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First-Ever Estimate Of Worldwide Fish Biomass And Impact On Climate Change
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jan 21, 2009Are there really plenty of fish in the sea? University of British Columbia fisheries researcher Villy Christensen gives the first-ever estimate of total fish biomass in our oceans: Two billion tonnes. And fish play a previously unrecognized but significant role in mitigating climate change by maintaining the delicate pH balance of the oceans, according to a study published in tomorrow's ed ... more Why Domestic Animals Changed Coat 
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Jan 21, 2009You notice it in your everyday life, the bewildering diversity in coat colour among our pigs, dogs and other domestic animals. This stark contrasts with the uniformity of colour within wild animals. A new study on pigs, published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics, reveals that the prime explanation for this phenomenon is that humans have actively changed the coat colour of domestic ... more Liberian insect plague crosses border to Guinea: minister 
Monrovia (AFP) Jan 20, 2009The army worms that have devoured crops and plagued some 21 villages in central Liberia are now moving across the border to neighbouring Guinea, the Liberian agricultural minister warned Tuesday. "We have just received a call from a border town (...) indicating that the army worms have crossed the border and are now attacking areas within Guinea," Agricultural Minister Christopher Toe said. ... more Families of Chinese milk victims file Supreme Court suit: volunteer 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2009Over 200 families in China with children who died or fell ill after drinking tainted milk have filed a suit with the Supreme Court, saying compensation offered so far is not enough, one of them said Tuesday. The 213 families are going to the top of the legal system because the payment scheme suggested by the government fails to recognise some of them as victims, said Chang Lin, a farmer whos ... more Landmark Year Ahead For Earth Observation Science Missions 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 20, 2009With three Earth Explorer satellites set to launch this year, another three under construction and up to three more about to be selected for feasibility study, 2009 promises to be a significant year for ESA's contribution to Earth science - paving the way to a clearer understanding of how our planet works. Understanding how the Earth works and the way in which natural processes respond to ... more |
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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 Water -- a precious commodity in war-torn Gaza 
Gaza City (AFP) Jan 17, 2009Every day when Israel pauses its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians launch a ground assault on the territory's public fountains to try to lay their hands on precious supplies of water. As soon as the radio announces the start of the daily three-to-four-hour lull, thousands of people race from their homes, laden with water containers of all shapes and sizes, and head for fountains, m ... more |
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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 Satellite to keep eye on Ecuadoran turtle 
Quito, Ecuador (UPI) Jan 13, 2009 Scientists will use space technology to help them monitor a rare hawksbill turtle as it lives out its life along the coast of Ecuador, the government says. The satellite will help the scientists track the member of the critically endangered species as they study its behavior, the Ecuadoran president's press office said. The turtle, which is fitted with a tracking device, had been ... more Indonesia to allow trawling despite overfishing fears 
Jakarta (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Indonesia will allow trawling in selected areas for the first time in 30 years despite concerns about overfishing, an official said Thursday. Trawling, in which boats tow long nets that scoop up everything in their path, would be permitted this year off four areas of Borneo island's east Kalimantan province, maritime ministry official Bambang Sutejo said. He dismissed concerns about over ... more
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