Oil palm genome boosts hopes for tropical forests
Email this page (AFP) Sequencing of the oil palm, one of the world’s most important crops, has pinpointed a gene that should boost yields and ease pressure on tropical rainforests, studies said on Wednesday. Published in the scientific journal Nature, the genome highlights the role of an all-important gene called Shell, according to a probe led […]
Insurer Lloyd’s of London says Earth is due for a major solar storm
Email this page Rosanne Skirble / VOA With the sun nearing the peak of its 11-year cycle, scientists say a powerful solar storm may be headed our way, which could shut down electricity supply networks and disorient GPS and satellite systems. The worst known geomagnetic solar storm hit Earth in 1859, observed and sketched by […]
Dolphins call each other by name
Email this page (AFP) – Wild bottlenose dolphins design unique signature whistles to identify themselves, and they answer when a close cohort calls them by name, researchers said Monday. A study of 200 bottlenose dolphins off the eastern coast of Scotland found that they are the only non-human mammals to use the names of those […]
Study shows primates can remember past events like humans do
Email this page Chimpanzees and orangutans can remember distant past events, showing their memory is more like that of humans than previously thought, Danish researchers say.
Group believes “paramilitaries” operating in Talamanca
Email this page July 17th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) The Non Governmental Organization, Coecoceiba, which defends the rights of indigenous communities, denounced the incursion of “paramilitaries” into the indigenous area of Bribri in Talamanca. From late June to early July, a group of supposed “missionaries” arrived in an unmarked black helicopter and delivered Bibles to the […]
Humpback whales begin taking over Costa Rica’s South Pacific
Email this page July 17th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) The whale watching season in Costa Rica’s South Pacific has officially begun has Humpback whales begin their migration to the warm waters of Bahia Ballena on Costa Rica’s South Pacific coast. The whales arrive from the northern hemisphere and come to the area to reproduce and give […]
Nuclear radiation scare in Osa yesterday
Email this page July 17th, 2013 (InsideCostaRica.com) An accident involving a nuclear density meter caused authorities to issue an alert of possible radiation exposure in the environment yesterday afternoon. The incident occurred two miles from Cuidad Cortez in the canton of Osa, Puntarenas. The accident occurred when a nuclear density meter – a […]
New tech listens to rainforests to determine species
Email this page (VOA) Researchers have developed software that can listen to recordings of a rainforest and tell us what animals are there, and importantly, what animals are not. The new technology is free online for anyone to use and conservationists are taking advantage of it. If you listen closely to a recording of a rainforest […]
