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EU ministers meet to start annual haggle over fishing quotas
Brussels (AFP) Dec 18, 2008European Union fisheries ministers met Thursday to start haggling over fish quotas amid warnings of dwindling stocks and huge waste. In what has become a Brussels tradition, the ministers faced a night of marathon negotiations closely watched by fishermen and environmental groups. One of the main issues facing the ministers concerns discarded catches. Non-governmental organisations ... more Jason-2 Satellite Data Now Available To Scientists 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2008NOAA announced that scientists around the world now have access to valuable data from a new international satellite, the Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission. This information allows them to closely watch the rate of global sea-level rise and monitor changing ocean features around tropical cyclones. Jason-2/OSTM, launched June 20, 2008, is a joint effort between NOAA, the National ... more Obama names agriculture, interior picks 
Chicago (AFP) Dec 16, 2008President-elect Barack Obama Wednesday filled out his incoming cabinet with nominees to take over the agriculture and interior departments, two hot-button jobs where controversy is never far. The Democrat nominated former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack as his secretary of agriculture, putting the fervent advocate of corn-based ethanol in charge of the nation's much-criticized 300-billion-dollar ... more Simple Soybean Anything But - Genetically 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Think humans are complex creatures? Consider the lowly soybean, said a Purdue University researcher. When it comes to genetics, the soybean plant is far more intricate than that of a human, said Scott Jackson, a plant genomics and cytogenetics researcher in Purdue's Department of Agronomy. Jackson was among a team of researchers that mapped and sequenced the soybean genome for a project ... more Research The Key To Long-Term Gains For A Smarter Economy 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2008"Australian farmers' nation-leading productivity growth of 2.8% a year over the last 20 years has been achieved on the back of the groundbreaking technologies and sustainable practices discovered through research and development (R and D)," National Farmers' Federation (NFF) CEO Ben Fargher said as he welcomed a new Rural Research Development Corporations' Report. "As the Measuring ... more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Despite the inability to cover agriculture under the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) the Australian Government must take steps to ensure our food production is not compromised, the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has said. "The CPRS will cause pain to businesses... it's designed to," NFF President David Crombie said. "But it could potentially cripple Australia's food production ... more SAS Solar Farm Goes Live 
Cary NC (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Sustainability has been a key focus in 2008 at SAS, the leader in business analytics. As the year draws to a close, the company celebrates a green milestone: its on-campus solar farm is now live and providing power to the Progress Energy utility grid. The solar farm began generating power the week of Dec. 15. "In less than a year this plan went from idea to reality," said SAS CEO Jim ... more China reports bird flu outbreak 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 16, 2008Chinese authorities have begun destroying and vaccinating poultry after an outbreak of bird flu was discovered in the east of the country, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. The deadly H5N1 strain of the virus was discovered on a chicken farm in Dongtai city and in another farm in Haian county both in eastern Jiangsu province, the ministry said in a statement posted on its website. ... more China bans 17 harmful substances in food 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 16, 2008China has published a list of 17 acids, chemicals and other substances that have been banned as food additives, amid a four-month safety campaign following a scandal over tainted milk. Illegal items posted on the Chinese health ministry's list include boric acid, a chemical used as an insecticide or flame retardant that is known to be added to noodles or the skin of dumplings to increase the ... more In breezy Britain, wind farm cooperatives take off 
London (AFP) Dec 16, 2008With annual returns of 10 percent coupled with low risk, wind farm cooperatives are drawing growing numbers of investors in Britain -- good news for Europe's hopes to lead the world in renewable energy. Along with being a safe investment during turbulent economic times, the cooperatives are drawing interest from those concerned not just with global warming and climate change, but also with ... more |
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Hanoi, Vietnam (XNA) Dec 15, 2008Vietnam plans to launch its first remote sensing satellite by 2012, the local newspaper Vietnam News Agency reported Friday. The country is now carrying out its satellite-launching project, worth about 100 million U.S. dollars. The announcement was made on Thursday by chairman of the national Research Program on Space Science and Technology NguyenKhoa Son at the 2008 Asia-Pacific Regional ... more Pakistan turns screw on charity linked to Mumbai attacks 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 12, 2008Pakistan on Friday tightened the screw on an Islamic charity linked to militants suspected of being behind the Mumbai massacre, arresting dozens of members and placing a local leader under house arrest. Under intense international pressure to crack down on militant organisations on its soil in the wake of last month's deadly attacks, Islamabad has focused on Jamaat-ud-Dawa, shuttering office ... more Piracy cannot be solved by force alone, Pentagon warns 
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2008The Pentagon warned Friday that piracy rampant in the Horn of Africa cannot be solved by force alone, as the United States circulated a draft UN resolution to chase pirates even on Somali soil. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman declined to say whether the US was ready to take military action if the resolution is adopted. "We're looking at how the military can contribute to an overall solu ... more How To Feed A Billion More People 
Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2008 Almost 1 billion people have been hit by this year's global food shortages, says the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The number of undernourished, the FAO said, rose by 40 million, following a 75 million jump the previous year. Before the global food crisis there were 850 million chronically hungry people in 2003-05. A decade ago, the United Nations' Millennium ... more Will The World Die Of Thirst 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 12, 2008According to a UN estimate, by 2025 more than half of the world's nations may be seriously short of fresh water. By the middle of this century, this figure may rise to three-quarters Even today, one of six people, or more than a billion people worldwide, are short of fresh water to some extent. This sad forecast rests on several factors. First of all, the world population is rapidly ... more
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