humans, sandeels are caught and processed into fish meal and oil to make food pellets for salmon farming and livestock feed. Fishing for anchovy should continue to be banned in the Bay of Biscay at least until spring 2007, ICES said. Lying off the Atlantic coast of France and Spain, the Bay of Biscay is the key trawling ground for anchovy, a very shortlived species and widely used in Mediterran...

(Curr. Biol. 16, R474–R475), and from the shift in the chemical equilibria involving the carbonate ion. Wootton's work also highlights the complex dynamics of pH and carbonate changes over time. A lot more research is needed to understand in detail how these changes will play out and how they will interact with wildlife and with the changes in the atmosphere. For instance, it is not at all clea...

a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and director of its Center for Ocean, Seafloor, and Marine Observing Systems. " We were asked to do something that we've never done before as a community: think collectively about how to do ocean sciences and work together to set priorities on how to do that. " Because the 2007 NSF budgets proposed by the Bush Administration and approve...

Antarctica is coming under an increasing global focus. Not only is evidence growing of its potential worldwide impact on climate change, but it is also showing evidence of some of the fastest climate changes itself. And its ecosystems, which comprise some remarkable species, are turning out to be increasingly complex and fragile. It is perhaps no surprise that researchers and, more controversia...

Species (Cites) in 1989, to halt the steep decline in elephant numbers. “Wild elephant populations were decimated by the ivory trade. By the time the 1989 Cites ban came into force, Africa’s elephants had been reduced by more than 50 per cent,” says Mark Jones, programmes director at Care for the Wild, an international wildlife charity which commissioned the mammoth ivory report. “Poaching cont...

BACKGROUND Worries and concerns of patients with IBD comprise an important negative factor in their HRQOL. The Rating Form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient Concerns (RFIPC) was developed to describe the nature and degree of the worries and concerns of IBD patients. In the original version, the specific issues of worries are divided into four separate factors. These factors provide useful i...

This study examined the worries adults and their parents experience for one another. To date, relatively little research has considered the experience of worry in this relationship. A small number of studies, however, suggest worry is relatively common in this relationship (Boutain, 2001; Cicirelli, 1988; Parker, Call, Dunkle, & Vaitkus, 2002). Furthermore, worrying may be linked with mental an...