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Dirty Snow Causes Early Runoff In Cascades, Rockies
Richland WA (SPX) Jan 22, 2009Soot from pollution causes winter snowpacks to warm, shrink and warm some more. This continuous cycle sends snowmelt streaming down mountains as much as a month early, a new study finds. How pollution affects a mountain range's natural water reservoirs is important for water resource managers in the western United States and Canada who plan for hydroelectricity generation, fisheries and farming. ... more Energy-Efficient Water Purification 
New Haven CT (SPX) Jan 22, 2009Water and energy are two resources on which modern society depends. As demands for these increase, researchers look to alternative technologies that promise both sustainability and reduced environmental impact. Engineered osmosis holds a key to addressing both the global need for affordable clean water and inexpensive sustainable energy according to Yale researchers. Yale doctoral student ... more Prairie Soil Organic Matter Shown To Be Resilient Under Intensive Agriculture 
Champaign IL (SPX) Jan 22, 2009A recent study has confirmed that although there was a large reduction of organic carbon and total nitrogen pools when prairies were first cultivated and drained, there has been no consistent pattern in these organic matter pools during the period of synthetic fertilizer use, that is, from 1957-2002. "For these prairie soils, some of the best in the world, declines in organic matter from c ... more Purdue Technology Detects Contaminant In Milk Products 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 22, 2009A new analysis method can detect the kidney-damaging chemical melamine, used to contaminate infant formula in China last September, at very low levels within a matter of seconds. A research team at Purdue University created the analysis method to detect levels of melamine in the low parts-per-billion in milk and milk powder in about 25 seconds. An estimated 50,000 Chinese children we ... more First Global Hawk Unmanned System For Environmental Science Research 
Edwards CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2009NASA and Northrop Grumman have unveiled the first Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft. NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center and Northrop Grumman are returning NASA's two Global Hawk aircraft to flight this year under a Space Act Agr ... more |
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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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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 Kenya khat traders eye Chinese market 
Nairobi (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Kenya's khat farmers and traders are seeking to expand beyond their traditional Somali chewing markets to make a foray into China, they said in a statement Friday. Khat - or "miraa" as it is sometimes referred to - is a mild narcotic leaf chewed by millions in Somalia but a controlled substance in many countries. "Our aim is to diversify from the traditional export markets for miraa of ... more
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