Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Sunday, April 28, 2013 08:51Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: Campaign to save Barrier Reef from industry Conservationists accused Australia of failing to protect the Great Barrier Reef from massive industrial development as they launched a multi-million dollar campaign to drum up awareness.The move follows UNESCO demanding decisive action to protect the world's largest coral reef from a gas and mining boom and increasing coastal development, or risk the embarrassment of seeing it put on its danger list.The government says it is "absolutely committed" ...
Saturday, 27 April 2013
FW: Iranian scientist freed by U.S. returns home - local media
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 18:56Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: Iranian scientist freed by U.S. returns home - local media DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian scientist held for more than a year in California on charges of violating U.S. sanctions arrived in Iran on Saturday, Iranian media reported, after being freed in what the Omani foreign ministry said was a humanitarian gesture.Mojtaba Atarodi, 55, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Iran's Sharif University of Technology, had been detained on suspicion of buying high-tech U.S. laboratory ...
FW: State of war protects Chad's last elephants
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 17:58Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: State of war protects Chad's last elephants In an isolated wilderness in Chad, a war is being fought to save central Africa's decimated elephant herds from gangs of ivory poachers.The frontline is the southern Zakouma National Park: a 3,000-square-kilometre (1,900-square-mile) sanctuary that has lost 90 percent of its elephants in the last 10 years.Numbers plunged from 4,300 in 2002 to some 450 a decade later, thanks to a poaching bloodbath.The reserve now uses paramilitary-style tactics, ...
FW: Permit delays raise US-Canada pipeline costs: company
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 02:15Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: Permit delays raise US-Canada pipeline costs: company Delays in greenlighting TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline will increase construction costs and postpone its in-service date by at least six months, the company said Friday. "Due to ongoing delays in the issuance of a (US) presidential permit for Keystone XL, we now expect the pipeline to be in service in the second half of 2015," TransCanada said in its quarterly financials."Based on our pipeline construction experience, the $5.3 ...
FW: C.Africa elephant population down 62% in 10 years: NGOs
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 02:12Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: C.Africa elephant population down 62% in 10 years: NGOs Poaching on an "industrial" scale has slashed the elephant population in the countries of central Africa by nearly two-thirds, a group of international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) said on Friday."A recent study shows that the population of forest elephants has dropped by almost two-thirds or 62 percent in the past 10 years, victims of large-scale ivory poaching," the group of eight NGOs said in a statement."The situation ...
FW: India predicted to receive normal monsoon rains
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 00:08Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: India predicted to receive normal monsoon rains India will receive normal monsoon rains this year, the government said on Friday, boosting prospects of a stronger performance this year by Asia's third-largest economy.The pounding rains that sweep across the continent from June to September are dubbed the "economic lifeline" of India, which is one of the world's leading producers of rice, sugar, wheat and cotton."The southwest monsoon rainfall for the country is most likely to be normal," ...
FW: Cargo spaceship docks with ISS despite antenna mishap
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 27, 2013 00:01Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: Cargo spaceship docks with ISS despite antenna mishap An unmanned cargo vehicle on Friday successfully docked with the International Space Station, in a delicate manoeuvre after its navigation antenna failed to properly deploy following launch, Russian mission control and NASA said.Russian cosmonauts Roman Romanenko and Pavel Vinogradov first oversaw a so-called partial "soft docking" of the Progress craft at 1225 GMT, careful to make sure the unopened antenna did not cause any damage.Around ...
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Chinese poachers' ship hauled off Philippine reef
Feed: Science Yahoo UKPosted on: Saturday, April 20, 2013 02:19Author: Science Yahoo UKSubject: Chinese poachers' ship hauled off Philippine reef A Chinese fishing vessel that ran aground on one of the Philippines' most famous coral reefs more than a week ago was removed on Friday, the coast guard said.The 48-metre (157-foot) ship was hauled by a tugboat from Tubbataha, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed coral reef near the western island of Palawan where its crew are facing serious charges, a spokeswoman said."The hull of the vessel is still okay so according to (the salvage team), it is safe ...
Sunday, 14 April 2013
Vegetable research expertise space alert
The abilities difference within flower technology is actually placing the united kingdom scenery in danger through illnesses for example lung burning ash dieback as well as unexpected maple demise, horticultural specialists possess cautioned.The decline in expertise in plant pathology needs to be reversed to give the UK a better chance to detect and control diseases which could hit the countryside and gardens, urged the Royal Horticultural Society.Experts ...
Friday, 12 April 2013
Study: Austria's glaciers shrank in Year 2012
Nearly all of Austria's glaciers shrank significantly last year, with one glacier receding a record 97.3 metres (319.2 feet), the Austrian Alpine Association (OeAV) said Friday.Out of the 95 glaciers measured, 93 retreated an average 17.4 metres (57 feet) in 2012 while just two were unchanged, the body said in its annual report.One of the masses of ice, the Pasterze glacier that counts as Austria's longest, showed the biggest recorded loss -- 97.3 metres -- since records began in 1879.In 2011, the group found Austrian glaciers declined by an average of 17 metres, compared to 14 metres in 2010.According ...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
News 'Fingerprints on food' breakthrough - Info
Forensic scientists have successfully recovered fingerprints from food in a breakthrough which could lead to even more evidence being gathered in future police investigations. The scientists at Abertay University in Dundee modified an existing technique to get fingerprints from fruit and vegetables - said to be the first time this has been achieved in the UK. In the past, foods have proved difficult surfaces ...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Dinosaur themed embryos 'moved interior egg'
Dinosaurs grew in the egg in a similar fashion to modern birds, a study has suggested. Scientists made the discovery after examining a cache of more than 200 fossilised bones from embryonic dinosaurs. They were found strewn among fragments of eggshell and are all believed to belong to the same species, the 26-foot long-necked sauropod Lufengosaurus. The Early Jurassic fossils, dating back nearly 200 million years to the start of the dinosaurs' reign, originated from several different nests. The scientists believe they were washed by floodwater into ...
Monday, 8 April 2013
Rosemary odor 'may enhance memory'
The actual odor associated with rosemary might your own memory space, experts stated. Aroma of essential oil from the herb could improve memory in healthy adults, according to researchers from the University of Northumbria. The smell may enhance the ability to remember events and to remember to complete tasks at particular times, they said. A group of 66 people were given memory tests in either a rosemary-scented room or another room with no scent. Participants were tasked with various tests to assess their memory functions, including finding hidden ...
Smog-eating sidewalk upon 'greenest road within USA
The best rigs extremely previous smokestacks certain avoid get this to Chicago, il highway seem like the actual the most sustainable road in the usa. But their tires roll over smog-eating pavement, the streetlights run on solar and wind power, the sidewalks were made with recycled concrete, and shrub-filled "bioswales" keep storm water out of overtaxed sewers. "Sustainability is critical for us," Karen Weigert, chief sustainability officer for the city of Chicago, told AFP. "We think of it as a part of quality of life, about economic opportunity ...
Sunday, 7 April 2013
Seas might clarify collapse within environment modify: research
Environment modify might get even worse rapidly in case vast amounts of15506 additional temperature assimilated through the seas tend to be launched back to the environment, researchers stated right after introduction brand new investigation displaying which seas possess assisted offset the consequence of heating because 2000. Heat-trapping gases are being emitted into the atmosphere faster than ever, and the 10 hottest years since records began have all taken place since 1998. But the rate at which the earth's surface is heating up has slowed somewhat since 2000, causing scientists ...
Friday, 5 April 2013
Reside Seafood Present in Probably Tsunami Particles
The strangest stowaways yet have arrived on U.S. shores via debris possibly from the 2011 Japan tsunami: Live fish. The fish, which live off the coast of Japan and Hawaii, apparently made their way across the Pacific in a drifting 18-foot (5.5 meter) skiff. Of the five fish that made the journey, one is still alive and is being kept at the Seaside Aquarium in Oregon. "These fish could have been originally from Japanese waters, or they could have been picked up going close by the Hawaii coast," said Allen Pleus, the aquatic invasive species coordinator ...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Frosty A good deal through Heating, Research Discovers
Big swaths from the Frosty tundra is going to be comfortable sufficient to aid luxurious plant life as well as trees and shrubs through 2050, indicates a brand new research. Higher temperatures will lessen snow cover, according to the study, which is detailed in the March 31 issue of the journal Nature Climate Change. That, in turn, will decrease the sunlight reflected back into the atmosphere and increase warming. About half the areas will see vegetation change, and areas currently populated by shrubs may find woody trees taking their place. "Substitute ...
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