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Four New Species Of Zombie Ant Fungi DiscoveredLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2011 Four new Brazilian species in the genus Ophiocordyceps have been published in the online journal PLoS ONE. The fungi, named by Dr. Harry Evans and Dr. David Hughes, belong to a group of "zombifying" fungi that infect ants and then manipulate their behavior, eventually killing the ants after securing a prime location for spore dispersal. These results appear in a paper by Evans et al. entitled Hidden Diversity Behind the Zombie-Ant Fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis: Four New Species Described from ... read more |
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  Flood-Tolerant Rice Plants Can Also Survive Drought Rice, which is sensitive to drought due to its high water requirement, is particularly vulnerable to how global climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. If rice ... more | .. |
  Research Shows How Bacteria Communicate With Each Other A pathway whereby bacteria communicate with each other has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The discovery has important implications for efforts to cope with the ... more | .. |
  Foreign rescuers begin to leave Christchurch International rescue crews were pulling out of Christchurch as emergency operations in the stricken city shifted from finding earthquake survivors to recovering bodies, officials said Friday. ... more | .. |
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  Diversifying Crops May Protect Yields Against A More Variable Climate A survey of how farmers could protect themselves by growing a greater diversity of crops, published in the March issue of BioScience, has highlighted economical steps that farmers could take to mini ... more | .. |
  Using Artificial, Cell-Like Honey Pots' To Entrap Deadly Viruses Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of ... more | .. |
 UF Pine Island Pollen Study Leads To Revision Of State's Ancient Geography A new University of Florida study of 45-million-year-old pollen from Pine Island west of Fort Myers has led to a new understanding of the state's geologic history, showing Florida could be 10 millio ... more | .. |
 Scientists Study Control Of Invasive Tree In Western US Simply by eating the leaves of an invasive tree that soaks up river water, an Asian beetle may help to slow down water loss in the Southwestern United States. Two scientists from UC Santa Barb ... more |
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  Flying Texas Reptile: World's Oldest Pteranodon Fossilized bones discovered in Texas from a flying reptile that died 89 million years ago may be the earliest occurrence of the prehistoric creature known as Pteranodon. Previously, Pteranodon ... more | .. |
  Measuring Methane Methane is an extremely potent greenhouse gas. Wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, are all natural sources of atmospheric methane; however, th ... more | .. |
  Mekong dam faces resistance A 1,260-megawatt hydropower project in northern Laos poses a threat to the environment and surrounding communities, environmentalists say. ... more | .. |
  NASA to launch Earth observation satellite Friday NASA was poised to launch its Earth observation satellite, Glory, early on Friday after technical problems delayed its initial effort last month. ... more |
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 Modified alfalfa stirs debate in Texas The U.S. government's approval of genetically modified alfalfa is generating controversy in Texas, with organic farmers saying it will contaminate their crops. ... more | .. |
  Mugabe depends on diamonds for power Zimbabwe's leader, independence hero Robert Mugabe, is struggling to cling to power even though he has driven his once-prosperous country to bankruptcy and the way he's doing it is selling diamonds many see as mined at gunpoint. ... more | .. |
  Commentary: Libyan Ides of March? In the wake of a trillion-dollar war that gave Iran more say than the United States in Iraq's future, and the longest war in U.S. history in Afghanistan that seems headed for another trillion dollars and is yet to shrink the Taliban insurgency, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates wisely said those who would want to take on a third military operation - against Libya's Col. Moammar Gadhafi - should have their heads examined. ... more | .. |
 Talks on 'Green Climate Fund' postponed A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed until the second half of April, a UN official said on Thursday. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
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 High manatee, dolphin deaths puzzle US officials Near-record numbers of manatees have died in Florida waters in early 2011, the second straight year of above-average deaths, alarming officials who are also puzzled by a surge in dolphin fatalities along the US Gulf Coast. ... more | .. |
  Big chunks of Antarctic ice form beneath glaciers An international team of scientists has discovered that masses of ice in the Antarctic form underneath the ice sheet instead of on top, according to a study published Thursday. ... more | .. |
 'Ten years to rebuild' quake-hit New Zealand city It will take at least 10 years to rebuild Christchurch, officials said Thursday, warning it would be months before they could even begin to reopen the quake-hit New Zealand city. ... more | .. |
  Scientists slam 'Moonman' earthquake predictor New Zealand scientists have rounded on a quasi-mystic mathematician known as the "Moonman" who claims he predicted the devastating Christchurch earthquake by studying the moon. ... more |
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Germany, France with Cabinet reshuffle Germany and France both replaced their defense ministers in the past four days in decisions that could shake up an armed forces reform in at least one of the European countries. ... more | .. |
  Rights groups slam China Jasmine 'repression' Human rights groups on Thursday sharply criticised the Chinese government over what one called a "new wave of frenzied repression" in response to a call for anti-government rallies in China. ... more | .. |
 World's sixth mass extinction may be underway -- study Mankind may have unleashed the sixth known mass extinction in Earth's history, according to a paper released on Wednesday by the science journal Nature. ... more | .. |
 Clouds Amplify Ecological Light Pollution The brightness of the nightly sky glow over major cities has been shown to depend strongly on cloud cover. In natural environments, clouds make the night sky darker by blocking the light of the star ... more |
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 Polishing The Apple's Popular Image As A Healthy Food Scientists are reporting the first evidence that consumption of a healthful antioxidant substance in apples extends the average lifespan of test animals, and does so by 10 percent. The new res ... more | .. |
 Sustaining The Biodiversity Of The Western Great Plains Fire, cattle and even prairie dogs all could play a role in sustaining the biodiversity of the western Great Plains, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researcher. As large g ... more | .. |
 Productivity And Quality Of Grape Vary According To Plot Of Vineyard Under Cultivation Not all the terrain of the same vineyard has the same properties. Research undertaken by Neiker-Tecnalia (the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development) confirmed that, over the sam ... more | .. |
 Invasive Species Widespread, But Not More Than At Home Range Invasive plant species have long had a reputation as being bad for a new ecosystem when they are introduced. Stan Harpole, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa St ... more |
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 Queens University Scientists Behind Safer Drinking Water In US Pioneering technology by scientists at Queen's University Belfast, which is transforming the lives of millions of people in Asia, is now being used to create safer drinking water in the United State ... more | .. |
 Dry Lake Reveals Evidence Of Southwestern Megadroughts There's an old saying that if you don't like the weather in New Mexico, wait five minutes. Maybe it should be amended to 10,000 years, according to new research. In a letter published recently ... more | .. |
 Somali government push makes headway A multi-pronged offensive by forces supporting Somalia's beleaguered Transitional Federal Government against Islamist insurgents linked to al-Qaida appears to be making headway despite reports of heavy losses. ... more | .. |
 China says drought eased after snow, rain China has said that snow and rain in the country's northern wheat-growing regions over the past week had helped to ease a crippling drought that had sparked fears about rising global food prices. ... more |
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