There has been a proposal on creating a superhighway that will strect 162 miles in length with six paved lanes with a six mile buffer on both sides at Nigeria's cross river state. Due to this proposal it will affect the biodiversity such as the communities located there as well the animals. (WCS) or the wildlife conservatives society have encouraged the builder to chose alternatives options opposing the highway to protect all nearby communities, animals , and forest along the border of Cameroon. WCS created a petition against the superhighway collecting about 41,786 petitions since October 14 of 2016. The process of the superhighway has been temporary been stopped because of the petitions that were signed from local communities which has initiate an environmental impact assessment. Even though the highway was stopped it is not permanent the workers can start the construction site at any time. Since the construction work site can begin at any time WCS has teamed up with an award wining forest stewardship organization "Ekuri initiative. The Ekuri initiative have already sent the federal government 253,000 signatures asking for the president of Nigeria to help protect the forest. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161028090257.htm
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Small robots were created to help today scientists Called, "Robomussels". They look exactly like Mussels but the only thing different is the blinking green light is that the Robomussels have as well as a miniature built in sensor that will track the temperature. They are then glued to a rock inside the mussel bed. There to observed the impacts from global climate change on the ecologically and economically important animals. These Robomussels were created by the Northeastern University scientist Brian Helmuth. For the past 18 years Helmuth, the school pubic policy ,urban affairs and a global research have been using robomussles to track internal body temperature of air and water.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161017150400.htm
Mount St. Helens may be a hot active volcano but it sits above a wedge of a rock known as "Cold Rock" of the North American plate tectonic.As geophysicist from the university of New Mexico Steven Hansen, was peeked only 40 kilometers under Mount St. Helens where the Juan de Faca tectonic plate melts during it sinks into the hot mantel beneath the North American plates fueling volcanoes all except Mount ST. Helens that stands about 50 kil. to the west. Hansen and his colleagues were expected to see a heat source under the mountain.Instead, using a thermal modeling revealed a type of rock called " serpentinite" . Serpentinite is a rock composed of one or more serpentinite group minerals which are from by serpentinization. This strange discovery shows how the local crust-mantel boundary looks like. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mount-st-helens-cold-hearted-volcano?mode=topic&context=60&tgt=nr
National academies of sciences are concern about the mammals living in the ocean. Even though the noise level has been increasing it is not as worse as the human-caused pollution such as climate change and prey-depletion by fishermen. Fishermen can cause them to make more noise because when they harm these poor creatures they let out a natural responses. Furthermore professor Peter of Marine Mammal biology of the University of Saint Andrew of Scotland conducted and study an experiment where they created a model that provides a way to examine them. Although chemical pollution or ocean climate can't be reduce other noises such as fishermen or shipping routes can be manage to reduce their impacts.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161007155101.htm
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