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Big ecology idea of the week is possible top-down control of nutrient cycling. If herbivores selectively eat plants with higher nutrition, they could either limit those plants (decelerating cycling) or cause more to grow (accelerate cycling). Here are a couple models:(McInnes 1992)(Belovsky and Slade 2002)Neither model explicitly incorporates the fecal nutrient cycling pathway, possibly because

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Larry Eifert has created a number of murals for National Parks:John Dawson is famous for his ecosystem postage stamps:Charley Harper creates iconic abstract animal and ecosystem images:

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While groping for words to describe mining tar sands in Alberta, Canada, I realized the only word I had was Hell. Humans are creating Hell. I don't know if that is a moralistic judgement or simply the most accurate description. I don't know how I feel about getting oil from the tar sands by strip mining the wilderness fens and forests, nor do I have a definitive "scientific" judgement of how

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from: Wood for Trees

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Earth Observatory. Earth Observatory: Heat Wave July 20-27 2011. Explanations: NWS Normal July pattern, which has been amplified by strong ridge, the opposite of the winter time "Aleutian Low" NWS.

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US Forest Service Alien Pest Explorer Maps:http://nrs.fs.fed.us/tools/afpe/maps/ Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Center:http://threatsummary.forestthreats.org/browse.cfm?stateSearch=OH Sudden Oak Deathhttp://www.oakmapper.org/resources

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See details in IPCC 2007 Chapter 2.

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b, CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production, and from LUC. c, Land CO2 sink (negative values correspond to land uptake). d, Ocean CO2 sink (negative values correspond to ocean uptake). Le Quéré C, Raupach MR, Canadell JG, Marland G, others. Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide. Nature Geoscience. 2009;2(12):831–836."An increasing total airborne fraction

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source: "Pollution Prevention and Management Strategies for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the New York/New Jersey Harbor" by the New York Academy of SciencesAn interesting debate has arisen over an emerging contaminant of concern, PolyAromatic Hydrocarbons, or PAHs. These compounds are produced whenever organic materials are heated in the absence of oxygen and water. This can occur

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Ohio agricultural production has declined, so why hasn't fertilizer pollution?

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http://www.osu.edu/news/newsitem3123

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One of the main uncertainties in the global carbon cycle is measuring the amount of carbon bound up in ecosystems such as forests and grasslands. This Net Ecosystem Production (NEP) converts CO2 to plant material, detritus, and some animals. Most escapes back to the atmosphere as respired CO2, but some is sequestered in soil organic matter and trees.Most ecosystems are Nitrogen limited because

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EPA Where You LiveAirDrinking WaterPoint Source DischargeGlossary of EPA termsUSDA NRCS Phosphorus Index

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Most of this post deals with a paper by Turner, 2009.My confusion started with a Watts Up With That post claiming that Antartica is actually gaining sea ice. As usual, a SkepticalScience page attempts a refutation, but to do so has to get into some complicated details. So what is the trend?from: http://nsidc.org/sotc/sea_ice.htmlBut Antartic sea ice is formed by a number of factors, including

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Aircraft Contrails Stoke Warming (Reuters, ):"Aircraft condensation trails criss-crossing the sky may be warming the planet on a normal day more than the carbon dioxide emitted by all planes since the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903, according to a study in Nature Climate Change." [This is about 0.025 Watts per square meter, according to the IPCC (2007)]Citation: Ulrike Burkhardt & Bernd

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I've been on the lookout for the best periodic table for a couple months now, and have finally found it. Various versions can be downloaded here. An explanation of the new format.

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Different toxic compounds come to rest in different organs and regions of the body, depending on their mode of transport in the human body. For example, many toxins are "mistaken" for similar compounds, and stored accordingly. Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are fat soluble and look like cholesterol, so they are stored in fat deposits. Lead "looks like" calcium, so it is stored in the bones.

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Deconstructing ConclusionsDuring the winter of 2009-2010 I began investigating climate science, and since then have been reading in the field on-and-off. Again this last winter I have been reading way too much, trying to get to the bottom of various intricacies of the coupled earth-human system. Suffice to say, the Earth's climate is extremely complex, and every scientific sub-discipline has

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source: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2011/03/latest-on-japanese-radiation.html

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I've started using a cool Matlab program that generates a 4-dimensional power spectra for any time series. A normal power spectra is averaged over an entire dataset, but this technique, called Wavelet Coherence Analysis using a sliding "window" to examine power spectra continuously over the entire series. Of course, for longer and longer wavelengths, the sliding window necessarily becomes

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Prikryl et al 2009: Solar magnetic sector boundary passage (SBP) and vorticity area index (VAI), by weather reconstruction ERA-40 dataset back to 1963-2002, confirmed the "Wilcox effect". The interplanetary magnetic field and associated "space weather" directly effect Earth's weather.News from Dr. Leif Svalgaard at Stanford:Wolf was right...we can use magnetic field strength to calibrate solar

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Nuclear and chemical technologies (except for medicines) have been stigmatized by being perceived as entailing unnaturally great risks.R. Gregory, J. Flynn, and P. Slovic, ‘‘Technological Stigma,’’ American Scientist 83, 220–223 (1995).The social problem is compounded by the fact that we tend to manage our risks within an adversarial legal system that pits expert against expert, contradicting

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(C)ommunalism – the common ownership of scientific discoveries, according to which scientists give up intellectual property rights in exchange for recognition and esteem;(U)niversalism – according to which claims to truth are evaluated in terms of universal or value-free criteria;(D)isinterestedness – according to which scientists are rewarded for acting in ways that appear to be selfless;(O)

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Risks are perceived based on their qualities.Micromorts can be used as an "objective" statistical approximation of risk.

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Consider two statements, S1 and S2: S1: ‘‘Would you agree or disagree that the way an animal reacts to a chemical is a reliable predictor of how a human would react to it?’’ The second statement, S2, is a little more specific: ‘‘If a scientific study produces evidence that a chemical causes cancer in animals, then we can be reasonably sure that the chemical will cause cancer in humans.’’ How did

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Ever wonder where our oxygen comes from in the winter? When vegetation dies back in the Northern Hemisphere, we have to subsist on old air until the summer. In this image, you can see the plume of carbon dioxide downwind of large human population centers.http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003500/a003562/index.html

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Dr. Dennis Garrity spoke today at SENR about how agroforestry is transforming entire landscapes in Africa. Dr. Garrity detailed a number of ways farmers are growing more crops by cultivating trees in their field. The details differ, but usually involve a leguminous tree that can provide both fertilizer for the field and fodder for livestock. One such tree, Acacia (Faidherbia), has the amazing

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Unnatural Causes, a PBS documentary, asks the pointed question "Is Inequality Making Us Sick" and answers strongly affirmative. According to information presented in the video series, poverty is correlated with disease, more so than any other socioeconomic variable. This correlation is more than the obvious fact that (in the US at least) you have to have money to see a doctor. The series

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Dr. Larry Antosch, Senior Director, Program Innovation and Environmental Policy, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation presented "Water Quality and Agricultural Nutrient Management – Many Forces Converge" to finish up the seminar series theme of Water Quality here in the School of Environment and Natural Resources. Dr. Antosch is well-placed to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date view of nutrient

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"You can't rely on the model of running everything through the historic, traditional research channels.” “..the locus of control is different and distributed. There are no principal investigators and subjects. Instead, there are organizers and participants, and both of those are collaborators.”http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v16/n9/full/nm0910-953.htmlDIYBio: http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15

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From a 2008 article in the Washington Post: Several federal agencies have come up with figures for the dollar value of a human life to analyze the costs and benefits of new programs they believe will save lives. A sampling:According to the Principles of Economics by Gregory Mankiw, economics calculate the value of a human life by looking "at the risks that people are voluntarily willing to take

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First, an editorial by a scientist (Dr. Judah Cohen), advertising his work:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26cohen.htmlThe next day, a series of responses from other scientists on the dot earth blog (by Andrew Revkin):http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/wintry-weather-and-global-warming/Day after that, a question-and-answer session between Revkin and Cohen:http://

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Mark W. Moffett, who has been called "The Indiana Jones of Entomology," delivered the Museum of Biological Diversity's Annual Pubic Lecture, at 7 p.m. Friday (1/28). Moffett has penned more than 20 articles for National Geographic, which has featured nearly 500 of his images. The lecture was titled "Adventures Among Ants: One Man's Remote Explorations to Chart an Alien Social World," and dealt

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Dr. William Balée, Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University combined ecological and anthropological research to show that biological diversity in Amazonia is tied to prehistoric and continuing native agricultural and cultural practices. Great species lists! Intriguing idea: that humans can live in harmony with nature and anthropogenic landscapes can add to ecological diversity.

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http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines/

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In Don Norman's book, Emotional Design: Why We Love or Hate Everyday Objects, he lists some of the factors that Decision Science implicates as innately predisposing humans to either positive or negative affect:"What are people genetically programmed for? Those situations andobjects that, throughout evolutionary history, offer food, warmth, or protectiongive rise to positive affect. These

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ngrams

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Warm Phase Cool PhasePacific Decadal Oscillation. We are likely moving into the cool phase of this oscillation, when sea surface temperatures along the West Coast are, on average, a bit cooler than normal.PDO: http://cses.washington.edu/cig/pnwc/aboutpdo.shtmlFor watching changes in

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Humans are host to a large number of bacteria which may influence health and disease. Whether or not any given microorganism, such as E coli, becomes pathogenic is not understood. What is becoming increasingly clear is that, in addition to exogenous influences such as diet and exercise, endogenous factors such as bacteria (and genetics!) are crucial determinants of human health. Carl Zimmer,

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Brent Sohngen, a professor in Ohio State University’s Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, presented “Economic Incentives and Water Quality in Ohio”, an interesting talk about paying farmers for the reductions in runoff pollution they deliver. This economics-inspired approach differs from that typical of Soil and Water Conservation grants that pays for specific

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It is possible to graphically plot weather data from any point on the Earth from any date over the last 100-or so years using GrADS software and data from NOAA's NOMADS data access platform. Or see a summary of other data sources.

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A Pourbaix diagram is used to show mineral solubility or metal valence, graphed on a Redox (Eh)/pH graph:

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Emergy analysis aims to document and compare the amount of energy required to produce different products. In comparison to Embodied Energy analysis, which measures just human inputs of energy, Emergy analysis measures both natural and human energy inputs. The laudable goal is to put all calculations in the same currency so that everything can be compared. However, emergy is an impossible

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http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do

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I had thought that disagreement over Evolutionary Theory or Global Warming could be reinterpreted as an opportunity to engage other curious minds. As science becomes more egalitarian and open, more and more interested, educated citizens will join the debate. If science can learn with them (collaborative, constructivist model of knowledge), rather than teach toward them (defiency model of

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http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/es/hanpp.htmlhttp://www.eoearth.org/article/Global_human_appropriation_of_net_primary_production_(HANPP)

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http://dispatchnie.com/live/export-content/sites/dispatchnie/pdfs/2010InWeather.pdf

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Dr. Peter Curtis presents information from the FASET project at UMBS in this video presentation produced as part of The Ohio State University's Changing Climate webinar series.

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The average yearly data were obtained from NOAA's climatology servers and this year (or any year's) values were from NOAA's climate data online service. Choose Surface Data, Global Summary, then Country: USA, then choose a state and finally a station and year range.

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Every pharmaceutical drug has at least three names: a chemical name based on the compound's structure; a generic (or nonproprietary) name that is the drug's official name throughout its lifetime and a trade (or proprietary) name used by the pharmaceutical company for a 17-year period in which it has the exclusive rights to make and sell the

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When a doctor diagnoses a patient, who makes the decision about treatment? Perhaps the patient defers to the knowledge and authority of the doctor: "you're the doctor, you decide." Although the structure of power dynamics between the doctor and patient can bias decision-making, the final decision usually comes down to money, which is decided by the insurance company. So how does a large

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SlideShare.net contains a huge number of awesome presentations. If TED.com is the best place to learn what makes a great talk, slideshare.net is the best place to focus on the slides behind the speaker. Its funny, but there are whole schools devoted to the technique of writing, but the ability to craft compelling slides is so often overlooked.The site is also a great place to store

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This map shows the current distribution of the species in the genus Anopheles, the vector for malaria. While malaria has been eradicated from many regions of the world, the vector has not, leaving the potential for malaria resurgence in the absence of vigilant public health campaigns. This map also shows why global warming will probably not expand the range of malaria: malaria is not

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The Earth is absorbing more heat than it is emitting.

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As the Arctic warms, atmospheric changes may paradoxically bring colder winters to North America and Eurasia. If a warm Arctic leads to an early breakup of the polar vortex then the mid-latitudes will be inundated with cold Arctic air during mid-winter but spring comes early since much of the cold air gets dissipated early.Earth Observatory:stratosphere influences winter

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Science article from February 19th, 2010. http://www.sabin-jones.com/

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This article in the March 25th 2010 issue of Nature magazine confounds the rest of that issue's Insight Review of human ageing. For someone not versed in the field of demographic statistics used in this article, the graphs and conclusions are unique. By examining a kind of running average of life expectancy, the author is able to talk about the continuing increase in life expectancy."

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An interesting debate about the problem of false-positives in medical testing. Obviously, everyone wants to be tested "just in case", but a sensible policy would favor plausibility testing; everyone is not equally likely to have every disease. This article from the February 19, 2010 issue of Science, details the situation surrounding the release of a report by the U.S. Preventive Services Task

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAXWELL HOLYOKE-HIRSCHNature article by Dr. David Orr, (Oberlin College) in this April 28 2010 review of books written by Stewart Brand and Bill McKibben. Each book advocates societal responses to anthropogenic climate change, with Stewart Brand advocating technological solutions and Bill McKibben advocating local interventions. Dr. Orr has also written his own book on

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This paper in Nature, December 31, 2009 disproves the theory of resource allocation in which "high survival, associated with dietary restrictino, and high reproductive rate, associated with full feeding, are mutally exclusive." The authors show that different combinations of amino acids are responsible for longevity and fecundity, and that both can occur when either methionine is the only amino

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"Toxic Bodies: Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES" explores why our environment has become saturated with synthetic chemicals that disrupt hormones, and asks what we can do to protect human and environmental health. In this thorough undertaking, Environmental Historian Nancy Langston examines endocrine disruptors as a case study of environmental risk assessment and response. Interesting

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Activation of immune system and inflammation mediators (from Holgate 2003)The Human Immune System is an extremely sophisticated chemical signaling systems, with the capacity to produce almost unlimited variability within a homeostatic regulatory framework that is just being glimpsed. Innate and acquired immunity are mediated by a large number of systems and subsystems, including the

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1. Comparing Oxidative-Reductive Potential (ORP) and pH of various foods and drinks to human body fluids, Okouchi et al (2002). 2. The idea of renal net acid excretion (RAE) indicates that homeostasis in animals is mainained against the intake of heterogeneous substances.1. Okouchi S, Suzuki M, Sugano K, Kagamimori S, Ikeda S. Water Desirable for the Human Body in Terms of Oxidation-Reduction

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http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/fhw/lsfhw/2006/10_06/10_06.htm

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Hand-drawn frontal systems NASARetrospective analysis NASA: Long Lead Prediction

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The comments section at the bottom of this July 1 Nature Editorial "A Question of Trust" speak more eloquently to the problem of public perception of climate change science than the editorial itself. Even here, now, at this citadel of learning and knowledge, evidence and peer-review falter before the teeming comment section questioners. My favorite comment is from the "graduate student" who

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The FDA has promulgated a series of Recommended Daily Allowances (RDA) based on the proprietary review of scientists in the National Academies. The justification for these RDA values are not even available at a large institution such as Ohio State University. Because of this opacity, a large number of people have gravitated to interesting or promising parascientific ideas about the role of

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"Land saved from cultivation offsets carbon emissions" Nature 465, 853 (2010)This Nature News item reviews a paper published by Burney et al in PNAS entitled "Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification." The article shows that agriculture today is more land-efficient than in 1960. Yet it has been interpreted to say that modern intensive industrial agriculture is better than

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http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100526/full/news.2010.266.htmlI don't understand this and can't access the original article, but wanted to mention it, nonetheless, because some of the compounds in this list are the same mentioned in Dr. Watson's pioneering work on metablic imbalances:Watson, G.: Differences in IntermediaryMetabolism in Mental Illness, Psychol. Rep., 17:563-582, Oct., 1965

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Use of chlorine in swimming pools should be counted as the cost of not properly utilizing ecosystem services. Swimming pools can be biologically filtered for cleaner water, happier bathers, and less usage of chlorine.

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More information:+http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v461/n7263/fig_tab/461472a_F1.html+http://planetsave.com/2010/04/12/nine-%E2%80%98planetary-boundaries%E2%80%99-cited-as-crucial-for-human-survival/+http://postgrowth.org/safe-operating-limits/+http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/researchnews/planetaryboundariespresentedattedglobal2010.5.40d64f1b129b2c781e0800098.html

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thanks to The Big Picture blog

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A rational scale to assess the harm of drugs. Data source is the March 24, 2007 article: Nutt, David, Leslie A King, William Saulsbury, Colin Blakemore. "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse" The Lancet 2007; 369:1047-1053. (PMID 17382831; doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4) The data was first reported in appendix 14 of "Drug classification: making a hash

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"Ecological responses to climate change in eastern forests: modeling distributional changes in tree and wildlife species." Dr. Stephen N. Matthewshttp://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/atlas

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In order of importance: Electrolyte balance: Thomas M. Riddick "Control of colloid stability through zeta potential"Anabolic/catabolic: Dr Emanuel Revici “Research in Pathophysiology as the Basis for Guided Chemotherapy with Special Emphasis on CancerGlucogenic-ketogenic: George Watson "Nutrition and your mind: the psychochemical response"Autonomic nervous system: Dr Francis Pottenger and Dr.

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For a global perspective, see http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2010summer/

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In the year 2000, about 36.8Mha of Kaliman-tan were under timber concession licenses. Productionand conversion forests were generally more affectedthan the limited production forests and also showedmuch higher impacts during El Nin ˜o years with 10.0%and 10.6%, respectively, in comparison with 2.8% for thelimited production forests. While 67.6% of the area ofKalimantan is timber concession, about

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Earth Observatory.

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Insolation at Earth's surface (the total solar irradiance, in units of W/m2): On sunny days, about 1 kilowatt of solar radiation bathes every square meter of the earth's surface every hour. Because of the seasons and weather, the annual average for much of the united states is between 1/2 and 1/3 of this ideal "clear sky" condition. Photosynthetically Active Radiation, or PAR, is only ~40% of

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Large ships continue to use old, polluting diesel engines, with disasterous health effects for people living close to the ocean. The EPA's proposed plan would greatly alleviate this largely unregulated source of pollution, which is currently equal to about 120 coal power plants running continuously in our nation's harbors and waterways. (source: President's Cancer Commission report, 2010)

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Plants produce VOCs as part of normal respiration. These, along with anthropogenic VOCs can produce ozone smog in the lower atmosphere.In the South, pine plantations used for their fast-growing supplies of timber have proven to be havens for sweetgum trees, which are major producers of VOCs. Indeed, virtually every tree that grows fast -- a desirable quality for forestry production -- is a heavy

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Annual net primary production (g C m-2 yr-1) estimated as the average of all model estimates:In order to answer how efficient plants are at converting solar energy into chemical energy, we can look at how much energy is in sunlight and how it is used in photosynthesis.The surface of the Earth receives 8,000 to 10,000 kilocalories (kcal) of energy from the sun each day on each square meter of

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Tropical Agroecosystems: These habitats are misunderstood by the temperate zones, mismanaged by the tropics. Janzen 1973. Science.What tropical countries so rarely grasp is the fact that agriculture in the temperate zone countries evolved (and is still evolving) from short-term exploitation to sustained-yield agriculture while operating off a much larger natural capital than the tropical

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source: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/extras/2009/2009-weather-table.html

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Here in Ohio, there is a debate over a proposed light rail corridor linking Cincinatti, Columbus, and Cleveland, the 3-C. Some are of the belief that "build it and the riders will come," while other point out flaws in the projected speed and cost of the project. In the latter camp, oddly enough, I might count the Federal Transit Authority Administrator Peter Rogoff. In a recent hard-hitting

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A number of science controversies surrounding trophic cascades are well-presented in William Stolzenburg's book, "Where the Wild Things Were: Life Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators". 2008. The book deals with the 20th century history of population ecology and the struggle to understand whether populations of animals and plants are controlled from the top by large

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Changes are occurring in our climate and in our vegetative communities, but the links between abiotic drivers-and-constraints of ecosystem stability-and-dynamics are not well understood. How much wiggle-room we have in choosing our ecosystems might be important. I'm intrigued by evidence showing that some ecosystems are more "efficient", "productive" or "stable" than other ecosystems. I'm

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In the past, I have argued that antioxidants aren't necessarily good for you, since some level of oxidation is required to support metabolism. As with many areas of public health research, there are contradictions. An example is the role of poly unsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in health. Many studies of human and animal populations have shown a health enhancing effect, but biochemists worry

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Chart is from Dr. Craine at WildPlantsfrom GAIM NPP modeling 1995-1997

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