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• 70 percent of beaches eroding on Hawaiian islands Kauai, Oahu, and Maui
• Taking America's rarest snake back to the woods
• Adirondack lakes in North Eastern US lose ice cover as climate warms: Most pristine lake marks biggest change
• Heart attack survivors living close to highways face higher 10-year death risk
• Biodiversity loss may cause increase in allergies and asthma
• Endangered species, languages linked at high biodiversity regions
• :Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved Competing theories reconciled
• Anthropologist finds explanation for hominin brain evolution in famous fossils
• New research brings satellite measurements and global climate models closer
• European mountain plant population shows delayed response to climate change
• Dry rivers, vibrant with culture and life
• New rearing system may aid sterile insect technique against mosquitoes
• Gaseous emissions from dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric Earth
• Of yeast and men: An evolutionary tale

70 percent of beaches eroding on Hawaiian islands Kauai, Oahu, and Maui Posted: 07 May 2012 01:56 PM PDT An assessment of coastal change over the past century has found 70 percent of beaches on the islands of Kaua»i, O»ahu, and Maui are undergoing long-term erosion, according to new results.

Taking America's rarest snake back to the woods Posted: 07 May 2012 01:55 PM PDT Biologists have released seven young Louisiana pine snakes on a restored longleaf pine stand in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. The release is the fourth in two years, part of a plan to restore a very rare snake to its range in Louisiana.

Adirondack lakes in North Eastern US lose ice cover as climate warms: Most pristine lake marks biggest change Posted: 07 May 2012 01:43 PM PDT Researchers have found lakes in the undeveloped High Peaks area of the Adirondack Park are covered with ice for significantly shorter periods than they were 32 years ago, providing evidence that climate change is occurring rapidly. Not even the most pristine wilderness areas are immune.

Heart attack survivors living close to highways face higher 10-year death risk Posted: 07 May 2012 01:42 PM PDT Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study concludes.

Biodiversity loss may cause increase in allergies and asthma Posted: 07 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT Declining biodiversity may be contributing to the rise of asthma, allergies, and other chronic inflammatory diseases among people living in cities worldwide, a Finnish study suggests.

Endangered species, languages linked at high biodiversity regions Posted: 07 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the most linguistically diverse regions on our planet, according to a team of conservationists.

:Mystery of the domestication of the horse solved Competing theories reconciled Posted: 07 May 2012 12:41 PM PDT New research indicates that domestic horses originated in the steppes of modern-day Ukraine, southwest Russia and west Kazakhstan, mixing with local wild stocks as they spread throughout Europe and Asia.

Anthropologist finds explanation for hominin brain evolution in famous fossils Posted: 07 May 2012 12:40 PM PDT One of the world's most important fossils has a story to tell about the brain evolution of modern humans and their ancestors, according to new research. The Taung fossil -- the first australopithecine ever discovered -- has two significant features that were analyzed by anthropological researchers. Their findings suggest brain evolution was a result of a complex set of interrelated dynamics in childbirth among new bipeds.

New research brings satellite measurements and global climate models closer Posted: 07 May 2012 12:12 PM PDT One popular climate record that shows a slower atmospheric warming trend than other studies contains a data calibration problem, and when the problem is corrected the results fall in line with other records and climate models, according to a new study.

European mountain plant population shows delayed response to climate change Posted: 07 May 2012 07:23 AM PDT A modeling study from the European Alps suggests that population declines to be observed during the upcoming decades will probably underestimate the long-term effects of recent climate warming on mountain plants. A European team of ecologists has presented a new modeling tool to predict migration of mountain plants which explicitly takes population dynamic processes into account.

Dry rivers, vibrant with culture and life Posted: 07 May 2012 07:23 AM PDT Dry rivers are more than mere desiccated shells of their robustly flowing incarnations, say Australian ecologists. They have qualities and inhabitants distinct from their adjacent riversides wet-phase communities. They are places of isolation and re-connection, and oases for humans and wildlife.

New rearing system may aid sterile insect technique against mosquitoes Posted: 07 May 2012 07:23 AM PDT Scientists have developed a larval rearing unit based on a tray and rack system that is expected to be able to successfully rear rear 140,000–175,000 adult mosquitoes per rack.

Gaseous emissions from dinosaurs may have warmed prehistoric Earth Posted: 07 May 2012 07:23 AM PDT Sauropod dinosaurs could in principle have produced enough of the greenhouse gas methane to warm the climate many millions of years ago, at a time when the Earth was warm and wet. That's according to calculations reported in the May 8 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

Of yeast and men: An evolutionary tale Posted: 07 May 2012 07:18 AM PDT Scientists have discovered and elucidated the function of conserved cell division proteins in yeast.

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