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France 24 (France) (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
AFP - So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
Emirates 24 (United Arab Emirates) (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Death-dodging wildlife finds safety under US roads
Staff quoted: e
So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
Wild Singapore (Singapore) - Agence-France Presse (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
The West Australian (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
WASHINGTON (AFP) - So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
Bangkok Post (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
Jakarta Globe (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
The Fredericksburg Freelance Star (Mon 2 Jan, 2012)
In boost for aquaculture, farmed fish raised on vegetarian diet
Staff quoted: Aaron Watson
BALTIMORE --Researchers say they may have overcome a roadblock in efforts to satisfy the world's growing demand for seafood through fish-farming.
Yahoo News (Sun 1 Jan, 2012)
Wildlife find path to safety under US roads
Staff quoted: Ed Gates
So how did the chicken cross the road? Or the raccoon, Virginia opossum, woodchuck, red fox, white-tailed deer or great blue heron?
To find out, researchers in Maryland put motion-detection cameras in culverts throughout the mid-Atlantic US state to learn more about how wildlife of all kinds use culverts, or storm drains, to avoid motor traffic.
Earth Magazine (Sun 1 Jan, 2012)
Ocean Organisms' Light-making Machinery Explained
Staff quoted: Allen Place
Last fall, crowds gathered along the California shore near San Diego after nightfall to watch the surf. With each crashing wave, the water took on a spectacular blue-green glow, invoking "oohs" and "aahs" from the onlookers. The effect was triggered by the disturbance of massive amounts of tiny organisms called dinoflagellates. Now, scientists have found a gene that controls the physical process that generates the light show in dinoflagellates. The findings, they say, could one day have medical implications for humans.
Capital News Service (Wed 28 Dec, 2011)
Call for oyster moratorium fails to sway watermen, officials - Scientists urge halt to harvesting
Staff quoted: Michael Wilberg
ANNAPOLIS — The Chesapeake Bay's oyster population has plummeted since the late 1960s, when Willy Dean, a Maryland waterman since the age of 17, would go hand tonging with his father and load the boat with oysters.