Showing posts with label BIODIVERSITY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BIODIVERSITY. Show all posts
Saturday, December 13, 2014

NSF HELPS FUND RESEARCH ON GENETIC ORIGINS OF BIRDS

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  'Big bang' of bird evolution mapped by international research team Genes reveal histories of b...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

SCIENTISTS WORK TO PRESERVE BIODIVERSITY

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Protecting biodiversity In one of the world's richest biological hotspots, an international group...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

HERBEVORES AND FERTILIZER CAN INCREASE PLANT BIODIVERSITY

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FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Herbivores + light = more plant biodiversity in fertilized grasslands Research on six continents shows...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

STUDY LOOKS AT TOMATOES ON THE WILDSIDE TO EXAMINE BIODIVERSITY

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Supermarket Tomatoes.  Credit:  USDA-Wikimedia. FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION  Staple of recipe favorites--the tomato--reveals pro...
Friday, August 9, 2013

WHERE DISEASES AND CLIMATE CHANGE INTERSECT

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Rat Eating Seeds.  Credit:  Wikimedia. FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Infectious diseases and climate change intersect with no sim...
Friday, June 7, 2013

UNDERSTANDING NATURES BIODIVERSITY: ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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Marbled Salamander.  Credit:  NSF/Wikimedia Commons FROM: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Understanding Biodiversity Patterns in Nature:...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

PRE-COLOMBIAN HUMANS AND THEIR EFFECTS UPON THE AMAZON BASIN

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Photo:  Blue Parrot.  Credit:  Wikipedia. FROM:  NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Scientists Reconstruct Pre-Columbian Human Effects on the ...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

U.S. OFFICIAL SPEAKS ON GOING GREEN WHILE IN VIETNAM

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The following excerpt is from a U.S. State Department e-mail: Remarks on Green Growth Remarks Robert D. Hormats Under Secretary for Econ...