Statistically speaking, global temperatures have risen more slowly over the past 15 years than in the decades prior, leading some to proclaim – incorrectly – that we are experiencing a "hiatus" in global warming, or even that climate change is …
Archives for 2013
Surprising Link Found Between Mold and Parkinson’s Disease
Rutgers and Emory University scientists have discovered a surprising link between mold and Parkinson’s disease: organic compounds which are given off by these organisms may be a possible cause for this devastating condition. While the causes of Parkins…
Of Hurricanes, Fungus and Parkinson’s Disease
Arati Inamdar and Joan Bennett, researchers in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers, used fruit flies to establish the connection between the compound — popularly known as mushroom alcohol — and the malfunction of two genes …
Ocean Drones Plumb New Depths
Five miles offshore from the Golden Nugget casino, Michael F. Crowley, a marine scientist at Rutgers University, heaves three lifeboat-yellow drones off the back of his research vessel. The gliders, as he calls them, are winged and propellerless, like …
Climate Change Hiking Allergy, Asthma Rates?
Rates of allergy and asthma doubled between two cycles of a national health survey, researchers reported. And rates of people who had both conditions also rose sharply, according to investigators led by Leonard Bielory, MD, of Rutgers University in New…
Rutgers researchers: Mold can cause symptoms that mimic Parkinson’s
Rutgers fungus expert Joan Bennett had always been a skeptic of "sick building syndrome" – the notion the air in a building can be so toxic it makes people sick. Then the home she owned in New Orleans was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. W…
Coastal snowstorm now looks less likely, experts say
The odds of a coastal storm dumping snow in New Jersey next week have plunged – for now, according to experts. Major forecast models now project a storm developing farther offshore around mid-week, but things could change, experts said Friday. David A….
Marine Sciences Senior Awarded ASM Research Fellowship
SEBS senior Jeremy Schreier, a marine sciences major, was selected by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) as a 2013 award recipient of the ASM Undergraduate Research Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at highly competitive students who wish to pursue graduate careers in microbiology. Schreier was one of just 37 fellows to be chosen from […]
Nation’s top fruit researchers meet in Idaho
Most of the nation’s top fruit researchers are in Idaho this week trying to help one another figure out the best ways to grow tree fruit in their respective states. The rootstock evaluation group, which includes 35 states, is a national research projec…
Musconetcong Watershed Association River Talk series starts Nov. 12 in Asbury
As part of the continuing Musconetcong Watershed Association River Talk series, Pat Rector, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Environmental Agent will provide a talk on ways to conserve rain water runoff focusing on rain barrels on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 7 p…
