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Beijing (AFP) March 4, 2009A leading Chinese dairy brand has bought part of the assets of Sanlu Group, the firm at the centre of a huge contaminated milk scandal that rocked the nation, an industry association said Wednesday. Beijing's Sanyuan Group and one of its subsidiaries paid 616.5 million yuan (90 million dollars) for some of Sanlu's assets at a court auction, the Dairy Association of China said in a statement. ... more TRC Completes EIS For Proposed Cape Wind Project 
Lowell MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2009TRC Companies has announced the recent completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) prepared for the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) for the first proposed offshore wind energy project in the United States. The release of the FEIS moves the Cape Wind Project, a proposed 130-turbine wind farm off the shore in Nantucket Sound, Mass., closer to federal approval. The pr ... more GOES-O Satellite Arrives At KSC For Final Pre-Launch Testing 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 04, 2009The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived this morning by a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, Calif. The GOES-O satellite is targeted to launch April 28 onboard a Unite ... more Wenchuan Earthquake Mudslides Emit Greenhouse Gas 
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2009Mudslides that followed the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study shows. Mudslides wipe away plants and topsoil, depleting terrain of nutrients ... more 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 |
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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 Study Critiques Corn-For-Ethanol's Carbon Footprint 
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 04, 2009To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led study. "Converting set-asides to corn-ethanol production is an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy that should not be encouraged until ethanol-pro ... more Three ESA Earth Science Missions Move To Next Phase 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 03, 2009ESA has announced three candidate Earth Explorer mission concepts to progress to the next phase of consolidation. This selection is part of the user-driven process that will lead to the launch of the Agency's seventh Earth Explorer satellite in the 2016 time frame. Last week ESA's Programme Board for Earth Observation decided on three Earth Explorer missions that will undergo Feasibility S ... more Earth-Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2009132,969 ... 132,970 ... 132,971. Like a trusty watch counting up the minutes, the Landsat 5 satellite keeps on ticking, orbit after orbit around Earth. Well beyond its design lifetime of 15,000 orbits, the satellite's trajectory could go askew or its instruments could malfunction at any moment. But not today. Still observing the Earth after 25 years - 22 beyond its three-year primary ... more Svalbard Marks First Anniversary 
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 |
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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009New research has found that modern lifestyle habits may play a bigger role than food alone, when it comes to tooth decay. A review of the scientific evidence over the past 150 years found that the effects of fluoride toothpaste, good oral hygiene and health education, may override the effects of food alone on tooth decay. The research is published online in a Supplement to the journal Obes ... more Federal Research Program Should Realign Climate Change Priorities 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2009The federal government's climate change research program should broaden its focus to include research that would support actions needed to cope with climate change-related problems that will impact society, while building on its successful research to improve understanding of the causes and processes of climate change, says a new report from the National Research Council. As the U.S. Clima ... more Drought Review Must Deliver For All Farmers 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 03, 2009"THE Australian Government's Drought Review must establish a comprehensive agricultural policy that sets us up for more than just the next drought," National Farmers' Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said today. "Drought has cost this country dearly through the loss of 90,000 on-farm jobs, slashing Australia's economic growth, and placing individuals, families, businesses, local co ... more Color Test Enhances Tomato Analyzer Software 
Wooster OH (SPX) Mar 03, 2009When it comes to fresh vegetables and fruits, color is one of the best indicators of quality. Along with texture, size, and flavor, color plays an important role in the business of horticultural crop production and marketing. In tomatoes, for example, color and color uniformity contribute directly to quality and marketability. The presence of yellow shoulder disorder, or YSD, a ripening di ... more Soybean Oil Reduces Carbon Footprint In Swine Barns 
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
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