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China milk scandal retrial begins: court
Beijing (AFP) March 26, 2009The retrial of two men sentenced to death for their involvement in China's tainted milk scandal began Thursday after they appealed the verdict, the court hearing the case told AFP. Geng Jinping and Zhang Yujun were to be heard in a trial expected to last one day in the northern province of Hebei, the official Xinhua news agency said. The brothers of the two men were also appealing against ja ... more Scientists Track Asteroid That Hurtles To Earth And Recover Pieces 
Paris (AFP) March 25, 2009Stunned astronomers watched a car-sized asteroid explode into a brilliant meteor shower as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere, and then wandered into a Sudan desert to pick up the pieces, a study released Wednesday reported. It was the first time ever that scientists recovered fragments from an asteroid detected in space, according to the study, published in the British journal Nature. ... more Surprise Recovery Of Meteorites Following Asteroid Impact 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2009Fortunately, it wasn't large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed to Earth. It streaked into the skies over northern Sudan in the early morning of October 7, 2008, and then exploded at a high 37 km above the Nubian Desert, before the atmosphere could slow it appreciably. It was believed that the ... more ESA Hosts GMES Session At 'Towards eEnvironment' Conference 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 26, 2009The exchange of environmental information will be the focus of the 'Towards eEnvironment' conference held this week in Prague. ESA will host a GMES session to discuss the status of the programme and demonstrate how its services are helping users. The conference, held in the framework of the Czech Republic's European Union presidency, is dedicated to information exchange among scientists ... more Iraq says Turkey to double water supply 
Baghdad (AFP) March 25, 2009Turkish President Abdullah Gul has promised to double the amount of water allocated to Iraq from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi said on Wednesday. The announcement followed two days of talks during Gul's visit to Baghdad, the first in 33 years by a Turkish head of state, on what is a key issue for drought-hit Iraq. "President Gul promised to double ... more |
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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 Food Choices Evolve Through Information Overload 
Leeds, UK (SPX) Mar 25, 2009Ever been so overwhelmed by a huge restaurant menu that you end up choosing an old favourite instead of trying something new? Psychologists have long since thought that information overload leads to people repeatedly choosing what they know. Now, new research has shown that the same concept applies equally to hundreds of animal species too. Researchers from the University of Leeds ha ... more Destron Fearing's rTag Dynamic System 
St. Paul MN (SPX) Mar 25, 2009Digital Angel has announced that its Destron Fearing unit's rTag Dynamic system has been successfully demonstrated by Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development (AARD) to a group of leading Canadian livestock producers. As an agency of the Alberta provincial government, AARD's stated mission is to promote prosperity for Alberta through a strong, competitive, sustainable agriculture and food ... more A Quarter Of The World's Population Depends On Degrading Land 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 25, 2009A new study published in the journal Soil Use and Management attempts for the first time to measure the extent and severity of land degradation across the globe and concludes that 24% of the land area is degrading - often in very productive areas. Land degradation - the decline in the quality of soil, water and vegetation - is of profound importance but until now there have been no consist ... more |
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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 Water: Diplomacy key to defusing row over 'Blue Gold' 
Istanbul (AFP) March 20, 2009From South Asia and to the Middle East, from Australia to California, rivers and aquifers that cross boundaries have become potent sources of friction. Farmers squabble with city dwellers over irrigation rights while countries in river basins complain about pollution or water theft from upstream, as their neighbours build dams to siphon off flow from the watershed. "Conflicts about water ... more World water forum pledges action, but rift over statement 
Istanbul (AFP) March 22, 2009A seven-day focus on the world's water crunch wound up Sunday with a pledge by more than 100 countries to strive for clean water and sanitation for billions in need and fight drought and flood. But some countries criticised the cornerstone outcome of the fifth World Water Forum as flawed while activists dismissed the event itself as a "trade show." The declaration, coinciding with World ... more India Set To Launch Imaging Satellite With Israeli Support 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Mar 23, 2009India is all set to launch a radar imaging satellite (RISAT) built with "substantial inputs" from the Israel aerospace industry from Sriharikota spaceport, an ISRO official said. Israel has supplied Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which is in fact "heart" of the 1780-kg remote sensing satellite, the official told PTI on condition of anonymity. "Israel has supplied substantial systems," the ... more Southern Africa's freshwater species in peril: watchdog 
Istanbul (AFP) March 19, 2009The world's leading conservation agency on Thursday said many species of freshwater fish, shellfish and insects in southern Africa were at threat from water extraction and habitat loss. A study of 1,279 freshwater species across southern Africa found that 94 of them, or seven percent, are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said at the World Water ... more
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