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| Iranian indifference could doom rare bear to extinction A rare subspecies of the Asian black bear may soon disappear from its native Iran, according to reports from the country's Mehr News Agency. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Penis-shaped mushroom named after frog expert Herpetologist Robert Drewes will forever be remembered for his two-inch Phallus. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Hope for critically endangered Indian vulture as chick is born in captivity India's three vulture species have all but disappeared from the country's skies. Over the last 20 years, virtually all of India's vultures have died, the victims of unintentional poisoning. Vultures feed on dead cattle and other livestock that had been treated with an anti-inflammatory drug called diclofenac, which sends vultures into renal failure. Unfortunately, the cause of the vulture declines wasn't discovered until 2004, long after vulture populations had already been devastated. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Expedition Finds World War II Navy Wreck [ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]The National Oceanic &Atmospheric Administration [NOAA], spends most of its time trying to understand and predict changes in the environment, along with conserving and managing coastal and marine resources. But its scientific expertise also just made it possible to locate the remains of a U.S. Navy patrol boat sunk by a German submarine in World War II. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Why Bangladesh Water Contains Arsenic It seemed like a good idea--because rivers and ponds in Bangladesh were contaminated with bacteria, Bangladeshis switched to wells. But soon after, in the early ‘80s, researchers realized those wells were harming Bangladeshis with a new poison--arsenic.The underground sediment of the Ganges Delta contains arsenic. In 2002 M.I.T. researchers determined that microbes digesting organic carbon were freeing that trapped arsenic. But where did the carbon come from and how was the arsenic getting into the water supply? The M.I.T. team now thinks they have the answers, which they report in the journal Nature Geoscience . [More] rss.sciam.com |