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[DPG News] Antibiotic Resistance: A Rising Concern In Marine Ecosystems ...: A team of scientists, speaking today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, called for new awareness of the potential for antibiotic-resistant illnesses from the marine environment, and pointed to the marine realm as a source for possible cures of those threats.

[Signs of the Times] Signs of the Times News for Sat, 21 Feb 2009: The research team, a collaboration between scientists at NOAA's Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., the Medical University of South Carolina and researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., noticed a sponge that seemed to thrive despite being located in the midst of a dying coral reef. After extraction, testing showed that one of the isolated chemicals, algeliferin, breaks down a biofilm barrier that bacteria use to protect themselves from threats including antibiotics.

[NOAA News Releases] NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...: The research team, a collaboration between scientists at NOAA’s Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, S.C., the Medical University of South Carolina and researchers at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., noticed a sponge that seemed to thrive despite being located in the midst of a dying coral reef. After extraction, testing showed that one of the isolated chemicals, algeliferin, breaks down a biofilm barrier that bacteria use to protect themselves from threats including antibiotics.  The same chemical can also disrupt or inhibit formation of biofilm on a variety of bacteria previously resistant to antibiotics which could lead to both palliative and curative response treatment depending on the problem being addressed.

[Brightsurf Science News :: Cultures News] What if Washingtonians don't address climate change?: Based on recent analysis, major climatic changes for Washington would include increases in temperatures, more extreme events such as severe storms, droughts and heat waves, decreases in snowfall and increases in rainfall and habitat losses for a variety of species along with a rise in undesired species and related diseases. The UO report also considers "the costs households and businesses would incur by continuing with technologies and behaviors that inefficiently use energy, even though more efficient alternatives are available at little or no cost."

[SciTopics] COASTAL OCEAN SCIENCE AND APPLICATION - SciTopics: Coastal Ocean Science studies the nature, the process and the evolutionary tendency of this unique land-ocean transitional area, and applies the scientific study to the coastal resources environment utilization and protection, marine economic development, territorial sovereignty, marine legislation and management, aiming to a harmonic relationship between human activities and the natural system in coastal ocean area. It is a new scientific branch formed on the base of Geography, Geology and marine science.

[Oceanus] WHOI : Oceanus : Are Pollutants Disrupting Marine Ecosystems?: Insects and crustaceans are both arthropods, which in addition to jointed limbs, share another common trait: They use the same hormones to carry out a wide range of crucial biological functions, ranging from molting, egg production, embryonic development, and sexual maturation, to energy metabolism, and even limb regeneration. So an insecticide targeted to disrupt hormones that help mosquitoes develop could easily disrupt other essential biological functions in crustaceans, Verslycke said.

[Newly Published Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Gulf of Thailand large marine ecosystem - Encyclopedia of Earth: People consuming bad shellfish have had food poisonings and illnesses. For these, and other pollution effects, see Eiamsa-Ard and Amornchairojkul (1997); and Longhurst (1998). Water and environmental quality vary seasonally. .... Beddington , J.R. and R.M. May,1982. The Harvesting of Interacting Species in a Natural Ecosystem. Scientific American 247: 42-49. Blackburn, M. 1981. Low latitude gyral regions. In: Analysis of marine ecosystems. Pp.3-29. ...

[Mankind2100: The Future] Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4): Chapter 7 - Vulnerability of ...: . These costs may include tensions between the state and riparian users, as well as between upstream and downstream riparian groups. The overexploitation of global commons, such as fisheries, the focus of another archetype, brings smaller-scale fisher groups and their governments into conflict with transnational or foreign-flagged ships that venture into exclusive economic zones from the depleted commons. Future energy generation and climate change directly link to security concerns for both oil-importing and oil exporting countries. In rapidly urbanizing coastal zones and SIDS, conflicts emerge over competition for the environment for tourism-related activities, or for its environmental services associated with marine ecosystems and local livelihoods. Greater attention to proper management of ecosystems and valuable resources promises lower vulnerability to violence and greater overall well-being.

[About RATS, AIKIDO, and a little about my life.] Entry for 29 November 2008. Grey wolf.: Gray wolves are typically apex predators in the ecosystems they occupy. Gray wolves are highly adaptable and have thrived in temperate forests, deserts, mountains, tundra, taiga, grasslands, and even urban areas.

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[R's blog] 'All Executive Orders Issued By Administration 1933-2008 ...: EO 13138 o Heritage Rivers Initiative Advisory Committee, American: EO 13080 o Heritage Rivers Interagency Committee, American: EO 13061 ....

[The Hill's Pundits Blog] The Hill’s Pundits Blog » Obama’s Middle East Moment: “For example, in support of the president’s (Bush) decision to avoid regulating emissions that cause climate change, the administration has consistently misrepresented the findings of the National Academy of Sciences, government scientists, and the expert community at large. Thus in June 2003, the White House demanded extensive changes in the treatment of climate change in a major report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

[Science/Conservation/Exploration] NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ANNOUNCES ITS EMERGING EXPLORERS FOR 2009: She has interviewed more than 80 traditional healers near her hometown of Kigoma, who have shared information on using plants to treat such ailments as skin and chest infections, stomach ulcers, diabetes, heart disease, mental illness and even cancer. Gobbo has recorded the information, with notes and photographs of the plants and their uses, into a computer database.

[A Striped Armchair] Wind and Song for the Blue Ocean (thoughts): I also learned lots of interesting science-y stuff: my favourite new discovery is the existence of aeloian ecosystems. What’s that you ask? It’s an ecosystem “supported entirely by wind, exists in the most baked and ...

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