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Biology in the News is presented by Dr. Lamar's Biology A/B classes. Each student is responsible for posting ONE blog entry and commenting on ONE post submitted by a fellow student.

About your initial posting . . . . . (approximately 150- 300 words)

Your initial posting is worth 30 points. It must be submitted by October 15th. - Locate an electronic article about a new finding in biology. Article must be been written in the last 12 months. Your posting should include 1) the name of the article (3 point), 2) article source - be specific (3 point), 3) date of article (2 point), 4) link to article (2 points), 5) summary of article in your own words (0-10 points), and 6) significance of article (0-10 points). Comments on significance of article can include (but not be limited to) importance of article to self, to society, or to the further advancement of a particular area of biology.

NOTE: To add link, select text in post that you want to link, click on link icon above posting field, and then paste URL information into appropriate field.

About your comments to a fellow classmate's posting . . . . (approximately 100 - 200 words)

Your comments to another student's posting is worth 20 points. Comments must be submitted between October 16 and November 19 - "The more you know, the more you realize there's a lot more to know" is certainly true to science. Read our Biology in the News blob posts. Pick one post (not your own) and submit comments about this post. Comments should included 1) A question that is raised in your mind by the post. The question should have scientific relevance (0 - 5 points) 2) a response to your question. (0-15 points) Research your question and answer it. If the answer is currently unknown, provide additional background information, describe research that is being done in this field, and/or research that is required for the question to be answered.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Huge Parts of World Are Drying Up: Land Evapotranspiration Taking Unexpected Turn

Huge Parts of World Are Drying Up: Land Evapotranspiration Taking Unexpected Turn


In this article from ScienceDaily.com dated October 11, 2010 it is reported that areas such as Australia, Africa, South America, which are large areas of Southern Hemisphere are drying up due to evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is the moving of water from land into the atmosphere.

This research suggests that evapotranspiration will increase global warming because of the increase in evapotranspiration in water from oceans and more participation. Many areas that were wet are now wetter.

However, this data is limited in the time period it was taken from but this will now be closely monitored because the researchers have no idea as to why this is happening.

This article is important to society and the future advancement of biology because if evapotranspiration continues it will decrease vegetation growth, decrease carbon absorption, will cause intense heat waves, droughts, and a increase in global warming. Also, areas that are dry will get drier and those areas that are wet they will get wetter. Some of these areas are rain forest.




http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101010133630.htm
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