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CSIRO Tours Basin Communities To Share Water Information
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 11, 2008Researchers behind the most comprehensive hydrological modelling undertaken across the Murray-Darling Basin have toured towns across the Basin this week to discuss their findings with local communities. Dr Bill Young, project leader for the Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields project, shared outcomes of the CSIRO's Water Availability in the Murray-Darling Basin report with locals in a ... more Cave's Climate Clues Show Ancient Empires Declined During Dry Spell 
Madison WI (SPX) Dec 11, 2008The decline of the Roman and Byzantine Empires in the Eastern Mediterranean more than 1,400 years ago may have been driven by unfavorable climate changes. Based on chemical signatures in a piece of calcite from a cave near Jerusalem, a team of American and Israeli geologists pieced together a detailed record of the area's climate from roughly 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. Their analysis, to ... more 30 years after reform, China farmers once again hope for change 
Xiaogang, China (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Thirty years ago, 18 farmers in this rural backwater of east China entered a pact to carry out a bold economic experiment, and became heroes of reform almost overnight. Now these pioneers, their hair greying, are hoping for a new revolution to once again transform their small community and close a yawning wealth gap with the cities. Some official histories argue that China's market ... more Soybean genome available 
Washington (UPI) Dec 9, 2008 The U.S. Energy Department's Joint Genome Institute has released the assembly of the soybean genetic mix to the research community. The institutes's interest in sequencing the soybean was sparked by the legume's use for biodiesel, a renewable, alternative fuel with the highest energy content of any alternative fuel, the Energy Department said in a news release. Federal information ... more Aussie scientists use toxic mash to turn predators off toads 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 9, 2008Australian scientists are serving up mashed cane toad with a dash of poison to put predators off eating the toxic aliens. The cane toads, which carry poisonous sacs on their heads that can kill animals as big as crocodiles within minutes, are spreading rapidly westwards across the country despite efforts to eradicate them. "Native predators are actually pretty capable of learning to ... more |
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 9, 2008China will launch a four-month food safety campaign from Wednesday to prevent the toxic chemical melamine and other harmful substances from ending up on the dinner table, the government said. The crackdown, which also targets excessive levels of additives, comes amid a widening scandal over tainted milk that has sickened hundreds of thousands of babies and shocked the nation. ... more Bird flu found at Hong Kong farm 
Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 9, 2008More than 80,000 chickens will be slaughtered in Hong Kong after bird flu was found on a poultry farm, the first outbreak at a farm here in nearly six years, health authorities said Tuesday. "We have discovered up to 60 dead chickens in that farm. After a series of tests we have confirmed this morning that the chickens did die from the H5 virus," health secretary York Chow told reporters. ... more Researchers Examine Role Of Soil Patterns In Dam Restoration 
Madison WI (SPX) Dec 09, 2008Looking at the site today, it's easy to forget that a dam and pond stood for 43 years on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Franbrook Farm Research Station in southwestern Wisconsin. All traces of the structure are gone, and acres of plants, both native and weedy, now carpet the floor of the former basin. Nevertheless, memories of the dam remain, and by digging into the soils of the ... more 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 |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 An animal rights group says a recently released U.S. Department of Agriculture report reveals primate experimentation has reached a record 69,990 animals. The "Stop Animal Exploitation Now" organization said that is equivalent to one monkey or ape being used in experimentation every 7 1/2 minutes. SAEN Executive Director Michael Budkie said he had also obtained internal documents ... more Africa's biggest water project to enter second phase 
Cape Town (AFP) Dec 4, 2008South Africa has approved the second phase of a multi-billion dollar water project in landlocked Lesotho to ensure a secure future water supply in its industrial hub, the water minister said Thursday. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project, one of the world's largest infrastructure projects under construction, is an intricate network of tunnels and dams diverting water from Lesotho's mountains ... more Rivers Are Carbon Processors, Not Inert Pipelines 
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
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