Jun 10 2011

Milk Clean After Floods

Tag: Animal Research,Animal Science,Chemistry,Floods,Food,Food Chain,Pollution,Water — Tim Wall @ 5:20 pm
Milk gets a clean bill of health even from cows grazing from flood-contaminated soils.

May 17 2011

Protecting Marine Wildlife With Tags

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animal Breeding,Animal Science,Conservation,Scientific Discoveries,Zoology — Kieran Mulvaney @ 5:35 pm
Satellite tagging of animals can have conservation benefits.

Apr 20 2011

Climate Is Biggest Factor in Sea Turtle Survival

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animal Behavior,Animal Breeding,Animal Science,Biodiversity,Meteorology,Oceanography,Water — Kieran Mulvaney @ 5:20 pm
A new study shows that sea temperature measurements one year are the best predictor of sea turtle nesting numbers thirty years later.

Apr 11 2011

America’s Fishing Law On the Line

Tag: Animal Science,Conservation,Fish,Food,Oceanography — Christina Reed @ 7:39 pm
Wednesday marks the 35th anniversary of the nation’s first comprehensive fishing law, but the renamed Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act is on the hook.

Apr 06 2011

Caribbean Black Corals Date Back to Jesus

Tag: Animal Anatomy,Animal Relationships,Animal Research,Animal Science,Chemistry,Conservation,Corals,Food Chain,Oceanography,Water — Tim Wall @ 11:35 am
Alive and growing slowly in some of the deepest parts of the ocean, black coral provides a living link to history.

Apr 05 2011

Breast Milk From a Cow? Not So Fast…

Tag: Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing,Animal Science,Animals,Cows,Dairy — Emily Sohn @ 5:51 pm
Cows are engineered to make milk enhanced with a healthy human protein. But it's still a stretch from human milk.

Feb 20 2011

The Fallout of a Helium-3 Crisis

Tag: Animal Science,Chemistry,Engineering,Everyday Science — Christina Reed @ 12:17 am
A shortage of a specific type of helium has caused a physics and engineering scramble across the United States.

Feb 07 2011

Melting Snowpack Puts Wolverines at Risk

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animal Instincts,Animal Science,Biodiversity,Carbon Emissions,Climate Change,Forests,Global Warming,Mountains,Water — Christina Reed @ 9:12 pm
Cutting carbon emissions soon could help save mountain snowpack, and so wolverines, in the northwest United States.

Jan 25 2011

Coral Moves North to Beat the Heat

Tag: Animal Behavior,Animal Relationships,Animal Science,Carbon Emissions,Climate Change,Conservation,Fish,Global Warming,Oceanography,Water,Weather,Zoology — Tim Wall @ 3:49 pm
From corals to opossums - migrations are part of global change.

Jan 18 2011

Solving the Mystery of a Turtle Disease

Tag: Amphibians and Reptiles,Animal Science,Biodiversity,Conservation,Pollution,Water — Kieran Mulvaney @ 8:47 pm
Researchers may finally have discovered the cause of a debilitating virus in green turtles.
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