News tagged with seaweed
Greenpeace warns of radioactive sea life off Japan
Environmental group Greenpeace warned Thursday that marine life it tested more than 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant showed radiation far above legal limits.
May 26, 2011 |
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Weed-eating fish 'key to reef survival'
Preserving an intact population of weed-eating fish may be vital to saving the world's coral reefs from being engulfed by weed as human and climate impacts grow.
Mar 10, 2011 |
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Oldest fossils of large seaweeds, worm-like animals tell story of ancient oxygen
Almost 600 million years ago, before the rapid evolution of life forms known as the Cambrian explosion, a community of seaweeds and worm-like animals lived in a quiet deep-water niche near what is now Lantian, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Antifungal compound found on tropical seaweed has promising antimalarial properties
A group of chemical compounds used by a species of tropical seaweed to ward off fungus attacks may have promising antimalarial properties for humans. The compounds are part of a unique chemical signaling system ...
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Oldest fossils of large seaweeds, possible animals tell story about oxygen in an ancient ocean
Almost 600 million years ago, before the rampant evolution of diverse life forms known as the Cambrian explosion, a community of seaweeds and worm-like animals lived in a quiet deep-water niche under the sea ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Microsponges from seaweed may save lives (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsponges derived from seaweed may help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are an essential ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Island-scale study reveals climate-change effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- A large-scale UC Davis experiment with ants, lizards and seaweed on a dozen Caribbean islands shows that predicting the effects of environmental change on complex natural ecosystems requires a large laboratory.
Jan 31, 2011 |
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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.
Dec 23, 2010 |
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Seaweed: The new trend in water purification
(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologist Charles Yarish is turning his enthusiasm for seaweed into a new system for cleaning up waterways.
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Researchers offer first proof that chemicals from seaweeds damage coral on contact
Field studies have shown for the first time that several common species of seaweeds in both the Pacific and Caribbean Oceans can kill corals upon contact using chemical means.
May 10, 2010 |
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Seaweed to tackle rising tide of obesity
Seaweed could hold the key to tackling obesity after it was found it reduces fat uptake by more than 75 per cent, new research has shown.
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Seaweed extract may hold promise for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma treatment
Seaweed extract may eventually emerge as a lymphoma treatment, according to laboratory research presented at the second AACR Dead Sea International Conference on Advances in Cancer Research: From the Laboratory to the Clinic, ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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New marine plant identification guide for Panama's Eastern Pacific
Marine Plants of Pacific Panama is a new, online identification guide to more than 120 marine algae. Developed by Smithsonian marine biologists Diane and Mark Littler in conjunction with the bioinformatics ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Safer hair dyes and cosmetics to be made from Shetland seaweed
Scientists have launched a project to make hair dye out of seaweed from around the Shetland Islands.
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Mass spec technique analyzes defensive chemicals on seaweed surfaces for potential drugs
A new analytical technique is helping scientists learn how organisms as simple as seaweed can mount complex chemical defenses to protect themselves from microbial threats such as fungus. Known as desorption ...
Apr 06, 2009 |
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