Much Of West Coast Faces Salmon Fishing Ban As Population Plummets,“There will be no wild-caught California salmon to eat unless someone has still got some vacuum sealed last year in their freezer." Tags:ConservationEnvironmentfishHuffPosthuffpost.com
Sleep Soundly: New Insights Could Pave the Way for Novel Treatments for Insomnia,Texas A&M biologist Alex Keene and his team used variant-to-gene mapping, a predictive genomics approach, to demonstrate that the gene Pig-Q plays a role in regulating sleep in humans, flies, and zebrafish. An effort funded by the National Institutes of Health, comprising of researchers from Tags:biologyinsomniaSciTechDailyscitechdaily.comSleep ScienceTexas A and M UniversityUniversity of Pennsylvaniazebrafish
A World in a Test Tube: Removing Traces of Life in Lab Helps NASA Scientists Study Its Origins,A specialized laboratory at JPL, designed to eliminate the chemical influence of modern organisms, allows scientists to investigate the chemistry that may have given rise to life. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Origins and Habitability Lab, you can find a world in a test tube. This is a si Tags:AstrobiologybiologyEvolutionJPLlifeNASASciTechDailyscitechdaily.com
Double the Brain Benefits: Study Identifies New Advantages of Group Exercise,A study at the University of Tsukuba in Japan has found that routine exercise helps prevent cognitive impairment in older adults, with exercising alone being beneficial, but exercising with others having an even greater positive effect. Regular exercise has benefits beyond a leaner and stronger p Tags:cognitionDementiaExerciseHealthNeuroscienceSciTechDailyscitechdaily.comUniversity of Tsukuba
Zimbabwe: UK Parliament Votes in Favour of 5-Year Ban On Import of Hunting Trophies - Zimbabwe Gets 25% of Conservation Funding From Professional Hunters,The UK Parliament Friday voted in favour of amendments to the Hunting Trophies (Import Prohibition) Bill that will effect a five year ban on hunting trophy imports if passed into law. Tags:allAfrica.comEnvironmentGovernanceLegal and Judicial AffairsNewsSouthern AfricaZimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Forests Disappearing in Energy Poor Zimbabwean Cities,In New Ashdon Park, a medium-density area in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, at new homes that have replaced a once thriving forest, makeshift fireplaces have become common sights as residents solely depend on firewood for energy. Tags:allAfrica.comBusiness and FinanceEconomyEnergyEnvironmentNewsSouthern AfricaZimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruining Already Diminishing Forests in Zimbabwe,With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands of trees to process gold ore. Tags:allAfrica.comBusiness and FinanceEconomyEnvironmentminingNewsSouthern AfricaWORLDZimbabwe
Zimbabwe: 'Practise Water Harvesting to Improve Production of Winter Crops',Agricultural experts have urged farmers to harvest rainwater for sustainable crop production adding that the initiative is a practical solution to crop moisture deficit. Tags:allAfrica.comEnvironmentNewsSouthern AfricaWater and sanitationZimbabwe
Your Next Scented Candle Could Be Made Of Recycled Plastic,Clariter, co-founded by Israeli-born Ran Sharon, uses a unique, patented method of chemical recycling to breathe new life into plastic waste. Tags:Editor's PicksEnvironmentNoCamelsnocamels.comTechnology
Your Final Resting Place Could Be a Coffin Made of Mushrooms,Loop wants to rebuild the world with ecological structures made of fungal mycelium. Its proof of concept? Living coffins. Tags:biologyDeathEnvironmentPlantsstartupsWIREDwired.com
Your Final Resting Place Could Be a Coffin Made of Mushrooms,Loop wants to rebuild the world with ecological structures made of fungal mycelium. Its proof of concept? Living coffins. Tags:biologyDeathEnvironmentPlantsstartupsWIREDwired.com
Your chance to help save red squirrels in Tweeddale,“In fact, if we do nothing, we could see our native Red Squirrels disappear from our woodlands in just 10 years." Tags:Border Telegraphbordertelegraph.comEnvironment
Three ways moving on from Aaron Rodgers impacts Packers
Three ways moving on from Aaron Rodgers impacts Packers,Moving on from a franchise quarterback is a challenging situation for any NFL team. Here are three ways the Packers will be impacted if Rodgers has indeed played his last game as a member of the
DOH warns vs eating seafood from oil spill areas
DOH warns vs eating seafood from oil spill areas,The Department of Health warned the public yesterday against eating fish and other seafood from areas affected by the oil spill.
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Washington turns to Wall Street to help rescue dying bank
Washington turns to Wall Street to help rescue dying bank,In a scene reminiscent of the last financial crisis, the federal government turned to Wall Street this week for help with a blossoming emergency in the banking sector
How the Hubble telescope is keeping a 265-year-old stargazing project alive,In 1758, a French astronomer started cataloging stars and comets through a ground telescope. Today, Hubble and amateur stargazers continue his legacy. Tags:Deep SpaceNasapopsci.comPopular ScienceScienceSpacespace telescope
Super Glue could make it easier to recycle plastic,The primary ingredient in Super Glue forms a moldable plastic that can be reduced back down to raw materials, making it more recyclable that petroleum-based plastics. Tags:chemistryEnvironmentpopsci.comPopular ScienceSustainabilityTechnology
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