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What Really Motivates Conservationists To Help Wildlife
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Aug 08, 2008Volunteers who take part in conservation efforts may do it more for themselves than the wildlife they are trying to protect, a University of Alberta case study shows. A study of purple martin landlords-those who keep and monitor special birdhouses on their land-revealed that they were more motivated to take part in the conservation project for egoistic rather than altruistic reasons. ... more Pacific Shellfish Ready To Invade Atlantic 
Davis CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008As the Arctic Ocean warms this century, shellfish, snails and other animals from the Pacific Ocean will resume an invasion of the northern Atlantic that was interrupted by cooling conditions three million years ago, predict Geerat Vermeij, professor of geology at the University of California, Davis, and Peter Roopnarine at the California Academy of Sciences. Climate models predict a nearly ... more Hundreds of homes damaged as quake shakes Indonesia 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 7, 2008A powerful 6.6-magnitude quake hit eastern Indonesia early Thursday, injuring at least four people and destroying more than 100 homes, officials said. The quake struck at 6:41 am (2241 GMT Wednesday) about 51 kilometres (31 miles) northwest of the town of Sumbawa, at a depth of 10 kilometres, the meteorology office said. Local district chief Abdurahman said 124 houses had been destroyed ... more Complete Neandertal Mitochondrial Genome Sequenced From 38,000-Year-Old Bone 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2008A study reported in the August issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, reveals the complete mitochondrial genome of a 38,000-year-old Neandertal. The findings open a window into the Neandertals' past and helps answer lingering questions about our relationship to them. "For the first time, we've built a sequence from ancient DNA that is essentially without error," said Richard ... more Forward Step In Forecasting Global Warming 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 08, 2008Arizona State University researchers have made a breakthrough in understanding the effect on climate change of a key component of urban pollution. The discovery could lead to more accurate forecasting of possible global-warming activity, say Peter Crozier and James Anderson. Crozier is an associate professor in ASU's School of Materials, which is jointly administered by the College of ... more |
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Boston (UPI) Aug 7, 2008 U.S.-led scientists say they have found the last traces of tundra that grew in interior Antarctica before temperatures dropped millions of years ago. The National Science Foundation-funded researchers said an abrupt, dramatic climate cooling during an approximately 200,000-year span -- a relatively brief period of geological time -- occurred about 14 million years ago, forcing the ... more Study: China's hail storms are decreasing 
Beijing (UPI) Aug 7, 2008 U.S. and Chinese researchers say they've determined climate change might be responsible for a decrease in hail falling across China. Hail -- defined as precipitation of balls or irregular lumps of ice produced by storm clouds -- forms when liquid raindrops freeze at altitudes above a threshold called the "freezing level height," researchers said. If drops cannot be formed above the free ... more The Drivers Of Tropical Deforestation Are Changing 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 08, 2008A shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation threatens the world's tropical forests but offers new opportunities for conservation, according to an article coauthored by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "New Strategies for Conserving Tropical Forests" will be featured in the September issue of the leading journal Trends in Ecology and Evol ... more UN target of 2010 will not be reached by all: AIDS leaders 
Mexico City (AFP) Aug 6, 2008The UN goal of achieving "universal access" to anti-HIV drugs and care by 2010 is unlikely to be reached worldwide, two leading figures in the campaign against AIDS said here on Wednesday. Looking to the mounting bill for the drugs that keep millions of poor people alive, they also said China and other fast-advancing economies could shoulder more of their own burdens in the future, freeing ... more CERN Announces Start-Up Date For LHC 
Gen�ve, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 08, 2008CERN1 has announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cool down phase of commissioning CERN's new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available through Eurovision. The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator ... more |
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Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 08, 2008In the largest field trial of its kind in the United States, researchers have determined that the giant perennial grass Miscanthus x giganteus outperforms current biofuels sources - by a lot. Using Miscanthus as a feedstock for ethanol production in the U.S. could significantly reduce the acreage dedicated to biofuels while meeting government biofuels production goals, the researchers ... more Researchers Analyze Material With Colossal Ionic Conductivity 
Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Aug 08, 2008A new material characterized at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a pathway toward more efficient fuel cells. The material, a super-lattice developed by researchers in Spain, improves ionic conductivity near room temperature by a factor of almost 100 million, representing "a colossal increase in ionic conduction properties," said Maria Varela of ORNL's ... more Japan kept quiet on food scare at China's request: FM 
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 7, 2008Japan's foreign minister said Thursday the government had withheld information about the latest health scare involving Chinese dumplings at the request of Beijing. Chinese authorities "asked us not to disclose it because it could become an obstacle to the police investigation," Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura said. The foreign ministry said Wednesday it had been told by Beijing that ... more Indonesia warns over forest fires on Borneo 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 7, 2008The number of forest fires on Indonesian Borneo has soared over the past two days due to land clearing, raising concerns it could lead to haze over Malaysia and Singapore, an official said Thursday. More than 400 forest fires from traditional farming methods -- blamed for the smoke which shrouds the region annually -- were being monitored on Indonesian Borneo Thursday compared to 217 on ... more BlueFire Ethanol Receives First Installment Of DOE Grant Funds 
Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 08, 2008BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has received the first installment of funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the development of the BlueFire Mecca, LLC plant in Southern California. Upon completion, the plant will produce approximately 17 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol per year from green waste, wood waste, and other cellulosic urban wastes. Receipt of this funding brings ... more
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