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EU to ban most aerial crop spraying
Brussels (UPI) Dec 19, 2008 EU leaders and member states report reaching a deal on legislation that would ban 22 toxic chemicals and virtually halt aerial crop-spraying. EU officials, however, said the pesticides will remain on the market until at least 2016, when current authorizations of the chemicals reach their end dates. Aerial crop-spraying and pesticide use will be virtually eliminated in public parks ... more EU reaches agreement on 2009 fish quotas 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 19, 2008EU fisheries ministers reached agreement Friday on 2009 fish quotas, with a big increase in permitted catches of cod in the North Sea but cuts elsewhere. They also agreed to tackle the problem of fish that are thrown back and left to die because they are too small, the wrong species or because fishermen do not have a quota to bring them back to market. Environmental groups have long ... more Liberty Media's QVC Unveils Large Solar Project 
Rocky Mount NC (SPX) Dec 22, 2008Liberty Media's QVC, working with SunPower, has unveiled the installation of a 1-megawatt solar electric power farm at the QVC Rocky Mount distribution center based in Rocky Mount, NC. The project stands as one of the state's largest renewable energy initiatives to date and furthers Liberty and QVC's commitment to conservation and projects with lower environmental impact. The ground ... more New version of mad cow suspected 
London (UPI) Dec 18, 2008 British medical researchers say they're concerned a new human version of mad cow disease has been detected, officials said. While most cases of new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD) in Britain have occurred in people with a genetic profile carried by 42 percent of the population, the BBC reported that a young man with a different genetic profile appears to have the disabling ... more 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 |
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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 Purdue Study Suggests Warmer Temperatures Could Lead To A Boom In Corn Pests 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 18, 2008Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study. Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand their territory and produce an extra generation of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the Purdue University associate ... more |
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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 Fine-Scale Terrain Detail Of Australia 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 16, 2008CSIRO is building a three-dimensional computer model of Australia's ground surface topography at scales never seen before. "The new one-second Digital Elevation Model (DEM) provides nearly ten times finer resolution and much greater detail than previous models," says CSIRO researcher and project leader, Dr John Gallant. "It dramatically improves our understanding of Australia's landscape a ... more Phoenix Site On Mars May Be In Dry Climate Cycle Phase 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2008The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough to modify the chemistry, producing effects that persist through the colder times. Phoenix found clues increasing scientists' confidence in predictive models about water vapor moving through the soil ... more
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