News tagged with geographers
Warmer environment means shorter lives for cold-blooded animals
Temperature explains much of why cold-blooded organisms such as fish, amphibians, crustaceans, and lizards live longer at higher latitudes than at lower latitudes, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of ...
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Geographic profiling applied to track hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa
Predation is one of the most fundamental and fascinating interactions in nature, and sharks are some of the fiercest predators on Earth. However, their hunting pattern is difficult to study because it is rarely ...
Jun 22, 2009 |
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City-dwellers have higher risk of late-stage cancer than rural residents
People who live in urban areas are more likely to develop late-stage cancer than those who live in suburban and rural areas. That is the conclusion of a new study published in the June 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journa ...
May 11, 2009 |
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Rumbaugh's theory links positions of Wilson, Skinner
When Dr. Paul Naour was looking for a conclusion to his book detailing a previously unknown 1987 tape recording of a conversation regarding human behavior between theorists E.O. Wilson and B.F. Skinner, he found it at Great ...
May 01, 2009 |
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Majority of doctors skeptical of organ transplantation practices in China
The globalization of health care and the growth of "transplant tourism" (traveling abroad to purchase donor organs and undergo organ transplantation) have outpaced the implementation of internationally accepted ethical standards ...
Apr 23, 2009 |
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Malaysia urged to force big oil to produce biofuel
Malaysia must force major oil firms to produce biofuel if the once-vaunted biodiesel industry is to have any future, industry experts told a conference Thursday.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 12, 2009 |
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UCLA geographers urge U.S. to search 3 structures in Pakistan for bin Laden
While U.S. intelligence officials have spent more than seven years searching fruitlessly for Osama bin Laden, UCLA geographers say they have a good idea of where the terrorist leader was at the end of 2001 ...
Feb 17, 2009 |
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Inuit are on the right track
Inuit trails are more than merely means to get from A to B. In reality, they represent a complex social network spanning the Canadian Arctic and are a distinctive aspect of the Inuit cultural identity. And what is remarkable ...
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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Global warming linked to European viral epidemic
An epidemic of the viral disease nephropathia epidemica (NE) has been linked to increases in the vole population caused by hotter summers, milder winters and increased seedcrop production by broadleaf trees. Research published ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 16, 2009 |
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Rats say: Manhattan rules!
If you leave it up to the rats, New York City beats New Orleans any day.
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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