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New species are discovered in Brazil
Scientists say they have discovered 14 potential new species
in Brazil's Cerrado area -- one of the world's 34 biodiversity
conservation hot spots. The discoveries by an expedition of
scientists from Conservation International and Brazilian
universities include a legless lizard and a dwarf woodpecker,
in addition to eight fish, two reptiles, one amphibian and
one mammal. The discoveries were made in and near the Serra
Geral do Tocantins Ecological Station, a 1.7 million-acre
protected area that is the Cerrado's second largest. "It's
very exciting to find new species and data on the richness,
abundance, and distribution of wildlife in one of the most
extensive, complex and unknown regions of the Cerrado," said
CI biologist Cristiano Nogueira, the expedition's leader.
"Protected areas such as the Ecological Station are home to
some of the last remaining healthy ecosystems in a region
increasingly threatened by urban growth and mechanized
agriculture." The expedition included 26 researchers from
the University of Sao Paulo, the federal universities of
Sao Carlos and Tocantins and CI-Brazil.
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Alaska hardest hit by U.S. climate change
Scientists say Alaska leads the rest of the United States in
experiencing the effects of global warning. Researchers from
the universities of New Hampshire and Maine said small Alaskan
villages are slipping into the sea due to coastal erosion and
soggy permafrost is cracking buildings and trapping trucks.
In an effort to better understand how the Pacific Northwest
fits into the larger climate-change picture, the scientists
are heading to Denali National Park to recover ice cores from
Alaskan glaciers. Associate Professor Cameron Wake of the
University of New Hampshire Institute for the Study of Earth,
Oceans and Space and Karl Kreutz of the University of Maine
Climate Change Institute are leading the expedition that's
part of a decadelong goal to gather climate records from ice
cores from around the entire Arctic region. "Just as any one
meteorological station can't tell you about regional or
hemispheric climate change," said Wake. "A series of ice
cores is needed to understand the regional climate variability
in the Arctic." He said scientists have long thought the North
Atlantic drives global climate changes. However, there are now
indications a change in the North Pacific might occur first and
then be followed by a North Atlantic response.
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Study: Synesthetes share commonalities
British psychological researchers say they've discovered
evidence that commonalities exist across synesthetes.
A synesthete is a person who experiences vivid colors whenever
they see, hear or even just think about ordinary letters and
digits. Although synesthetes will consistently see the same
colors associated with the same letters or digits, few of the
experiences have appeared to be shared with other synesthetes.
Now in a study of 70 synesthetes, and a re-analysis of 19 more
in previously published data, psychologists Julia Simner of the
University of Edinburgh and Jamie Ward of the University of
Sussex found synesthetes do, in fact, share certain grapheme-
color combinations. For example, the letter 'A' is frequently
associated with seeing the color red. They also found the
particular pairings are determined by how frequently graphemes
and the color terms are used in language: common letters --
such as "A" -- pair with common color terms like red. Uncommon
letters -- such as "V" -- pair with uncommon color terms like
purple. That, the scientists say, shows perceptual synaesthetic
experiences are influenced by environmental learning. The
research appears in the journal Psychological Science.
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