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China wants to make bricks from toxic milk: report
Beijing (AFP) Nov 11, 2008A south China city is considering using milk at the centre of a poisoned food scandal to make bricks as a cheap and clean way of disposing of the tainted products, state media reported Tuesday. Guangzhou officials are looking into the viability of dumping the toxic products, found to have been tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, into furnaces that make bricks and cement, the ... more Scientific Community Called Upon To Resolve Debate On Net Energy 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 12, 2008"Net energy is a (mostly) irrelevant, misleading and dangerous metric," says Professor Bruce Dale, editor-in-chief of Biofuels, Bioresources and Biorefining (Biofpr) in the latest issue of the journal. Net energy is a metric by which some scientists attempt to assess the sustainability and ability of alternative fuels to displace fossil fuel but recent debate in Biofpr shows that scientist ... more NASA Begins Hunt For New Meteor Showers 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 11, 2008It started out as a normal day. NASA astronomer and meteor expert Bill Cooke woke up, dressed, and went to his office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. Colleagues greeted him as usual, there was no hum of excitement. And then he checked his email. "That's how I found out-I'd slept through a meteor outburst!" During the dark hours before dawn on Sept. 9, 2008, a surprising ... more Farmers Still No Closer To Understanding CPRS Impacts On Agriculture 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 11, 2008Australian farmers are still no closer to understanding the full impacts of the Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on the agriculture sector following the release of the Treasury modelling, according to the National Farmers' Federation (NFF). While farmers hope that the Treasury forecasts of Australia's economy continuing to prosper under the CPRS are correct ... more NKorea plan to ban hillside farms will increase hunger: aid group 
Seoul (AFP) Nov 10, 2008North Korea plans to replant barren hillsides in an apparent attempt to reduce flooding which has worsened acute food shortages, a South Korean aid group said Monday. But the eviction of hillside farmers, which has already begun, will only aggravate hunger in the short-term, according to the Good Friends group which has contacts in the hardline communist state. It said a policy decree is ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) Nov 10, 2008More than a quarter of sharks in the northeast Atlantic Ocean face extinction with some species already wiped out in certain areas due to over-fishing, a conservation group said on Monday. Twenty-six percent of sharks, rays and chimaeras are threatened with extinction and another 20 percent are in the 'near threatened' category, the Switzerland-based International Union for the Conservation ... more Arctic Sea Ice Decline Shakes Up Ocean Ecosystems 
Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 10, 2008Uncertain as to how phytoplankton -- microscopic marine plants on which much of ocean life depends -- would respond to Arctic sea ice decline, researchers took advantage of NASA satellite images to show that the microscopic floating plants are teeming in regions of recent ice melt. The explosion in phytoplankton populations is the result of new open-water habitat and, more significantly ... more Paloma Still Intensifying And Turning Northward 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2008A hurricane watch has been posted for the Cayman Islands. A Hurricane watch means that hurricane conditions are possible within the watch area...generally within 36 hours. At 1 p.m. EST, Nov. 6, Tropical Storm Paloma, located in the western Caribbean near the Honduras/Nicaragua border, has continued to strengthen. Paloma's maximum sustained winds have increased to near 60 mph with higher ... more New NASA Technique Measuring Glacier Driven Sea Level Changes 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2008A NASA-led research team has used satellite data to make the most precise measurements to date of changes in the mass of mountain glaciers in the Gulf of Alaska, a region expected to be a significant contributor to global sea level rise over the next 50-100 years. Geophysicist Scott Luthcke of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and colleagues knew from well-documented ... more CHRIS Satellite Imager Celebrates 7 Years Scientific Success 
London, UK (SPX) Nov 10, 2008The scientific community is celebrating 7 years of high resolution hyperspectral satellite imagery from the highly successful CHRIS multi-spectral payload imager. The instrument has been so successful that an advanced variant is under development, offering new functionality for Earth observation missions in a wide range of applications in resource monitoring and mapping, environmental science a ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Nov 6, 2008China said it had rejected over 2,700 batches of tainted imported food and cosmetics in the first seven months of the year, state media reported Thursday, as it coped with its own food safety issues. The products included batches of baby milk formula made by Australian firm Ausnutria that were found to contain a potentially deadly bacterium, the official China Daily reported, quoting the ... more ISRO's New Satellite Could See Through Even Cloudy Sky 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Nov 07, 2008The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed a new satellite that could take images through the clouds, enabling space-based application in such scenarios to manage cyclones, floods and agriculture related activities. India's current earth-observation satellites are working in visible and infrared bands, which means they can take pictures only when its cloud-free. ... more Virginia Tech Engineers Identify Conditions That Initiate Erosion 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Nov 06, 2008Wind, water, and waves erode billions of tons of soil from the earth's surface. As a result, many rivers are plagued with excessive amounts of suspended sediment. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, such eroded sediment is the largest nonpoint source pollution in the environment. While the mechanism responsible for soil erosion may seem obvious -wind, water and wave ... more Satellites Helping Aid Workers In Honduras 
Paris, France (ESA) Nov 06, 2008Humanitarian aid workers responding to devastating flooding in Honduras have received assistance from space, with satellite images of affected areas provided rapidly following activation of the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and 33 lives have been claimed by floods and landslides brought on by a tropical depression that ... more Poultry industry may need genetic restock 
West Lafayette, Ind. (UPI) Nov 5, 2008 U.S. animal scientists say the poultry industry's commercial chickens are missing more than half the genetic diversity native to the species. As concerns such as avian flu, animal welfare and consumer preferences impact the poultry industry, the reduced genetic diversity of the world's commercial bird breeds is increasing their vulnerability and the industry's ability to adapt ... more
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