Sentences with phrase «new habitats on»
After you arrive home, carefully place your hamster in its prepared cage, then close the cage door and allow your hamster to explore its new habitat on its own.
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CNBC's Morgan Brennan reports on hotel mogul Robert Bigelow launching a new venture that will sell and manage space habitats.
The new system could potentially supply the power human crews on the Martian surface would need to energize habitats and run processing equipment to transform resources such as ice on the planet into oxygen, water and fuel, NASA said.
Every phase takes on a new aspect towards the ultimate goal of building 3D printed habitats designed for deep space exploration and colonization.
At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...
Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.
Our on - site programs offer opportunities to investigate the ecology of New England habitats and the adaptations of animals and plants that live here.
We anticipate that perhaps up to three nesting territories of plovers will be displaced through the removal of sand, however, based on prior projects we expect to gain 15 or more new nesting territories through habitat restoration and enhancement.
Effects on one part of an ecosystem affect other parts over time, and climate change is already altering many natural habitats vital to New England.
Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.
-- Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England Office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.
Federal agencies are weighing in on how a new designation recently issued for the sturgeon habitat near Indian Point impacts the Westchester nuclear power plant that is set to close by 2021.
And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.
«We appreciate Governor Cuomo's clear understanding, reflected in his proposed 2016 - 2017 budget, that New York must lead on water and land protection, renewable energy and habitat restoration,» Riverkeeper president Paul Gallay said.
Here, the conservancy is partnering with the City of Niagara Falls and Applied Ecological Services to restore habitats on the land owned by the New York Power Authority and managed by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Future City: Apartments as Complete Habitats, 1932 City planning also took on new ideas, and developers began thinking in terms of convenience for apartment dwellers.
As co-author Hisanori Kohtsuka explains, «because one habitat where X. japonica was found is easily accessible from a marine station, this new species promises to be valuable for future research on bilaterian and deuterostome evolution.»
Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.
The key for Koblick is that archaeology could underwrite new habitats, providing a money model for bases on the seafloor.
New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.
As we encroach more and more on the kissing bug's habitat and remove their usual blood meal sources, such as rodents, says Dorn, the insects — attracted by light — are moving into houses to tap new food sources.
Half of the orangutans on the vast Southeast Asian island died between 1999 and 2015 as a result of hunting or habitat destruction by oil palm and other industries, a new study found.
«New critically endangered tree species depends on unique habitat found only on Kaua'i.»
She says Project Chimps is on track to build enough enclosures and outdoor habitats to take New Iberia's remaining 173 chimps within 5 years.
The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.
According to the new study, the main reasons for the limited information on the effect of habitat loss and fragmentation for felid conservation are «the lack of both financing for research and communication between managers and researchers,» highlights Palomares.
Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.
Shannon Buckley Luepold of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and her colleagues spent two years collecting data on Rusty Blackbirds nests and their surrounding habitat in Maine and New Hampshire, and uncovered a web of connections between timber harvesting practices, spruce and fir cones, red squirrels, and Rusty Blackbird nesting success.
Scientists focused on prairie chicken habitat in the southwestern part of their distribution in New Mexico and West Texas.
Using clues from the original find, Wright deduced the sponge's likely habitat and located it on her very first submarine dive using this new information.
The team is continuing its work on the ecology of the new species and is urging the government to designate its habitat as a «protected area.»
As the average temperature of the planet goes up and as humanity encroaches on wilderness, pathogens and the organisms they infect are moving into new habitats, increasing the risk of infecting native hosts.
The continued development of maritime transportation around the world, especially in new areas such as the Arctic, can increase conservation impacts to wildlife, including disturbance, fatal strikes, introduction of pathogens through ballast water, habitat destruction through anchoring (especially on corals), introduction of invasive species, air emis ¬ sions, noise, and fuel spills.
Furthermore, the ability to colonize new habitats itself implies that the host is not entirely dependent on the services provided by its ant partner.
When the Fangataufa atoll populations were decimated by the nuclear bombs, it opened up a new habitat to colonize for the free floating larvae, but which species happened to land on the reef is mostly a matter of luck.
Participants are required to explore NASA's work on development of deep - space habitats and help the agency gather new ideas to complement its current research and development.
New research, led by the University of Southampton, has found that human activities such as shipping are having a noticeable impact on marine species and their native habitats.
Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.
Even though there may be more creatures at the base, it's not clear what their effects will be on fish or other crabs in the habitat, and how much protection the new landscape will provide,» said Dijkstra.
Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.
The fact that some mussel species are dispersed all across Europe and have given rise to different strains could be related to the ice ages and periods between them, on the one hand, but also to their fish hosts and the conquest of new habitats, on the other.
By analyzing the sediments, scientists can predict how much coral and algae were present on mesophotic reef environment, this new information has important implications from interpreting ancient reef environments found in fossils, where the abundance of diverse habitat forming species can not be analyzed visually.
But birdwatchers don't have a new species to add to their life lists yet: Most observers agree with the study authors that further research on mating preferences, gene flow, and behavioral and habitat differences is needed before ornithologists split the common raven into two species.
Top on their agenda: new technology that holds the promise of protecting natural water habitats from pollution as well as tech that purifies current water systems better and helps tap into new potential sources of drinking water.
The new study included some of the first data on how large smoothtooth blacktips can grow, how many pups they can bear and their habitat usage as well as other information needed for an effective conservation and management plan in the future.
The researchers calculated how much viable habitat remains for each of the species, then reran IUCN's risk assessment algorithms based on these new habitat estimates.
I had been working with Archean astrobiologists since 2014, exploring the link between early life habitats on Earth and the hot springs that I study (Jurassic - modern) in different parts of the world, including New Zealand.
After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).
As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.
Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.