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Veterinarian suggests top 10 holiday gift ideas for pets (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 01:00:59
| WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - As you check gifts off your holiday shopping list, consider the gift of health for your pet, says Lorraine Corriveau, a wellness veterinarian at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.
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Moderate earthquake hits in Kyrgyzstan (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 10:01:02
The quake had a depth of 26.5 miles and hit 16 miles
southeast of Osh, the second-largest city in the Central Asian
republic, near the border with Uzbekistan. |
Strong quakes jolt Papua New Guinea (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 07:00:57
| SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two strong earthquakes, a magnitude 6.2 quickly followed by a smaller aftershock, struck northeast Papua New Guinea on Wednesday, but no damage was reported. The first quake was centered 55 miles north of the coastal town of Lae at a depth of 29.8 miles, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported. A nearby aftershock at magnitude 5.5 struck at 1913 GMT. |
Deep-sea species' loss could lead to oceans' collapse, study suggests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:01:00
| University of Marche, Italy - The loss of deep-sea species poses a severe threat to the future of the oceans, suggests a new report publishing early online on December 27th and in the January 8th issue of Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. In a global-scale study, the researchers found some of the first evidence that the health of the deep sea, as measured by the rate of critical ecosystem processes, increases exponentially with the diversity of species living there. |
Cyclone veers away from Australia's northwest coast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:01:00
| SYDNEY (Reuters) - Oil companies have begun to resume production in Australia's remote northwest coast after government meteorologists on Sunday cancelled a cyclone warning for category two tropical cyclone Melanie.
The bureau cancelled cyclone warnings along the coast as Melanie, packing winds of up to 150 kph (94 mph), was moving away from the coast and was expected to remain offshore, it said on its Web site (www.bom.gov.au).
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Chile's Llaima volcano erupts, no injuries reported (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 09:01:00
| SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Llaima volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, sending a huge plume of smoke into the air, but there were no reports of damages or injuries, emergency officials said. Local television images showed a column of smoke visible from many miles away. |
Housewives are more ecologically aware and recycle more than university students (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:58
| University of Granada - According to a new study, a high awareness of the environment does not necessarily entail the practice of ecologically responsible behaviour.Research was carried out from a sample of 525 university students and 154 housewives. The research, carried out at the University of Granada, reveals that housewives are more willing to separate glass from other garbage than students. |
Good News About Ocean Methane (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:58
| Santa Barbara, Calif. - Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is emitted in great quantities as bubbles from seeps on the ocean floor near Santa Barbara. About half of these bubbles dissolve into the ocean, but the fate of this dissolved methane remains uncertain. |
New plant study reveals a 'deeply hidden' layer of the transcriptome (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 01-01-2008 at 11:00:58
| La Jolla, CA — Cells keep a close watch over the transcriptome — the totality of all parts of the genome that are expressed in any given cell at any given time. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of Missouri-Kansas City have now teamed up to peel back another layer of transcriptional regulation and gain new insight into how genomes work. |
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