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China bans Irish pork imports following cancer scare
Beijing (AFP) Dec 8, 2008China on Monday suspended the import of pork products from Ireland after the discovery of toxic chemicals in Irish pigs and announced increased inspections of other imported European foods. "In accordance with a China-Ireland bilateral agreement, we have provisionally stopped the direct and indirect import of Irish pork products and livestock feed," the General Administration of Quality Insp ... more Making Sense Of The World From High Above 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 08, 2008Making sense of the world an old idea, new technologies offer ways to do it better than ever A Babylonian clay tablet dating from 600 B.C. is the oldest map of the known world, although not a whole lot of the world was actually "known" at that point. The Chinese, Egyptians and Mesopotamians used string and bead abacuses to make calculations at least as early as 3000 B.C. Ancient Alexandria ... more Seafood Industry To Benefit From Oceansat-2 
Kolkata, India (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008The seafood industry will get a boost with ISRO's indigenously-built Oceansat-2 satellite - to be launched in 2009 - which will help identify potential fishing zones and forecast weather conditions more accurately. "Oceansat-2 satellite will have an ocean colour monitor, which will help identify potential fishing zones (PFZs) forecast. It will also carry radar scatterometer, which will ... more WHO sets first limits for safe melamine levels in food 
Geneva (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The World Health Organization on Friday issued safety limits for melamine levels in food as international concern mounted over a widening tainted food scandal in China. It is the first time WHO experts have issued safety limits for the use of the industrial chemical and they stressed that melamine should not be used in food at all. The so-called Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) has been ... more Malaysia bans hillside developments after landslide: report 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Dec 7, 2008Malaysia's prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has banned hillside developments after a weekend landslide in suburban Kuala Lumpur killed four people and forced thousands to evacuate. "I am sure this will incur the wrath of individual land owners and developers but enough is enough," Abdullah said, according to Sunday's Star, ordering current projects to be frozen while soil tests are ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Dec 05, 2008Microorganisms in rivers and streams play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle that has not previously been considered. Freshwater ecologist Dr. Tom Battin, of the University of Vienna, told a COST ESF Frontiers of Science conference in October that our understanding of how rivers and streams deal with organic carbon has changed radically. Microorganisms such as bacteria and single ... more Analysis: Brazil says, drop ethanol tariff 
Miami (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 Top officials at Brazil's state-run energy company Petrobras expect big things from President-elect Barack Obama next year, in particular a reduction of the tariff on Brazilian ethanol exported to the United States. The head of the Petrobras biofuel division, Alan Kardec Pinto, couched his call for lower tariffs on Brazilian ethanol in remarks on "environmental responsibility" clearly ... more UNESCO Signs Partnership With JAXA 
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Dr. Keiji Tachikawa, President of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Ko�chiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on 2 December signed a cooperation agreement through which JAXA will assist UNESCO by bringing the benefits of space technology to the monitoring of World Heritage sites. With this agreement JAXA joins a group of more than 50 partners, including 25 space agenci ... more GIS Development Gives Award To Institute Of Photogrammetry 
New Delhi, India, (SPX) Dec 04, 2008In view of the exceptional value it has added towards development of geospatial science, The Institute of Photogrammetry (IPI), University of Hannover will be felicitated by GIS Development with the award for 'Building Geospatial Capacities and Knowledge Network' during the inaugural ceremony of Map World Forum on February 10, 2009 at Hyderabad, India. Prof. Christian Heipke, current Head ... more Thwarting Efforts To Use Carbon Markets To Halt Deforestation 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Dec 04, 2008Carbon credit politics and misplaced technical concerns are impeding efforts to encourage sustainable land use practices in tropical regions-such as better forest management and growing more trees on farms-that could curtail up to 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions while also boosting incomes of the rural poor, according to a new analysis by the Nairobi-based World Agroforestry Centre ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2008NASA, in coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, has selected the contractor for the next series of weather satellites. Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Denver was selected to build the satellites for NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, or GOES-R, Program. The basic contract is for two spacecraft. Two options each ... more Using Water To Understand Human Society 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2008Water shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities of Oslo and Bergen, argues that water has played a unique and fundamental role in shaping societies throughout human history. Speaking at a European Science Foundation and COST conference in Sicily in October ... more 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
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