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China says dairy firm's additive is safe
Beijing (AFP) Feb 14, 2009China's health ministry said Saturday an investigation had found a protein additive used by one of the country's top milk producers, Mengniu Dairy, posed no public health risk. However, Mengniu could face punishment for using osteoblast milk protein (OMP) as it is not yet listed in China as a legal food additive, the ministry said in a statement on its website. A government probe into ... more Drilling in the dust changes lives in south Sudan 
Mirindanyi, Sudan (AFP) Feb 15, 2009It seems such a simple task: pumping the handle of a water borehole up and down until the clear and cool liquid splashes into the plastic container. And in the dry and dusty southern Sudanese village of Mirindanyi, they have been celebrating doing just that since their pump was installed last year. But it was not always this way. Beforehand, "it took two hours to the river to collect the ... more Wildfires last straw for parched Australian wineries 
Dixons Creek, Australia (AFP) Feb 15, 2009For Australia's Yarra Valley winegrowers, the region's recent devastating wildfires were the last straw. Best known for its pinots and chardonnays, the once-picturesque wine region is now dotted with scorched paddocks and vines. Burnt-out cars on the roadside are a grim testament to those who left their escape much too late. Some 80 wineries were hard-hit, losing vines, sheds, warehouses ... more Ma Jun: China's environmental patriot 
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2009In China, where dissent is often brutally suppressed, publicly shaming powerful corporations for destroying the environment is fraught with risk. Ma Jun treads carefully. The author of "China's Water Crisis," a savage catalogue of the country's environmental collapse, Ma now takes the fight to polluters, shaming factories on a website run by his non-governmental organisation the Institute of ... more E-Fuel And Sierra Nevada Brewing Join Forces 
Los Gatos CA (SPX) Feb 16, 2009The E-Fuel Corporation has reached an agreement with Sierra Nevada Brewing to create high-grade ethanol fuel from discarded beer yeast. E-Fuel, the inventor of the world's first home ethanol system - the Efuel100 MicroFueler - and Sierra Nevada have agreed to house MicroFuelers at the brewery in Chico, California, enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture its own ethanol using waste from its ... more |
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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 Saudi and Chinese firms in power and desalination tie up 
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 11, 2009A Chinese electric power giant and a Saudi power company on Wednesday announced an alliance to work together on power and desalinisation projects around the world. Shanghai Electric Power Generation Group (SECPG) and Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power International said in a press conference that they already have two projects to cooperate on, one in Saudi Arabia and the other in a nearby Gulf ... more |
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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 Afghanistan lauds NATO drug support 
Kabul (AFP) Feb 9, 2009Afghanistan on Monday welcomed greater NATO assistance in tackling its massive drugs trade, which supports an extremist insurgency, saying there had already been some successful joint operations. Afghan police eradication teams started ripping up opium fields in main farming areas in the south, also insurgent hotspots, about 10 days ago, Deputy Interior Minister Daud Daud told reporters. ... more NOAA-N Prime Environmental Satellite Launched 
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2009A new environmental satellite that will improve weather forecasting and monitor environmental events around the world soared into space after a picture-perfect launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA-N Prime spacecraft lifted off at 2:22 a.m. PST aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 ... more
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