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Jonathan Mattise named reporter in AP's Nashville bureau

Edit Times Union 06 Oct 2016
A 2008 graduate of Villanova University and a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Mattise came to AP from Treasure Coast Newspapers in Florida, where he won a statewide Sunshine Award and wrote about damaging freshwater releases into the St ... 24. ....

The effect of global warming on marine diversity (University of York)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
Warming temperatures can reduce marine diversity but increase freshwater species - showing responses to climate change could be habitat dependent ... However, for one freshwater group (Anomura) speciation rate increased with increasing temperature ... 'We find that the freshwater group follow this pattern, but their marine relatives show the opposite - they speciate with global cooling and diversity decreases with warming....

Voters who seek expert opinion, not gut feeling, more likely to support same-sex marriage

Edit AOL 05 Oct 2016
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in ice caps and glaciers ... The United States Geological Survey reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in icecaps and glaciers ... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reports that over 68 percent of the world's freshwater supplies are locked in icecaps and glaciers....

Whitefish Bay edges Homestead in boys soccer

Edit Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 05 Oct 2016
Whitefish Bay defeated Homestead, 4-3, to take sole possession of first in the North Shore.   ... ....

In survival of fittest, foreign species edge out Mutha's native fish

Edit The Times of India 05 Oct 2016
PUNE. Biological invasion works to rob a biodiversity-rich region of its unique species, wildlife conservation experts said ... Some of the native population and species have already gone. According to ichthyologist Dr Sanjay Kharat, author of the book Freshwater Fish Species of Maharashtra, "There were 102 species recorded by biologist Fraser in his study of freshwater fish in Pune region during the pre-Independence era ... RELATED....

Port Jackson sharks go the distance, Finding Nemo style (Macquarie University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
(Source. Macquarie University). A new study by Macquarie University published this week in Marine and Freshwater Research has revealed Port Jackson sharks undergo yearly migrations from their breeding site in Jervis Bay, out to Bass Straight and back - a round trip of 1200km ... The team of Macquarie researchers has been studying their behaviour for the past five years and have been surprised by the results ... Marine and Freshwater Research....

Gardaí and Revenue raid fishing boats in Dublin and Cork

Edit The Irish Times 05 Oct 2016
Revenue officials, gardaí and other agencies have raided fishing vessels in Dublin and Cork as part of an investigation targeting undocumented workers ... Crew members ... An earlier investigation by the newspaper uncovered what is said were allegations of “widespread exploitation of undocumented Africans and Asians and suspected cases of human trafficking in the Irish prawn and whitefish fleet”.    .  . ....

Eel migration study tells 'romantic' tale

Edit BBC News 05 Oct 2016
Scientists are a step closer to solving the mystery of one of the great animal migrations. Each autumn, eels leave European rivers to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to breed for a single time, then die. Tagging studies show that the fish swim more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to the Sargasso Sea ... This led to the assumption that all eels took the shortest and quickest route across the ocean from freshwater rivers and streams ... ....

Atlantic Ocean’s slowdown tied to changes in the Southern Hemisphere (University of Washington)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
(Source. University of Washington). Environment . News releases . Research . Science. October 5, 2016. The ocean circulation that is responsible for England's mild climate appears to be slowing down ... A depiction of the global ocean circulation ... Also unlike in that movie, and in theories of long-term climate change, these recent trends are not connected with the melting of the Arctic sea ice and buildup of freshwater near the North Pole ... ###....

MSU alumna spends year in solar-powered dome as part of simulated Mars mission (Montana State University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
(Source. Montana State University) ... Johnston, a soil scientist from Whitefish who earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from MSU's Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture, served as mission commander of the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation, or HI-SEAS, project, led by the University of Hawaii ... 28, 2015 ... Previous missions lasted four or eight months ... Smithsonian interview....

New endowed chair honors developmental biologist Phil Newmark (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
(Source. University of Wisconsin-Madison) September 23, 2016. In many ways, it started with a worm. In the mid-1990s Phil Newmark, one of the newest investigators at the Morgridge Institute for Research, began studying the planarian, a type of freshwater flatworm. The planarian had interested Newmark since freshman biology due to its remarkable ability to regenerate its entire body from scratch ... Roberts Chair in Regenerative Biology....

The biggest concern for our water-based resources is the sustainability of water resource allocation: M. ...

Edit Newstrack India 05 Oct 2016
Addresses the Centenary Celebrations of Central Water and Power Research Station. The Vice President of India, Shri M ... He was addressing the Centenary Celebrations of Central Water and Power Research Station (CWPRS) in Pune, yesterday ... (iii) Dwindling groundwater supplies due to over-extraction ... Of all the water resources on Earth, only three percent is fresh and two-thirds of this freshwater is locked up in ice caps and glaciers ... Source....

International researchers track eels further and longer in their journey to the Sargasso Sea (CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Oct 2016
(Source. CEFAS - Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science). 05 October 2016 ... Over 200 tags were recovered, allowing the scientists to map more than 5000km of the migration route from Europe to the Sargasso Sea ... Dr David Righton, Senior Scientist, Cefas said.. 'Although they spend most of their lives in freshwater, eels are born into and spawn in the remote ocean, making these aspects of their life very hard to study ... ' ... 7....
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