Forty two Paleocene benthic foraminiferal species of the Midway Formation in the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, USA were firstly investigated by Plummer (1927), and its paleogeographic distribution in some other countries in the Tethyan province were recorded: North America (USA, Mexico), South America (Argentina), Europe (North Sea Basin, Spain, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Bulgaria), North Af...

September 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 9 | e382 During the past 20 years, natural disasters have claimed more than 3 million lives worldwide, affected at least 800 million people, and resulted in property damage exceeding $US50 billion [1]. On 8 October 2005, an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale (categorized as a major quake) struck Pakistan, along with parts of India and Afghanistan. [2...

Robert B. Bourret, Nyles W. Charon, Ann M. Stock,* and Ann H. West Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7290; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Health Sciences Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506-9177; UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Piscataw...

Mali is located in the Sahel region of West Africa, to the south-west of Algeria and north of Burkina Faso and Niger (Figure 1). It has a large area of some 1.24 million square kilometres. The terrain is dominated by flat or rolling sand-capped plains in the north and savannah in the south, although rugged hills occur in the north-east. Elevation varies from the highest point at Hombori Tondo (...

During the winters of 2013-2014 and 2014-2015, anomalously warm temperatures in western North America and anomalously cool temperatures in eastern North America resulted in substantial human and environmental impacts. Motivated by the impacts of these concurrent temperature extremes and the intrinsic atmospheric linkage between weather conditions in the western and eastern United States, we inv...