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Pacific's California current likened to Africa's Serengeti PlainWashington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2011 Like the vast African plains, two huge expanses of the North Pacific Ocean are major corridors of life, attracting an array of marine predators in predictable seasonal patterns, according to final results from the Census of Marine Life Tagging of Pacific Predators (TOPP) project published in the journal Nature. The paper culminates the TOPP program's decade-long effort to track top marine predator movements in the Pacific Ocean. It presents for the first time the results for all 23 tagged species ... read more |
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  Evolution to the rescue Evolution is usually thought to be a very slow process, something that happens over many generations, thanks to adaptive mutations. But environmental change due to things like climate change, habita ... more | .. |
  Pollination services at risk following declines of Swedish bumblebees Scientists from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the University of Lund have discovered that the community composition of bumble bee species and their relative abundances have cha ... more | .. |
  More Reseach and Funding Needed to Fight Diseases Affecting Global Poor Despite significant advancements in increasing distribution and development of vaccines against childhood killer diseases - including pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, and Haemophilus influenzae Type ... more | .. |
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  14 dead in widespread Philippine floods Widespread flooding due to unusually heavy rains in many parts of the Philippines has killed 14 people in recent days, the government said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Iraq: Faw fishermen trapped by maritime disputes Like the fish they net, fishermen in Iraq's southernmost Faw peninsula find themselves trapped by their country's unresolved maritime disputes with neighbouring Iran and Kuwait. ... more | .. |
  Quake-hit Christchurch home owners to learn fate Quake-hit Christchurch residents will this week learn which areas of the New Zealand city must be abandoned because the ground has become too unstable to rebuild, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Lyme disease tick adapts to life on the fragmented prairie A new study offers a detailed look at the status of Lyme disease in Central Illinois and suggests that deer ticks and the Lyme disease bacteria they host are more adaptable to new habitats than prev ... more |
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Oxford team unveils air-powered robots that synchronize without electronics
Teaching robots to map large environments
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 'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand - a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world - into a "super sand" with five times the filtering capacit ... more | .. |
 European And US Consumer Views On Cloned Products Differ Not all consumers share the same attitudes toward animal cloning, but the latest research from Sean Fox, Kansas State University professor of agricultural economics, shows that Americans may be more ... more | .. |
 Surprises from the ocean: Marine plankton and ocean pH The world's oceans support vast populations of single-celled organisms (phytoplankton) that are responsible, through photosynthesis, for removing about half of the carbon dioxide that is produced by ... more | .. |
 Early-season strawberry tested in high elevation conditions In response to increased awareness generated by the expanding local foods movement, demand for fresh strawberries has increased throughout the United States. The fresh market strawberry industry in ... more |
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  Researchers find smart decisions for changing environmental times You've just been told you're going on a trip. The only problem is, you don't know where you're going, how you'll be traveling, or what you'll do when you get there. Sound like a wild ride? It' ... more | .. |
 View to a krill: Prospects of feast drive marine predators A decade-long study of the Pacific's biggest predator species has pinpointed the food hotspots and migratory avenues which lure them in seasonal patterns, Nature reported on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  World Bank to fund environment projects in Madagascar The World Bank said Wednesday it was loaning an extra 52 million dollars (36 million euros) to Madagascar over three years to fund environmental projects despite the unsettled political situation on the Indian Ocean island. ... more | .. |
  Ai Weiwei: China's artist-activist Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is known as much for his activism as for his art - a fact that earned the government critic more than two months in detention but a surprise release on bail late Wednesday. ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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  Obama has failed to lead on climate: Gore Former US vice president and environmental activist Al Gore has accused President Barack Obama of failing to lead on climate change, warning that the very survival of civilization was at stake. ... more | .. |
 TEPCO books more than $1.5 bn in additional losses Japan's TEPCO said Wednesday it had booked an extra $1.1 billion loss to compensate victims of the Fukushima crisis, and would set aside another $473 million to bring the crippled plant under control. ... more | .. |
 Court moves to suspend work on Chilean dam Ambitious Chilean government plans to build a complex of giant dams in pristine Patagonia in the south ran into more difficulties after a court ordered the suspension of all work on the project. ... more | .. |
 Japan govt extends session amid turmoil Japan's centre-left government Wednesday pushed through an extension of the parliamentary session, but the threat of paralysis loomed amid bitter debate on when Prime Minister Naoto Kan will resign. ... more |
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 Ash clouds blacken Aussie tourism woes Cyclones, floods, earthquakes and now an ash-spewing volcano have come at a high price for Australia's aviation and tourism industries, which analysts say are losing tens of millions of dollars a day. ... more | .. |
 Hurricane Beatriz kills 3 in Acapulco Hurricane Beatriz killed three people in Acapulco on Tuesday and wreaked havoc at the start of Mexico's busy summer tourist season before weakening to a tropical storm. ... more | .. |
 Emperor penguin makes rare appearance in NZealand Wildlife experts said they were astonished Wednesday at the appearance of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand, some 3,000 kilometres (1,900 miles) from his Antarctic home. ... more | .. |
  Ex-China envoy launches White House bid Former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman launched his 2012 White House bid Tuesday, calling for the United States to withdraw from overseas conflicts to rebuild "our core here at home." ... more |
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Bezos's Blue Origin postpones rocket launch over weather
SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky
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 Chongqing, home of China's 'red' revival At the international airport in Chongqing in southwest China, travellers are greeted with a massive sign inviting them to "sing red songs" and spread the Communist party's good word. ... more | .. |
 Philippines' Jollibee food chain eyes China Jollibee Foods Corp, the Philippines' top restaurant chain, said Wednesday it planned to set up 280 new stores this year, including 90 in China, as part of a major expansion drive. ... more | .. |
 New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a coll ... more | .. |
 Where will grizzly bears roam The independent assessment, written by WCS Senior Conservation Scientist Dr. John Weaver, is a compilation and synthesis of the latest information on these species - and how climate change may affec ... more |
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 Native Bees are Selective about Where They Live and Feed Native bees - often small, stingless, solitary and unnoticed in the flashier world of stinging honeybees - are quite discriminating about where they live, according to U.S. Geological Survey researc ... more | .. |
  US National Fire Plan, return of Ozark lizard and the Arctic Tundra's fire regime This month in ecological science, researchers evaluate the U.S. National Fire Plan to restore western U.S. forests, fire's key role in the return of a native lizard to the Ozarks and what historical ... more | .. |
 Can humans sense the Earth's magnetism For migratory birds and sea turtles, the ability to sense the Earth's magnetic field is crucial to navigating the long-distance voyages these animals undertake during migration. Humans, however, are ... more | .. |
  Indonesian forest people condemn climate scheme Indigenous peoples of Indonesian Borneo on Wednesday demanded a halt to internationally backed forest conservation schemes, saying they are trampling their rights and robbing their lands. ... more |
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