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New Species Of Crustacean Discovered Near Canary Islands
August 24, 2009 — During a cave diving expedition to explore the Tunnel de la Atlantida, the world's longest submarine lava tube on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, a team of scientists and cave divers have discovered ... > full story -
Is Bat White-Nose Syndrome An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?
August 3, 2009 — New research provides even more evidence that a previously undescribed, cold-loving fungus is associated with white-nose syndrome, a condition linked to the deaths of up to 1,000,000 cave-hibernating ... > full story -
'Ebola Cousin' Marburg Virus Isolated From African Fruit Bats
August 1, 2009 — Infection with Marburg virus and the related Ebola virus can produce severe disease in people, with fever and bleeding. During outbreaks, as many as 90 percent of those infected have died. The ... > full story -
Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture
June 11, 2009 — At times in the distant past, an abrupt change in climate has been associated with a shift of seasonal monsoons to the south, a new study concludes, causing more rain to fall over the oceans than in ... > full story -
Cantabrian Cornice in Spain Has Experienced Seven Cooling And Warming Phases Over Past 41,000 Years
June 3, 2009 — The examination of the fossil remains of rodents and insectivores from deposits in the cave of El Mirón, Cantabria, has made it possible to determine the climatic conditions of this region ... > full story -
Environmental Pollution Increases Risk Of Liver Disease, Study Finds
May 29, 2009 — A new study is the first to show that there is a previously unrecognized role for environmental pollution in liver disease in the general US adult population. This work builds upon the groups' ... > full story -
Peruvian Stalagmites Hold Clues To Climate Change
May 15, 2009 — How will the Netherlands, dominated by water, be affected by future climate change? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen hopes to answer that question by analyzing stalagmites from the South ... > full story -
Caves Closed In U.S. To Slow Bat Disease Spread
May 5, 2009 — Caves on many state properties in the U.S. will temporarily close as a precaution against the uncontrolled spread of white-nosed syndrome, which is killing bats in record numbers in the eastern ... > full story -
Cave Activity Discouraged To Help Protect Bats From Deadly White-Nose Syndrome
May 2, 2009 — White-nose syndrome, a wildlife crisis of unprecedented proportions, has killed hundreds of thousands of bats from Vermont to West Virginia and continues unchecked. Now, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ... > full story -
Underground Subatomic-Particle Measurements Yield Meteorological Clues
March 25, 2009 — When high-energy cosmic rays interact with molecules in the atmosphere, they produce muons, negatively charged elementary particles that can be detected at ground level or underground. The rate of ... > full story
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