and a multitude of anthropogenic sources including mining and industrial activities such as petroleum refining and coal-power production as well as where agricultural runoff is collected
and mining activities areas around industrial plants producing glass pigments inks and lubricants can all be anthropogenic sources of Se.
and high-temperature alloys for nuclear energy applications says Dr. Mostafa Saber lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar in materials science and engineering at NC State.
Without the benefit of human institutions that guarantee property rights or a just division of goods they enforce their rights through chemical warfare.
#New weapons on the way to battle wicked weedsa somber picture of the struggle against super-weeds emerged today as scientists described the relentless spread of herbicide-resistant menaces like pigweed
In the 1970s red spruce was the forest equivalent of a canary in the coal mine signaling that acid rain was damaging forests
and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests recently gave permission for coal mining development in a key forest corridor connecting two of the habitats in the study.
This paper is a landmark publication demonstrating that in many places larval source management should be used as a supplementary weapon against malaria.
The researchers hypothesize that acid rain a by-product of fossil fuel burning acidic mining runoff and agricultural fertilizers speed up the dissolving of surfaces that are naturally high in alkaline minerals.
in addition to mining and land use Kaushal said. The acid rain problem is decreasing. But meanwhile there are these lagging effects of river alkalinization showing up across a major region of the U s. How many decades will river alkalinization persist?
or saltpeter from Chilean mines and plowed in glistening granules of synthetic fertilizer made in chemical plants.
and former mining sites thanks to an inexpensive non-chemical soil additive. The additive a simple mixture of organic waste such as chicken manure and zeolite a porous volcanic rock could be used to support agriculture in both the developed and developing world
Methane the main component of natural gas is released from leaking pipelines coal mines oil wells cattle rice paddies and landfills.
#Nanodrug targeting breast cancer cells from the inside adds weapon: Immune system attacka unique nanoscale drug that can carry a variety of weapons
and sneak into cancer cells to break them down from the inside has a new component:
and mines with patches of natural forest said Loken. The transformation of the landscape could be forcing orangutans to change their habitat and their behaviour.
and mines with patches of natural forest said Loken. The transformation of the landscape could be forcing orangutans to change their habitat and their behaviour.
and the mining and logging camps said WCS Conservationist Fiona Maisels a co-author on the study.
and an even larger arsenal of weaponry to harm and kill plants. In a study published in the journal Nature Communications North carolina State university plant pathologist Jean Ristaino
which they could not assign to any known species. As it turned out it was indeed a hitherto undescribed species of poison dart frog
Another recent study led by Tufenkji in collaboration with Mcgill professor Showan Nazhat a biomaterials expert at the Department of Mining
the Homestake Mine in South dakota; and the Great Boiling Spring in Nevada. From these samples the team laser-sorted 9000 cells from which they were able to reassemble
Wheat and mildew are embroiled in a permanent evolutionary arms race. If wheat improves its defense mechanisms against the parasites the fungus has to be able to follow suit
First H7 viruses have repeatedly been involved in numerous explosive poultry outbreaks including incidents in New york Canada Mexico The netherlands
Writing about government corruption in the Indian mining industry Sauven says: It will be in these expanding economies that the battle over the Earth's future will be won or lost.
hipposuniversity of Utah researchers developed a new weapon to fight poachers who kill elephants hippos rhinos and other wildlife.
and teeth by open-air nuclear bomb tests the method reveals the year an animal died
but we've shown that you can use the signature in animal tissues left over from nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere to study modern ecology
The method uses the bomb curve which is shaped a graph roughly like an inverted V--showing changes in carbon-14 levels in the atmosphere
The carbon-14 was formed in the atmosphere by U s. and Soviet atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in Nevada and Siberia from 1952 through 1962.
In the United states raw and worked African ivory (jewelry figurines gun and knife handles) is legal
and sell tusks so they can buy guns. How the Study Was Performedneutrons from the nuclear tests bombarded nitrogen--the atmosphere's most common gas--to turn some of it into carbon-14.
because they died before atmospheric nuclear weapons tests. So the test can identify pre-1955 ivory by its low pre-nuclear-test levels of carbon-14.
or other tissues that grow after about 15 years from now when atmospheric carbon-14 returns to pre-bomb levels.
Kasson said recent mining and drilling operations in Pennsylvania forests may also cause the species to expand.
Looking at the Arctic is like looking at the canary in the coal mine for the entire Earth system.
We hope CARVE may be able to find that'smoking gun 'if one exists Miller said.
That potential exists they say despite serious questions about safety disposal of radioactive waste and diversion of nuclear material for weapons.
That potential exists they say despite serious questions about safety disposal of radioactive waste and diversion of nuclear material for weapons.
No to the Mine! Snake Sibon noalamina Country: Panamasnail-eating snake: A beautiful new species of snail-eating snake has been discovered in the highland rainforests of western Panama.
The species name is derived from the Spanish phrase No a la mina or No to the mine.
#Scientists uncover how grapefruits provide a secret weapon in medical drug deliverylipids (right panel first three tubes) derived from grapefruit.
Our GNVS can be modified to target specific cells--we can use them like missiles to carry a variety of therapeutic agents for the purpose of destroying diseased cells he said.
and working with scientists to mine the cassava gene bank at CIAT in Colombia--the biggest repository of cassava cultivars in the world.
and Computing (ASC) program for stewardship of the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile a joint effort by LLNL Los alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories.
'In short in order to achieve a sustainable increase in food production we will need to deploy all the weapons in our arsenal;
#New dual resistant tomatoes fight lethal pests with one-two punchin the battle against thrips Cornell breeder Martha Mutschler-Chu has developed a new weapon:
when trees became established on different types of nonforested soils across the United states. In a paper published online April 1 in the Soil science Society of America Journal they looked at lands previously used for surface mining
On a post-mining landscape the amount of soil carbon generally doubled within 20 years of mining termination
and conflicts with domestic livestock contributed to the bear's local extinction in the Great Basin landscape changes due to clear-cutting of forests throughout western and central Nevada during the mining booms of the late 1800s played an important role as well.
Using a whole-genome shotgun strategy and Next-generation sequencing (NGS) researchers identified a large set of gene models (34879) and abundant genetic markers with the potential to provide a valuable resource for accelerating deeper and more systematic genomic and breeding
Shiv Ram Dubey and Anand Singh Jalal of GLA University in Mathura India have developed an automated image processing system that not only quickly distinguishes between oranges
A weapon in the fight against kidney disease caused by high-fat dietsnew insight into grape seed extract as a therapeutic and preventative measure to fight obesity-induced kidney damage is presented in a new study.
Lee spent an entire year pouring through WORLD WAR II mining surveys from the western U s. and Canada for example.
However the proliferation of roads rail lines mining urbanization and other forms of development through the corridors jeopardize these species'ability to move between reserves.
Several coal mines have been proposed in the forest corridor between the Satpura and Pench tiger reserves as has the widening of a national highway (NH-7)
In this study researchers sequenced the genome of DBM by whole genome shotgun (WGS) and fosmid clones technologies yielding 343 Mb draft genome with 18071 predicted protein-coding genes.
and gas recovery and help reboot American mining of rare earth metals he said. Graphene oxide's large surface area defines its capacity to adsorb toxins Kalmykov said.
He sees even greater potential benefits for the mining industry. Environmental requirements have essentially shut down U s. mining of rare earth metals
which are needed for cell phones Tour said. China owns the market because they're not subject to the same environmental standards.
So if this technology offers the chance to revive mining here it could be huge.
But the country's economic boom has led simultaneously to a growth in CO2-emitting activities such as mining metal smelting
The study published in Journal of Cereal Science by MTTÂ's senior research scientist Juha-Matti Pihlava shows that the diversity of chemical defense compounds typical to barley namely hordatines
and physical warfare on this grass using all the latest humanmade weapons Silliman said. We've used helicopters to spray it with herbicides
Grasses and crops such as maize attach sugars to chemical defenses called benzoxazinoids to protect themselves from being poisoned by their own protective agents.
of TNT. It left a crater more than 150 km across and the resulting megatsunami wildfires global earthquakes and volcanism are accepted widely to have wiped out the dinosaurs
From mining to generation coal power consumes more than twice the water per megawatt-hour generated than unconventional gas does.
Although stem cells can be a potent weapon in the fight against certain diseases simply infusing a patient with stem cells is no guarantee the stem cells will be able to travel to the injured area and work collaboratively with the cells already there.
The research team of Annette Rompel from the Institute for Biophysical Chemistry University of Vienna explore the mechanisms behind the browning reaction during the spoilage of mushrooms.
but scientists from a Virginia Tech-led program have unleashed a new weapon in the fight against hunger:
To find new weapons especially against superbugs that resist nearly all antibiotics synthetic chemists pursue the complex process of mimicking the structures of effective natural molecules as they build drug candidates atom by atom.
--in addition to improved farming practices and traditional plant breeding--will add to the arsenal of techniques to help crops withstand summer's swelter.
and tree samples from areas around Los angeles hardest hit by infections of the fungus named Cryptococcus gattii (CRIP-to-cock-us GAT-ee-eye).
Professor Mackey warns that industrial logging mining and agriculture gravely threaten primary forests and those outside of protected areas are especially vulnerable.
In addition phosphate-based fertilizer relies on the mining of phosphate a finite and unsustainable resource
Two years ago the New jersey Air National guard agreed to participate in a pilot study to test the feasibility of using culverts to guide snakes under roads as part of a larger study of northern pine snakes at Warren Grove Gunnery Range.
and military troops exposed to poisonous chemicals--particularly those in pesticides and chemical weapons. An article in the current issue of the journal Chembiochem outlines the advancement in detoxifying organophosphates
which are compounds commonly used in pesticides and warfare agents. The patent-pending process was developed by NYU School of engineering Associate professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering Jin Kim Montclare along with Richard Bonneau an associate professor in NYU's Department of biology and a member of the computer science faculty
which are found in everything from industrial pesticides to the sarin gas used in chemical warfare.
whether through exposure to pesticide or an intentional chemical warfare attack explained Montclare. We've known that phosphotriesterases had the power to detoxify these nerve agents
In order to analyze the vast amount of genetic information researchers used a technique called shotgun sequencing.
Swiss scientists are exploring ways to help protect 21st century maize by rearming it with its ancestral chemical weapons.
We are studying the wild ancestor of maize (teosinte) to find out which other chemical defenses may have been lost during domestication of maize Dr Turlings added.
but is what Chase refers to as a walking time bomb that can infect the entire herd.
Other tools in the researchers'arsenal were high-resolution tracking which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time;
The researchers fired pellets of randomly oriented multiwalled carbon nanotubes from a light gas gun built by the Rice lab of materials scientist Enrique Barrera with funding from NASA.
The pellets impacted an aluminum target in a vacuum chamber at about 15000 miles per hour. When they inspected the resulting carbon rubble they found nanotubes that smashed into the target end first
Hypervelocity impact tests are used mostly to simulate the impact of different projectiles on shields spacecraft
The researchers said 70 to 80 percent of the nanotubes in a pellet unzip to one degree or another.
Cannonball! Everyone into the Pool! While some people are convinced they are allergic to chlorine the truth is that chlorine is not an allergen.
In many subarctic forested areas in fact the opposite has been observed--a browning--as the forest becomes less green.
More intense insect infestation more forest fires and increased drought pressure are probably the three largest factors causing this subarctic browning.
Extinct in the wild a rare scimitar-horned oryx was born May 15. It was the 164th scimitar-horned oryx calf to be born at SCBI.
Scimitar-horned oryx once lived in the arid plains and deserts of northern African countries of Egypt Senegal and Chad.
Reintroduction efforts have begun in Tunisia. A red panda gave birth to two surviving cubs May 27 at SCBI.
These areas are suffering from human disturbance such as logging mining and forest fires resulting from climate change--all occurrences predicted to intensify in coming years said Tanentzap.
#Corn dwarfed by temperature dip suitable for growing in mines, caveslowering temperatures for two hours each day reduces the height of corn without affecting its seed yield a Purdue study shows a technique that could be used to grow crops in controlled-environment facilities in caves and former mines.
Raising the crops in isolated and enclosed environments would help prevent genetically modified pollen and seed from escaping into the ecosystem and crossing with wild plants.
and yellow and blue high-intensity discharge lamps in a former limestone mine in Marengo Indiana to test how corn would react to an environment in
This is a technique you could easily do in a mine or cave Mitchell said. It is an affordable non-chemical means of taking genetically modified crops to harvest maturity without getting any kind of pollen or seed into the ecosystem.
He said that former mines could be prime locations to grow high-value transgenic plants
The high levels of carbon dioxide in mines also promote plant growth. Productivity in a controlled environment is superior to that in the field
and other species. A new report calls for saving half of boreal forest acreage to protect the habitat for more than 300 migratory bird species. The northern landscape is beset with oil gas mining
Southern boreal forests have already been affected by oil and gas mining forest product industries hydropower and roads and infrastructure.
These include mining logging and the production of other agricultural crops. The researchers point out that roughly 200 million acres of cattle pastureland could be used more efficiently either for higher yield cattle ranching
But this is an easy and safe way of buying the plants time until their own chemical defense mechanisms kick in.
The study found a gradually decreasing trend in Congo rainforest greenness sometimes referred to as browning suggesting a slow adjustment to the long-term drying trend.
The browning of the forest canopy is observed consistent with decreases in the amount of water available to plants
and provided us with insights into the environmental and physiological mechanisms of the browning observed by the MODIS data said co-author Sassan Saatchi of NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena Calif. Climate factors known to affect vegetation growth were also in line with the observed
browning. Land surface temperatures for example were observed to increase over most of the study area. Decreased cloudiness allowed more solar radiation to reach the plants which typically promotes photosynthesis
what is surely the most aggressive chemical defence system in nature. When threatened the bombardier beetle releases a caustic spray accompanied by a popping sound.
and developed a chemical defence mechanism designed to prevent vandalism--a self-defending surface composed of several sandwich-like layers of plastic.
Also it will be necessary to rapidly implement full protection status for proposed conservation priority areas as future mining
This survey showed that in areas where primary rainforest was still abundant hunting was the anthropogenic threat most frequently encountered followed by logging mining and non-timber forest product extraction.
and paenibacillus will require ingenuity and an arsenal of weapons. These outlaws aren't rustling cattle--they're making milk sour
which mosquitoes can become resistant to the available arsenal of insecticides. Controlling populations like Tiassalã will be particularly challenging
The unique property of honey lies in its ability to fight infection on multiple levels making it more difficult for bacteria to develop resistance said study leader Susan M. Meschwitz Ph d. That is it uses a combination of weapons including hydrogen peroxide
The findings might be of interest to agricultural biotech firms that are hoping to add RNAI to their pest-killing arsenals he said.
In the late 1100s the Mongol tribes were racked by disarray and internal warfare but this ended with the sudden ascendance of Genghis (also known as Chinggis) Khan in the early 1200s.
New mining ventures and other industrial activities may employ some of the many people fleeing the countryside
They are also at great risk due to climate change and other human interference such as mining cattle ranching and agriculture.
Although some scientists have expressed concern that reports of pest resistance to Bt crops provide'ammunition'to anti-biotech activists Tabashnik said Pests are remarkably adaptable.
'We looked at specialisation in the blight pathogens'secret weapon a key family of effectors called'EPIC'that can pass through plants'defences undetected to disable the proteases.
No bigger than a grain of rice the horse-chestnut leaf-mining moth has spread rapidly through England and Wales since its arrival in London in 2002.
The oldest dated 1500--1300 BC was from Nandrup in northwestern Denmark where a warrior prince had been buried in an oak coffin with a massively hafted bronze sword battle-ax
Years after its publication Terry referred to the report's release as a bombshell. The report has spawned
The fossils were discovered from amber mines in the Hukawng Valley of Myanmar previously known as Burma.
Forget about guns and ammo; unless you live in a very rural area, they won't get you very far (a few days or weeks, at most),
and in the hands of most people, a gun is a greater risk to themselves and their communities than a help.
Yet the inspiration for the tower unique, missile-like design was not militaristic: it was the Venus'Flower Basket sea sponge,
Make mine a sausage and pepperoni. Hey, you only live once, and longer by purple.
throughout its existence, used discounting as a merchandising weapon and as a strategic weapon. And from Amazon perspective, making more people buy e-books from them serves two purposes.
because it efficiently transports important mining products from various operations out there in the desert.
and employers inaccurate ammunition to deny employment to candidates. Yet the number of patient records contained in electronic databases is fueled ballooning
He's created a line of apples called Arctic Apples that can go for days without browning after slicing.
Apples and potatoes discolor through a process call enzymatic browning, which is driven by polyphenol oxidase (PPO).
Carter assures consumers that his anti-browning engineering only applies to browning from exposure, bacterial and fungal-driven browning will still show up to let us know the fruit's gone bad.
He also says we shouldn't fear pollen from his GMO spreading to other orchards.
If federal policies accounted for each vehicle's lifecycle emissions from mining ore to recycling auto components automakers would have many more trade-offs to consider.
Cook It Raw chefs visit the Lowcountryhave you ever shot a high-powered rifle? Catherine Harrison asked the pretty restaurateur from Calgary.
she had fired never any kind of gun before. A. 35 should do pronounced, Harrison after a pause.
then cook a meal from the local bounty--like boy scout camp with better knives. Launched by Alessandro Porcelli, a gastronomic consultant living in Denmark,
Matthew Jennings'knuckles spelled the word Handmade, Baltzley's throat bore knives. Even Desousa flashed a pin-up girl on her forearm.
Desousa did squeeze off a shot, but her prey disappeared into the water. At lunchtime, the chefs grilled an alligator that had been killed the night before.
including public supply (water towers), domestic use (showers, faucets), irrigation, livestock, aquaculture, industrial use, mining, and thermoelectric power generation.
4 percent Mining: 1 percent Thermoelectric power generation: 49 percent As you can see, the lion's share of water use comes from two places:
I think Mr. Pollan has a view different than mine. We both want sustainability and safety in our food.
I m quite convinced we can t meet the future of the world s needs without using every safe tool in the arsenal
Officers could throw the drones like boomerangs to photograph what is around the next corner or inside a building and report back.
Watch the video below (from 2010) to see the SAMARAI be launched like a boomerang, take off vertically and land in a specific spot:
but it takes more energy to produce--you have to do mining to get the materials.
and even the potential use of weapons. So the study comes at an opportune time
the herbicide and GM seeds maker) is developing a new weapon to battle the disorder:
When architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien won the competition to transform a colonial explosives storage facility into a gallery
An aerial view shows the zigzag bridge that the designers originally wanted to be straight The four buildings that make up the former explosives facility date back as far as the 1850s.
and abusing arsenic for everything from mining to medicine to murder. But a gene found in an ancient plant,
Located at the US Department of energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the world Â's most capable computer has just been enlisted this month to carry out nuclear weapon simulations.
The intensive computing work will allow scientists to test the replicate explosions to check the effectiveness of the military Â's current arsenal without the need to perform actual underground tests.
626 miles on a tank of gas China s new bullet train is world s fastest, smashes record Video:
and in hard-to-reach mining camps and the like: First, the designs either came disassembled,
Carrizo and Alter Carrizo gives the example of a mining company in Argentina that last year transported ten containers from Buenos aires to a mining camp in San juan, near the Chilean border.
and mining or being displaced by government policies to protect forests and coasts. This trend will play out across the globe.
Tribal villagers from the Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India are fighting against the expansion of coal mines near their forests.
Tribal villagers said that jobs in coal mines are temporary but forests are an eternal source of livelihood.
CSE's latest data also finds that 119 coal mining projects were given forest clearance during this period
Ravindranath from the Rural Volunteer Centre, explained that mining activity has made the river water so heavy that farmers can't use it for irrigation.
Apple employee Afshad Mistri is the company's secret weapon in a stealth campaign to get the ipad into the hands of doctors.
To date, zero gallons of qualifying cellulosic ethanol has been produced, according to R-squared blogger Robert Rapier. Next-gen biofuels have struggled in part
bottle and coke-can missiles, the occasional building on fire and riot police come to mind. In Brussels, there is a new weapon of choice--milk.
Screenshot/BBC footage The BBC's Anna Holligan recently visited Brussels, where hordes of angry farmers, dismayed at current dairy prices,
Did a gaggle of impoverished children mine the gold it made with? I love that cereal!
because you have the gun and we won't survive that. But you don't understand anything about the environment and nature.'
and other radioactive elements not commonly found in nature thanks to our nuclear weapons testing. And we have created some new compounds that will be in the geologic record for a long time to come, the most ubiquitous
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