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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 ... more China to provide clean water for 60 mln in 2009: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Jan 28, 2009China plans to provide clean water for 60 million people in 2009, addressing one of the main public health issues facing the vast nation, state media said Wednesday. Currently, more than 200 million Chinese do not have access to safe drinking water, down from 379 million in late 2000, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing government data. Rapid economic growth has severely curtailed ... 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 ... more Sorghum gene code could lead to drought-tolerant crops: study 
Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2009An international team of scientists reported on Wednesday it had laid bare the DNA code of sorghum, a hardy tropical cereal whose genes could one day be spliced to produce crops that resist global warming. Sorghum (Latin name Sorghum bicolor) is related to sugar cane and corn and is grown in arid regions of northeast Africa, India and the southern United States for food, fibre, fuel and ... more Liberia threatened by new wave of crop-eating pests: FAO 
Monrovia (AFP) Jan 28, 2009The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization warned Wednesday that Liberia could soon face a second wave of crop-destroying caterpillars as the pests reproduce. "We are at the stage where many of the pests are getting to the pupa stage. At this stage they go into the soil, they are there for about seven to 12 days, before the adults' moths will emerge," FAO spokesman Winfred Hammond ... more |
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Brussels Belgium (SPX) Jan 29, 2009This week in Brussels, the amendment to the EC-ESA GMES agreement was signed by Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, the ESA Director General, and Mr Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission's Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry. This amendment will extend the scope of the original Agreement (signed in February 2008) to activities of Segment 2 of the GMES Space Component ... 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 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 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 US DoA Awards Range Fuels A Loan Guarantee 
Broomfield CO (SPX) Jan 29, 2009Range Fuels has announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the company a conditional commitment for an $80 million loan guarantee to assist construction of Range Fuels' commercial cellulosic ethanol plant near Soperton, Georgia, the first phase of which is under construction and on track to begin production in 2010. The loan guarantee is the result of efforts between the ... more |
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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 Fresh warnings after storm kills 26 in southern Europe 
Bordeaux, France (AFP) Jan 26, 2009Weather forecasters warned of flooding and more gales Monday 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 killed when ... more 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
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