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Scientists Identify Bacteria That Increase Plant Growth
Upton NY (SPX) Jan 28, 2009Through work originally designed to remove contaminants from soil, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their Belgium colleagues at Hasselt University have identified plant-associated microbes that can improve plant growth on marginal land. The findings, published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, may help scientists design strateg ... more Dramatic Expansion Of Dead Zones In The Oceans 
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 28, 2009Unchecked global warming would leave ocean dwellers gasping for breath. Dead zones are low-oxygen areas in the ocean where higher life forms such as fish, crabs and clams are not able to live. In shallow coastal regions, these zones can be caused by runoff of excess fertilizers from farming. A team of Danish researchers have now shown that unchecked global warming would lead to a dramatic ... more U.S. honey producers question imports 
Seattle (UPI) Jan 26, 2009 U.S. honey producers say contaminated honey is being imported into the United States. A Seattle Post-Intelligencer investigation found two-thirds of honey consumed in the United States is imported, with half of that amount coming from China. "If we buy Chinese honey, as we do far too often, we know it may contain chloramphenicol or some other antibiotic that is illegal in any ... more Nepal, India put rampaging flood river back on original course 
Kathmandu (AFP) Jan 27, 2009A Himalayan river which broke flood defences last year and displaced millions of people in Nepal and India has been put back on its original course, officials in Nepal said Tuesday. Indian and Nepali technicians plus hundreds of labourers managed to shift the Saptakoshi river late on Monday, said the head of Nepal's Natural Disaster Relief Department, Pratap Kumar Pathak. "We do not know ... more Fresh warnings after storm kills 26 in southern Europe 
Bordeaux, France (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Weather forecasters warned Monday of flooding and more gales to come after hurricane-force winds killed 26 people across southern Europe and left hundreds of thousands without electricity. The storm caused several hundreds of millions of euros (dollars) in damage to homes, farms, businesses and infrastructure in France alone, insurance companies said. As families buried four children ... more |
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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 With Cheney gone, Google gains sky view of VP's home 
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Google Maps has a clear satellite view of the US vice president's home available online in a development that curiously coincides with the departure of secret-prone Dick Cheney. The abode in Washington, DC, that has served for 25 years as official residence for US vice presidents had been digitally blurred at Google Earth during George W. Bush's second term in office. Mere days before ... 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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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 China milk verdicts show govt fixing safety woes: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2009The death sentences and heavy jail terms for people involved in China's tainted milk scandal show authorities are serious in trying to lift the nation's food safety standards, state media said Friday. "There is reason to believe that the trial and the punishment mark the beginning of a long-standing fight against contaminated food," an editorial in the China Daily said. The English-langu ... more
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