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In addition to financing catalytic innovations for growth are also emerging including mobile-phone technology for better sharing and disseminating information;
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In between is a nefarious network of criminals terrorists rebels and corrupted officials and business people only too eager to pilfer a slice of the pie.
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#Wild and Woolly: Deer Joins Sheep Flock Even deer get lonely it seems. A young red deer in England has been accepted into a flock of about 100 sheep
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#Wild Turkeys Are Back, A Century After Severe Decline In the early 1900s wild turkeys seemed to be on the road toward extinction as unregulated hunting
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#Wildlife Bandits: How Criminology Can Fight Poaching Newark N. J. With no shortage of human-on-human misdeeds criminologists haven't typically concerned themselves with crimes against wildlife and the environment.
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#Will Eating Pet food Kill Me? There s no official record of how many people dine on crunchy kibble
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They assessed 9200 peer-reviewed studies undergirded by a staggering two million gigabytes of numerical data.
Microsoft Kering Natura Disney and Barclays are among those taking voluntary action addressing the greenhouse gas emissions they cannot avoid by purchasing REDD+credits.
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#World's Largest Owl Exposes Health of Russia's Forests The world's largest owl requires equally huge trees a finding that reveals that this salmon-devouring predator could be a key sign of the health of some of the last great forests of Russia
but the hard part was finding the nest sites and the foraging sites to include in the study that part took years Slaght said.
One of the reasons it's so hard to find fish owl nest trees is that the birds are almost unbelievably shy.
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#Worst Allergy Season Ever? Marlene Cimons writes forâ Climate Nexus a nonprofit that aims to tell the climate story in innovative ways that raise awareness of dispel misinformation about
now that we will see a significant reduction in the number of calves born as all of the female calves that died will not be contributing any new offspring to the population Sironi who is also an advisor to the Southern Right whale Health Monitoring program added in a statement.
Sironi and colleague Vicky Rowntree who is co-director of the monitoring program have studied a strange phenomena that could be stressing southern right whales.
and at a site where little to no food is available to replenish fat reserves.
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#Yogurt Lovers Have Better Diets People who like yogurt may be enjoying more than its taste and texture.
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#Yosemite national park: Facts, Information & Lodging Yosemite national park created in 1890 is one of the oldest nature preserves in the United states. A wonderland of geological formations
It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. The land that Yosemite comprises has attracted people for centuries.
The most iconic site of Yosemite Half Dome is a granite formation that rises nearly 5000 feet above the valley floor.
when our daily agenda items can be trumped by longstanding traditions such as baking Christmas cookies from scratch or taking the time to thread popcorn kernels one-by-one together to make garland.
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#Early Life Pain May Affect The next Generation A mom's painful early life experiences might influence her offspring's sensitivity to pain according to a new study of lambs and ewes.
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#8 Tips to Be a Probiotic Pro These days you'll find probiotics in more places than yogurt and the supplements aisle.
or manufacturer's websites may indicate proper storage information; some supplements needs refrigeration or should be kept at room temperature
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#Intersex Fish Showing Up in Pennsylvania Rivers Editor's Note: This story was updated on Tuesday (July 1) at 10:25 a m. E t. Scientists found intersex fish in three river basins in Pennsylvania a sign that the water may be tainted with chemicals from human activity.
For the new study Blazer and colleagues collected fish from 16 sites in the Susquehanna Delaware and Ohio river basins.
Intersex males were found at every site where smallmouth bass were collected and the severity of their condition was generally worse in places just downstream from wastewater treatment plants the researchers found.
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#Shorebirds Adopt Baby Duckling, Cuteness Ensues A family of long-legged shorebirds adopted a fuzzy baby duckling this month in California's San francisco bay.
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Though wolverines are the biggest of the weasel family according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) they are still very small.
The taxonomy of wolverines according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) is: Wolverines are endangered not. The International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List lists them as Least Concern for extinction
and the Carcass Sites I revisited a carcass site in 2007 from a zebra that
This got me questioning the role of carcass sites for anthrax transmission. Would these areas be attractive to herbivores searching for high-quality food?
Watching the grazers For this study the researchers analyzed 35 sites that tested positive for anthrax
and eight sites that did not. The researchers also used motion-triggered cameras at 13 anthrax-affected carcass sites
and 13 sites without carcasses to monitor the grazing activity of herbivores such as elephants wildebeest and zebras.
The cameras snapped nearly 1. 2 million photos. Camera Trapped: Elusive Wildlife Caught in Photos Turner
and her colleagues faced several challenges along the way including inquisitive animals knocking down cameras fires raging across the sites a run-in with a pride of lions on foot long hikes to sites in sweltering heat
but made a poor choice of how to mark the carcass sites Turner said. I was concerned about metal stakes potentially harming animals
so we marked all the sites with PVC polyvinyl chloride pipe. I returned to the field the next year to start the study only to discover that PVC pipe is an excellent hyena chew toy
I could no longer find the exact sites marked. That was frustrating! Zebra like anthrax grasses The scientists found that the soil fertilized by the carcasses they studied was rich with nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen.
Initially the grazing animals avoided the carcass sites but over time they became attracted to these corpse-fertilized areas.
Zebra wildebeest and springbok (a small gazelle) were up to four times more likely to graze at a potentially infectious site where a zebra had died within the last year than at a random grassland patch nearby.
Carcass sites became less attractive 1. 5 to 2. 5 years after a zebra had died once the nutrients from the corpses faded away.
and to determine how different grazing animals respond to these infectious anthrax carcass sites. It remains uncertain
whether anthrax carcass sites are more attractive to herbivores than regular carcass sites are. Because anthrax prevents blood from clotting the researchers suspect that the anthrax-ridden carcasses might release more nutrients into the soil than regular carcasses do
So far my research has been focused very narrowly on the carcass sites because there really weren't any data available about how these sites may contribute to anthrax transmission over time Turner said.
The next step is to scale up from these sites to the landscape level looking at animal movement patterns long-term trends in weather patterns
and anthrax mortality records in this system. In addition Turner noted she would like to conduct a parallel study in the United states to see how North american herbivores respond to carcass sites.
This would add to our understanding of transmission for disease agents that can persist for long periods in the environment.
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#7 Strategies for Outdoor Lovers with Seasonal Allergies Do you love the great outdoors but don't feel so great out there during allergy season?
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#Trendy'Paleo'Diet May not Suppress Appetite The trendy paleo diet a plant-based diet inspired by the idea that human ancestors mainly consumed roughage may not be so good at suppressing appetite according to new research conducted on gut bacteria.
which brings a variety of benefits study author Glenn Gibson a professor of food microbiology at the University of Reading in the United kingdom told Live Science in an email.
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#Wild Monkeys Learn to Puzzle out Banana Video The wild marmosets living in the Brazilian forest have seen never a television show
The researchers took a miniature movie theater composed of a laptop screen in a box to the home ranges of 12 family groups.
but say it seems unlikely they considered a real monkey was living in the screen.
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#Lions: Facts & Information Lions are large felines that are depicted traditionally as the king of the jungle.
while the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) maintained by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service lists six other subspecies.
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and plug-in electric vehicle sales more than doubled from model year 2012 to model year 2013.
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#Earth-Friendly Packaging Made of Organic Mushroom Parts Most of today's gadgets and gizmos are packed with plastic
and Styrofoam that take eons to decompose. On top of that these packing materials are derived often from petroleum.
The mycelium spreads throughout the mixture binding it together in a strong web just like it would in soil.
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#Why Koalas Hug Trees The mention of a koala bear often conjures up an image of an adorable spoon-nosed creature cocking its head to one side while clinging to a tree.
(and hugging) trees will change their range with the hotter and drier weather brought by climate change Bill Ellis a wildlife researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia who was involved not in the study wrote in an email to Live Science.
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#EPA Aims To Slash Power plant CO2 by 30 Percent Nearly every state in the U s. now has a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal to meet under the Obama administration's new Clean
However in recent years DNA analysis confirmed that C. ferus was a separate species the San diego Zoo says on its website.
The experimental digital garden is part of the STAN (Science Technology Architecture Networks) research project at the University of Lincoln in the United kingdom. The project is designed to explore
Specially designed software then translated the reactions on Twitter into movements within the garden's mechanical landscape.
The software aims to intercept and expose some of this data in a tangible representation Duncan Rowland a researcher at the University of Lincoln's School of Computer science who developed the software application said in a statement.
The garden essentially points to a future in which buildings could modify themselves in response to monitoring our emotional state via social media Richard Wright a senior lecturer at the Lincoln School of architecture said in a statement.
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#The Wilderness Act Turns 50 John Weaver senior conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society has conducted field research in many wild areas across western North america over the past 45 years.
and carting animals from habitat degraded by climate change to new sites. Yet where is the evidence that more of the same we-humans-know-best#kind of thinking that led to extinction of species massive habitat destruction hundreds of nonnative species
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The packs broadcast the nerve signals to a computer where the scientists can study them.
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#Could Taxing Packaged Foods Reduce Obesity? If most foods created by the food industry are unhealthy why not place a stiff tax on all of them
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however three of them are extinct according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS. The taxonomy of tigers according to ITIS is:
#Apple Health App: What It Can and Can't Do Apple's new Health app is now up and running on the latest version of ios 8 but
what exactly can this app do for you? The first thing to know is that the Health app doesn't track information by itself at least not yet.
It's an aggregator meaning it pulls information from your other health apps and displays it all for you in a single dashboard.
So for Apple's Health app to be useful you'll need other health apps.
Experts say that aggregation apps like Apple's Health can offer users a new experience
while allowing them to keep the apps they've become accustomed to using. With the Health app Apple is saying you don't have to abandon your old apps
but here's a new experience that you can digest your old data in said Dan Ledger principal at consulting firm Endeavour Partners
Although this aggregation may not be difficult for people who use just two or three apps separately there may be opportunities for taking that data combining it
and visualizing it in ways that these stand-alone apps can't do said Ledger. Right now there is a limited selection of apps that work with Apple Health.
For example if you track your activity with a fitness tracker such as a Fitbit a Withings Pulse
or a Basis watch you're out of luck because the apps for these devices don't integrate with Apple Health yet.
But quite a few popular apps have updated already their software and do work with Apple Health including Jawbone UP Myfitnesspal and Run with Map My Run+.
+You can allow these apps to write data to your Health app so that your data like how many steps you take
and how many calories you've eaten will show up on the Health app dashboard. You can also allow these apps to read data from the Apple app
so your different health apps can share information with one another. Essentially the Health app serves as a hub allowing information to come in
and go out of a central place. And you can choose which information you want third-party apps to see. 10 Fitness Apps:
Which Is Best for Your Personality? But how does aggregation offer more of a benefit than tracking things in just one app?
After all the new UP app (which does not require a wristband) already tracks steps calories burned
and sleep and even has a place to input what you eat. To find out some of the potential benefits of aggregation I downloaded Myfitnesspal to track my food intake.
This app does not show you a graph of the data on individual nutrients over time
but Apple's Health app does. Here's what the graph looks like: Graphing information for a single nutrient like sodium may be a useful way to keep track of
whether you're getting too much or too little of it. However when I tested the app there seemed to be a few bugs in communication between Myfitnesspal and Apple Health:
First my nutrition data did not show up on the Health dashboard until I restarted my phone
and entered my nutrition information again. And second only one nutrition data point showed up at a time the app didn't show me a graph of my intake over time.
Ledger said there are other challenges to aggregating information. For example if you have one app that tracks your workouts
and one that tracks your steps and you go for a run the apps will have to know that that's one event which is not an easy problem to solve Ledger said.
Still tracker aggregators could help users find connections in their data that they might not notice otherwise like
whether their workout quality changes based on temperature or humidity levels he said. However it's not clear
if there's an app for that yet.)Also right now the Health app can aggregate a number of measurements from your apps
but it's not an all-inclusive list. For example there is no place to track menstrual cycles or your exposure to ambient light
(which some finesses trackers do track). In addition when developers make apps that provide prescriptive information about your health that is give you advice on how to be healthier they have to tread carefully
because they need to make sure those insights are said accurate Ledger. As a result many health apps provide only descriptive information (i e. just your stats.
The biggest challenge right now is getting those insights into an extremely high level of accuracy
or cause them to distrust the app even if the app is right most of the time Ledger said.
It's not about the 80 percent of the time you're going to get it right;
I go into the app and tell it Ledger said. That's a huge thing to ask of people.
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#End of the Hemlocks, a Lament (Op-Ed) Randy Edwards is a senior media relations manager for The Nature Conservancy
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but didn t show up in East Asian archaeological sites until 4500 years ago. Likewise another grain found in the shepherd s camps domesticated broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) may have originated in
and fed them food mixed with the artificial sweeteners Truvia Splenda Equal Sweet'N Low or Pure Via.
The researchers gave flies food with Truvia Pure Via pure erythritol or sucrose (table sugar.
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#Platypus Facts The platypus is one of the most unusual creatures in the animal kingdom. Platypuses (which is the correct plural form not platypi) have shaped a paddle tail like a beaver;
The taxonomy of the platypus according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) is: Platypuses are endangered not.
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#Why Global Food companies Are Dumping Animal Cruelty (Op-Ed) Josh Balk is food policy director at The Humane Society of the United states (HSUS.
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A new aspect to our study was to use maps obtained from Google earth to quantify land use in the areas surrounding the study farms.
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However the study concludes that the net warming caused by early humans was only 1. 3 degrees F (0. 73 degrees C) thanks to a slight cooling of 0. 31 degrees F
Ice cores suggest this is the case: carbon dioxide and methane levels over the past 8000 years don't follow their usual post-ice age trends.
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Vanishing wildflowers Between 10000 and 15000 years ago forbs declined in the Arctic study co-author Mary E. Edwards a physical geographer at the University of Southampton in England wrote in an email.
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#Bumblebees Can Fly Higher Than Mount everest Alpine bumblebees have the ability to fly at elevations greater than Mt everest scientists have found.
The team used a video camera to study how wing beat patterns changed to compensate for the thinner air
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#CVS to Become 1st National Pharmacy Chain to Stop Selling Tobacco The drugstore chain CVS/Caremark will stop selling tobacco products making it the first national chain to do so the company
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