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It was a good 2007 for the hand picked … and carefully sorted with a full calendar year of blogging under our belt, turning 1 year old on 2nd November. We posted 167 articles on a variety of topics and had one of our posts, "Bluetongue virus:knocking at the door" by Robert Taylor, nominated for consideration towards the new edition of the Science Blogging Anthology, "Open Laboratory 2007".
Please read on for a monthly breakdown of all our posts.
January
- Dolly for dinner? – is your dinner going to be cloned.
- Obese people like chewing
- Dangerous rust puts strain on food security
- Reducing soil erosion in the real world
- Trees for flights – carbon offsetting
- Troubled times for tuna – overfishing of tuna stocks
- Successful seed storage – video CABI’s Good Seed Initiative in Bangladeshi
- Maryland at risk of loosing millions of trees – emerald ash borer invasion
- Be(a)ware – salt and human health
- Creating the perfect catfish – DNA fingerprinting
- Why salt? – more on salt and human health
- Goodbye Barbaro – equine injuries & the launch of VetMed Resource
- Slick seabirds – oil spills and seabirds
- Whitefly and virus team tactics
February
- The hypertension controversy – salt and hypertension is there a link?
- I love you like meat loves salt
- Tortilla chips: how green fuel may be harming Mexico’s poor – biofuels
- Measuring out their lives in coffee spoons – coffee production & wildlife
- UK hopeful Bird Flu has been contained
- Trans fats – the wrong targets?
- Can weeds be our friends – water hyacinth
- Seeds of doom – new seed bank in Sweden
- Penalty kicks: are they all in the mind? – sport psychology
- Water or biofuels? you choose – biofuel crops & water resources
- More good news for coffee drinkers!
- Conservation agriculture: the zero way – no till or zero till agriculture
- Do you have room for a rhino? – climate change
- Last stand for the orangutan
- Dolly: ten years after – cloning
- Thai rubber industry plans to bounce back from El Niño
- Is circumcision the answer to HIV?
- Rebuilding the Brazilian rainforest
- Frog fungus – frog species extinctions
March
- Drink coffee, feed the world? – describes what is fairtrade?
- Bluetongue in Northern Europe
- How safe is making drugs in GM plants?
- USDA support for GM rice with Human genes
- "Sustainable Aquaculture" – challenges for a growing industry
- Fancy a bottle of Swedish white? – climate change and wine
- Fat, me? – obesity
- Grassland invaders had inside help – invasive species and plant viruses
- A role for rice in causing and tackling climate change?
- Polarized thought – international polar year and Arctic warming
- My love is like a blue, blue rose – a true blue flower?
- The great global warming swindle – don’t forget the science
- Atkins – the right strategy for the wrong reasons?
- Controlling the screwworm – Cochliomyia hominivorax
- Celebrating Linnaeus – 300th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus
- Pet food safety – recall of cat & dog food in the N. America
- Cow + grass = house – a new way of making fiberboard
- World Water Day – includes a cartogram of global freshwater availability
- China’s functional food honey-trap
- Cataloging life – the launch of a new taxonomic checklist
- MUM’s not going to poison you – bottled water labeling
- A health dose of stress – organic vs. conventionally produced food
- Peat – sink or source – the carbon emissions ticking bomb
April
- Funky and unusual, it brings you lots of luck! – Cane toad news
- Orangutan Diary
- Origins of BSE?
- Cancer prevention for pets?
- Tourism threat to cradle of evolution – tourism pressure on the Galapagos Islands
- 1000 diseases mapped! – map 1000 of the Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases published
- Wine has many uses – wine extract to protect skin from UV radiation
- Hitching a flight – the spread of invasive species along transport networks
- Ticks: be aware, but don’t panic
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star – EU Galileo positioning system
- Where have all the bees gone? – the decline of UK and US bee numbers
- Could it bee your mobile phone? – may mobile phones cause Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)?
- 1000 diseases mapped – a challenge is issued
- Blood transfusion – never entirely safe
- Pet foods for thought – a month on from the pet food recall yet any questions still to be answered
- Cowpox, cats, smallpox and history
- And how would you like your flowers Madam? – GM flowers
- It’s sweet, but is it safe? – aspartame and food science
May
- Rhubarb, Rhubarb, Rhubarb…
- The state of Britain’s moth species
- Patents, pigs and pastoralists
- Cod this mean the end for Gadus morhua? – cod and the common fisheries policy
- Melamine: important information being ignored? – more information on the pet food recall
- Insect protein: an alternative to fish meal?
- Will new parasite hinder UK otter recovery? – a gall bladder fluke Pseudamphistomum truncatum
- Disturbing soil has disturbing effects on forest carbon – a new CAB reviews paper see abstract
- Taking the sting out of nettles – nettles have many uses as highlighted by "be nice to nettle week"
- The art of…boiling broccoli
- Virus threatens Scotland’s red squirrels – the squirrelpox virus
- Hunting both animals and plants
- International day for Biological Diversity
- Climate change clock ticking for wild relatives
- Melamine contamination is spreading to meat and fish supplies – pet food contamination continues
- Not all doom and gloom (but not far off)… – tree planting and mass deforestation
- Glycerol, a byproduct of the biodiesel industry, in livestock feeds
- Grasping the great ape situation
- What a load of rubbish! – packaging, recycling and rubbish
- Do cows sneeeze in June?
- Melting Ice – a hot topic? – world environment day and international polar year
- Soil, a potential large scale carbon store
- Have you ever milked a hemp?
- B-list celebrity in shock relationship scandal – Europe calling for fortification of flour with folic acid
- World Ocean Day and Chinese water news round-up
- CABI fungi examined for medical marvels
- Obesity- now blame the microwave or lack of sleep
- Clouds in my decaf – is GM coffee coming soon?
- Plants uproot and head North – plant distributions moving North to find colder climates
- Report warns of MRSA in farm animals
- Changes in the veterinary profession
- Hug fat trees – ancient tree survey underway in UK
- Don’t you know there’s a war on? – aspartame and food sweetening
July
- What are my chances of catching an interesting parasite? – food parasites
- Organic tomatoes – better for your heart?
- Take one funny film twice daily – melatonin levels
- Bamboo socks and bicycles
- No go for the GM Danio – GM zebrafish banned from New Zealand
- Two pints of lager and a tin of sardines – fortified alcoholic drinks
- Why should we? – India and China won’t
August
- Consultation on proposed EU Soil Framework Directive
- Foot and mouth: back again?
- A parasite that affects the mind – Toxoplasma gondii
- Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells: TB complacency is not acceptable
- Biosecurity: who will guard the guardians?
- What do you know about biodiversity?
- Highlighting the use of evidence
- The joys of biological containment
- Pass the chocolate? – junk food diets and pregnancy
- Water cleaning eggs! – eggshell to absorb lead in industrial waste water
- So long, and thanks for all the fish – Dolphin sightings in the Bay of Biscay down by 80%
September
- Bloggers for peer reviewed research: the contest
- Food colourings studies – handle with care!
- Vote for the winner of the “peer-reviewed research reporting” icon contest
- From NASA to the takeaway – does HACCP overburden small businesses?
- Bluetongue virus: knocking at the door
- The final Steve Irwin croc paper
- Bruno, Bruce and the Penan
- Can Bt Maize beat down mycotoxins?
October
- BSE: Twenty years old
- The Blandford Fly is not confined to Blandford (and other interesting facts about blackflies)
- World tourism leaders tackle climate change
- Sympathy for the devil – facial tumors threaten the survival of the Tasmanian Devil
- Pine beetles continue marching east
- Not mush-room for fungi in school
- Carbon offsets – whats the deal? – report from the UNWTO Conference, Davos
- Gardening in microgravity
- Finding that needle: searching tips
- (Not-so-)Happy World Food Day!
- Blogging from BCPC/IPPC 2007 – call for agrochem education
- Needle cast diseases on Christmas trees
- Get set for a busy birdfeeder!
- Don’t waste your energy! – energy efficiency of your home to combat climate change
- How we keep women workers in poverty
- Goliath and Titan – running out of leg room – fossil evidence gigantic insects
November
- Katrina, flu and bioterrorism
- Poverty and Human Development, Global theme issue, supported by Tropical Diseases Bulletin
- Do you blog about peer reviewed research?
- Maps – finding our place in the World – highlighting the Chicago festival of maps online displays
- Pass the Tamiflu!
- Happy holidays! ‘Tis the season to be hypertensive
- The superfood of the future – Chenopodium quinoa
- Bioethanol production arrives in the UK
- Forests and climate change: a convenient truth? – FC conference report from London, UK
- TOPPS – best pesticide practice, better water protection
- Chikungunya conquers the Swiss Alps – mosquito (Aedes albopictus) spotted heading North
December
- Second (Life) Nature – climate change lecture series
- Trade, biotechnology, biofuels, ethics: some issues that the sugar industry is thinking about
- GREENhouse appeal
- Wash your hands…not your turkey!
- Could blue be next year’s green?
- Kiss – don’t shake hands? – disease transmission
- Rudolf the parasitized Reindeer