and buildings are very good absorbers of the sun's rays. Rising numbers of scale insects in cities could spell trouble for city trees which can provide some environmental benefits like cooling through shade and carbon sequestration.
Since then study after study has confirmed that omega-3s in fish have a potent effect on reducing heart disease.
They're usually found in a 50:50 or 60:40 ratio in fish. These fatty acids are essential nutrients
and homicides in countries where people eat less fish as compared with countries where people eat more fish.
Osteoporosis is lower in populations who eat more fish such as Asians when compared to Europeans who eat more calcium-containing foods said Bruce Watkins nutrition professor at Purdue University.
And there is epidemiological evidence that men who eat more fish have a lower risk for prostate cancer.
Omega-3 in Fish May Reduce Breast cancer Risk There is also evidence that omega-3s may help prevent Type 2 diabetes
when the mother regularly eats fish.)Inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease may also improve with omega-3 supplementation.
and fish high in omega-3s were consumed and humans evolved a need for it. But today omega-3s have largely been replaced with omega-6s in vegetable oils especially soybean oil
The American Heart Association (AHA) recommends all adults eat a variety of fish particularly oily fish at least twice weekly
and may be used instead of eating the fish. Due to environmental pollutants found in fish experts recommend women of childbearing age keep fish intake to no more than 12 ounces per week.
But omega-3 researchers believe the risk of not getting enough omega-3 in your diet outweighs the potential risk of pollutants.
and canola oil is not as potent as marine-derived omega-3 from fish. The body has to convert ALA into DHA and EPA
In their plan scuba divers and fishermen could explore the site as long as they left the majestic trees intact.
The enchanted forest became a natural reef teeming with fish and crustaceans that sheltered between tree roots.
After Livescience's Ouramazingplanet originally reported the story people from around the country contacted Raines to discover the forest's location including several salvage companies hoping to mine the forest for its wood.
In their plan scuba divers and fishermen would be free to explore the site as long as they left the forest intact
But on piers shipworms typically eat enough wood underwater to make them structurally unstable within a year he said.
Burrowing animals such as shipworms and zebra mussels can destroy wood underwater making dating impossible. Here underwater trees in the Great lakes may not be subject to shipworms zebra mussels are slowly eating through the wood.
The outside is in pretty good shape but the inside is sort of like Swiss cheese Leavitt told Livescience.
That can make climate analysis and dating from tree rings impossible after several years he said.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) had collected the items over the past 25 years through smuggling busts
Poachers kill more than 30000 African elephants for their tusks each year according to some estimates. Â 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.
#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
After the shutdown began on Oct 1 the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) suspended most of its programs
when until the Fish and Wildlife Service resumes normal operations. The agency has yet to determine what it will do crushed with the ivory.
#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.
On Thursday (Nov 14) the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) will pulverize nearly 6 tonsâ (5. 4 tonnes) Â of illegal ivory items from whole tusks to tiny trinkets
The vitamin is also found in foods like fatty fish and fortified cereals milk and orange juice.
amounts of dairy eggs fish or even meat. I do not think that we all necessarily need to be vegans
The Mediterranean diet emphasizes fruits vegetables nuts fish and healthy fats. Those who adopted all four healthy behaviors had an 80 percent lower death rate over 7. 6 years compared to participants with none of the healthy behaviors lead author Haitham Ahmed of Johns Hopkins Hospital said in a statement.
The whales'tongues wear away the inner edges of the plates to create a fringe that traps krill and other tasty morsels.
8 grams protein 1 ounce meat/fish/chicken/cheese (the leaner the meat the more protein and the fewer calories:
Fishermen kill as many as 100 million sharks per year worldwide spurred in part by demand for shark fin soup a traditional Chinese delicacy.
Just a few years ago most Chinese didn't know that the dish came from sharks as its name translates to fish wing soup according to the Washington post.
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.
but also some fish and dairy thought to be nutritionally dense and thus good for one's health.
Salmon sardines mackerel and certain other fatty fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids thought to lower the risk of heart disease and stroke.
Most doctors say the benefits of eating fish far outweigh the risk of harming your health from the mercury these fish contain.
If you worry eat lower down on the food chain such as sardines smelt and anchovy. The exotic fruit of the year will surely be on any superfood list too.
Thousands of fish have been reported dead in the waters around Honolulu after a massive spill of molasses.
because sharks and eels were coming into the harbor to feed on the dead fish. It's sugar in the water Janice Okubo a spokeswoman for the Hawaii State department of Health told the Times.
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because the National Marine Fisheries Service regulates shark fishing in U s. waters and has exclusive authority to say
and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) on finning have developed cozy relationships with the industries they regulate.
and NMFS works hand-in-hand with many sectors of the fishing industry including people who kill sharks
In this case a state isn't regulating shark fishing or fisheries; it's simply stating that it does not want to allow an in-state market for detached shark fins
What the rich person demands the poor poacher provides Bergin said in a statement. In between is a nefarious network of criminals terrorists rebels
In some places the growth of wild turkey populations has been so dramatic it has caused minor problems said Kelsey Sullivan a wildlife biologist with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife in Bangor.
'Hot products'Animals like parrots are also desirable to poachers in the same way certain hot products like cellphones
The same goes for fish which are caught illegally more often when they ARE CRAVED. Fish found in multiple recipes a measure of enjoyableness are nine times more likely to be caught illegally than those less often found in cookbooks said Gohar Petrossian a researcher at William Paterson University in New jersey.
There are also 10 ports around the world that account for a large percentage of illegal and unregulated fishing she said.
In the same way the most crimes occur near a perpetrator's home the illegal fishing tended to take place near these ports Petrossian said.
In many cases poachers are opportunistic poaching to supplement their incomes or merely survive. Throwing money at the problem like hiring rangers doesn't necessarily help Leakey said.
#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
Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is one of the rarest owls in the world an endangered bird restricted to Russia China Japan and possibly North korea.
See Photos of Giant Salmon-Eating Owls The dead of winter Little was known about how this owl used its habitat
One of the reasons it's so hard to find fish owl nest trees is that the birds are almost unbelievably shy.
The one thing working in our favor to find where the owls fish in winter is snow Slaght said.
Fish owls will walk up and down the riverbank in their favorite fishing spots jumping in to catch fish here and there
and so even though we might not see the owls themselves they leave their tracks behind in the snow
and watching a fish owl hunt not more than 100 feet 30 m away completely unaware of my presence.
and their favorite prey salmon rely on giant old-growth trees for breeding and feeding. The large trees provide nesting cavities big enough for the birds
and shallow fast-moving channels that are critical to salmon at different stages in their lives.
Blakiston's fish owl is a clear indicator of the health of the forests rivers
and salmon populations Slaght said. In recent decades logging and other human activities have expanded into and endangered this owl's habitat.
and managing old-growth forests is essential for sustaining this species as well as eight salmon and trout species that spawn in the rivers there some of the 12 other owl species found in Primorye and mammals such as the endangered Siberian tiger Asiatic black bear and wild boar.
Large woody debris results in river complexity which brings in the salmon which brings in the fish owls Slaght said.
This is an important realization because some policymakers don't care about conservation but they do care about the economy.
We can now make a case for reduced logging in riparian riverbank zones in Primorye
because this action can potentially impact commercially valuable salmon populations. Slaght and his colleagues R. J. Gutiã rrez and Sergei Surmach will detail their findings in the October issue of the journal Oryx.
As a group people who said they ate yogurt also reported consuming higher amounts of other good for you-you foods such as fruits vegetables nuts fish
We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic.
#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.
Male smallmouth bass with female characteristics namely immature egg cells in their testes were discovered in the drainage areas of the Susquehanna Delaware
and Ohio rivers according to a new study led by the U s. Geological Survey (USGS). Such abnormalities are linked to estrogen-mimicking chemicals
and herbicides and human sources from wastewater treatment plant effluent and other sewage discharges study author Vicki Blazer a fish biologist with the USGS said in a statement.
and testosterone interfering with the fish's ability to reproduce. Bass seem to be especially prone to becoming intersex
when exposed to estrogenic compounds Blazer and colleagues said. Researchers with the USGS previously found intersex smallmouth bass in the Potomac river Basin similarly linked to endocrine-disrupting chemicals or EDCS.
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.
The researchers also sampled white suckers and redhorse suckers. Neither species showed signs of intersex characteristics
although the team did find an egg cell precursor in the blood of some white suckers.
while the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) maintained by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service lists six other subspecies.
and poachers kill an estimated 96 elephants in Africa a day to obtain their tusks the WCS said in their statement.
and National parks. For example there are nearly a half-million acres of roadless areas on the Flathead National Forest next to Glacier national park.
and off the California coast and identified danger zones where extensive fishing may harm the turtles according to Discovery. com. Dragonflies In a laboratory in Ashburn Virginia researchers are studying dragonflies by strapping tiny backpacks to the insects.
At issue is the higher cost of healthy food such as fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meats and fish
Most live on wildlife refuges to protect them from poachers. Tigers are fantastic swimmers. They can forge rivers
and whole grains or a diet of boiled potatoes and fish were less likely to have a preterm birth compared with women
A traditional diet by contrast was composed mainly of boiled potatoes fish gravy margarine rice pudding low-fat milk and cooked vegetables.
Zebra mussels remain underwater and go unnoticed entirely. A vast expanse of common reed grass may be choking out a local wetland
Even Asian carp currently the most talked-about invasive species in the Midwest were ignored largely until they began to heave their bodies out of the water and lash Illinois river anglers across their startled faces.
Asian Carp Spread to Upper Mississippi In my home state of Ohio people who love natural areas are about to get such a cold wet slap in the face in the form of the hemlock woolly adelgid#a tiny aphid-like insect
Hemlock forests make for good trout streams and are homes to happy salamanders. More prosaically there are
Our group was thrilled by the sight of a bald eagle flying over the river passing unnoticed by wading fishermen intent on catching trout.
and detect movement of potential food such as shrimp. Platypuses live in only one small area of the world.
When platypuses find something interesting like shellfish insects larvae or worms they scoop it up in their bills store it in their cheek pouches and swim to the surface.
and thieving has become a growing problem in Redwood national and state parks in Northern California where poachers enter the parks at night and leave with large burls and other knotty growths from the tallest trees in the world the New york times reports.
They eat small game such as rodents rabbits fish and frogs and larger game like deer.
Poachers are escalating the global war on wildlife through advanced technologies and techniques. In Asia they are hacking into the signals from tigers'satellite collars to find
The technology also has tremendous potential for patrolling coastal fisheries. To move beyond law enforcement to crime prevention the evolution of UAV technology must first be guided by a few practical cost-saving priorities.
They might consider a fisheries agent based on a coastal atoll who uses a tethered balloon carrying a radar sensor to detect all vessels that enter the community's no-take fishing sanctuary.
With such real-time information the agent could quickly radio-pinpoint directions to a local patrol boat enabling its officers to prevent illegal fishing
or to arrest poachers saving thousands of dollars in fuel that is normally spent cruising the ocean in search of poachers.
Or instead drone technicians might envision Congo forest eco-guards getting a closer and safer look at what appears be a group of well-armed ivory poachers near a salt lick.
A guard deploys an almost silent battery-powered hexacopter that maneuvers below the canopy searching for signs of poachers.
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
With these advances we can do more than catch poachers: We can prevent the killing in the first place.
Along with burning part of its ivory stockpile China has increased some of its enforcement against illegally trading ivory with the arrest last month of five poachers in Jilin Province a record the WCS said in its release.
While a female incubates her eggs her mate provides most of her meals (osprey eat a diet almost exclusively of fish.
Creepy, Freaky Creatures That Are (Mostly) Harmless From snaggletoothed sharks to giant crabs nature is full of animals that frighten people often for no good reason.
Public domain) Sand tiger Sharks The sand tiger shark has a mouth like a barbed-wire fence featuring row after row of sharp slender teeth.
But sand tigers want nothing to do with people their diet consists of small fish rays squids and shellfish.
Lauren Nichols Yourwildlife. org) Goblin Sharks With its pointy nose and protruding jaws the goblin shark looks like a swimmer's nightmare
Goblin sharks live in the deep ocean more than 200 meters 660 feet down where they would never encounter a human said Chip Cotton a fisheries ecologist at Florida State university.
Cotton notes that goblin sharks are also slow swimmers with soft flabby bodies and that while the jaws look menacing they're designed to snag squid not people.
I've had poked my finger by the teeth of a dead one they are needle-sharp
Carl Moore) Coconut Crabs Coconut crabs are frankly enormous weighing as much as 9 pounds (4 kilograms) and measuring 3 feet (1 meter) across.
They are said not aggressive Jakob Krieger a researcher at Universitã¤t Greifswald who studies coconut crabs.
The easiest way to avoid a coconut crab injury? Don't touch one or pick it up.
when studying them in the field) you can lure it out with a stinky piece of fish.
There are crabs walking around right now that were cracking open coconuts when Woodrow wilson was president. Photo credit:
Inside the C# was the Tethys Ocean and most of the rest of Earth was the Panthalassic Ocean.
and coral species. Ammonites similar to the modern nautilus were common as were brachiopods. The lobe-finned
and spiny fishes that gave rise to the amphibians of the Carboniferous were being replaced by true bony fish.
Sharks and rays continued in abundance. On land the giant swamp forests of the Carboniferous began to dry out.
Sending a kilogram (2. 5 pounds) of basic food to Mars would likely cost many times more than a similar amount of Beluga caviar consumed On earth.
Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins would also include fish. NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza.
Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins will include fish. While the exact forms that agriculture would take on Mars are still very much an unknown at least one thing is clear:
Why didn't someone spear a fish? A French research team figured out that by looking at the carbon atoms in mummies that had lived in Egypt between 3500 B c
The real mystery is the fish. Most people would probably expect the ancient Egyptians living along the Nile to have eaten loads of fish.
However despite considerable cultural evidence there seems to have been little fish in their diet. There is abundant evidence for fishing in Egyptian wall reliefs
and models (both spear and net fishing) and fish shows up in offering lists. There is also a lot of archeological evidence for fish consumption from sites such as Gaza
and Amama said Spence who added that some texts indicated that a few fish species were consumed not due to religious associations.
All this makes it a bit surprising that the isotopes should suggest that fish was consumed not widely.
Inside Science News Service is supported by the American Institute of Physics. Alexander Hellemans is a freelance science writer who has written for Science Nature Scientific American and many others e
#Pocket Pets? Mini Hedgehog and Tiny Tapir Fossils Found in Canada A miniature hedgehog smaller than a mouse
and a pint-sized tapir are the first mammals ever found at a fossil site in British columbia known for exquisitely preserved plants insects and fish.
See photos of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic hot spring Grand Prismatic is named for its colorful algae mat which circles the spring in shades of red orange yellow and green.
She also said that because of the spring's large algae mat the ground surrounding the site is soft making it impossible for park officials to assess the situation on foot.
They've also found shellfish animal bones pigment-stained stone tools and even ochre crayons inside these caverns.
In March the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service placed one of these species the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) on its list of threatened wildlife.
The estuary is a crucial habitat for fish including the economically important Chinook salmon Wesselman who was involved not in the American Rivers report told Live Science.
If the estuary collapses then these fisheries collapse Wesselman said. There are also farmers near the estuary who would prefer more water get downstream Cain added.
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This river is a major salmon habitat and public money funds salmon restoration projects to keep fish populations up.</
</p><p>But the Buckley Diversion Dam on the river kills many of these fish as they make their way upriver to spawn American Rivers reports.
The dam' s primary purpose is as a gateway for fish but the fish traps to transport the fish upriver are antiquated small
and. American Rivers is calling for upgrades to fix the dams and save the fish that taxpayers shell out cash to restore.</
</p><p>Another White river makes the list of endangered waterways in the No. 7 spot.
This White river is in northwestern Colorado where it provides drinking water for 7000 people in rural towns and supports a habitat full of fish and big game.</
</p><p>The White river is threatened by oil and gas development on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Endangered Atlantic sturgeon and shortnose sturgeon call the river home.</</p><p>A single potato farm can draw as much as 35 percent of the river'
s flow during drought a portion that can seriously impact fish and wildlife American Rivers reports.
which prevents steelhead trout from making it upstream. Stanford university owns the dam and its reservoir
but a gap in the levee at the New Madrid Floodway allows water to inundate a rich floodplain habitat supporting migratory birds and rare fish.</
</p><p>The Upper Colorado and its tributaries provide drinking water and recreation to residents of the Centennial state as well as habitat to 14 native fish species.
The Eastern wolf also known as Great lakes wolf Eastern timber wolf Algonquin wolf or deer wolf has been deemed a distinct species from their western cousins according to a review by U s. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.
Chitosan for example is a natural product obtained from crustacean shells. It has been shown to significantly maintain papaya fruit
In the summer the penguins dive for tiny lanternfishes about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from the archipelago returning every three to five days to feed their chicks.
The lanternfishes congregate in an ocean region called the polar front where cold polar water meets the warmer tropical water creating a sharp temperature gradient.
Current models predict that unmitigated climate change will push the polar front south taking the penguins'summer staple of lanternfishes farther from the islands.
Red meat alternatives include legumes nuts poultry and fish. Previous studies have linked red meat to several cancers particularly colon cancer.
Poultry included chicken and turkey and fish included tuna salmon mackerel and sardines. The results held
Late in the Triassic seafloor spreading in the Tethys Sea led to rifting between the northern and southern portions of Pangaea
The mid-to late Triassic period shows the first development of modern stony corals and a time of modest reef building activity in the shallower waters of the Tethys near the coasts of Pangaea.
Their vertebrae indicate they probably swam by moving their entire bodies side to side like modern eels.
Their vertebrae indicate they swam more like fish using their tails for propulsion with strong fin-shaped forelimbs and vestigial hind limbs.
The 63-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom was spotted taking care of her newborn earlier this month on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.
For example flying fish eggs are a key part of the albatross diet but flying fish sometimes attach their eggs to bits of discarded plastic floating at sea Leary explained.
Though the seafaring albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) lays only one egg a year mothers spend much of their year incubating
Adã lie penguins#medium-size cousins of emperor penguins common along much of the Antarctic coastline spend lots of time on sea ice searching for the krill that they feed on in the water below.
while hunting for krill than they have in the past Images: Adã lie penguins Cope with Changing Sea Ice Conditions.
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