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Serotonin may control locust, study shows 
Oxford, England (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 Serotonin, a chemical that moderates behavior in animals, has been shown to change the aloof desert locust into partying fiends, British researchers said. The discovery, published Friday in the journal Science, could lead to methods of inhibiting the formation of locust swarms, The New York Times reported. The infestations, which can cover hundreds of square miles with the vegetation ... more Japan to take some tuna fishing boats out of service: government 
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2009Japan will take out of service up to 20 percent of its tuna fishing boats after tougher catch quotas were imposed on the land of sushi, the government said Friday. Environmentalists have warned that tuna stocks are declining to dangerously low levels across the world as a global fad for Japanese food and a lack of regulation lead to over-fishing. Of 739 long-line tuna fishing boats ... more China warns 2009 could be 'toughest year' for farm policies 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 1, 2009China's government Sunday warned 2009 could be the "toughest year" since the turn of the century for development of the countryside, which has fallen behind as reforms favoured the cities, state media reported. Rural unemployment is high, and the situation has been exacerbated by the global economic crisis as at least six million migrant workers have been laid off from companies in the ... more Analysis: Russia and Central Asian water 
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 An integral element of the new Eurasian "great game" between Russia and the United States is a tussle for control of the Caspian's hydrocarbon riches and those of former Soviet republics farther east. But Russia is making a diplomatic play on another key resource -- water. Russian and foreign energy consortia remain largely focused on the region's rich oil and natural gas reserves. ... more Jailed China dairy boss appeals life sentence: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 1, 2009The former boss of the dairy firm at the heart of China's contaminated milk scandal Sunday formally appealed a court decision to jail her for life, her lawyer told the official Xinhua news agency. A court last month convicted former Sanlu Group chief Tian Wenhua, 66, of "manufacturing and selling fake or substandard products" in connection with the scandal, which led to at least six deaths ... more |
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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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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 The Orbiting Carbon Observatory And The Mystery Of The Missing Sinks 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2009Picture a tree in the forest. The tree "inhales" carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, transforming that greenhouse gas into the building materials and energy it needs to grow its branches and leaves. By removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, the tree serves as an indispensable "sink," or warehouse, for carbon that, in tandem with Earth's other trees, plants and the ocean, helps reduce ... more
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