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Trust in Chinese food exports drops over milk scandal: state media
Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2008International confidence in Chinese food exports has dived since the scandal erupted over contaminated milk in China, with dairy items the worst affected, state press reported on Tuesday. China exported just over 1,000 tonnes of dairy products in October, down 92 percent from a year earlier, the China Daily reported, quoting figures from the customs administration. In September ... more IAEA calls for renewed interest in mutant plant breeding 
Vienna (AFP) Dec 2, 2008The UN atomic watchdog called Tuesday for renewed interest and increased investment in a technique that uses radiation to improve crop yields and resistance against a backdrop of the global food and energy crises. The International Atomic Energy Agency is hoping that, given the current food crisis, countries will revive their interest in mutation induction -- a technique that has been in use ... more Global warming could harm Pacific food security: UN 
Rome (AFP) Dec 2, 2008Global warming causes freak weather that may have a "devastating impact" on food security in the Pacific region, the UN food agency warned on Tuesday. "Climate projections for the Pacific island countries are bleak and indicate reduced food security, especially for households," Alexander Mueller, assistant director-general at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said in a statement. ... more Global Warming Is Changing Organic Matter In Soil 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 03, 2008New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth. Scientists at the University of Toronto Scarborough have published research findings in the prestigious journal, Nature Geoscience, that show global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil. ... more VIASPACE Targets Biofuel Market 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2008VIASPACE has announced the Company is cultivating a new fast-growing hybrid grass to be used for production of cellulosic ethanol, methanol, biocrude and green gasoline. VIASPACE is taking a leadership position in the development of feedstock for sustainable biofuels, targeting the growing $25 billion global biofuels market. The Company is working to develop supply contracts with companies ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2008The 2008 Frost and Sullivan South Africa Biofuel Feedstock Market Share Advancement Award is presented to Rainbow Nation Renewable Fuels (RNRF). The company is building the biggest soybean processing facility in Africa, a particularly strategic choice of location since South Africa has the greatest demand for biofuels in Southern Africa. This, together with its coherent, growth-focused ... more Central Florida Pipeline System Begins Ethanol Transport 
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Kinder Morgan Energy Partners has announced it is now transporting commercial batches of denatured ethanol along with gasoline shipments in its 16-inch Central Florida Pipeline (CFPL) between Tampa and Orlando, Fla., making CFPL the first transmarket gasoline pipeline in the United States to do so. Kinder Morgan has invested approximately $10 million to modify the line for ethanol shipment ... more China scraps price control on foods 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2008China's top economic planning agency Monday removed price controls on grain and other food products that were imposed early this year when inflation was a bigger concern. Caps on the prices of grain, edible oil, meat, dairy products and eggs were lifted with immediate effect, the National Development and Reform Commission said on its website. Requirements on enterprises to submit price-r ... more China says 294,000 children fell ill from tainted milk 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2008China said Monday that a total of 294,000 children had fallen ill from consuming dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, with 154 of them still in serious condition. In a statement on its website, the health ministry also indicated the number of dead may rise from the four previously announced, saying that six deaths since September 10 may be linked to the consumption o ... more Dolphin Population Stunted By Fishing Activities 
La Jolla CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2008Despite broad "dolphin safe" practices, fishing activities have continued to restrict the growth of at least one Pacific Ocean dolphin population, a new report led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has concluded. Populations of dolphins in the Eastern Pacific were expected to increase in abundance after successful regulations and agreements were enacted ... more |
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Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 28, 2008Brazil's Amazon jungles, known as the lungs of the world, lost almost 12,000 square kilometres (4,800 sq. miles) in just 12 months, a rise of almost 4.0 percent, new figures showed Friday. The National Institute for Space Research (INPE) said the deforestation of the vast jungles due to encroaching farm exploitation, was 3.8 percent higher from August 2007 to July 2008 than in the previous 1 ... more Fishermen trawl for final catch on Iraq's dead sea 
Lake Razzaza, Iraq (AFP) Nov 28, 2008The young men huddle on the muddy shore, pulling small silvery fish from their nets with hands caked with salt and flies, another meagre catch from a vast lake in Iraq that will soon vanish. The fist-size fish are the only species left in Iraq's Lake Razzaza, a sprawling reservoir west of the Shiite holy city of Karbala that until the early 1990s teemed with birds and fish and attracted tour ... more Better Red than Dead: Jordan grapples with water crisis 
Deir Alla, Jordan (AFP) Nov 26, 2008Gasping for water and fearful that climate change will amplify its problems, Jordan is pinning its hopes for liquid salvation on a scheme with no parallel: hauling water from the Red Sea to replenish the Dead Sea. The 3.5-billion-euro (4.5-billion-dollar) "Peace Canal" is the heart of the government's vision of slaking thirst in a country that is mostly bone-dry desert and one of the 10 drie ... more Acid Soils In Slovakia Tell Somber Tale 
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Increasing levels of nitrogen deposition associated with industry and agriculture can drive soils toward a toxic level of acidification, reducing plant growth and polluting surface waters, according to a new study published online in Nature Geoscience. The study, conducted in the Tatra Mountains of Slovakia by the University of Colorado, University of Montana, Slovak Academy of Sciences ... more Nutrients In Water May Be A Bonus For Agriculture 
Vernon TX (SPX) Nov 27, 2008Agriculture producers may find they don't have to bottle their water from the Seymour Aquifer in the Rolling Plains to make it more valuable, according to Texas AgriLife Research scientists. Drs. John Sij, Cristine Morgan and Paul DeLaune have studied nitrate levels in irrigation water from the Seymour Aquifer for the past three years, and have found nitrates can be as high as 40 parts per ... more
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