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Mapping Mangroves By Satellite Washington DC (SPX) Dec 01, 2010 Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coastlines. But ground-based evidence suggests these vital coastal forests have been strained in many regions because of harvesting for food, fuel, and medicine. Now, scientists have used satellite images to compile the most comprehensive map of mangroves worldwide, which should help in future efforts in monitoring and conservation. Mangrove forests are typically ma ... read more |
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Primates Are More Resilient Than Other Animals To Environmental Ups And Downs What sets mankind's closest relatives - monkeys, apes, and other primates - apart from other animals? According to a new study, one answer is that primates are less susceptible to the seasonal ups a ... more | .. |
Effects Of El Nino Land South Pacific Reef Fish In Hot Water Unseasonal warm temperatures caused by El Nino have a profound effect on the fish populations of coral reefs in the South Pacific, scientists have found. An international team of biologists studied ... more | .. |
Rainforest Conservation Needs A New Direction To Address Climate Change Conservation and international aid groups may be on the wrong course to address the havoc wreaked by climate change on tropical rainforests, according to a commentary appearing in the journal Nature ... more | .. |
Invasive Pest Danger Closer Than You Think In Australia, when crossing from one state to another, travelers may encounter a quarantine stop and may be required to forfeit recently purchased fruits and vegetables as a hedge against invasive p ... more |
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Governments Worldwide Censor Web Content Where you live in the world largely determines how freely you can access the internet. The level of cyber censorship in different countries around the world is directly related to how authoritarian ... more | .. |
Record-High Greenhouse Gas Concentrations The increase in carbon dioxide concentrations is also seen in the measurements made by the Finnish Meteorological Institute at the Pallas station, where the annual increase has been 2.0 ppm. The inc ... more | .. |
Global Sea-Level Rise At The End Of The Last Ice Age Southampton researchers have estimated that sea-level rose by an average of about 1 metre per century at the end of the last Ice Age, interrupted by rapid 'jumps' during which it rose by up to 2.5 m ... more | .. |
Travel disruptions as Europe shivers in fresh snowfalls Heavy snowfalls forced some of Europe's busiest airports to close and wreaked havoc on roads and railways Wednesday as an unseasonable cold snap swept the continent, claiming at least 15 lives. ... more |
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Climate talks hit bump as Lula expects no result World climate talks struck a sour note on their third day Wednesday as Japan was accused of weakening the campaign for a post-2012 treaty by retreating from the landmark Kyoto Protocol. ... more | .. |
Quarter of HK people want to move over bad air: survey About 25 percent of Hong Kong's population wants to leave the city to escape its notoriously polluted air, which has been described as a health crisis, said a survey released Monday. ... more | .. |
Tech innovations fuel biology breakthroughs New technologies that help drive the blistering pace of discovery in biology were highlighted by a panel of experts Wednesday in a "top ten" list of game-changing innovations. ... more | .. |
Fight climate change with bamboo, says campaign group World leaders pondering the conundrum of climate change should think of bamboo, a group promoting the versatile grass said at the UN talks in Cancun on Wednesday. ... more |
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Amazon deforestation rate at historic low: Brazil Deforestation of the Amazon forest has fallen to its lowest rate on record, dropping 14 percent compared to the previous survey period, Brazil's government said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Ex-official implicates two Chinese leaders in AIDS scandal A retired senior Chinese health official on Wednesday called for two of the country's most powerful leaders to take responsibility for a huge 1990s blood-selling AIDS scandal. ... more | .. |
China says 2010 pollution goal met, efficiency on track China has met its 2010 target to cut emissions of key pollutants and is on track to meet its energy efficiency goal, state media on Wednesday quoted the country's top climate change official as saying. ... more | .. |
US vows to fight AIDS until it's gone President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed "tremendous progress" made in the fight against AIDS and expressed hope of eradicating the disease that has claimed 25 million lives worldwide. ... more |
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Pakistan's flood aid 'unspent and mismanaged' Mismanagement and misuse of cash are hampering relief efforts for Pakistan's flood victims with nearly 60 million dollars in a prime minister's fund still unspent, officials say. ... more | .. |
Arsenic-Polluted Water Toxic To Bangladesh Economy The well-reported arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh - called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history" by the World Health Organization and known to be responsible ... more | .. |
Freshwater Mussels Discovered In Urban Delaware River Scientists working with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Academy of Natural Sciences have made an important discovery in the Delaware River between Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton ... more | .. |
Novel Services For Tropical Forest Monitoring With Satellite A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the Euro ... more |
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Researchers Reveal Way In Which Possible Earthquakes Can Be Predicted Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem who have been examining what happens in a "model earthquake" in their laboratory have discovered that basic assumptions about friction that have bee ... more | .. |
Mystery Dissolves With Calcium Pump Discovery Geo-microbiologists from Arizona State University have solved a long-standing conundrum about how some photosynthetic microorganisms, endolithic cyanobacteria, bore their way into limestone, sand gr ... more | .. |
Gene Transfer From Transgenic Crops: A More Realistic Picture A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton p ... more | .. |
Water Resources Played Important Role In Patterns Of Human Settlement Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists, including Uni ... more |
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