from a mining or offset site might then go on to exploit resources somewhere else.
After all the impacts of a mining project can be considered permanent so it s only fair to expect that the compensation should be permanent too.
or a conserved forest is cut down in the future then the mining impacts have not been properly offset.
Then there is the question of how to measure the impacts at a mine site and the gains at the offset site.
as a result of mining our estimate of the damage done by the mining was twice as large as the company s estimate.
For example the total amount of habitat lost through mining could vary from 680 hectares using the vertical structure method compared with 1480 hectares using plant diversity as a measure.
First we should acknowledge that efforts by many companies including first and foremost by Rio tinto in aiming to create a net positive biodiversity impact for all mining operations is a laudable one.
Studies of chimpanzee violence have been especially influential in how people think about the origins of human warfare Wilson explained.
Some people have argued that human warfare is a recent cultural invention the result of some other recent development such as the origin of agriculture.
But observations of chimpanzees by legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and other researchers challenged the idea that warfare is a modern human development.
#Lava Bombs and Tsunamis! How Accurate Is'Pompeii'Movie? As flaming balls of lava and ash rain down on the streets of Pompeii the renegade gladiator Milo gallops on horseback after a chariot ridden by his beloved Cassia who has been kidnapped by an evil Roman senator.
Excepting the lava bombs and titanic tsunami raging in Pompeii's harbor the dramatic depiction of the historic and horrific disaster stays relatively true to reality scientists say.
Cassia (Emily Browning) and their struggle to escape a villainous Roman senator (Kiefer Sutherland) amid the devastation of Pompeii.
The film depicts lava bombs raining down on the city but that type of eruption didn't have lava bombs Lopes said.
If it had the damage the bombs would have caused to the city would be evident.
The movie also depicts a giant tsunami surging into Pompeii's harbor carrying a ship through the streets on a torrent of water.
The aerial shots of Pompeii in the movie were real helicopter shots with computer graphics projected over them Anderson told Live Science.
It is capitalized now largely by criminal gangs the same gangs that traffic in drugs weapons and human slaves.
Queensland s fruit and vegetable farmers are under pressure having lost their main weapon against their main enemy fruit flies.
'Smoking Gun'for Universe's Incredible Big bang Expansion Found</a p><p>There's never been a shortage of doomsday scenarios.
If the results are confirmed they would provide smoking-gun evidence that space-time expanded at many times the speed of light just after the Big bang 13.8 billion years ago.</
The light-colored stripe just to the left of the tree at the bottom of the canyon is one of the evaporation ponds at a potash mining facility just outside of Moab.
With their new study Warinner and her colleagues are the first to sequence the DNA in ancient dental tartar using a rapid method known as shotgun sequencing.
Records indicate that he excelled at naval warfare. In A d. 208 after the death of general Liu Biao he took command of a fleet of ships on the Han River
How Two Women Brought a Sea Change to Conservation (Op-Ed) A Crocodile Hunt Redefined in Southeastern Cuba (Op-Ed) Stepping up Conservation in Fiji in Stilettos (Op-Ed
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.
#British Storms Uncover WWII Bombs, Ancient Trees The unusually stormy weather in the United kingdom this winter has done more than caused flooding.
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
Some are German bombs and others are shells from British military training. Meanwhile up North on the Isle of Man storms have scoured beaches
and revealed an ancient pine forest dating back 10000 years including pine cones according to another BBC report.
and the extraordinary sensations produced incessantlyin mine by the sight of so many things inwhich singularity magnificence boldness of designand skill of execution were combined it will be more simple
and arrows in their hands and shot one at the leather ball and the other at a kind of hat of leather also laid upon the ice at a little distance from the gate Houckgeest wrote in his journal.
or no benefit according to the results detailed today (April 30) in the journal Science Translational Medicine. 7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare Muscle is one of the few tissues that regenerates
Four of the six flamingo species are endangered because of mining and other threats to their critically important soda lakes where they feed and breed.
and their habitat has been destroyed by mining and agriculture. IUCN estimates that there are about 680 mountain gorillas left in two isolated populations.
and to find wood to make charcoal and deeper into mines to extract minerals Bausch said.
and firing rifles. The captured goats were killed then humanely. Other goats were hunted on foot, with the help of dogs or by a large group hunting together in a line,
The mountain pine beetle outbreak and the climate signal associated with it is the canary in the coal mine about future disturbances.
although methane waste gas from coal mining was classified also as a renewable-energy source under the bill.
environmental groups seeking to block the use of air guns during the tests (see Nature 460,939;
Indiana, had hoped arzoxifene would be a successor to its blockbuster osteoporosis treatment raloxifene (Evista), which will lose its patent protections by 2014.
The United nations Security council unanimously backed a non-binding resolution to bolster efforts aimed at slowing the spread of nuclear weapons.
(which would outlaw nuclear bomb tests) and improving nuclear security. Emissions reporting: The US Environmental protection agency has announced its nationwide reporting system for greenhouse-gas emissions.
which could enrich enough uranium for one nuclear weapon in a year. Plagiarism allegation: Two Iranian government ministers, including Kamran Daneshjou,
Potato blight's gene weaponry revealed: Nature Newsthe blight that caused the infamous Irish potato famine of the 1840s has yielded its genetic secrets.
code for the blight's'weapons'against potatoes. That is an insane number. For microbes 25%is a lot,
The mould could be using the transposons to maintain the diversity of its weapons arsenal,
will provide a comprehensive list of these weapons genes. Researchers can now give them the individual treatment that they deserve to figure out what they are doing.
In the arms race between plant and pathogen, potatoes have had long an ally: human plant breeders, who have struggled to develop blight-resistant spuds.
lawmakers from mining states fear job losses as the US economy shifts away from cheap coal.
and other satellites have yet to be influenced by the shrapnel from the collision. But the debris has had a big impact here On earth, according to Brian Weeden, an orbital debris specialist at the Secure World Foundation, in Superior, Colorado,
After a drive to the end of a road at an old mine site, he and his team then had to hike for 45 minutes to reach the cave's mouth.
Once intended to become ammunition for Roman soldiers'slingshots, the ingots, discovered by a diver in 1988 (see picture,
Are these the silver bullets they are made often out to be? It's clear that genetic progress in the past in France
which dates to Raymond Dart's theories in the 1920s. The papers from White and colleagues showed a bipedal species with apelike feet
and guided missiles encountered huge time and cost overruns. Business Genome shopping: The US pharmacy chain Walgreens postponed plans to start selling a personal genome-testing kit in thousands of its shops last week,
and halting the spread of weapons technology. On 28 may, after almost a month of negotiations, 189 nations, including Iran,
reported that Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium to convert into weapons-grade material for two nuclear weapons.
This is obviously just the opening gun for the model, says Oppenheimer. We want people to be looking at other border regions to build up a global picture.
Weapons lab lawsuit: A nonprofit watchdog filed a lawsuit on 16 august to stop the construction of a US$4-billion weapons facility at Los alamos National Laboratory in New mexico.
The Los alamos Study Group says that the nuclear facility, the core of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) project, has violated federal law by failing to produce an environmental-impact statement.
and enable the pathogens to run faster in an arms race. As a result of climate change and the loss of habitats from where important crops originated,
and his wife injured in a bomb attack on 29 november in Tehran. Another nuclear scientist, Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani,
Permit for mountaintop mine revoked The US Environmental protection agency (EPA) has revoked for the first time a permit for mountaintop mining.
what would have been the country's largest mountaintop mine in 2007 from the Army Corps of Engineers,
But the EPA has ruled that Spruce 1 Mine in the Appalachian mountains of West virginia presented major environmental and water-quality concerns,
US mountaintop mines, such as the one on Kayford Mountain (pictured), are largely found in the Appalachians.
Other blockbusters due to come off patent include Sanofi-aventis's anti-clotting drug Plavix (clopidogrel) and Eli lilly's schizophrenia drug Zyprexa (olanzapine.
and requires the two nations to keep the numbers of their nuclear warheads and launch vehicles below limits that are lower than those agreed in a previous treaty;
and shot a projectile into the same comet. Researchers hope to spot differences that will reveal how comets change with each orbit round the Sun
Perchlorate interferes with the production of thyroid hormones and mainly leaches into the environment from its use in the manufacture of rocket fuel and explosives.
the fact that many are dying after high ocean temperature events may have something to do with humans stressing them with pollution, dynamite fishing, recreational activities and coastal development.
The report pointed to probable leakage from latrines at a riverside United nations peacekeepers'camp. However it stopped short of directly accusing Nepalese soldiers in the camp,
or after its use in the mining and electronics industries increased its presence in the environment.
and even shotguns to gather samples of vegetation from forest canopies around the globe. They have created a digital catalogue of the chemical and optical properties of some 4, 700 plant species in different conditions.
foreign genes can be fired into plant cells on metal particles shot from a'gene gun'.
Nature Newskey weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge. Over the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent on distributing long-lasting pyrethroid-treated bed nets and on indoor spraying.
and there is no evidence that this common molecular warfare is dangerous to humans. With approval secured, EMBRAPA must now conduct a further round of field trials to ensure that the transgenic bean produces yields comparable to those of existing varieties.
had to pull the blockbuster arthritis drug from the market in 2004, after five years of sales.
After working on radar and the atomic bomb in the Second world war, Ramsey (pictured) moved to Harvard university in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
Mining molecular gastronomydieter Heinemann/Westend61/Corbisshrimp and tomato are paired often together in North american cuisine, because they share certain flavour compounds.
For methane, the study identified 14 control measures that would target leakage from coal mining and oil and gas operations, emissions from landfills, wastewater systems, livestock manure and rice paddies.
"We wanted to address the carbon-bomb question, Weaver says.""And frankly, these numbers aren t as big as
"The footprint of a mine might be small, but the road to the mine will slice
and dice rural ecosystems, says White. Â But international efforts at sustainable development are also threatening these areas.
and switched to the much faster method of whole-genome shotgun sequencing. In this technique, large chunks of DNA are sequenced separately
Researchers are also wary of engaging in a continuing arms race with nature.""A number of analysts feel that such an approach is sighted short
The USDA and the agrochemical industry are looking into the use of the natural chemical defences of plants and microbes to control weeds.
"The reality of weed management without the silver bullet of glyphosate is need that we to revert to a many-hammers approach crop rotations, cultivations, tillage,
Scientists and conservationists are alarmed by the damage that mining is causing to the land and its people.
what to do with the mines once they are exhausted, and they leave behind mountains of sand and rock,
Now the government is tightening the screws on illegal mining, and scientists monitoring its impacts are on the front lines of a battle between miners,
the Peruvian government banned mining in Madre de dios outside a designated 500,000-hectare corridor (see map)
and ordered that all miners must formally register a yearlong process that requires the mine operators to produce a work plan, an environmental-impact assessment and a cleanup strategy, among other requirements.
By setting aside a specific area for mining, the govern  ment hopes to regulate the industry more effectively
and the Madre de dios Mining Federation in regional capital Puerto Maldonado has campaigned strongly against the legislation.
The government began raiding mining camps outside the corridor in late March, but in many of those areas miners have returned
Only around 4, 000 miners in the region have met the government s deadline of 13 Â June to register their mining activities,
But mining is already beginning to encroach on these areas, and was threatening to become more widespread.
2011) showed that mining is deforesting Madre de dios faster than any other activity. Using satellite imagery,
the study s authors found that deforestation in two prominent mining zones increased sixfold between 2003 and 2009,
including many of the mining hotspots. Most previous mapping studies have assigned land to only two categories  forested
towns and mining areas together, and making it difficult to track the impact of the gold rush.
including mining, agriculture and five different classes of forestry. Scullion says that there is a misconception among locals that researchers are against mining.
Not so, he says  he just wants it to be done in a more sustainable way,
whether land should be used for logging, mining or conservation. The data could also help to guide where Â
Mining is also taking its toll on local people. An estimated 45-50 Â tonnes of mercury are used each year in Madre de dios to extract the prized gold,
2012) to show the scale of the health threat from mercury in Madre de dios. She found that in mining zones,
The global gold-mining industry, including leading mines in Peru, has switched mostly to an extraction process that uses cyanide,
and coal mining is ravaging the region s protected forests. He says that he has seen the deforested areas at first-hand
and all control French-fry cooking times to limit browning. In 2007, the European commission instructed the EFSA to collate yearly data on acrylamide levels.
"This research provides the smoking gun that cheese manufacture was practiced by Neolithic people 7, 000 years ago, says Bogucki."
The now-separate firm plans to expand the market for its blockbuster anti-inflammatory antibody Humira (adalimumab),
or even sabre-tooth cats although species that have been extinct for more than a few thousand years are unlikely to be found preserved with enough DNA intact to permit their restoration.
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