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New caterpillar plague hits Liberia, spreads to Ivory Coast
Monrovia (AFP) Feb 18, 2009Liberia has been hit by an invasion of so far unidentified caterpillars while another species, which has attacked crops in several areas, has now crossed over into neighbouring Ivory Coast. "On Friday ... we got information that there was an invasion of caterpillars in the Margibi County area. We know that is not the same species that was found in Bong, Gbarpolu, Nimba and part of Lofa," Agr ... more US judge sides with Google in 'Street View' privacy case 
San Francisco (AFP) Feb 18, 2009A federal judge has ruled against a US couple who accused Google of invading their privacy by publishing a Street View picture of their house in the Internet giant's free online map service. US magistrate judge Amy Reynolds Hay on Tuesday rejected the couple's claims that Google owed them cash damages for using a picture of their Pennsylvania property snapped from a private road. Google ... more Scientist Models The Mysterious Travels Of Greenhouse Gas 
Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 19, 2009The global travel logs of greenhouse gases are based on atmospheric sampling locations sprinkled over the Earth and short towers that measure the uptake or release of carbon from a small patch of forest. But those measurements don't agree with current computer models of how plants and soils behave. A University of Michigan researcher is developing a unique way to reconcile these crucial ... more Hand-Held Water Sanitizer For A Thirsty World 
Iowa City IO (SPX) Feb 19, 2009What do you do when you learn that about one-sixth of the world's population - nearly one billion people, according to UNICEF - lack clean water on a daily basis? If you happen to be one of 15 student engineers at the University of Iowa, you roll up your sleeves and design a $5, hand-held device to sanitize water and potentially save lives. Although the student invention began as a ... more Trust to save food crops from extinction 
Rome (UPI) Feb 18, 2009 Italy's Global Crop Diversity Trust says it has collected about 53,000 seed samples of the 100,000 varieties of food crops it wants to save from extinction. The biological rescue effort is designed to preserve the availability of crop diversity for food security worldwide. It involves food crops from 46 nations and is one of the largest such programs ever undertaken. "We are movi ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 18, 2009If you are a fish eater, it's likely that the salmon you had for dinner was not caught in the wild, but was instead grown in a mesh cage submerged in the open water of oceans or bays. Fish farming, a relatively inexpensive way to provide cheap protein to a growing world population, now supplies, by some estimates, 30 percent of the fish consumed by humans. Two hundred and twenty species of ... more Good bacteria Can Be EZ Pass For Oral Vaccine Against Anthrax 
Raleigh NC (SPX) Feb 18, 2009Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that the good bacteria found in dairy products and linked to positive health benefits in the human body might also be an effective vehicle for an oral vaccine that can provide immunity to anthrax exposure. The approach could possibly be used to deliver any number of specific vaccines that could block other types of viruses and ... more Bioremediation To Keep Atrazine From Waterways 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2009Farmers around the world are expected to benefit from the successful trial of an enzyme that breaks down the herbicide, atrazine, in run-off water. "When we added the enzyme to a holding dam filled with run-off contaminated with atrazine, more than 90 per cent of it was removed in less than four hours," says CSIRO Entomology's Dr Colin Scott. "Atrazine is a widely used and extremely ... more DigitalGlobe Announces Agreement With Nokia For Use Of Imagery 
Longmont CO (SPX) Feb 17, 2009DigitalGlobe and Nokia have agreed to bring the real-world perspective of high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery to Nokia Maps, both on mobile devices and on Ovi, improving the global driving, hiking and walking navigation capabilities for consumers who use these applications. Through streamlined technology integration and development of a proprietary format for delivering imagery to ... more Doomsday seed vault's stores are growing 
Chicago (AFP) Feb 15, 2009The stores of seeds in a "doomsday" vault in the Norwegian Arctic are growing as researchers rush to preserve 100,000 crop varieties from potential extinction. The imperiled seeds are going to be critical for protecting the global food supply against devastating crop losses as a result of climate change, said Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust. "These ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2009Clear Skies Solar has initiated project engineering on an $11 million, 3.2MW solar farm in Cantil, CA, to be built on 34 acres of company-owned land. Less than three months ago Ezra Green, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Clear Skies Solar, was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, stating that a California project was stalled due to a lack of funding. Since that time, module ... more ESA Water Mission On Track For Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 16, 2009Following word from Eurockot that launch of the Earth Explorer SMOS satellite can take place between July and October this year, ESA, CNES and the prime contractor Thales Alenia Space are now making detailed preparations for the last crucial steps before ESA's water mission is placed in orbit. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has been in storage at Thales Alenia ... more Climate change: 'Feedback' triggers could amplify peril 
Paris (AFP) Feb 15, 2009New studies have warned of triggers in the natural environment, including a greenhouse-gas timebomb in Siberia and Canada, that could viciously amplify global warming. Thawing subarctic tundra could unleash billions of tonnes of gases that have been safely stored in frosty soil, while oceans and forests are becoming less able to suck carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, according to ... more 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
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