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China resorts to artillery to fight drought
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009China fired thousands of artillery shells into the sky to make it rain and prepared to divert water from its two longest rivers to fight the country's worst drought in decades, officials said Sunday. Premier Wen Jiabao said the drought - which has hit central and southwestern rice-growing provinces, as well as the north - risked straining food supplies when people already faced hardships ... more Tiny Brunei farm sector sees big flood losses: govt 
Bandar Seri Begawan (AFP) Feb 9, 2009Brunei's tiny agricultural sector suffered hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage in recent floods, a government ministry said Monday. The heavy rains since January 20 have led to nearly one million Brunei dollars' (667,000 US) worth of damage to crops and livestock, the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources reported on its website. It said more than 100 vegetable farms ... more West African nations team up to fight caterpillars 
Monrovia (AFP) Feb 7, 2009Four West African nations have joined forces to do battle against a species of caterpillars laying waste to crops in the region, a statement said Saturday. The agriculture ministers from Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast have created a team to look into the threats posed by what are believed to be Achaea Catocaloides caterpillars. Crops in central Liberia and southern Guinea ... more Safety scandal hits China's dairy exports: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 7, 2009The scandal over tainted milk powder led to a 10 percent fall in Chinese dairy exports by volume and a rise in foreign imports last year, state media said Saturday, citing the customs department. Dozens of countries pulled Chinese dairy products from their shelves in 2008 after it emerged that the industrial chemical melamine had been added to milk to artificially boost its protein content. ... more China struggles with drought 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2009China was struggling Friday to get water to millions of people and save swathes of its wheat harvest, after raising its drought emergency to the highest level for the first time. The decision to go to emergency level one was taken Thursday at a meeting of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, Xinhua news agency reported. The increased alert level was made official at t ... more |
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Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 6, 2009Climate change poses a grave threat to dozens of countries where people depend on fish for food, according to a study published Friday that said catches are imperilled by coastal storms and damage to coral reefs. The WorldFish research centre identified 33 countries as "highly vulnerable" to the effects of climate change because of their heavy reliance on fisheries and limited alternative so ... more Emergency as drought hits key farm regions in China: state media
Beijing (AFP) Feb 5, 2009China on Thursday declared an emergency for parts of the country experiencing their worst drought in half a century, with some of the nation's winter harvest at risk, state media reported. President Hu Jintao called for an all-out effort to help offset the dry spell that has spread across seven key farming provinces, leading to water shortages for millions of people and livestock. ... more Too Much TV Linked To Future Fast-Food Intake 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Feb 06, 2009High-school kids who watch too much TV are likely to have bad eating habits five years in the future. Research published in BioMed Central's open access International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity followed almost 2000 high- and middle-school children and found that TV viewing times predict a poor diet in the future. Dr Daheia Barr-Anderson worked with a team of rese ... more USDA considers using GE corn for ethanol 
Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering approving the use of genetically engineered corn for use in manufacturing ethanol. The Agriculture Department recently ended the public comment period for its proposal to permit, for the first time, widespread cultivation of a food crop engineered for biofuel production. If authorized, officials said the new ethanol corn would also ... more NOAA-N Launch Rescheduled 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2009The launch of the NOAA-N Prime weather satellite now is set for Thursday, Feb. 5 at 2:22 a.m. PST., weather permitting. Liftoff was scrubbed at 2 a.m. PST Wednesday, when a launch pad gaseous nitrogen pressurization system failed. This system maintains pressurization and purges to various systems of the Delta II rocket prior to launch. Immediate repair to this system is being undertaken. ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Feb 3, 2009France has agreed to allow a German battalion to be stationed on its soil for the first time since World War II, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. An agreement in principle has been reached to pave the way for the historic move as part of efforts to promote military cooperation, said defence ministry spokesman General Christian Baptiste. The hundreds of German troops will be serving ... more Kyrgyzstan vows to close key US air base 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 3, 2009Kyrgyzstan vowed Tuesday it would order the closure of a US airbase on its soil whose presence has irritated Moscow, on the same day it received a generous Russian financial aid package. The Manas air base serves as a vital supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan but its location deep in former Soviet territory has annoyed an increasingly assertive Russia keen on restoring its influence ... more Gene-Engineered Flies Are Pest Solution 
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2009For the first time, male flies of a serious agricultural pest, the medfly, have been bred to generate offspring that die whilst they are still embryos. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology describe the creation of the flies that, when released into a wild population, could out-compete the normal male flies and cause a generation of pests to be stillborn - protecting ... more Climate Change Enhances Grassland Productivity 
Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2009More frequent freeze-thaw cycles in winter can increase biomass production according to the results of a recent study conducted by the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ), the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Center in Munich. For their experiment at the Ecological-Botanical Garden of the University of Bayreuth the researchers installed underground heating on their ... more Tracking Poultry Litter Phosphorus: Threat Of Accumulation 
Madison WI (SPX) Feb 04, 2009The Delmarva Peninsula, flanking the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is home to some 600 million chickens. The resulting poultry manure and some of the chicken house bedding material is usually composted and then spread onto croplands as a fertilizer. Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance (31P NMR) and other methods of soil analysis have previously shown that two forms of phosphorus ... more
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