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China court accepts first milk scandal lawsuit: state media
Beijing (AFP) March 25, 2009A Chinese court has officially accepted the first lawsuit seeking compensation for last year's tainted milk scandal, state media said Wednesday, opening up the possibility of a flood of court actions. A district court in the northern city of Shijiazhuang decided on Wednesday that it would hear the suit filed against the Sanlu Group, the dairy firm at the centre of the poisoned milk controver ... more China sets up 30 million dollar Africa food fund 
Rome (AFP) March 25, 2009China has set up a 30 million dollar trust fund to back agricultural projects, mainly in Africa, carried out by the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the UN food agency said Wednesday. The money is aimed at helping developing countries to improve farming output with a view to achieving Millennium Development Goals, the Rome-based FAO said in a statement, adding that Beijing had joined the ... more Space Technology Monitors Heavy Mining Machines 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 25, 2009Spin-offs from space programmes are used in a new system for remote monitoring of heavy-duty machinery operating at excavation and mining sites worldwide. Using ESA's Business Incubator, four companies working together with help from ESA experts, were able to pool ideas to produce a system with a faster response time, increasing both safety and productivity. Mining is often done at remote ... more Researchers Find The Earliest Evidence Of Domesticated Maize 
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 25, 2009Maize was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 8700 years according to biological evidence uncovered by researchers in the Mexico's Central Balsas River Valley. This is the earliest dated evidence - by 1200 years - for the presence and use of domesticated maize. The researchers, led by Anthony Ranere of Temple University and Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian National Museum of Na ... more New Tracking Tags Helping With Management Depressed Fisheries 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 25, 2009New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, according to a new study. Until recently, scientists provided fishery managers only such limited data as stock counts and catch estimates, said Charles Greene, Cornell professor of ocean sciences ... more |
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San Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 25, 2009Valero Energy has announced that its bid to buy ethanol plants from VeraSun Energy has been accepted by the bankruptcy court overseeing the assets' auction. In addition to the five plants and a sixth site under development in Valero's original bid, the bankruptcy court approved Valero's purchase of two additional ethanol plants from VeraSun. Together, the plants have an annual production ... more SSTL-Led Team Investigates GNSS Signals For Remote Sensing 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 24, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) will lead a British project to exploit signals from GPS and GNSS navigation satellites that are reflected from the Earth for remote sensing purposes. The project will investigate a prototype instrument capable of measuring the roughness of the sea and soil moisture content, providing data for atmospheric science and for operational ocean and weath ... more Analysis: Turkish Ilisu Dam controversial 
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Mar 23, 2009 The Fifth World Water Forum ended Sunday, wrapping up a full week of dozens of meetings among governments, private businesses and non-governmental organizations. The breadth of the range of panels has been both global and impressive, but one aspect of the gathering that is bound to grow in future years is the presence and influence of environmental and green parties. While the booths of such g ... more Asia's woes in spotlight at World Water Forum 
Istanbul (AFP) March 20, 2009Burgeoning population growth, poor resource management and floods and droughts amplified by climate change hamper efforts by Asian countries to provide clean water and decent sanitation, the World Water Forum heard Friday. Ministers from major Asian nations, in a side event at the seven-day arena in Istanbul, admitted they faced a major challenge in trying to meet surging demand for freshwat ... more Province supplying Beijing water drying up: state media 
Beijing (AFP) March 22, 2009A province in north China that supplies Beijing with much needed water is itself facing serious shortages of the resource, state media reported ahead of World Water Day on Sunday. Li Qinglin, director of Hebei's water conservation department, said water shortages had become a big problem for the province's social and economic development, the official Xinhua news agency reported late Saturda ... more |
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Istanbul (AFP) March 19, 2009Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas accused Israel on Thursday of forcing Palestinians to live in chronic water scarcity and declared a "rightful share" of water should not be tied to a peace deal. In a message read at the World Water Forum in Istanbul, the Palestinian Authority president said Israel's unilateral control over rivers and aquifers meant scarce water resources were not being shared ... more Millions wasted on Africa water projects: research 
London (AFP) March 20, 2009Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted on rural water projects in Africa because the donors and aid agencies that built them ignored maintenance, a new report claimed Friday. London-based research organisation the International Institute for Environment and Development said about 50,000 water supply points across rural Africa had failed, representing a loss of 215 to 360 million US ... more Fledgling Mantle Plume May Be Cause Of African Volcano's Unique Lava 
Rochester NY (SPX) Mar 20, 2009Nyiragongo, an active African volcano, possesses lava unlike any other in the world, which may point toward its source being a new mantle plume says a University of Rochester geochemist. The lava composition indicates that a mantle plume-an upwelling of intense heat from near the core of the Earth-may be bubbling to life beneath the soil of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The finding ... more GE, Singapore to set up water research facility 
Singapore (AFP) March 19, 2009US conglomerate General Electric (GE) and a Singapore university said Thursday they will invest 100 million US dollars in a research facility aimed at helping solve the world's water problems. GE Water, a unit of GE Energy, signed an agreement with National University of Singapore to establish the Singapore Water Technology Centre at the school's campus, a GE statement said. The facility ... more Analysis: International river water woes 
Istanbul, Turkey (UPI) Mar 19, 2009 The scale of issues being discussed at the fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul is vast, ranging from basic sanitation in Third World countries to massive international hydroelectric projects. The event has attracted heads of state, including Turkish President Abdullah Gul, Iraq's Jalal Talabani and Tajikistan's Emomalii Rahmon, five prime ministers and the crown prince of Japan, Naruhito Kotai ... more
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