“Controlling the mosquito vector can work, but it is very expensive and difficult to sustain,” says Anna Durbin, M.D., who is leading the study at Johns Hopkins. “In the long run, vaccination would be a more efficient and cost-effective approach.”
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Researchers from the National University of Colombia who discovered the new primate consider it to be critically endangered due to rapid loss of the forest where it lives and its small population.
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Georgia Tech researcher Carson Meredith is shown with a high-throughput sorption measurement system developed in his lab to screen up to 36 samples of adsorbent simultaneously. It will be used to evaluate metal-organic framework materials used in membranes designed to capture carbon from coal power plant flue gases.
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University of Arkansas researchers took a look at streams and land use surveys to determine that restoration of urban streams cannot be based on the characteristics of streams in agricultural or forested settings.
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At Gamgrinchemzoe Pass in Bhutan, Shuji Iwata of Tokyo Metropolitan University captured this image of a debris-free plateau glacier, just one of several being studied for climate change effects.
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Last summer, GE was working hard to remove PCBs in the eastern channel of Rodgers Island. With that work completed, EPA, GE and an independent panel are trying to determine the best ways to mitigate any contamination caused by the removal process.
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EPA has published industry information on 2009 emissions the same month that the information was collected.
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A collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation will support studies on the effects forest fires have on soil organic matter, which influences the amount of mercury available for methylation.
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