Environment

Less Gas, More Ass!!

I would like to thank the naked bike rider who had that slogan finger-painted on his back for the inspiration for this blog title. ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 6 2009 - 9:36pm

Is Anyone Missing A Lot Of Garbage? It's In The Pacific Ocean

You know there's a lot of garbage floating around out there when it gets a name like "Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch."  Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX) researchers decided to find out if it lived up to i ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2009 - 12:26pm

Data-blind Fishing Is A Risky Business

Bad news has come for Illex argentinus, a cousin of my own dear Dosidicus gigas (they're both in the squid family Ommastrephidae). As the scientific name suggests, I. argentinus is found and fished off the coast of Argentina--and the 2009 season has e ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Sep 8 2009 - 3:26pm

Sustainability: Gladly Pay You Tuesday For A Hamburger Today

(This continues a discussion of the topic I started here, in Spanish, and in §5.4 of this published paper, in English. Not necessary to read those first; this blog stands on its own.) There are many definitions of sustainability. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Sep 10 2009 - 1:47pm

Science-based Octopussery Management

I love it! As soon as I start whining about how humans are always exploiting resources without checking first for sustainability, along comes a story to prove me wrong. The Giant Pacific Octopus or GPO, who lives throughout the Pacific Northwest (if terres ...

Article - Danna Staaf - Sep 10 2009 - 1:42pm

Effect of Sodium Chloride Salinity on Growth and Ion Accumulation in Some

Effect of Sodium Chloride Salinity on Growth and Ion Accumulation in Some Halophytes V. P. S. Shekhawat and A. Kumar Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India K. H. Neumann ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 11 2009 - 9:31pm

Acacia spp yield valuable pharamceutical preparation while growing in arid regions

3. Acacia catechu Willd. ‘Katha, khadira, khair’ (Catechu tree):- Kols tribe of Uttar Pradesh use its leaves for blood dysentery (Chakravarthy et al., 1983). The extract of leaves is taken with milk (Maheshwari and Singh, 1987). Seeds exhibit antiviral, an ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 12 2009 - 8:07am

Scientist warns against global rush into biofuel cultivation, However for developing countries story is different

However for developing countries where annual income of a farm of 1 ha could be less than 50 dollars due to rainfed conditions growing local plants could be an answer to findout biofuel. Growing biofuel plants can only protect total destruction of forests ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 13 2009 - 5:08am

Salt stress is one of the major constrains that limits crop productivity worldwide

Salt stress is one of the major constrains that limits crop productivity worldwide (Boyer, 1982, Queseda and Ponce 2000). Agricultural productivity in many aird and semi-arid regions of the world is threatened by the occurrence of salt affected soils. Esti ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 16 2009 - 8:24pm

Does enzyme activity of CO 2 fixing enzymes regulate salinity tolerance in crop plants

Whether the inhibition of RuBISCO or PEPC activity is due to reduction of amount or activity of enzymes and what is the role of other factors in protection of this. The importance of altered metabolism under abiotic stress for example diversion of carbon t ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 16 2009 - 8:29pm