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Liberia caterpillar invasion a national emergency
Rome (AFP) Jan 22, 2009An invasion of crop-destroying caterpillars in Liberia is a "national emergency" that could spread across West Africa, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday. Tens of millions of the caterpillars -- described as "black, creeping and hairy" by villagers -- were advancing across the north of Liberia, contaminating water supplies and damaging food crops in the already ... more Two sentenced to death over China milk scandal 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 22, 2009A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced two men to death and gave stiff jail terms to 19 others over a milk scandal that led to widespread poisoning of babies in China and dairy recalls around the world. The former head of the dairy firm at the heart of the scandal, Tian Wenhua, a 66-year-old woman accused of initially covering it up, was among three people jailed for life. One other ... more HK boy falls ill after drinking tainted milk 
Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 22, 2009A 12-year-old Hong Kong boy has developed kidney stones after drinking milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine, authorities said Thursday. The boy first visited hospital in December and was admitted on January 2, the Centre for Health Protection said in a statement. A renal stone was found in his left kidney and the boy, who had a history of consuming milk contaminated with ... more Liberian insect plague devastates farms
Shankpalai, Liberia (AFP) Jan 22, 2009Normally at noon farmer John Wenopolu should be tending his fields in this central Liberian town, but he cannot get there due to an invasion of caterpillars. "I am sitting here in the town doing nothing and this is the farming season. When it starts raining, we will not be able to do any work," he told AFP, staring pensively at the road to his farm. Known as army worms, the caterpillars ... more Cooling The Planet With Crops 
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2009By carefully selecting which varieties of food crops to cultivate, much of Europe and North America could be cooled by up to 1C during the summer growing season, say researchers from the University of Bristol, UK. This is equivalent to an annual global cooling of over 0.1C, almost 20% of the total global temperature increase since the Industrial Revolution. The growing of crops alrea ... more |
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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 Pakistan warns Petraeus over missile strikes 
Islamabad (AFP) Jan 20, 2009Pakistan on Tuesday expressed concern to key ally the United States over missile attacks against Islamist militants on its soil, ahead of an anticipated surge of US troops into neighbouring Afghanistan. President Asif Ali Zardari and army chief General Ashfaq Kayani outlined Pakistan's position in talks with the visiting David Petraeus, the US commander for southwest Asia, said a Pakistani o ... more Afghan leader blames allies over civilian deaths, drugs 
Kabul (AFP) Jan 20, 2009Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday accused his Western allies of not doing enough to stop civilian deaths in the "war on terror" or cut opium production in areas patrolled by foreign troops. Addressing the opening of parliament, Karzai called for a rethink in the international strategy aimed at rooting out extremists and cracking down on drug farming, and on how billions of dollars in rec ... more Biodiversity Passes The Taste Test And Is Healthier Too 
London, UK (SPX) Jan 21, 2009Cattle and sheep grazed on natural grasslands help maintain biodiversity and produce tastier, healthier meat, according to a study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The research, part of the Rural Economy and Land Use program which draws together the social and natural science, concluded that pasture-based farming is good for the environment, the consumer ... more |
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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 Satellites Help Locate Water In Niger 
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 20, 2009Like most sub-Saharan African countries, Niger faces problems meeting its water needs. As part of ESA's TIGER initiative, satellite data are being used to identify surface and underground water resources in the drought-prone country. Due to the rainfall variability in time and in space, during recent years the rain-fed agriculture struggles to meet the requirements of food security in the ... more Free-Range Chickens Are More Prone To Disease 
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jan 20, 2009Chickens kept in litter-based housing systems, including free-range chickens, are more prone to disease than chickens kept in cages, according to a study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica. Researchers led by Oddvar Fossum, at the National Veterinary Institute in Sweden, noted that during the switch in housing from battery cages to enriched ... more 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
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