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Wheat Experts From 40 Countries Gather In Mexico
Ciudad Obregon, Mexico (SPX) Mar 19, 2009The world's leading wheat experts from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas - invited to Mexico by Nobel Prize Winner Norman Borlaug - have reported significant progress in developing new varieties of wheat capable of resisting a virulent form of an old plant disease that threatens wheat production worldwide. But research released at the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative 2009 Tech ... more Nuclear technology tracks Caribbean pollution 
Panama (AFP) March 16, 2009A UN agency is using nuclear material and technologies to study coastal pollution in a dozen Caribbean countries caused mainly by oil refineries, its officials said. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is focusing on marine pollution in this project because the sea is vital to the region, accounting for up to 60 percent of the gross domestic products of some countries. "We are ... more Wonder or folly? 33-bln-dollar Libyan water scheme stirs debate 
Istanbul (AFP) March 18, 2009Libya shed light on Wednesday on a 33-billion-dollar scheme, contested by some as mad or wasteful, to extract water from deep beneath the Sahara and pipe it across the desert to its coastal cities. For the first time in a major international forum, Libyan officials gave a presentation of the "Great Man-Made River Project," a scheme that dwarfs all for ambition and cost, and defended it again ... more Tobacco Makes Medicine 
Verona, Italy (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Tobacco isn't famous for its health benefits. But now scientists have succeeded in using genetically modified tobacco plants to produce medicines for several autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, including diabetes. The research is published in the open access journal BMC Biotechnology. A large team of scientists from several European research organizations have participated in the study ... more From a loo to you: Recycled sewage struggles with yuk factor 
Istanbul (AFP) March 19, 2009One day, when you read on a drink bottle "this water has been passed by the minister of health," the message may be open to interpretation in more ways than one. To a corps of hydrologists, the only way that parched regions of the world can meet the surging demand for water is to recycle -- and use -- the stuff that has already been through the human body. Rather than throwing away water ... more |
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Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 Iraq, whose power infrastructure was severely affected by the 2003 opening attacks of Operation Iraqi Freedom and six subsequent years of coalition military operations, is slowly and painfully reviving. While the world's attention remains largely focused on the country's oil industry and reserves, water remains even more important to Iraq's population and has been since the world's first known ... more Netafim To Supply Smart Irrigation Systems For Sugar Cane Project 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 19, 2009Netafim has concluded an agreement with Etanalc, pursuant to which Netafim will be the sole provider of irrigation equipment and related services for the world's largest drip irrigation project. The project includes production of both Ethanol and electricity from cultivation of sugar cane. The total development cost of the first phase of the project is over 900 million dollars. The project ... more Analysis: Lula sticks up for ethanol 
Miami (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is turning to the American business community for help in convincing the United States to lift the import tariff on his country's ethanol, a world-leading alternative fuel. Following his recent talks with U.S. President Barack Obama, Lula, the first Latin American leader to meet with the president, asked for business leaders to join him in ... more New Aerosol Observing Technique Turns Gray Skies To Blue 
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2009Tiny, ubiquitous particles in the atmosphere may play a profound role in regulating global climate. But the scientists who study these particles - called aerosols - have long struggled to accurately measure their composition, size, and global distribution. A new detection technique and a new satellite instrument developed by NASA scientists, the Aerosol Polarimetry Sensor (APS), should hel ... more Czech PM defers ratification of US missile shield 
Prague (AFP) March 17, 2009Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said his government was deferring a vote on a controversial US missile shield due on Tuesday in parliament amid fears that it could be rejected. "The government has decided to withdraw the two pacts with the United States on setting up a radar station on Czech soil," he said in a brief statement on state television. The treaty was due to be ratified ... more |
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Shuneh, Jordan (AFP) March 17, 2009A country that is 92 percent desert is always going to have a water problem. In Jordan, one of the 10 driest places on Earth, the constant fear is that crops will fail. Farmers in the Jordan Valley are heaving sighs of relief as bountiful rain in the generally bone-dry kingdom so far this month is helping to stave off the annualt threat of drought. Heavy rainfall in March has filled abou ... more Financial crisis could help water investment, says OECD 
Istanbul (AFP) March 16, 2009Tens of billions of dollars are needed annually to fix the world's water systems, but policies to address the global financial crisis could help meet the target, the OECD says. In a report to the World Water Forum in Istanbul, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says demands for fresh water are soaring while resources, under mounting stress, urgently need to be c ... more Please save our water, world forum told 
Istanbul (AFP) March 16, 2009The World Water Forum, a seven-day arena aimed at addressing the planet's deepening crisis of freshwater, was launched here Monday to appeals for a campaign to save the precious stuff of life. The forum, held only every three years, will address growing water scarcity, the risk of conflict as countries squabble over rivers, lakes and aquifers, and how to provide clean water and sanitation to ... more Hong Kong bird flu cases raise questions over China's detection 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 15, 2009A probe into an outbreak of bird flu at a Hong Kong chicken farm and carcasses popping up in city waters have raised questions over whether the H5N1 virus is going undetected in southern China. The report released this month said wild birds were the most likely carriers of the virus that broke out in December on a farm close to the territory's border with the southern Chinese province of Gua ... more Walker's World: The G20 treads water 
Paris (UPI) Mar 16, 2009 The main achievement of the Group of 20 summit of finance ministers over the weekend was to stick together and maintain an appearance of unity and resolve in favor of more stimulus and no protectionism. But they did that already, back at the first G20 summit in Washington last November. Hence the mood of disappointment that greeted the close of the summit, symbolized by the German editi ... more
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