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Georgia Tech researchers conducted the first field study showing how endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings use their limbs to move quickly on a variety of terrains in order to reach the ocean. (Credit: Alan Rees)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2010) — Life can be scary for endangered loggerhead sea turtles immediately after they hatch. After climbing out [...]

The reddish glow from the city lights of Boulder, Colo., is the result in part of the light being scattered by haze particles. UW scientists have discovered unexpected chemistry involving the pollutants that make up the haze. (Credit: Phil Armitage)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2010) — The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 10, 2010) — A study of extinction patterns of 25 large mammal species in India finds that improving existing protected areas, creating new areas, and interconnecting them will be necessary for many species to survive this century.

Krithi Karanth on a research expedition in India. (Credit: Image courtesy of Duke University)
The study, by a [...]

When Marjorie Macias Rizzo was offered a job on the Galapagos Islands in 2006, she was excited.

Some argue the islands focused too much on conservation.
She had never been to the islands before and she was interested in her new job: data manager for a three-year project on sustainable development.
She was aware of the strict laws [...]

ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) — The King Cobra continues to weave its charm with researchers identifying a protein in its venom with the potential for new drug discovery and to advance understanding of disease mechanisms.

(Credit: Wikimedia commons)
The novel protein named haditoxin has been described in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (March 12, 2010).
Haditoxin was discovered [...]

There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports.

Fishermen are worried about the lack of elvers returning to Lough Neagh.
Lough Neagh is one of Europe's biggest waterways and its richest eel fishery.
But something has gone terribly wrong.
The millions of young eels, known as elvers, [...]

Musk Ox (Ovibos moschatus) (Credit: Tim Bowman, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 9, 2010) — A team of scientists has discovered that the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began roughly 12,000 years ago was due to a warming climate rather than to human hunting.

"This is the first study to use ancient [...]

2010 March 8

Mars Over the Allalinhorn
Credit & Copyright: Till Credner (AlltheSky.com)
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New research suggests that minute crystals from peas can be illuminated and used as small battery chargers or form the core of more efficient artificial solar cells. (Credit: iStockphoto/Andrea Skjold)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 8, 2010) — If harnessing the unlimited solar power of the sun were easy, we wouldn't still have the greenhouse gas problem that results [...]

(Reuters) – Salt is precious in poverty-stricken coastal West Africa, but conservation experts say efforts to extract it are laying waste to mangrove swamps, causing erosion and ravaging fish stocks.

In Sierra Leone, one of Africa's poorest nations still recovering from a 1991-2002 civil war, lawmakers are preparing a bill to join a seven-nation charter to [...]