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Guam rhino beetles got rhythm

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In May 2008 the island of Guam became a living laboratory for scientists as they attached acoustic equipment to coconut trees in order to listen for rhinoceros beetles. A grant from USDA IPM allowed Richard Mankin, a recognized ...





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New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

New tactics in Guam rhino beetle invasion

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Canines and a bio-control organism come to the rescue of Guam's coconut trees in efforts to control an invasive species plaguing the island.


Guam Navy and University of Guam partner to conserve native tree

Guam Navy and University of Guam partner to conserve native tree

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The University of Guam has completed the establishment of a conservation planting of Guam's endangered fadang tree on the island of Tinian. Guam Navy has funded the entire project and provided access to their ...


Come together, right now ... tropical depression 18W dissipates, Parma intensifies

Come together, right now... tropical depression 18W dissipates, Parma intensifies

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific are keeping in tune to the 1969 hit song by the Beatles, "Come Together." Tropical Depression 18W and Tropical Storm Parma are already beginning to merge now that ...


Brown Tree Snake

Brown tree snake could mean Guam will lose more than its birds

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created Aug 08, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In the last 60 years, brown tree snakes have become the embodiment of the bad things that can happen when invasive species are introduced in places where they have few predators. Unchecked for many years, ...


Marianas on alert: Melor joins the typhoon group

Marianas on alert: Melor joins the typhoon group

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Being a typhoon seems to be the "in thing" lately for tropical cyclones in the Western Pacific, and Melor is now one of the "in crowd." NASA's QuikScat and Aqua satellites helped the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon ...


Geoscientist Finds Surprise Hidden in the Pacific

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 15, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 0

UT Dallas geoscientist Dr. Robert J. Stern and former master’s student Neil Basu were part of a research team that discovered and studied an extinct underwater volcano near the southern Mariana islands, near Guam, in the ...


A 12-foot (3.65m) Burmese python that was captured in the backyard of a home in south Miami, Florida

Florida grapples slippery giant snake invasion

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Florida homes and swamps more used to dealing with dangerous critters like alligators now face a more foreign invader -- giant pet snakes escaped into the wild whose numbers are growing at an alarming rate.


Lincoln Park Zoo launches first-of-its-kind wildlife reintroduction database

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created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

On April 15, during the first International Wildlife Reintroduction Conference in Chicago, Lincoln Park Zoo announced the launch of a scientific resource called the Avian Reintroduction & Translocation Database (ARTD). The ...


Snail venoms reflect reduced competition

Biology / Evolution

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A study of venomous snails on remote Pacific islands reveals genetic underpinnings of an ecological phenomenon that has fascinated scientists since Darwin.


Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.



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