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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Evolution, Video on 01 30th, 2012 | 1 Comment

Snakes on a Glade

Florida has been wrestling with its python problem for years. Thanks to the tropical temps in south Florida the Everglades National Park has become a dumping ground for unwanted reptiles, particularly the non-native Burmese python. Wildlife officials have been battling the snakes for about twenty years....

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biotechnology, Consumer Safety, Diseases, Ecology, Engineering, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Plants, Video on 10 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Genetically Modified Foods Abound in U.S.

Jeffrey Smith has written the book on genetically modified foods (GMOs). Now he’s on a crusade to rid the U.S. of unhealthy food hybrids that not even animals choose to eat. He tells the story of a farmer who was growing corn for his cows. The farmer grew non-GMO corn next to corn that had been...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 09 19th, 2011 | No Comments

Surfers Use Science to Protect the Ocean

Surfers are a group of ocean super users. They spend a great deal of time in the water and on top of the waves. They notice slight variations. And they depend on a clean, safe environment to catch a wave and hang ten. As a result they are first responders when it comes to anything encroaching on their...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Video on 09 7th, 2011 | No Comments

Tropical Storm Kicks up Gulf Tar Balls

Tropical Storm Lee pushed high surf into Gulf of Mexico beaches but not messy oil from the British Petroleum spill last year. And it also put predictions to the test. After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill last year oil looming offshore has hardened and sunk to the seafloor where it has formed giant...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Food and Nutrition, Health and Medicine, Video on 05 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Girl Scouts Lobby Kellogg’s to get Palm Oil out of Cookies

Two feisty 15 year olds are pushing Girl Scouts of the USA to remove palm oil from their popular cookies. Rhiannon Tomitshen and Madison Vorva learned that palm oil plantations are used to grow a key ingredient in all girl scout cookies and that ingredient requires farmers to destroy rainforests to...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 04 21st, 2011 | No Comments

Fish Ear Bones Hear Chemical Secrets of Water

Fish ear bones are just like tree rings. The otolith bone inside a fish’s ear records the creature’s growth. Micro slices of sliver-sized ear bones can give scientists clues to the chemistry of the water in which fish swim. They can measure carbon dioxide levels and one year after the Deepwater...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Greenovation, Horizon Oil Spill, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 04 18th, 2011 | 1 Comment

BP Oil Spill: The Gulf of Mexico One Year Later

One year after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill scientists believe the health of the Gulf of Mexico is back to where it was before the massive environmental disaster. In a recent survey, most scientists agreed that the health of the Gulf is about 68 out of 100. That is almost in line with the pre-spill...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Greenovation, Podcast, Video on 04 13th, 2011 | No Comments

Polar Bear Surprise

Imagine waking from a long nap — a little disoriented and still groggy — only to find the world you left when you went to sleep is totally different. A mother polar bear had that very Rip Van Winkle experience on a man-island off the coast of Alaska. When she emerged from her den after hibernation,...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Endangered Species, Environment, Podcast, Politics, Video on 03 29th, 2011 | No Comments

Tigers Creep Back from the Brink

India’s latest tiger census shows an increase in the numbers of the endangered big cat, but threats to their roaming territory could reverse those gains, officials said on Monday. At a three-day tiger conference in New Delhi(PDF) Indian officials released the latest tiger census. The news appeared...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Marine Science, Video on 01 20th, 2011 | No Comments

Copycat Dolphins

A study done at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys says although imitation is rare in the animal kingdom, dolphins can imitate one another while blindfolded by using sound. Like bats, dolphins use a form of sonar called echolocation to see sound patterns. It’s their keenest sense. The...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Citizen science, Climate Change, Ecology, Video on 12 20th, 2010 | No Comments

Citizen Science for the Birds

The National Audubon Society has sponsored an annual winter bird count for over 100 years. This year’s Christmas Bird Count will include 60,000 volunteers from all over the country who will look for and record birds for two weeks. This is perhaps one of the oldest forms of citizen science. It...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Plants, Video on 11 29th, 2010 | 1 Comment

One Scientist Works to Recreate Ice Age Ecology to Slow Global Warming

A Russian scientist is working to recreate Ice Age conditions by rewilding — reintroducing native beasts to Siberia. He hopes the move will help slow global warming. He wants to start with native musk oxen and then add other species like reindeer, foxes and even Siberian tigers. By returning this...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Plants, Video on 11 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Invading Species Push Native Plants and Animals to the Brink

Meet some of the animals and plants who don’t belong in Colorado but have found a home there–to the detriment of the native species. The Red-eared Slider Turtle is wiping out the Western Painted Turtle while the American Bullfrog is competing for food and water resources with the Northern...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Ecology, Environment, Horizon Oil Spill, Video on 06 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Oil-eating Microbes Could Help in Gulf Disaster

A small bioremediation company in San Antonio is offering the use of its oil-eating microbes to help reduce the impact of the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The government is also looking for credible suggestions to sop up oil on facebook.

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Ecology, Engineering, Environment, Marine Science, Oceanography, Video on 05 27th, 2010 | 2 Comments

BP Starts Top Kill Procedure to Stop Oil Leak

After over a month of spewing millions of gallons of oil deep into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has begun it’s “top kill” approach which requires jamming mud into the hole created on April 20. The trick is that the pressure of the mud being pushed into the pipe to stem the oil flow must...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Climate Change, Ecology, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, Video on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Teachers off to Antarctica

Gary Wesche is counting the days. It’s down to 14 now before he heads to Antarctica as part of a scientific expedition. KMBC’s Bev Chapman reports from St. Regis Catholic School in Kansas City. Wesche’s expedition to study ice sheets is organized by PolarTREC where you can follow Gary’s...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Backyard Science, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Plants, SciClips on 10 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Open Data Opens Doors for Citizen Scientists

Members of the Surui tribe in Brazil test Open Data Kit, photo courtesy of Carl Hartung, UW Cell phones are coming to the aid of international health workers, environmental monitors and even citizen scientists. Now loaded with a data collection tool, Open Data Kit is the brainchild of some doctoral students...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Backyard Science, Books, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Physics and Chemistry, Video, Wind on 10 28th, 2009 | 3 Comments

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

They call William Kamkwamba “the boy who harnessed the wind.” At 14, after dropping out of school, the African boy in a rural Malawi village taught himself how electricity works, and built a windmill from scraps and pieces of a bicycle. Now 22, Kamkwmaba has a book, detailing how he built...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Animals, Biology, Climate Change, Ecology, Endangered Species, New Species, SciClips on 10 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Tiny Frog Now Big Hawaiian Pest

A little green frog is causing big problems across Hawaii, where the coqui has become the latest invasive species to get a strong foothold. But Hawaii may be the only place experiencing a surging frog population. Around the world, frogs are dying in droves from a fungus called a chytrid. What can we...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate Change, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips on 10 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Arctic Tipping Point on the Horizon

Evidence of global warming is hitting the Arctic harder than anywhere else. The rate of climate change is twice that of the rest of the world. And, now scientists are discovering the Arctic region plays an important role in capturing atmospheric carbon, both in the ocean and on land. But that delicate...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Anthropology, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Diseases, Ecology, Environment, Geology, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Podcast, SciClips, Space on 10 13th, 2009 | No Comments

Science Sticks its Head in the Cloud

Visualization of a river bed created using VisTrails, a system developed by University of Utah computer scientists Photo by: Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, University of Utah A two-year experiment to build a framework to analyze the massive amount of data scientists are collecting will push research...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Ecology, Environment, SciClips on 09 15th, 2008 | No Comments

Leading Role in Biodiversity

Parasitic wasp and aphid, courtesy of WSU There is a lot of buzz about biodiversity these days. But new wasp research is showing it’s not just the number of species present that indicates a healthy system. But there also must be diversity in what each species can do. Washington State University...

Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Ecology, Environment, SciClips on 09 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Forest Storage

Boreal Forest in Yukon Territory, photo by Michael C. Bradbury Among all the options to help tame carbon dioxide emissions, few people can see the forest for the trees. But a team of ecologists at Ohio State University is quantifying how much carbon can be stored in North American forests. Forest...

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