The Mesopotamian spiny eel, Mastacembelus mastacembelus, an endemic freshwater fish restricted to the Euphrates and Tigris river drainages of Mesopotamian, its related taxa in Afrotropica South Asia present suitable elements for studies evolutionary history mastacembelids across these heterogeneous areas. To understand clarify geographic variation eel from Persian Gulf basin, we investigated mo...

A zone of hypoxic and anoxic waters has become a dominant feature of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Nitrogen draining into the Gulf from the Mississippi Basin has been identified as the primary source of the problem. Reducing nitrogen loads from point and nonpoint sources in the basin is the primary goal of an action plan developed to address the problem. In this paper, we use data on point sourc...

The Gulf of Bothnia is a shallow, elongate basin dividing Sweden and Finland, and is located in the centre of the terrain formerly occupied by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet (FIS). It is considered to have hosted a variety of different glaci-dynamic environments during the evolution of the FIS, but direct glacial geological or geomorphological evidence from the Gulf itself is almost entirely lacki...

Media coverage of third party peace initiatives [1] a case of peace journalism? Inhalt 1. Media and conflict escalation 1 2. Media coverage of alternative ways to settle the Gulf War 2 2.1 Method 2 2.2 Empirical results 5 3. Limitations of quantitative analysis 7 4. Media coverage of third party peace initiatives 8 4.1 Method 8 Though the coverage of alternatives to violence can be regarded as ...

BACKGROUND Military intelligence data published in a companion paper explain how chemical fallout from US and Coalition bombing of Iraqi chemical weapons facilities early in the air campaign transited long distance, triggering nerve agent alarms and exposing US troops. We report the findings of a population-based survey designed to test competing hypotheses on the impact on chronic Gulf War ill...

This review discusses the use of hypoxia models in synthesizing the knowledge about the causes of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia, predicting the probable consequences of management actions, and building a consensus about the management of hypoxia. It also offers suggestions for future efforts related to simulating and forecasting Gulf hypoxia. The existing hypoxia models for the northern Gulf of Mexico...

[1] Sea level rise in the Gulf ofMexico has occurred at a rate of 1.8–2.2 mm/yr during the 20th century, or nearly the same as observed globally due to combined steric and water mass changes. Tide gauges in coastal Louisiana, however, record a substantially larger rate of rise and while a number of causal mechanismsmay be responsible, their specific contribution is poorly understood. Using a re...