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Liberia invaded by crop-eating caterpillars again: ministry
Monrovia (AFP) March 12, 2009Liberia has been hit by a second invasion of crop-destroying caterpillars which have wreaked havoc in the west African nation, agriculture ministry officials said Thursday. "We have two weeks maximum to react. We have our teams out on the field preparing to contain the situation," Moses Subah, head of the agriculture ministry's technical team, said. "We have mobilised experts from the s ... more Population growth, climate change sparking water crisis: UN 
Paris (AFP) March 12, 2009Surging population growth, climate change, reckless irrigation and chronic waste are placing the world's water supplies at threat, a landmark UN report said on Thursday. Compiled by 24 UN agencies, the 348-page document gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet's freshwater, especially in developing countries, and described the outlook for coming generations as deeply worrying. W ... more Lowly maggot poised to boost income, cut pollution 
Marseille, France (AFP) March 12, 2009Dirt poor peasants in the tropics could be thrown an economic lifeline after a lucky discovery by French scientists involving a useless palm oil by-product and the lowly maggot. The synergy of two otherwise nuisance agents produced a virtually cost-free feed for farmed fish while reducing a pungent source of pollution -- a potential boon in countries like Indonesia, one of the world's larges ... more Fowl Soil Additive Breaks Down Crude Oil 
Wuhan, China (SPX) Mar 13, 2009It is an unlikely application, but researchers in China have discovered that chicken manure can be used to biodegrade crude oil in contaminated soil. Writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution the team explains how bacteria in chicken manure break down 50% more crude oil than soil lacking the guano. Bello Yakubu, Huiwen Ma, and ChuYu Zhang of Wuhan University, China, ... more Sale Of Tehachapi Wind Project Validates Green St. Energy's Strategy 
Tehachapi CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009Green St. Energy has announced that a recently completed sale of the Alta Wind Project in Tehachapi, located in the County of Kern, California, a prolific area for the production of energy from wind, validates the Company's decision to enter into an option agreement that provides it a three-year option to acquire 4,840 areas of land located in Tehachapi to develop a wind farm. Green St. pr ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2009Policies that cut carbon emissions may be counterproductive if they strain dwindling water supplies -- a problem that has already stemmed from some poorly crafted laws, experts said. Water and energy systems are intertwined throughout the world. Forty percent of the United States' freshwater withdrawals are used to produce energy, and 18 percent of the nation's electricity goes to treat ... more Deadly violence taints China's village elections 
Nanfanzhuang, China (AFP) March 9, 2009When Zhou Changshun complained about the fairness of elections in his home village in China's Hebei province, he had just three days left to live. On the third day the farmer was found dead at home alongside the butchered remains of his 60-year-old wife and daughter-in law. His grandson, aged three, died later in hospital from axe wounds. "There is no doubt about it, we suspect Zhou ... more It's Raining Pentagons 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2009This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain. Although the structure of reg ... more Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 6, 2009Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus. The government said laboratory tests had confirmed that the chicken found floating in the sea off Hong Kong on March 2 carried the deadly strain. The statement said there were no poultry farms within three kilometres (two mile ... more Growth Energy Slams ARB Staff Report On New Low Carbon Fuel Standard Rules 
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Growth Energy has called on the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to reject rules developed by its staff that would impose unfair standards in calculating the carbon intensity of fuels as part of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The ARB staff report calls for the adoption of a flawed indirect land use change (ILUC) theory that would only penalize biofuels while ignoring the signific ... more |
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Tewksbury MA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Raytheon Company is taking the fight to the frost with a new system using radio frequency technology. Raytheon's Tempwave radiant heating system offers a more efficient way to warm crops and avoid the adverse effects of frost on the growing season. The Tempwave system delivers energy directly to a crop without heating the intervening air. It works to prevent freeze damage in both radiatio ... more Farmers Saving The Economy Again, But For How Long 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 06, 2009"The national account figures are a timely reminder of how fundamental our farm sector is to our economy, with agricultural production and growth - in seasonally adjusted terms up 10.9% this quarter on top of last quarter's 13.4% - yet again, helping to stave off recession," National Farmers' Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said. "Mining booms come and go, but Australian agricultu ... more Scientists Expose Buried Fault That Caused Deadly 2003 Quake 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2009Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists have observed, for the first time, the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake that occurred on a "buried" fault several miles below the surface-a fault whose fractures are not easily observed at Earth's surface. Reporting in of Nature, geophysicist Eric Fielding of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Cali ... more Jordan's Fossil Water Source Has High Radiation Levels 
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 05, 2009Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe for drinking water in a new study by an international team of researchers. "The combined activities of 228 radium and 226 radium - the two long-lived isotopes of radium - in the groundwater we tested are up to 2000 percent ... more Chinese dairy maker buys scandal-hit milk firm: industry association 
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
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