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Researchers find schooling fish offer new ideas for wind farming

The quest to derive energy from wind may soon be getting some help from California Institute of Technology fluid-dynamics expert John Dabiri -- and a school of fish.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Harvesting of small fish species should be cut: study

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on the fishing of small fish species near the bottom of their food chains suggests harvesting at levels previously thought to be sustainable could have devastating effects on ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Growing seaweed can solve acidification

Large-scale cultivation of sea lettuce can help reduce acidification of the oceans. And help solve the global food supply problem to boot.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

New Yorkers bring fish farms to urban jungle

So you recycle, drive a small car, and try to eat organic. But what about running an eco-sustainable fish farm combined with a naturally fertilized vegetable patch in your kitchen?

Biology / Other

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Antibiotic resistant bacteria proliferate in agricultural soils

Infectious diseases kill roughly 13 million people worldwide, annually, a toll that continues to rise, aided and abetted by resistance genes. Now a study, published in the March Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy finds ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Wild salmon decline was not caused by sea lice from farm salmon: study

A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 13, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

When fish farms are built along the coast, where does the waste go?

If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open water of oceans or bays. Fish farming, a relatively inexpensive ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 15, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Hidden water holds the key to a changing desert

Passover, which celebrates the Israelites' flight from Egypt, ended Tuesday night. Yet after the exodus, they wandered the desert for 40 more years. There, Moses struck a rock with his staff and made water ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 27, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Tiny shrimp leave giant carbon footprint: scientist

Measured by environmental impact, a humble shrimp cocktail could be the most costly part of a typical restaurant meal, scientists said Friday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 18, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture

Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease

University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food s ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Evidence supports ban on growth promotion use of antibiotics in farming

In a review study, researchers from Tufts University School of Medicine zero in on the controversial, non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in food animals and fish farming as a cause of antibiotic resistance. They report that ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US

(AP) -- Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chicken of the sea? Tuna farming getting a boost

(AP) -- Thousands of tuna, their silver bellies bloated with fat, swim frantically around in netted areas of a small bay, stuffing themselves until they grow twice as heavy as in the wild. Is this sushi's ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers use Google Earth to verify Mediterranean fish farming data

The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth's satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers have used them to estimate ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0