News tagged with availability
Are some rainforests too rainy?
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tropical birds migrate to escape the weather While some bird species migrate thousands of miles annually, others follow a much shorter migratory route - specifically, up and down tropical Costa Rican mountains.
Apr 08, 2010 |
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China and India: Neighbors need to collaborate for sake of global environment
With large and growing economies and populations, China and India will strongly influence the quality of the global environment for years to come. While their political relationship is strained, it's critical ...
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Study finds that low-income women living in small cities have higher chance of obesity
A recent Kansas State University study found that the availability of supermarkets -- rather than the lack of them --increased the risk of obesity for low-income women living in small cities. This suggests that policies to ...
Mar 09, 2010 |
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Glacier-melting debate highlights importance of satellites
The intense public debate on how rapidly the Himalayan glaciers are retreating highlights the necessity for the constant monitoring of glaciers worldwide by satellites.
Feb 01, 2010 |
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Exploring energy efficiency in multi-scale computing systems
The University of California, San Diego and nine other universities are members of a new research center charged with finding ways to improve the design of computing systems ranging from large data centers ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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America's increasing food waste is laying waste to the environment
Food waste contributes to excess consumption of freshwater and fossil fuels which, along with methane and carbon dioxide emissions from decomposing food, impacts global climate change. In a new paper published in the open-access, ...
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Water scarcity will create global security concerns
Water scarcity as a result of climate change will create far-reaching global security concerns, says Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace ...
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...
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Jun 02, 2009 |
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Better water use could reduce future food crises
If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, Stockholm Environment ...
May 05, 2009 |
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Remembrance of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Riverside biologists researching the behavior of field crickets have found for the first time that female crickets remember attractive males based on the latter’s song, and use this information when choosing ...
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Healthy food availability could depend on where you live -- so does the quality of your diet
The availability of healthy food choices and your quality of diet is associated with where you live, according to two studies conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers examined ...
Feb 25, 2009 |
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Dialysis patients residing at higher altitude have lower rate of death
Compared to dialysis patients living near sea level, dialysis patients living at an altitude higher than 4,000 feet have a 12-15 percent lower rate of death, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 03, 2009 |
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