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France to maintain ban on Monsanto GMO maize: PM
Brussels (AFP) Feb 12, 2009France will keep a ban on genetically modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto until the environmental risks are clarified, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Thursday. "France is maintaining the suspension while it awaits a (European) Commission decision which it will respect," Fillon said at a joint press conference with commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso in Brussels. ... more Rains bring relief from China drought 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 12, 2009Drought-hit regions of northern China enjoyed rare rain on Thursday and more precipitation was expected in coming days, providing relief from a severe drought that threatened vital wheat crops. The parched capital Beijing shivered under a steady cold rain throughout the day, as did several of the important grain-growing provinces in the northern and eastern parts of the country hit hardest ... more French food agency says GM maize safe 
Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2009France's food watchdog said on Thursday it had concluded that genetically-modified maize from US biotech giant Monsanto is safe, contradicting an earlier report that led to a ban on the maize. The AFSSA report, which became public after it was revealed in the daily Le Figaro, angered environmentalists and embarrassed President Nicolas Sarkozy's government which had resorted to a special EU ... more Study: 21B ethanol gallons doable by 2030 
Livermore, Calif. (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 A nine-month study has found plant and forestry wastes and dedicated energy crops could replace nearly a third of U.S. gasoline use by 2030. The research conducted by the Sandia National Laboratories and the General Motors Corp. was designed to discover whether and how much cellulosic biofuels could be sustainably produced. Researchers said they assessed the feasibility, implicat ... more NASA Mission Meets The Carbon Dioxide Measurement Challenge 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 12, 2009The challenge: very precisely measure carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere all over the world, especially near Earth's surface. For Orbiting Carbon Observatory Principal Investigator David Crisp of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and his team, the logical solution was an Earth-orbiting spacecraft. But shopping for a science instrument that could accomplish these ... more |
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Abidjan (AFP) Feb 10, 2009Ivory Coast's Agriculture Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly opened a cocoa forum on Tuesday with a warning of serious risks facing the industry in Africa which accounts for 70 percent of world output. Coulibaly told the Abidjan meeting on sustainable cocoa production that part of the problem lay in "the small part producers play in the stages of transformation" of cocoa beans into their end ... more NASA's Terra Captures Forest Fire Horror From Orbit 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2009Bushfires in southeastern Australia turned deadly over the first weekend of February 2009. Out-of-control fires raced into small communities and towns in Victoria, and more than 100 people had died as of February 9, according to news reports. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC News) reported that many of those who died had remained to protect their homes. Among the most ... more Putin urged to stop Siberia hydro-electric plant 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 10, 2009Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin must act to halt the construction of a proposed hydro-electric power station in Siberia, environmentalists said Tuesday, citing sociological and environmental concerns. "The Turukhanskaya construction project was blocked at the end of the 1980s as a result of serious ecological and economic expertise," Greenpeace Russia spokesman Mikhail Kreindlin said ... more China says wheat crop at risk if no rain soon 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 10, 2009China warned Tuesday of a severe impact on the nation's winter wheat crop if there was no rain within the next 15 days to relieve the worst drought in half a century. "Right now, this is the critical period for the growth of winter crops," E Jingping, a top drought relief official, told a news conference. "If in 15 days there is no precipitation, the situation in the winter wheat zone ... more Desert Claim Revision Projected To Deliver Power For 57000 Homes 
Ellensburg WA (SPX) Feb 11, 2009Power for 57,000 homes, more distance between turbines and residences, and a major contribution to Kittitas County's economy. That's the future's triple benefit projected from enXco's revised layout for its Desert Claim wind farm, said David Steeb, project director. A revised application with the layout is expected to be delivered to the state Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council ... more |
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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 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
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