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Raytheon Submits Final Proposal For NOAA's Environmental Satellite Ground Segment
Aurora CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2009Raytheon has submitted its final proposal for the development of the ground segment for NOAA's (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R series, known as GOES-R. "We are very pleased to have reached this point in the competition and are confident that our proposal offers the best solution at an affordable price for ... more Drought-hit China to divert waters from two longest rivers: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 8, 2009China will divert water from its two longest rivers to help farmers hit by the country's worst drought in decades, state media said Sunday. Water from the Yangtze River, the country's longest, will be diverted to the northern areas of eastern Jiangsu Province, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing Zhang Zhitong, a senior Ministry of Water Resources emergency official. The announcement ... more Afghan poppy police call in troops 
Nad Ali District, Afghanistan (AFP) Feb 8, 2009In the heart of Afghanistan's opium-farming area, police use red tractors to churn up a small field of young green opium plants in a large sandy desert. Such action would have been inconceivable a year ago because of attacks from Taliban-linked gunmen protecting their share of the impoverished nation's illegal four-billion-dollar-a-year opium trade. This year the drugs-linked rebels are ... more 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 |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009This artist's rendering shows a "family portrait" of Jason-1, Topex/Poseidon, and OSTM/Jason-2, all NASA satellites that collect data about sea surface heights around the world. Sea surface heights are one component helpful to hurricane forecasters, as higher seas indicate warmer waters (that power storms) while lower seas indicate cooler waters (such as those in La Nina events in the eastern Pa ... more Antarctic Expedition Prepared Researchers For Mars Project 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2009About half a year before the robotic arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander began digging into soil and subsurface ice of an arctic plain of Mars, six scientists traveled to one of the coldest, driest places on Earth for soil-and-ice studies that would end up aiding analysis of the Mars data. They used duplicates of some of the Phoenix spacecraft's instruments, plus other methods, in the Antarc ... more How A Brain Chemical Changes Locusts From Harmless Grasshoppers To Swarming Pests 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Feb 06, 2009Scientists have uncovered the underlying biological reason why locusts form migrating swarms. Their findings, reported in this week's edition of Science, could be used in the future to prevent the plagues which devastate crops (notably in developing countries), affecting the livelihood of one in ten people across the globe. A collaboration between a team of scientists in Cambridge and Oxfo ... more Fish-dependent countries face climate change threat: study 
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 |
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Sydney (AFP) Feb 4, 2009Climate change is combining with Australia's record-breaking drought to strangle the nation's largest river system, threatening to devastate food supplies, a report said Wednesday. The government's Murray Darling Basin Authority said water flow was near historic lows in the system, which provides water to Australia's "food bowl", a vast expanse of land almost twice as big as France that ... more Direct Methanol Fuel Cell and GasHub Support Clean Energy Testbed 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2009VIASPACE subsidiary Direct Methanol Fuel Cell (DMFCC) and its partner GasHub Technology of Singapore attended the inauguration of the Clean Energy Testbedding Community (CETC) in Singapore. CETC was established by a Memorandum of Understanding between the Singapore Business Federation and Temasek Polytechnic, and is supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board. CETC aims to foster ... more NOAA-N Prime Launch To Light Up Early Morning Sky 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2009Final launch operations will get under way late this afternoon in California. The loading of RP-1 fuel into the Delta II rocket's first stage is set to begin at 6:30 p.m. EST with tower rollback following at 8:30 p.m. Call to stations for the launch team will be at 2 a.m. The weather forecast is generally favorable for launch, but becoming less favorable for a launch attempt the following ... more German troops to be stationed in France in post-war first 
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
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