http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 65 arthropods, 14 plants, eight fishes, five sea slugs, one coral, and one fossil mammal. They were described by two dozen Academy scientists along with several dozen international collaborators. http://www.physorg.com/news180035773.html Biology Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:20:03 EST news180035773 Imagine that an unknown force hacks your city into two chunks. Because of this new barrier, you can`t get from your home to your office or the grocery store. Suddenly, your access to critical resources is restricted and your life is immeasurably more difficult. http://www.physorg.com/news179683230.html Biology Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:30:01 EST news179683230 (PhysOrg.com) -- Idaho National Laboratory biologist Frank Roberto squats on a bare, gravelly patch of ground in Yellowstone National Park's rolling backcountry. At his feet, scalding water churns in a mustard-yellow pool the size of a wheelbarrow. http://www.physorg.com/news178310667.html Biology Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:10:02 EST news178310667 Moose eat plants; wolves kill moose. What difference does this classic predator-prey interaction make to biodiversity? http://www.physorg.com/news176352833.html Biology Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:54:37 EST news176352833 A team of Spanish scientists from a variety of fields has analysed the effects of human activity on the peridunal lagoons in the Doņana National Park. Results show that the lagoons are in the process of regressing, largely due to the extraction of underground water for the Matalascaņas tourist resort (Huelva). Moreover, the natural effects of the ecosystem itself are further aggravating the situation. http://www.physorg.com/news174139526.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:40:03 EST news174139526 (PhysOrg.com) -- A five-year-old male Tiger was freed from a poacher`s snare on Sunday after it was found by WWF`s Wildlife Protection Unit (WPU) just off a highway that cuts through the Belum-Temengor forest complex in the northern state of Perak. http://www.physorg.com/news174056783.html Biology Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:30:02 EST news174056783 You wouldn't be able to buy a Burmese python as a pet anymore in Florida, under a bill drafted by a state senator who said the state should shut off the source of "dangerous reptiles" that have colonized the Everglades. http://www.physorg.com/news172917334.html Biology Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:40:02 EST news172917334 (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park. http://www.physorg.com/news172743431.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:20:03 EST news172743431 Seems like every week a species from somewhere else shows up in a new area and takes over, wreaking havoc. The latest hotspot: the Galapagos, where non-native mosquitoes are arriving via aircraft and tour boats. http://www.physorg.com/news170964606.html Biology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:10:01 EST news170964606 (AP) -- The world's only naturally migrating whooping cranes, and the species' best chance for survival, died at about twice their normal rate last year and will likely see an overall drop in their numbers, a worrying sign for the once near-extinct bird that has been making a comeback. http://www.physorg.com/news170443781.html Biology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:30:26 EST news170443781 (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 today. http://www.physorg.com/news169282786.html Biology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:00:27 EST news169282786 Large trees have declined in Yosemite National Park during the 20th century, and warmer climate conditions may play a role. http://www.physorg.com/news168094371.html Space & Earth Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:29 EST news168094371 Researchers are proposing in a new report that a major experiment be conducted to reintroduce wolves to a test site in the Scottish Highlands, to help control the populations and behavior of red deer that in the past 250 years have changed the whole nature of large ecosystems. http://www.physorg.com/news167311315.html Biology Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:23:09 EST news167311315 Thread-like fungi that grow in soils at high elevations may play an important role in restoring whitebark and limber pine forests in Canada. Montana State University professor Cathy Cripps is looking for ways to use fungi to help pine seedlings get a strong start. http://www.physorg.com/news167057753.html Biology Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:56:44 EST news167057753 Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week. http://www.physorg.com/news166251048.html Biology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:51:23 EST news166251048 Sulfolobus islandicus, a microbe that can live in boiling acid, is offering up its secrets to researchers hardy enough to capture it from the volcanic hot springs where it thrives. In a new study, researchers report that populations of S. islandicus are more diverse than previously thought, and that their diversity is driven largely by geographic isolation. http://www.physorg.com/news162642213.html Biology Wed, 27 May 2009 11:24:12 EST news162642213 Concerned that powerboats are tearing up seagrass in Florida Bay, Everglades National Park has proposed a range of possible restrictions on boaters to protect a vast, shallow estuary that supports sea turtles, fish and clouds of wading birds. http://www.physorg.com/news161875522.html Space & Earth Mon, 18 May 2009 14:25:57 EST news161875522 A new report from the National Research Council finds a lack of strong scientific evidence that the present level of oyster farming operations by Drakes Bay Oyster Co. (DBOC) has major adverse effects on the ecosystem of Drakes Estero, a body of water north of San Francisco within Point Reyes National Seashore, which is owned by the National Park Service. http://www.physorg.com/news160753276.html Space & Earth Tue, 05 May 2009 14:41:49 EST news160753276 (AP) -- The only bald eagle nest on Santa Cruz Island is now a lonely place, one that webcam viewers were delighted to monitor just a few weeks ago. http://www.physorg.com/news159860074.html Biology Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:36:36 EST news159860074 (AP) -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news158723054.html Space & Earth Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:44:55 EST news158723054 (AP) -- The two dozen or so gray wolves that wander an island chain in northwestern Lake Superior are suffering from backbone malformations caused by genetic inbreeding, posing yet another challenge to their prospects for long-term survival, according to wildlife biologists. http://www.physorg.com/news158049807.html Biology Sat, 04 Apr 2009 07:44:08 EST news158049807 Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once thought to remain firmly fixed in place, in fact move beneath Earth's crust. http://www.physorg.com/news157902147.html Space & Earth Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:50:37 EST news157902147 Arsenic may be tough, but scientists have found a Yellowstone National Park alga that's tougher. http://www.physorg.com/news155841706.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:22:22 EST news155841706 New infra-red footage released Thursday captures hitherto unseen images of elusive Javan rhinos, the most endangered mammal in the world with less than 60 individuals believed to remain alive. http://www.physorg.com/news155484557.html Biology Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:47 EST news155484557 (PhysOrg.com) -- The wind barreled across the ice at Daily Lake as Montana State University paleoecologist Cathy Whitlock and three students used all their strength to pull a metal pipe out of the mucky lake bottom. With much effort, they hauled up 16,000 years of history from the glacial lake. http://www.physorg.com/news154967156.html Space & Earth Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:14 EST news154967156 No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. Settlers and trappers killed them all in little more than three decades. http://www.physorg.com/news152463800.html Biology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:03:55 EST news152463800 (PhysOrg.com) -- Times are tough for wildlife living at the frontier between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Armies are reportedly encamped in a national park and wildlife preserve on the Congolese side, while displaced herders and their cattle have settled in an adjoining Ugandan park. http://www.physorg.com/news152452577.html Biology Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:56:42 EST news152452577 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador -one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news152294109.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:55:31 EST news152294109 An African elephant never forgets - especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Their findings, published online in the journal, Molecular Ecology, reveal that the negative effects of poaching persist for decades after the killing has ended. http://www.physorg.com/news151672284.html Biology Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:12:14 EST news151672284 New data released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) reveals that a population of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park may be the largest in Southeast Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news151160631.html Biology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:51 EST news151160631