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3. Louisiana's wetlands struggle for survival: more than 600 square kilometers of wetlands have disappeared in the last decade alone. After hurricanes Katrina and Rita--and a National Academies call for action--ecologists hope their large-scale plans will be implemented

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Louisiana -- Environmental aspects -- Natural history, Louisiana State University -- Research -- Environmental aspects, National Academy of Sciences -- Research -- Environmental aspects, Coastal ecology -- Environmental aspects -- Protection and preservation -- Research, Wetlands -- Research -- Protection and preservation -- Environmental aspects, Science and technology, Protection and preservation, Research, Natural history, Environmental aspects
Abstract

LULING, LOUISIANA -- From its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi is lined with massive earthen levees designed to prevent the mighty river from flooding. But [...]

Published
2005

4. What's wrong with the endangered species act? Congress is poised to revise a 1973 law that critics say hasn't worked and that defenders say needs to be strengthened. What has it done for the species on the list?

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
United States -- Environmental policy -- Laws, regulations and rules, Gnatcatchers -- Research -- Environmental aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Science and technology, Endangered Species Act of 1973
Abstract

The California gnatcatcher needed help. With more than 80% of its habitat gone by the late 1980s and populations plunging, the diminutive songbird that lives in coastal sage scrub in [...]

Published
2005

5. Learning to adapt: the ambitious Northwest Forest Plan tried to balance desires for timber and biodiversity, but preservation trumped logging--and research. Can the plan be made as adaptable and science-friendly as intended?

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
United States. Forest Service -- Planning -- Management -- Environmental aspects, Pacific Northwest -- Natural history -- Environmental aspects, Forest conservation -- Models -- Management -- Environmental aspects -- Protection and preservation, Owls -- Protection and preservation -- Models -- Environmental aspects, Company business planning, Company business management, Science and technology
Abstract

For decades, a steady stream of logging trucks rolled out of forests in the Pacific Northwest, piled high with ancient Douglas firs, valued for their huge trunks. Old-growth forests on [...]

Published
2005

6. Taking the pulse of earth's life-support systems: a massive effort to document the state of ecosystems--and their ability to provide food, comfort, and other services--lays out some grand challenges, but no easy answers

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Ecologists -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes -- Reports, Ecosystems -- Research -- Environmental aspects -- Analysis -- Observations -- Reports, Earth -- Research -- Reports -- Environmental aspects -- Analysis, Science and technology, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Observations, Analysis, Research, Reports, Environmental aspects
Abstract

The plan was nothing if not ambitious: assess the state of ecosystems across the entire planet, from peat bogs to coral reefs. Rather than solely chart pristine habitats and count [...]

Published
2005

7. Dinosaurs under the knife: with a wealth of good specimens now at their disposal, paleontologists are probing elegantly preserved fossil bone tissue for clues to how long-extinct animals grew and lived

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Physiological aspects, Research, Methods, Paleontology -- Research -- Methods -- Physiological aspects, Dinosaurs -- Research -- Physiological aspects -- Methods
Abstract

With high-domed skulls built like battering rams, dinosaurs called pachycephalosaurs look for all the world as if they must have butted heads. Paleontologists imagined the males sparring for mates as [...]

Published
2004

8. Pollution gets personal: biomonitoring is charting the public's exposure to many chemical, but often the health effects are unclear

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Services -- Reports, Biological monitoring -- Usage -- Industry forecasts -- Research -- Reports, Toxicology -- Research -- Usage -- Reports, Science and technology, Usage, Research, Reports, Services, Industry forecasts
Abstract

After the World Trade Center towers collapsed on 11 September 2001, the world was gripped by the search for survivors. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [...]

Published
2004

9. Defrosting the carbon freezer of the north

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) -- Research -- Environmental aspects, Methane -- Environmental aspects -- Research, Global warming -- Research -- Environmental aspects, Frozen ground -- Environmental aspects -- Research, Science and technology, Research, Environmental aspects
Abstract

The perpetually frozen soils of the Arctic and boreal regions are thawing at unprecedented rates. It's unclear what this bodes for global warming, When Phil Camill goes looking for frozen soil in the spruce forests of northern Manitoba each summer, he finds less and less each year. Instead of rock-hard permafrost, he discovers [...]

Published
2004

10. The vitamin D deficit: an apparent resurgence of rickets is just one manifestation of a deficiency of vitamin D, which could be linked to a range of other diseases

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
National Academy of Medicine. Health and Medicine Division -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Alfacalcidol -- Consumption data -- Physiological aspects -- Health aspects, Rickets -- Causes of -- Risk factors -- Prevention -- Physiological aspects -- Health aspects, Calcifediol -- Consumption data -- Physiological aspects -- Health aspects, Vitamin D -- Consumption data -- Physiological aspects -- Health aspects, Vitamin D deficiency -- Health aspects -- Physiological aspects -- Causes of -- Prevention -- Risk factors, Science and technology, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Prevention, Physiological aspects, Risk factors, Causes of, Health aspects, Consumption data
Abstract

BETHESDA, MARYLAND -- Thinking his 10-month-old daughter Kiana had a bad case of flu, Ian Barrow took her to the emergency room earlier this year. Doctors immediately noticed something more [...]

Published
2003

11. Oldest new world writing suggests Olmec innovation. (Archaeology)

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Antiquities -- Discovery and exploration, Olmecs -- Discovery and exploration, Writing -- Discovery and exploration -- Origin, Science and technology, Discovery and exploration, Origin
Abstract

Inscribed characters that resemble those used in the later Maya script and calendar suggest that the Olmec were the first American scribes, boosting the theory that they heavily influenced later cultures., In A.D. 738, a minor lord in what is now Guatemala pulled off a staggering victory: Cauac Sky of Quirigua captured a powerful king, known as '18 Rabbit,' beheaded him, [...]

Published
2002

12. Data Dilemma: stow it, or kiss it goodbye: as storehouses burst with bulky samples, an NRC committee proposes a temporary cure for geology's down-and-dirty case of information overload. (Geoscience)

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Hutchinson, Kansas -- Accidents, National Research Council -- Powers and duties -- Accidents -- Safety and security measures, Natural gas -- Accidents -- Safety and security measures, Geological research -- Safety and security measures, Science and technology, Powers and duties, Accidents, Safety and security measures
Abstract

When Woody's Appliance Store in Hutchinson, Kansas, blew up 17 January last year, the 20-meter-high flames immediately got it pegged as a natural gas explosion. Firefighters shut off the city [...]

Published
2002

13. Scientists go sleepless in Seattle at AAAS meeting

Author

Kaiser, Jocelyn, Morell, Virginia, Stokstad, Erik, and Olson, Steve

Subjects
American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Conferences, meetings and seminars, Astronomical research -- Analysis -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Public opinion, Science -- Public opinion -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Analysis, HIV infection -- Research -- Conferences, meetings and seminars -- Public opinion -- Analysis, Science and technology, Analysis, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Research, Public opinion
Abstract

SEATTLE--Over 5000 people turned out for the Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, which publishes Science), held 13 to 18 [...]

Published
1997

19. New autism law focuses on patients, environment

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
United States. National Institutes of Health -- Powers and duties, Autism -- Care and treatment, Autism -- Laws, regulations and rules, Medical law -- Interpretation and construction, Government regulation
Published
2007

36. EPA issues mercury rule

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
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Published
2005

37. Insider nominated to EPA

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
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Published
2005

38. Alaskan coral preserved

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
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Published
2005

39. Europe, U.S. differ on mercury

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
Abstract

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Published
2005

40. EPA asks for advice on PFOA

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
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Published
2005

42. USDA eyes plant imports

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
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Content not available due to copyright [...]

Published
2004

43. EPA postpones pesticide study

Author

Stokstad, Erik

Subjects
Science and technology
Abstract

Content not available due to copyright [...]

Published
2004

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