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Underwater animals fart greenhouse gas: study
Berlin (AFP) March 3, 2009Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas. Scientists at the Max Planck Institut and Denmark's Aarhus University found that mussels, freshwater snails and other underwater creatures release nitrous oxide - laughing gas - when nitrate is pres ... more Sudan inaugurates massive Nile dam 
Merowe, Sudan (AFP) March 3, 2009Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir inaugurated a massive hydroelectric project on Tuesday that has displaced tens of thousands of people and is the largest to be built on the Nile in 40 years. The more than two-billion-dollar (1.590-billion-euro) Chinese-engineered Merowe Dam will eventually double Sudan's power capacity to about 1,250 megawatts. Two of its 10 turbines, which were built by Fr ... more Chinese courts to accept milk-scandal cases: report 
Beijing (AFP) March 3, 2009Chinese courts are now ready to accept lawsuits by families of children sickened in last year's tainted milk scandal, state media said Tuesday, quoting a top official. The report in the newspaper China Daily follows months of delays in which lawyers for plaintiffs told AFP they were warned not to sue over the scandal, which embarrassed China by exposing chronic holes in food-safety mechanism ... more Doubling A Gene In Corn Results In Giant Biomass 
Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2009University of Illinois plant geneticist Stephen Moose has developed a corn plant with enormous potential for biomass, literally. It yields corn that would make good silage, Moose said, due to a greater number of leaves and larger stalk, which could also make it a good energy crop. The gene known as Glossy 15 was originally described for its role in giving corn seedlings a waxy coating that ... more Financing Confirmed For Navajo Wind Energy's Joint Venture Wind Farm 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2009Navajo Wind Energy has announced that it has received a confirmation letter of financing from Xiyas Development Capital for the Company's 50% joint venture partnership interest in the CSRI Xuzhou Nantung wind farm project. This financing is in addition to the funding announced on January 20, 2009 and is debt based, which will not affect the capital structure of the Company. As previo ... more |
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Longyearbyen, Norway (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Four tons of seeds - almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species - from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three international agricultural research centers in Syria, Mexico and Colombia, were delivered today to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as it celebrated its one-year anniversary. The repository, located near the village of Longyearbyen on ... more Saving Wheat Crops Worldwide 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 03, 2009CSIRO Plant Industry scientists and international collaborators have discovered the key to overcoming three major cereal diseases, which in epidemic years cost wheat growers worldwide in excess of AUS$7.8 billion. In a paper published today in the prestigious journal Science, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry, the University of Zurich and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ... more EU nations refuse to force members to farm GM maize 
Brussels (AFP) March 2, 2009EU nations refused Monday to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of Monsanto genetically modified maize, defying a call from the European Commission, the Czech EU presidency said. Only five of the 27 European Union nations - Britain, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Estonia - supported the EU executive's bid to force the two member states to lift their ban. In Vienna ... more UN report warns fishing industry on climate change 
Rome (AFP) March 1, 2009The fishing industry must do more to confront the effects of climate change as well as get a grip on the perennial problem of overfishing, said a UN report to be published Monday. The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) report said responsible fishing practices must be more widely implemented and called for new strategies to cope with climate change. "Climate change is alrea ... more New Zealand Breeding Program Creates New Red Raspberry Variety 
Motueka NZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2009A horticultural research team from New Zealand and Canada has introduced a new red raspberry cultivar. 'Moutere' is a new floricane fruiting red raspberry (Rubus idaeus L.) created in a planned breeding program at The Horticulture and Food Research Institute of New Zealand Limited (recently renamed The New Zealand Institute of Plant and Food Research Limited (Plant and Food Research). ... more |
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West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 03, 2009One of agriculture's most versatile crops could one day play a role in combating climate change, Purdue University research shows. In addition to using soybeans in beverages, biofuel, lip balm, crayons, candles and a host of other products, Purdue agricultural engineers Al Heber and Jiqin Ni found that soybean oil reduces greenhouse gas emissions when sprayed inside swine finishing barns. ... more Commercial Yeasts Upgraded With An Enzyme For Biofuel Production 
Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Eckhard Boles has discovered a new enzyme which teaches yeast cells to ferment xylose into ethanol. Xylose is an unused waste sugar in the cellulosic ethanol production process. The researchers have recently filed a patent application for their process. In industrial fermentation processes, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is commonly used for ethanol production. Current bioethanol ... more Schwarzenegger declares California drought emergency 
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 27, 2009California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday declared a state of emergency and warned of possible mandatory water rationing as the state struggled through its third consecutive year of drought. Although the level of precipitation is 75 percent of the normal level this year, key state reserves are below 35 percent capacity, which has generated nearly three billion dollars in losses thi ... more Global warming could delay, weaken monsoons: study 
Chicago (AFP) March 1, 2009Global warming could delay the start of the summer monsoon by five to 15 days within the next century and significantly reduce rainfall in much of South Asia, a recent study has found. Rising global temperatures will likely lead to an eastward shift in monsoon circulation which could result in more rainfall over the Indian Ocean, Myanmar and Bangladesh but less over Pakistan, India and Nepal ... more China approves food safety law: state media 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2009China on Saturday approved a long-awaited food safety law, state media reported, in a bid to end repeated scandals involving dangerous food products in the country. The law has been in the works since October last year after a huge scandal erupted over contaminated milk which killed at least six children and sickened nearly 300,000 others in China. "The law will see the establishment of ... more
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