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New Insights Into A Leading Poultry Disease And Its Risks To Human Health
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 29, 2009Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University associate research scientist Melha Mellata, a member of professor Roy Curtiss' team, is leading a USDA funded project to develop a vaccine against a leading poultry disease called avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC). APEC is part of a large, diverse group of microbes called extra-intestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC). They cause a number of compl ... more Substantial Work Ahead For Water Issues 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2009Scientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the Final Report on the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions. The American Chemical Socie ... more New Catalyst Paves The Path For Ethanol-Powered Fuel Cells 
Upton NY (SPX) Jan 29, 2009A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible. The highly efficient catalyst performs two crucial, and previously unreachable steps needed to oxidize ethanol and produce cle ... more Bio-Ethanol To Provide 10 Percent Of Transport Fuels By 2010 
Singapore (SPX) Jan 29, 2009Asia is critically dependent on energy imports as they only produced 35% of their oil requirements in 2006. This makes the region very vulnerable to rises in energy prices and the last two years have brought hardship to many nations. According to Frost and Sullivan Asia Pacific Research Analyst of Chemicals, Material and Food Practice Ratneswary R Balasingam, several countries in the regio ... more Verenium Announces First Commercial Cellulosic Ethanol Project 
Tallahassee Fl (SPX) Jan 29, 2009Verenium has announced plans to build its first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Highlands County, Florida. The Company has entered into long-term agreements with Lykes Bros. Inc., a multi-generation Florida agri-business to provide the agricultural biomass for conversion to fuel. Verenium also announced that the Highlands Ethanol project has been awarded a $7 million grant ... more |
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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 Argentina issues agricultural emergency due to drought 
Buenos Aires (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Argentina, one of the world's top food exporters, announced emergency measures Monday to help farmers and ranchers affected by the most devastating drought in decades. Speaking from the presidential residence of Los Olivos, President Cristina Kirchner said that the measure targets "those regions and provinces that are affected by this phenomenon." The decree exempts farmers and ranchers ... more |
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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 BIO Applauds President Barack Obamas Earth, Wind And Fire Energy Policy 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2009President Barack Obama's inaugural address call to "harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories" signals a welcome commitment to renewable energy. Brent Erickson, executive vice president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization's (BIO) Industrial and Environmental Section, released the following statement: "President Obama has articulated a vision ... more Tens of thousands face hunger amid Liberian insect plague: official 
Monrovia (AFP) Jan 24, 2009Tens of thousands of Liberians face hunger owing to an invasion of crop-destroying caterpillars, local authorities said Saturday. "More than 40 towns and villages have now been affected by the army worms," Joseph Urey, the commissioner of Zota district, told AFP. The previous figure was around 20. The Zota district is in on of the three northern counties in Liberia where the army worms, ... more
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