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No human is a clone of their parents but the same cannot be said for other living things. While your DNA is a combination of half your mother and half your father, other species do things differently. The advantage of clonal reproduction is that it produces an individual exactly like an existing one-which would be very useful for farmers who could replicate the best of their animals or crops ... read more 
Quebec, Canada (SPX) Jun 17, 2009Damon Matthews, a professor in Concordia University's Department of Geography, Planning and the Environment has found a direct relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming. Matthews, together with colleagues from Victoria and the U.K., used a combination of global climate models and historical climate data to show that there is a simple linear relationship between total ... more |
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Norwich, UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2009Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean have been comprehensively 'flattened' over the last 40 years, according to a disturbing new study by the University of East Anglia (UEA). The collapse of reef structure has serious implications for biodiversity and coastal defences - a double whammy for fragile coastal communities in the region. It was already known that coral cover in the Caribbe ... more 
Fairbanks AL (SPX) Jun 17, 2009The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes. Study results indicate that the ice sheet may be responsible for nearly 25 percent of global sea rise in the past 13 years. The study also shows that seas now are rising by more than 3 millimeters a year--mo ... more 
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 17, 2009It may not be the Yeti, but in a remote region of the Russian mountains a previously unknown and entirely unique form of plant root has been discovered. Lead Scientist Professor Hans Cornelissen and his Russian-Dutch team describe this finding in Ecology Letters. The root belongs to the small alpine plant Corydalis conorhiza and unlike normal roots, which grow into soil, they extend upward ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2009The deep ocean is not a well-understood environment. It has been only 30 years since hydrothermal vents, and the zoo of bizarre creatures that inhabit them, were first discovered on the Pacific seafloor near the Galapagos Islands. Before that time, the consensus among scientists was that Earth's ocean depths were dead zones. Since then, however, hydrothermal vent systems around the world h ... more |
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Vancouver, Canada (AFP) June 15, 2009The succulent braised rabbit served up at Raincity Grill comes garnished with a mound of curled wild lettuce, harvested from the mountains surrounding Vancouver. In fact, the rabbit itself -- and nearly every other menu item at this trendy beachside restaurant -- is from a nearby farm or producers' market. This west coast Canadian city is a mecca for so-called "locavores" who eat ... more  
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2009Clearing the Amazon rainforest increases Brazilian communities' wealth and quality of life, but these improvements are short-lived, according to new research published in Science. The study, by an international team including researchers at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, shows that levels of development revert back to well below national average levels when the ... more  
Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Jun 16, 2009A research article published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) describes an approach to identify which U.S. populations within specific geographic regions are likely to be most susceptible to adverse effects of heat, as well as which areas are most in need of intervention. With reports of heat waves increasing in frequency, intensity and duration ... more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 16, 2009Scientists and non-scientists now have easy access to information about when living species and their ancestors originated, information that previously was difficult to find or inaccessible. Free access to the information is part of the new Timetree of Life initiative developed by Blair Hedges, a professor of biology at Penn State University, and Sudhir Kumar, a professor of life sciences at ... more |
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