One of his primary work sites is Kaziranga National park. The area's rich biodiversity has earned it recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
We also carry a laptop into the forest and I use Google earth quite a lot because nobody goes there.
We know the GPS location to go but as for how to go there we use Google earth
so we don't get lost in the forest. OAP: What are some of the challenges of working inside Kaziranga
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#Toddler Meals Have Too much Salt: CDC Most ready-to-eat meals for toddlers have too much salt government researchers say.
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#Tomatoes, Summer's Last Sigh (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
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4826 visits (4. 6 percent) Biscuits cookies or crackers: 3189 visits (3. 1 percent) Hot dogs:
The researchers from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio analyzed information from a national database of emergency-department visits focusing on choking visits involving food that did not result in death.
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Op-Ed Jake Weltzin is an ecologist with the U s. Geological Surveyand executive director of the USA National Phenology Network.
You can contribute phenology data to Nature s Notebook an online program the USA National Phenology Network manages that collects observations of leaf phenology from professional and amateur naturalists.
The network uses those data for research and resource management recommendations related to water wildlife wildfires and working farms and ranches.
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#Trees Have Internal Clocks Too, Study Finds Like human bodies some trees have internal clocks that coordinate the activities of their cells with the cycles of day
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This article was updated at 9: 07 am ET Friday July 19 to remove references to measuring carbon dioxide intake (the study measured only water loss not carbon dioxide intake
#Underwater Forest Discoverers Looking to Protect Unique Site If salvage companies get their way an underwater forest of 50000-year-old trees only recently discovered could be destroyed to make high-end coffee tables.
You have to think of the cachet of something made from a 50000-year-old wood said Ben Raines the diver who first reported on the site and the executive director of the Weeks Bay Foundation a waterways conservation organization.
In their plan scuba divers and fishermen could explore the site as long as they left the majestic trees intact.
Raines worried that it was just a matter of time before the salvage companies discovered the site on their own and destroyed the forest.
In their plan scuba divers and fishermen would be free to explore the site as long as they left the forest intact
and treasure hunters would be barred from stripping the site. Similar laws protect shipwrecks from being mined for loot.
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#Urbanization Can Actually Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Op-Ed) Chris Busch is director of research and Hallie Kennan is a research assistant atâ Energy Innovation:
 See Photos of the Seized Ivory Some argue that the seized ivory should be sold to alleviate the demand for ivory Dan Ashe director of the FWS wrote in a blog post today.
and Kristin Davis of Sex and the city. The event comes a day after Secretary of state John Kerry announced that the United states would award up to $1 million for information that leads to the dismantling of an infamous wildlife trafficking ring dubbed the Xaysavang Network.
and China the Xaysavang Network facilitates the killing of endangered elephants rhinos and other species for products such as ivory Kerry said in a statement.
but Ashe said on his blog that the FWS hopes it will be used to design memorials to educate the public and build awareness about the plight of elephants.
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#US Ivory Crush Canceled in Wake of Shutdown In a bid to discourage poachers and wildlife traffickers federal officials had planned to pulverize 6 tons (5. 4 tonnes) of illegal elephant ivory this week
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#US to Destroy 6 Tons of Ivory This Week In a first U s. officials are going to destroy their massive stockpile of illegal ivory this week hoping to send a zero-tolerance message to elephant poachers.
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#UV Light Makes Mushrooms Rich in Vitamin d The dog days of summer are a distant memory and so are the long bright sunny days.
The interactive map (viewable online) is based on satellite data and is the first of its kind.
The first was data from the Landsat 7 satellite which launched in 1999 and has been snapping satellite photos of the globe ever since.
Next Landsat's operator the U s. Geological Survey altered its policies to make all of the data from Landsat 7 and previous Landsat satellites free.
Finally with access to all the satellite data came the need for major computing power to process it.
Hansen and his colleagues teamed up with Google to make it happen. On a single computer processing the data archive would have taken 15 years Hansen said.
With Google's cloud computing it took mere days. The fine scale of the map allows researchers to zoom in close enough to see logging roads river meanders
and even tornado tracks Hansen said. There are a ton of stories here he said. Some of the information that comes from forest maps is unexpected entirely he added.
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#Virtual Nature Makes Us Feel Good Even if It's Farmville (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
Cyberspace is full of the images and language of nature. For example does your desktop wallpaper feature a waterfall a forest or a beach?
or wander around in Second life? Perhaps like some Grand Theft Auto fans you even share photos of its landscapes on Flickr. If so you re experiencing nearby nature via your phone tablet or computer screen.
And it is almost certainly doing you some good. In the 1980s experimental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan studied the effects of nature on people.
when they were viewed on a screen. In 2008 cognitive neuroscientist Marc Berman reported that walking round a park produced more beneficial effects than walking in an urban environment.
Images of nearby nature on our phones and computers can alleviate mental fatigue. They enhance our attention help us cope with distraction
Could we apply biophilic design to our hardware and software to help us feel and perform better?
If we did we might find a more healthy and productive balance between tech and nature.
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#Warm Water Under Antarctic Glacier Spurs Rapid Melting A two-month-long expedition to one of the most remote sites on the planet the sprawling Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica
What we have brought to the table are detailed measurements of the melt rates that will allow simple physical models of the melting processes to be plugged into computer models of the coupled ocean/glacier system Tim Stanton a research professor at the Naval
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Most sites where scientists have collected snowpack data haveâ shown declinesâ over the past 50 years.
and executive director ofâ the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) Â pointed to several studies that tracked how warmer springs can affect the range for migratory species
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#Water Woes: Vast US Aquifer Is Being tapped Out Nearly 70 percent of the groundwater stored in parts of the United states'High Plains Aquifer a vast underground reservoir that stretches through eight states from South dakota to Texas
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#Western Crop Watering May Make Wetter East Coast Summers SAN FRANCISCO Intensive irrigation in the Western United states could be causing wetter summers on the East Coast new research suggests.
So the researchers used a computer model of the Earth and its atmosphere that captured the effects of land use agriculture atmospheric conditions evaporation temperature wind patterns
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#Whales Trap Dinner with Mouthful of Swirling Bristles Humpback and bowhead whales create their own food nets from specialized bristles in their mouths to more efficiently nab fishy morsels a new study of baleen whales suggests.
but forms a tangled mesh in water that streams through it as the animals swim.
and fingernails which forms large plates that enclose a fibrous inner core. Whales typically have about 300 plate structures on either side of their mouths perpendicular to the direction that water flows.
Bowheads feed by continuous ram feeding at slower speeds whereas humpbacks feed in intermittent gulps at higher speeds.
This is a fascinating study marine ecologist Ari Friedlaender of Duke university who was involved not in the study told Livescience in an email adding he was surprised  that the bowhead whale baleen functioned better at higher flow speeds than the humpback whale baleen.
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#What 11 Billion People Mean for Food security Editor's note: Â By the end of this century Earth may be home to 11 billion people the United nations has estimated earlier than previously expected.
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In western Colorado water is fed to farms through a network of ditches. Because water is allocated based on seniority some of the newest farmers saw their water turned off in July before the end of harvest said Kate Greenberg the Western organizer for the National Young Farmers Coalition a group that supports young
Because groundwater is the single biggest thing that moves around on the Earth's surface new satellite systems can detect changes in Earth's gravity due to groundwater depletion.
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#What America's Forests Looked Like Before Europeans Arrived European settlers transformed America's Northeastern forests.
The scientists hope that identifying similar fossil tree-leaf sites will help the massive milldam restoration projects underway throughout the Northeast.
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#What An Ancient Lake Reveals at Its Core Kay Behrensmeyer is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history.
This article was adapted from her post on the blog Digging the Fossil Record: Paleobiology at the Smithsonian where this article first ran before appearing in Livescience's Expert Voices:
Op-Ed & Insights. Fieldwork has been a major focus of my career as a paleobiologist and geologist.
 When my colleague Rick Potts organized a core-drilling project in one of my favorite field areas in southern Kenya Olorgesailie (a local Maasai name pronounced O-lorg-eh-sigh
whether I would like spending time in a laboratory examining a narrow plastic-packaged core ofâ rock Â. Â After eight intensive days working on the core with a team of 17 other people
 Our group did the core analysis in the Laccore Laboratory at the University of Minnesota Minneapolis. Every day from dawn until dusk we worked on core splitting photography description and sampling centimeter by centimeter over a total of 531
We typed all the descriptive data into a special standardized data sheet with a picture of the core
what we were seeing on the tray with the image on the sheet and on three big computer screens in front of us.
Sometimes the high resolution photograph was more revealing than the actual core surface. Â What did we find out?
The layers in the core are preserved very well and show many periods with volcanic eruptions alternating with quiet lake phases
 Thin horizontal stripes in the core called laminae formed when diatoms (a type of algae with hard cell walls made ofâ silica) settled on the lake bottom alternating with layers of clay and volcanic ash.
The ash bands may also help to align the core with others drilled at different locations
  The section of the core shown here (see the enlargement in the lower right of the image) also revealed where banded lake deposits have a well-defined contact on top of an ancient clay-rich soil.
  It will take years of work to understand what this core's record means
Our research team thinks the core record will overlap in time with sediments 6. 2 to 12.4 miles (10 to 20 kilometers) to the north that have many artifacts and fossils some
 There are missing parts of the geological record in the strata north of the core site becauseâ geologic faulting   in the basin caused uplift and erosion there.
and our team suspects that they were carried by streams into the basin where we drilled the core.
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#What Are Greenhouse Gases? Behind the struggle to address global warming and climate change lies the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
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#What Are Superfoods? Superfoods are foods mostly plant-based but also some fish and dairy thought to be nutritionally dense and thus good for one's health.
Lists of superfoods are extensive on the Internet. Some websites list as many as 50 or 100.
At this point the term superfood becomes largely meaningless or at best synonymous with just about any fruit or vegetable.
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#What Is a Paw Paw? What tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango and might be growing in your neighborhood right now?
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#What Is Coconut oil? The coconut palm ranks as one of the most useful plants on the planet.
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#What Is Gluten? Gluten refers to the proteins found in wheat endosperm (a type of tissue produced in seeds that's ground to make flour.
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#What is Hay fever? Simply put it's a misnomer. Doctors and researchers who specialize in allergies prefer the term allergic rhinitis
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#What Is Jell-o? Sold since 1897 Jell-o has occupied a familiar place on American dinner tables for decades.
Next the heated water-gelatin solution must be cooled allowing the collagen strands to rebond in a network
The collagen network gives Jell-o its semisolid properties while the trapped water keeps it jiggly.
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#What Is Melatonin? Melatonin is produced a hormone naturally by the pineal gland in response to darkness.
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#What Is Molasses? Thousands of fish have been reported dead in the waters around Honolulu after a massive spill of molasses.
On Monday (Sept. 9) a pipeline from a molasses tank near Honolulu Harbor was loading the heavy sweet liquid onto a ship when a leak in the pipeline dumped hundreds of thousands of gallons of the sticky
It's a common ingredient in cooking especially in cakes cookies and other desserts. Molasses is used also in the production of ethyl alcohol and as an additive in livestock feed.
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#What Is Raspberry Ketone? A raspberry contains 200 molecules that contribute to its distinct raspberry flavor.
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#What is the'Birds and the Bees'?'The phrase the birds and the bees is a metaphor for explaining the mechanics of reproduction to younger children relying on imagery of bees pollinating
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#What Is the Oldest Tree in the World? Until 2013 the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah a 4845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California.
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#What Is the Paleo Diet? The Paleo Diet also known as the Stone age Caveman or Ancient Diet is a modern attempt to replicate the diet of humans of the Paleolithic age.
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#What Is the World's Largest Tree? The largest tree in the world is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in California's Sequoia National park. Called General Sherman the tree is about 52500 cubic feet (1487 cubic meters) in volume.
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#What Is the World's Tallest Tree? The tallest trees in the world are redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens)
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#What Is Veal? Like many culinary terms veal came to English from French. It refers to the meat of a young cow
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#What Makes a Tomato Taste Sweet? Mary poppins was definitely onto something when she crooned Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down.
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#What's Driving Federal Efforts to Nullify State Animal Protections?(Op-Ed) Wayne Pacelle is the president and chief executive officer of The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
This Op-Ed first appeared on the blog A Humane Nation where it ran before appearing in Livescience's Expert Voices:
and nixed core portions of that California anti-cruelty law. Today downer pigs still continue to be abused
which first appeared as on the HSUS blog A Humane Nation. The views expressed are those of the author
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#Where Did Potatoes Come From? The potato is an immigrant coming from the Andes mountains in South america or by some accounts possibly from the western coast of Chile.
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#Which Comes First--Optimism Or Good health?(ISNS)--Boosting optimism defined as the general expectation that the future will be favorable could provide new ways to improve health some researchers believe.
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#Whole Grains, Half truths, and Lots of Confusion An enduring mantra among nutritionists from both a vegetarian and carnivorous perspective has been to eat more whole grains to reduce the risk of heart disease type 2 diabetes and colon cancer.
But the general rule of thumb is processed that heavily foods (crackers cookies or instant breakfast cereals compared with whole grains you need to cook for 30 minutes
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#Why Are Tree Rings Lighter or Darker? New wood formed in a tree during spring
Near the core of a tree rings will be tighter and darker if a young tree grows up in the shade a mature forest.
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#Why Autumn Leaves May be dulled by Climate Change Every year New england and other northern regions reliably burst into a blaze of fall color.
A tree stressed is a symptom that something larger is wrong with our world Neufeld wrote on his blog.
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and enforcing legislation to help support Americans in making healthier food choices becomes more of a reality Gardner wrote in an email to Livescience.
The authors hypothesize that the sharp drop in blood sugar spurred by cookies chips or cake may not only stimulate hunger
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#Why Elk Are Robbing Birds Sonya Auer of the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently won the Elton Prize from The british Ecological Society for her research and writing.
so they are now remaining at these high elevation sites throughout winter rather than migrating to lower elevations like they have done historically.
In the past the three warbler species did not choose the same kind of nest sites. Instead each selected patches dominated by different tree species. Orange-crowned Warblers preferred nesting in clumps of maples Virginia s Warblers liked locusts
and Virginia s Warblers have preferred fewer nest sites to choose from and are forced increasingly to nest in sites similar to those of the Red-faced Warbler.
 So why does this matter? Well nest-site choices have consequences for nest survival and subsequent population numbers.
When the birds divvied up their use of the different nest sites in the past predation on their eggs
and the birds are nesting in similar sites their nests are being detected more often by predators
when nest sites become more similar over time. The forest is changing but there is no indication that predator numbers are going up so that s an unlikely reason.
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