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Scientists IDs genesis of animal behavior patterns

Scientists IDs genesis of animal behavior patterns

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, MIT engineers and colleagues have observed the initiation of a mass gathering and subsequent migration of hundreds of millions of animals — in this case, fish.





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US Atlantic cod population to drop by half by 2050

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A University of British Columbia researcher put a number to the impact of climate change on world fisheries at today's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago.


Hydrogen milestone could help lower fossil fuel refining costs

Technology / Energy

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hydrogen researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have reached a milestone on the road to reducing carbon emissions and protecting the nation against the effects of peaking ...


Climate changes, Cod collapse have altered North Atlantic ecosystems

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 23, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Ecosystems along the continental shelf waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from the Labrador Sea south of Greenland all the way to North Carolina, are experiencing large, rapid changes, reports a Cornell oceanographer ...


Scientists look for reasons behind herring decline

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an ominous environmental sign, California regulators this month closed all herring fishing in San Francisco Bay for the first time ever, shutting down the last commercial fishery in the Bay.


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Condition of bluefin tuna in gulf of maine is declining

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created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The quality of giant bluefin tuna caught in the Gulf of Maine has declined significantly since the early 1990s, researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found by analyzing detailed logbooks from ...


North Atlantic fish populations shifting as ocean temperatures warm

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

About half of 36 fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, many of them commercially valuable species, have been shifting northward over the last four decades, with some stocks nearly disappearing from U.S. waters as they ...


Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Hydrogen milestone moves energy independence one step forward

Technology / Energy

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (14) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory.


This NOAA satellite image shows Hurricane Ike in 2008

Experts predict quieter Atlantic hurricane season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Weather experts on Wednesday reduced the number of projected hurricanes in the north Atlantic this season to four, two of them major hurricanes with winds above 178 kilometers (111 miles) per hour.


Still a low chance of development for 2 lows

Still a low chance of development for two lows

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created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The two areas of thunderstorms in the Caribbean from yesterday, July 21, are on the move. One area is now moving into out of the Caribbean and into the eastern Atlantic Ocean while the other is now moving ...


Sea worm thought to be extinct spotted off Spain

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A sea worm that uses a trunk to catch prey that was thought to be extinct has been rediscovered in the waters of the Atlantic off northwestern Spain, researchers said Monday.



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