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Nile Delta Fishery Grows Dramatically
Narragansett RI (SPX) Jan 27, 2009While many of the world's fisheries are in serious decline, the coastal Mediterranean fishery off the Nile Delta has expanded dramatically since the 1980s. The surprising cause of this expansion, which followed a collapse of the fishery after completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1965, is run-off of fertilizers and sewage discharges in the region, according to a researcher at the University ... more Industrialization Of China Increases Fragility Of Global Food Supply 
Leeds, UK (SPX) Jan 27, 2009Global grain markets are facing breaking point according to new research by the University of Leeds into the agricultural stability of China. Experts predict that if China's recent urbanisation trends continue, and the country imports just 5% more of its grain, the entire world's grain export would be swallowed whole. The knock-on effect on the food supply - and on prices - to develo ... more Balkan States Consider Sterile Insect Technique Against Mediterranean Fruit Fly 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 27, 2009Fruit farmers in Southern Europe have been struggling for decades in a losing battle against the Mediterranean fruit fly, or Medfly, which is one of the world�s most destructive farm pests, since it lays its eggs in fruit and vegetables. The female can produce up to 800 offspring per season. The larvae or worms feed on the pulp of fruits, tunnelling through it, and reducing the fruit to an ... more World must double food production by 2050: FAO chief 
Madrid (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Global food production, already under strain from the credit crunch, must double by 2050 to head off mass hunger, the head of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Monday. The food crisis pushed another 40 million people into hunger in 2008, Jacques Diouf said here at the start of a two-day international conference on food security. That brought the global number of undernou ... more Sierra Leone mans defences against army worm invasion 
Freetown (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Sierra Leone has launched a massive drive to ward of the threat of an invasion of crop destroying caterpillars already attacking neighbouring Liberia and Guinea, authorities said Monday. "We have sent huge quantities of chemicals and hundreds of spraying personnel to the six (border) districts and advised farmers to be on the look out for the pests," the head of the crops protection services ... more |
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West Lafayette, IN (SPX) Jan 24, 2009In an effort to improve rice varieties, a Purdue University researcher was part of a team that traced the evolutionary history of domesticated rice by using a process that focuses on one gene. Scott A. Jackson, a professor of agronomy, said studying the gene that decides how many shoots will form on a rice plant allows researchers to better understand how the gene evolved over time through ... more ZeaChem Building Third Gen Cellulosic Ethanol BioRefinery 
Lakewood CO (SPX) Jan 26, 2009ZeaChem has announced that it has raised $34 million in initial Series B financing. The funding round was co-led by venture capital investors Globespan Capital Partners and PrairieGold Venture Partners with follow-on investment by MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures, Firelake Capital and Valero Energy Corporation, the largest petroleum refiner in the United States. ZeaChem is developing a cellulose- ... more GeoEye-1 Snaps Democracy 
Dulles VA (SPX) Jan 23, 2009At 11:19 a.m. (EST) GeoEye-1, the world's highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, collected an image over the United States Capitol and the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. The image, taken from 423 miles in space, is the world's highest resolution, color satellite image of the Inaugural celebration. The image, taken through high, whispy white clouds over Washington ... more Delta 2 Set To Launch Polar Satellite Feb 4 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2009The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, a Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), is being prepared for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket on February 4, 2009. Lockheed Martin built NOAA-N Prime at its Space Systems Company Sunnyvale facility. NOAA-N Prime is the latest and final spacecraft in the Advanced TIROS-N (ATN) satellite series. ... more ABB Interferometer Rides On Board GOSAT 
Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 23, 2009ABB is pleased to see the final phase of the GOSAT (Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite) project come to fruition. The principal component of the Japanese satellite is a spatial interferometer developed by ABB. Recently baptized "IBUKI" (meaning "breathe" in Japanese), the satellite will be launched into space on Thursday evening, January 22, at 10:30 p.m. EST (12:30 p.m. on January 23 ... more |
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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 Japan's Asahi Breweries to take 20 pct stake in Tsingtao Brewery 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 23, 2009Japan's biggest beer maker Asahi Breweries said Friday it has agreed to purchase a 19.99 percent stake in China's Tsingtao Brewery. Asahi said it will pay 666.5 million dollars to take the share in mid-March from Anheuser-Busch InBev SA of Belgium. By tightening the "strategic partnership" with Tsingtao, Asahi said it hopes to expand in the Chinese market. The two firms have had a jo ... 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 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
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