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China's Programs Aim To Restore Environment And Help People
July 7, 2008 Two of the world's largest environmental programs in China are generally successful, although key reforms could transform them into a model for the rest of the world, according to new research ... > full story -
Rabbits, Mice And Prickly Shrubs Help Establish Natural Diversity
July 3, 2008 Small mammals, such as rabbits and mice, play a major role in the development of natural diversity. Biologists researched how scrub becomes established in natural grassland. It seems that prickly ... > full story -
University Experts Dispute Hawk-Eye's Wimbledon Line Call
June 12, 2008 Ahead of Wimbledon fortnight, researchers from Cardiff University are advising that sports decision aids such as the Hawk-Eye system should come with a 'health' warning attached. Hawk-Eye, and ... > full story -
Protecting The Wild Cousin Of Llama, The Guanacos, In Chile
June 10, 2008 The Wildlife Conservation Society has launched a study in Chile's Karukinka reserve on Tierra del Fuego to help protect the guanaco -- a wild cousin of the llama that once roamed in vast herds from ... > full story -
Kangaroos Threaten One Of Australia's Last Remaining Original Grasslands, And Endangered Animals
May 21, 2008 Australian Department of Defense is currently culling hundreds of kangaroos on the outskirts of the capital Canberra that have produced heated discussions and hit international headlines. Australia's ... > full story -
Sniffing Dogs Detect Feces To Help Monitor And Protect Threatened Animals In Brazil
May 12, 2008 It's a tough job, but somebody, or at least some dogs, have to do it. In the Cerrado region of Brazil, four dogs trained to detect animal feces by scent are helping researchers monitor rare and ... > full story -
New Reason For Bee Hive Collapse: Ecologists Tease Out Private Lives Of Plants And Their Pollinators
May 5, 2008 The quality of pollen a plant produces is closely tied to its sexual habits, ecologists have discovered. As well as helping explain the evolution of such intimate relationships between plants and ... > full story -
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Scientists Develop Technique For Extracting Hierarchical Structure Of Networks
May 1, 2008 Researchers show that many real-world networks can be understood as a hierarchy of modules, where nodes cluster together to form modules, which themselves cluster into larger modules -- arrangements ... > full story -
Did Dust Storms Make 1930s Dust Bowl Drought Worse?
April 30, 2008 Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the US Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, ... > full story -
Bison Can Thrive Again, Study Says
April 29, 2008 Bison can repopulate large areas from Alaska to Mexico over the next 100 years provided a series of conservation and restoration measures are taken, according to continental assessment of this iconic ... > full story
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