News tagged with west
The tourist trap: Galapagos victim of its own success
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mosquitoes with the potential to carry diseases lethal to many unique species of Galapagos wildlife are being regularly introduced to the islands via aircraft, according to new research published ...
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Do Chicago’s suburbs hold the key to understanding West Nile virus?
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Tony Goldberg is not whacking through the brush of central Africa, one of the world's great cauldrons of emerging human and animal disease, he is scouring another disease hot spot: the ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Probing Question: Can a pandemic be predicted?
SARS. Ebola. West Nile. Avian flu. Over the past decade, the world has watched and waited to see if these viruses would develop into global health threats. In recent weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) sent a shockwave ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Climate change amplifying animal disease
Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 25, 2009 |
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Device targets mosquitoes with deadly nectar
(AP) -- The ProVector Bt may not look too much like a real flower, but the artificial device sports bright, finely tuned colors and sweet nectar that can lure and kill mosquitoes that potentially carry diseases.
May 06, 2009 |
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Megadroughts in sub-Saharan Africa normal for the region
Devastating droughts worse than the infamous Sahel drought are part of the normal climate regime for sub-Saharan West Africa, according to new research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Field stations foster serendipitous discoveries in environmental, biological sciences
North America's biological field stations have long been home to a rich legacy of research results, scientists say, making them important places for serendipitous discoveries in the biological and environmental ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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West Nile virus studies show how star-shaped brain cells cope with infection
A new study published as the cover article for the April 2009 issue of The FASEB Journal promises to give physicians new ways to reduce deadly responses to viral infections of the brain and spinal cord. In the report, scient ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 31, 2009 |
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New wheat disease could spread faster than expected
Both plant and human diseases that can travel with the wind have the potential to spread far more rapidly than has been understood, according to a new study, in findings that pose serious concerns not only for some human ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Invasive Parasite Spreading Among West Coast Estuaries
(PhysOrg.com) -- A parasitic isopod that scientists identified five years ago has all but decimated mud shrimp populations in coastal estuaries ranging from British Columbia to northern California - with the ...
Feb 26, 2009 |
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Sea level rise could be worse than anticipated
If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2009 |
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Molecules help the immune system to detect cells infected with West Nile virus
New research reveals a model of host-pathogen interaction that explains how the immune system finds and destroys cells infected with a potentially lethal brain virus. The study, published online on February 5th in Immunity, a Cell ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 05, 2009 |
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California study shows shade trees reduce summertime electricity use
A recent study shows that shade trees on the west and south sides of a house in California can reduce a homeowner's summertime electric bill by about $25.00 a year. The study, conducted last year on 460 single-family homes ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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