Unselfish Marketers Link ExchangeYou are here » Unselfish Marketers Link Exchange » Links Directory » Science » Earth Sciences (0)
Earth Sciences RSS FeedsLandmark national study reveals significance of green practices in attractions industry - (Missouri Botanical Garden) The results of a national survey released by PGAV Destination Consulting, a planning and design firm in the international entertainment, tourism and hospitality industries, in collaboration with the world-renowned Missouri Botanical Garden, reveal an important understanding about consumer attitudes and perceptions regarding environmentally sustainable operations in attractions. The study, called "Survival of the Greenest," shows that nearly 75 percent of 18-34 year olds say they are more likely to visit an attraction that is pursuing environmentally friendly practices....Feed Source: www.eurekalert.org How Martian winds make rocks walk - (University of Arizona) Rocks on Mars are on the move, rolling into the wind and forming organized patterns, according to new research. Small rocks seen in images from the Spirit Rover end up evenly spaced across the landscape because of wind-caused erosion and deposition. This counters the previous idea that extremely high winds carried or pushed the rocks. ... Ocean treasure stored at Texas A&M's IODP repository - (Texas A&M University) Priceless treasure from the bottom of the sea is locked away at Texas A&M University, stacked on floor-to-ceiling racks and kept secure in 15,000 square feet of refrigerated space. ... January GEOLOGY media highlights - (Geological Society of America) GEOLOGY topics include "the best submarine record of displacement," geophysical data from the Black Sea, hazardous volcanic ice-slurry flows, the controversy over riverbank erosion rates, surface cracks in the Atacama Desert, CO2 sequestration, ultradeep Australian diamonds, Earth's magnetic field and the cosmic-ray-climate theory, fresh-water megafloods into the Pacific, early marine fossils preserved in French amber, tiny fossil fish teeth recovered by the Ocean Drilling Program, and alkaline groundwater at the dawn of land plant radiation.... Particulate emission from natural gas burning home appliances - (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Natural gas, believed to be among the cleanest forms of fuel, does emit ultrafine airborne particulate matter when burned in home appliances such as stove tops and water heaters.... Sea level rise of 1 meter within 100 years - (University of Copenhagen) New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level -- which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The groundbreaking new results from an international collaboration between researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, England and Finland are published in the scientific journal Climate Dynamics. ... Sequence matters in droughts and floods - (University of Chicago Press Journals) When extremes of drought and flood come in rapid succession, the extent of damage to vegetation may depend in part on the sequence of those events, according to a new study published in the American Naturalist. ... First Americans arrived as 2 separate migrations, according to new genetic evidence - (Cell Press) The first people to arrive in America traveled as at least two separate groups to arrive in their new home at about the same time, according to new genetic evidence published online on Jan. 8 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. ... Half of world's population could face climate-induced food crisis by 2100 - (University of Washington) New research shows that rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages.... Montville resident and NJIT professor receives engineering honors - (New Jersey Institute of Technology) Nirwan Ansari, of Montville, a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, has received two notable honors. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has named him a Fellow for his contributions to broadband networks and communications. ... Scientists publish first ever evidence of asteroids with earth-like crust - (University of Maryland) Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with a crust similar in composition to that of Earth's continents, reports a research team primarily composed of geochemists from the University of Maryland. Published in the Jan. 8 issue of the journal Nature, this is the first ever finding of material from an asteroid with a crust like Earth's, and the oldest rock with this composition ever found. ... Martian rock arrangement not alien handiwork - (University of Calgary) A new study published in the journal Geology explains how pebble-sized rocks organize themselves in evenly spaced patterns in sand.... Avian flu becoming more resistant to antiviral drugs, says University of Colorado study - (University of Colorado at Boulder) A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the resistance of the avian flu virus to a major class of antiviral drugs is increasing through positive evolutionary selection, with researchers documenting the trend in more than 30 percent of the samples tested.... Low level herbicide use can damage potato reproduction - (American Society of Agronomy) A recent study examining the development and reproduction of plants and the effects that herbicides can have upon those processes has shown that treating potato plants with low levels of herbicide application can have a detrimental effect on crop yields.... Tilting at wind farms - (Inderscience Publishers) A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of Power Electronics.... Male crickets with bigger heads are better fighters, study reveals, echoing ancient Chinese text - (Public Library of Science) In a study published in the Dec. 24 issue of the online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE, Judge and co-author Vanessa Bonanno show that males with larger heads and mouthparts are more successful in fights with smaller-headed rivals. ... Florida professor creates endowment for insect scientists - (Entomological Society of America) Dr. Nan-Yao Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida, has donated $250,000 to the Entomological Society of America for the establishment of an endowment to award creative entomologists who have demonstrated the ability to find alternative solutions to problems that significantly impact entomology. Each year, the interest from the $250,000 will be presented to the winner of ESA's newest award, the Nan-Yao Su Award for Innovation and Creativity in Entomology.... Polarized light pollution leads animals astray - (Ecological Society of America) Human-made light sources can alter natural light cycles, causing animals that rely on light cues to make mistakes when moving through their environment. In the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, a collaboration of ecologists, biologists and biophysicists has now shown that in addition to direct light, cues from polarized light can trigger animal behaviors leading to injury and often death. ... Four, three, two, one . . . pterosaurs have lift off - (Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions) Pterosaurs have long suffered an identity crisis. Pop culture heedlessly -- and wrongly -- lumps these extinct flying lizards in with dinosaurs. Even paleontologists assumed that because the creatures flew, they were birdlike in many ways, such as using only two legs to take flight. ... Biologist finds plant polymerases IV and V are really variants of Polymerase II - (Washington University in St. Louis) It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA Polymerases IV and V, found only in plants, are actually specialized forms of RNA Polymerase II, an essential enzyme of all eukaryotic organisms, including humans.... Mixing oil and water: COST explores sustainable links in energy and water management - (COST) COST is organizing an invitation-only exploratory workshop in Brussels, from Jan. 19-21, 2009. It is the first in a series of workshops on water and energy. The Energy-Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future takes place from Jan. 19-21, 2009, at Le Chatelain Hotel, Rue du Chatelain 17, 1000 Brussels. ... Volcanoes cool the tropics, say researchers - (The Earth Institute at Columbia University) Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. ... California study shows shade trees reduce summertime electricity use - (USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station) A recent study shows that shade trees on the west and south sides of a house in California can reduce a homeowner's summertime electric bill by about $25.00 a year. The study, conducted last year on 460 single-family homes in Sacramento, is the first large-scale study to use utility billing data to show that trees can reduce energy consumption.... Study: Can nature's leading indicators presage environmental disaster? - (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Economists use leading indicators -- the drivers of economic performance -- to take the temperature of the economy and predict the future. Now, in a new study, scientists take a page from the social science handbook and use leading indicators of the environment to presage the potential collapse of ecosystems.... GEN joins Charles Darwin 2009 celebration - (Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Theodosius Dobzhansky, the late great geneticist and evolutionary biologist, said it best: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."... Copyright © 2009, Unselfish Marketers Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |