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New Digital Map Of Africa's Depleted Soils
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Responding to sub-Saharan Africa's soil health crisis, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) announced an ambitious new effort to produce the first-ever, detailed digital soil map for all 42 countries of the region. This project combines the latest soil science and technology with remote satellite imagery and on-the-ground efforts to analyze thousands of soil samples ... more Great Lakes Water Level Sensitive To Climate Change 
Narragansett RI (SPX) Jan 20, 2009The water level in the Great Lakes has varied by only about two meters during the last century, helping them to play a vital role in the region's shipping, fishing, recreation and power generation industries. But new evidence by scientists from the University of Rhode Island and colleagues in the U.S. and Canada, published last month in the journal Eos, indicates that the water level in ... more Strategic Farming Practices Could Help Mitigate Global Warming 
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Researchers say that strategic farming practices might be part of the solution for curbing global warming. According to calculations reported online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, by planting crop varieties that better reflect sunlight back out to space, summertime temperatures could be reduced by more than one degree Celsius throughout much of central North America and ... more Swiss scientists develop faster test for melamine 
Zurich (AFP) Jan 19, 2009Swiss researchers have developed a faster technique to detect the presence of melamine in liquids, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (EPFZ) announced Monday. The chemical has been at the centre of a food safety scandal in China since September last year. Detecting it in liquid previously took anything from between 20 and 60 minutes, but the Swiss team's new method has cut the ... more ISRO Begins Work On Chandrayaan-II Project 
Chennai, India (PTI) Jan 19, 2009ISRO has begun working on the Rs 425-crore second unmanned moon mission to be launched by early 2012 following the success of Chandrayaan-I, a top ISRO official said here on Saturday. Chandrayaan-II will focus on soil and mineral exploration on the lunar surface with the help of a robotic device and send back data, Chandrayaan Project Director Mayilsamy Annadurai told reporters here. ... more |
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Nairobi (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday declared food shortages facing 10 million people a "national disaster" and launched an appeal for 400 million dollars in foreign aid. "My government has with effect from today, declared the famine situation in the country a national disaster," Kibaki said in a speech in Nairobi. Kibaki announced a raft of measures aimed at countering the effects of ... more China couple first to take milk payout: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 16, 2009The parents of a child killed by tainted milk powder in China became the first to accept compensation and give up the right to sue the company at the heart of the scandal, state press said Friday. The unnamed couple have accepted 200,000 yuan (29,250 dollars) from the Sanlu Group over the death of their five-month-old son last year, Xinhua news agency said. He is believed to be the first ... more Standardising Greywater Treatment Technologies 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 16, 2009A new protocol for testing greywater treatment technologies in Australia could boost efforts to conserve the nation's water resources. CSIRO's Water for a Healthy Country Flagship and the Smart Water Fund (a joint initiative of Melbourne's water businesses and the Victorian Government) have developed a practical, robust, sustainable method for testing whether greywater treatment technologi ... more New Tool To Fast-Track Genetic Gain In Sheep 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 16, 2009Scientists from CSIRO are part of an international team to launch a new genomic tool which is set to transform the future selection and breeding of sheep around the world. Called the Ovine SNP50 BeadChip, this cutting-edge tool will enable researchers to characterise the genetic variation at more than 50,000 Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) in the sheep genome. This will help pinpoint ... more Water cut off for a day to 350,000 Shanghai homes: water company 
Shanghai (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Water was cut off to about 350,000 Shanghai homes after a water company's services failed and fire trucks had to provide supplies to residents, schools and hospital, officials said Thursday. The Sonjiang Water Supply Authority said in a statement that services failed early on Wednesday morning after its pumps failed and were restored just before midnight. A leak caused the failure, leavi ... more |
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Basque, Spain (SPX) Jan 14, 2009A University of the Basque Country PhD thesis has analysed the application of waste sludge from EDAR (Estacion Depuradora de Aguas Residuales - Waste Water Purification Plant) to acid soils which have limited capacity for neutralising the acidity. Sludge obtained from water purification plants can be reused, as fertiliser for soils, for example or to reduce their acidity. The main aim of ... more CSIRO Sells Wool Scour To Australian Business 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jan 14, 2009CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering in Geelong, Victoria, has finalised a contract for the sale of its small-scale wool scouring line to an Australian company. The purchaser is carpet manufacturer, Velieris Pty Ltd of Thomastown, Victoria. The scour is likely to be decommissioned and delivered to Velieris in early 2009. CSIRO will con ... more Contamination fears over two-headed Australian fish 
Sydney (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Toxic chemical contamination was the likely cause of fatal fish mutations in northern Australia in which thousands of bass larvae spawned with two heads, an expert said Wednesday. Matt Landos, an aquatic animal specialist and member of the Australian College of Veterinarian Scientists, said the mutant larvae at a Noosa River fish farm survived just 48 hours and were dying en masse. "When ... more Mapping In A One Meter Sea Level Rise 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 11, 2009New research indicates that the ocean could rise in the next 100 years to a meter higher than the current sea level - which is three times higher than predictions from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC. The groundbreaking new results from an international collaboration between researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, England and Finland ar ... more Chinese Food Economy Benefits Small, Poor Farmers 
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2009One of the most significant changes in China's agricultural economy over the past fifteen years has been the rise of horticulture. During this same time period, modern supply chains have also emerged. A new study in the Review of Agricultural Economics reveals that the recent changes in China's food economy have contributed to an improvement in poverty reduction and betterment of small farmers. ... more
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