News tagged with tropical fruit

CDC: Fruit pulp linked to rare US typhoid cases

(AP) -- A rare U.S. outbreak of typhoid fever has been linked to a frozen tropical fruit product used to make smoothies, health officials reported Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Discovery of natural odors could help develop mosquito repellents (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Entomologists at the University of California, Riverside working on fruit flies in the lab have discovered a novel class of compounds that could pave the way for developing inexpensive and ...

Biology / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Bats without borders: World's largest bats need international protection

Without at least a temporary reprieve from hunting, the world's largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the "large flying fox", could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the current hunting rate, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Tracking endangered elephants with satellite technology

A hundred years ago wild elephants on the Malay Peninsular could be counted in their thousands — now there are less than 1500. Over the last century around 50 per cent of forest cover in Peninsular Malaysia ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Biologists produce potential malarial vaccine from algae

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in engineering algae to produce potential candidates for a vaccine that would prevent transmission of the parasite that causes malaria, an achievement that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The absence of elephants and rhinoceroses reduces biodiversity in tropical forests

The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses puts the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk. With the help of Spanish ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New avocado rootstocks are high-performing and disease-tolerant

Avocado, a significant fruit crop grown in many tropical and subtropical parts of the world, is threatened by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), a disease that has already eliminated commercial avocado production ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Satellite tagging cassowaries for more efficient management

(Phys.org) -- Wildlife researchers say they are making the cassowary conservation dollar go further by tracking the birds with satellite tags.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers develop new technique to assess diversity of plant species from afar

By analyzing vegetation information collected by satellites over time instead of for just one day, scientists in the Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) have ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Climate change threatens Seychelles habitat

Bursts of torrential rain lash the idyllic white beaches of the Seychelles, where conservationists fear that rare species such as the giant tortoise are at severe risk from climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Battling insects that cause trouble in paradise

(PhysOrg.com) -- We aren't the only species that like tropical vacation spots. Japanese beetles plague parts of the Azores, and Oriental fruit flies infest some of French Polynesia. But U.S. Department of ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Indigenous peoples at forefront of climate change offer lessons on plant biodiversity

Humans are frequently blamed for deforestation and the destruction of environments, yet there are also examples of peoples and cultures around the world that have learned to manage and conserve the precious resources around ...

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A lost world? How zooarchaeology can inform biodiversity conservation

A new study of tropical forests will provide a 50,000-year perspective on how animal biodiversity has changed, explored through an archaeological investigation of animal bones.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 13, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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