2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 30 of 30.
“the predictions were 'disturbing'”
“beginning this year, 27 states and the District of Columbia have been required, under the Federal Clean Air Act, to begin tougher automobile emissions testing.”
“Lizard populations rise and fall over time and failure to detect individuals during short surveys may indicate transient rarity rather than extinction”
“more than ten quintillion insects that inhabit the earth at any given moment”
“climate-forced extinctions were not only in the future" but were "happening now”
“They say UK moth numbers have fallen by a third in the past 40 years.”
“There are now 17 species of bat in the UK, all of which are protected by law because their numbers have decreased so dramatically.”
“Butterfly Conservation and the Bat Conservation Trust are asking people to take part in a "National Moth Night" on 15 May to find out more about the creatures and their habitats.”
“While the IPCC admits to including an erroneous date by which Himalayan glaciers might disappear in its 2007 Fourth Assessment report, Dr Pachauri said: "We have not been effective at telling the public, 'yes, we made a mistake but that do…”
“Back in February, the IPCC suggested setting up an independent review, feeling that its 20-year-old rules and working practices perhaps needed an overhaul, and also feeling it was perhaps ill-equipped to counter the heat of unprecedented p…”
“Governments endorsed the idea; and in March, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned the review from the InterAcademy Council, an international umbrella body for science academies such as the UK's Royal Society.”
“The council established a 12-strong review panel, chaired by US economist Professor Harold Shapiro, a former advisor to both Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.”
“The panel, which comprises eminent scientists and economists from both the developed and developing worlds including Nobel prize-winning ozone chemist Mario Molina, has until the end of August to prepare its report.”
“Its conclusions will be peer-reviewed before being presented at the IPCC's October meeting, the point at which Dr Pachauri and his team are due to finalise plans for the fifth assessment report, due in 2013.”
“one race of the Fun Race does less harm than ten people walking in the Roraima national park”
“The field study, carried out during 2006, showed that 74.4% of seeds were buried during the wet season, compared with just 38.2% during the dry season.”
“Up to 25 seeds, what we call Brazil nuts, are contained in the trees' fruit”
“"Seeds not consumed within the germination period (12-18 months) may germinate, and seeds may remain viable for at least six years."”
“Agoutis, which can weigh up to 6kg, are found throughout the same range as the Brazil nut trees in South America.”
“But, they observed: "Juveniles were most common in unharvested and lightly harvested stands."”
“Writing in the 2003 paper, researchers said: "Persistently harvested stands were characterised by larger (and presumably older) trees and few or no juveniles."”
“they tracked 1,800 marked seeds to see how seasonal food availability affected agoutis' and acouchis' - large scatter-hoarding rodents - caching rates, dispersal distances and how long the seeds were buried before being eaten.”
“Dr Haugaasen explained that the team decided to carry out the study in order to build on the findings of a 2003 paper published in Science, which first identified the link between intensive harvesting and the lack of young Brazil nut trees.”
“Further studies on the ecology of Brazil nut trees are expected to be published in the coming 12 months.”
“The spill began after an explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off Louisiana in April.”
“The Ushahidi map was set up by the environmental monitoring group Louisiana Bucket Brigade to track the effects of the spill.”
“"The point is to produce a collective visual where we can all see the magnitude of the problem," Anne Rolfes, director of the group, told BBC News”
“After Hurricane Katrina, she said, there were lots of anecdotes about people's experience but they were not all recorded in one place.”
“It had originally been designed to monitor pollution from oil refineries in the area but had not been used.”
“He, working with neuroscientist Professor Clive Coen, from King's College London, and zoologist Professor Nigel Bennett, from the University of Pretoria”
“More than 100 scientists will be involved in the study, which will continue until the middle of June.”
“The researchers will not have a fixed base, spending the entire six weeks on the road following outbreaks of severe weather.”
“The project will build on the findings from the original Vortex study, which was conducted in 1994-95 and gathered data on supercells - long-lived thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes.”
“It has about 20,000 genes - about the same as a human - and scientists say it sheds new light on genetic evolution.”
“Forty-eight scientists from 20 institutions collaborated on the study, led from the US Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in Walnut Creek, California.”
“For this project, X tropicalis was preferred because it reproduces much faster than its more famous cousin. The chytrid fungus is devastating amphibians numbers around the world. Its genome is also roughly half the size.”
“the fact that their lineages diverged some 360 million years ago”
“Xenopus is the genus from which chytrid was first recorded, in [a museum specimen from] 1938”
“It is spreading across the world and has caused mass deaths in many species. It is implicated as the major factor in several species extinctions.”
“The oil, which has formed a slick measuring 45 miles by 105 miles, is currently about 50 miles (80km) off Louisiana's coast.”
“A team of researchers will spend a month at sea, studying a region of water in the North Atlantic.”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May, and plan to release its findings soon after.”
“will spend a month at sea”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May”
“Professor Achterberg said that the research cruise was originally planned about three or four years ago, and it was by chance that the study coincided with the eruption.”
“This means that we can calculate what is falling into the oceans.”
“We will also measure the chemicals in the ocean, and we're particularly interested in elements like iron, but also nitrogen, phosphorous and silicon.”
“The team will use the measurements to link them to the rate of growth of phytoplankton - microscopic plants.”
“The 26-strong team of researchers and technicians will return to the UK at the end of May.”
“and plan to release its findings soon after.”
“Although AOD has been confirmed in 55 cases, the number of trees displaying symptoms was steadily increasing, delegates at the Royal Forestry Society's (RFS) annual conference were told.”
“The incidence of AOD in Britain is unquantified at this stage, but estimates put the figure at a few thousand affected trees.”
“Information from Forest Research, the scientific department of the UK Forestry Commission, says the new disease affects oaks more than 50 years old.”
“They said extra funds for more research into the disease were urgently needed. Although AOD has been confirmed in 55 cases, the number of trees displaying symptoms was steadily increasing, delegates at the Royal Forestry Society's (RFS) an…”
“Acute Oak Decline can kill an infected tree in just a few years”
“Its spread over the last two years has been quite alarming.”
“The researchers sequenced the genome of the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesuli (Pae) from three samples collected from different locations within the UK.”
“They compared them with samples from the only other recorded case, taken from an Indian horse chestnut in India in the 1960s.”
“Since Pae was first recorded in 2002, it has become present throughout the UK and more than 70% of horse chestnuts in some areas are showing symptoms of being infected.”
