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Helsinki aims to tackle growing rabbit menace
Helsinki (AFP) April 8, 2009While other cities grapple with traffic or pollution problems, the Finnish capital of Helsinki is taking aim at the humble rabbit. "Rabbits have caused severe damage... we are talking about costs of hundreds of thousands of euros," said Antti J. Rautiainen, a construction project manager with the city authorities. The floppy-eared fiends have been nibbling their way through some of Helsi ... more 5,000 clash with police in China: rights group 
Beijing (AFP) April 9, 2009About 5,000 villagers clashed with police in eastern China after laying seige to a coal mine blamed for damaging local farmlands, a human rights group said Thursday. The villagers had "surrounded and attacked" the coal mine in a rural county of Anhui province on Tuesday, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a press release. Police in Fengtai count ... more Villa construction frenzy paving Bali paradise 
Canggu, Indonesia (AFP) April 12, 2009Snatching a quick rest from a day of back-breaking work, Balinese rice farmer I Gusti Made Sukadana contemplates the grey-walled villas crowding the edges of his paddy field. The villas are part of the latest building boom on the famous Indonesian holiday island, where homes for wealthy holidaymakers and expatriates are mushrooming across the bottle-green landscape. Some see the growth ... more NASA Goddard Orders Second Instrument For GPM Mission 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2009NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., has ordered a second instrument for the agency's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission. The GPM satellite is an Earth science mission that will study global precipitation (rain, snow, ice) with one Core spacecraft and a host of eight other vehicles in Earth orbit. The instrument, known as GPM Microwave Imager (GMI), will me ... more GAEC Brings Crops To Fuels To Reality 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2009Transforming cellulose to ethanol efficiently is a technical challenge that will transform the biofuels industry. Gulf Alternative Energy believes it has moved the industry much closer to economic viability with its preprocessing technology that turns non-food plant material (called biomass) into extremely small particles that can more quickly and more cheaply be turned into ethanol. ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2009A small, pilot study in 50 people in Japan suggests that eating two and a half ounces of broccoli sprouts daily for two months may confer some protection against a rampant stomach bug that causes gastritis, ulcers and even stomach cancer. Citing their new "demonstration of principle" study, a Johns Hopkins researcher and an international team of scientists caution that eating sprouts conta ... more Flame Retardants Affecting US Coastal Ecosystems 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 07, 2009NOAA scientists have stated that Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs), chemicals commonly used in commercial goods as flame retardants since the 1970s, are found in all United States coastal waters and the Great Lakes, with elevated levels near urban and industrial centers. The new findings are in contrast to analysis of samples as far back as 1996 that identified PBDEs in only a limited ... more EU tightens bluefin tuna fishing rules 
Brussels (AFP) April 6, 2009European Union countries adopted new rules Monday to help restore endangered bluefin tuna stocks in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, bringing the bloc into line with international standards. The rules introduce "significant cuts" in bluefin tun quotas by 2011 and shortens the period in which the species can be fished by four months. The season begins on April 15. They impose a ... more Can Organic Cropping Systems Be As Profitable As Conventional Systems 
Madison WI (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Which is a better strategy, specializing in one crop or diversified cropping? Is conventional cropping more profitable than organic farming? Is it less risky? To answer these questions, the University of Wisconsin's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Michael Fields Agricultural Institute agronomists established the Wisconsin Integrated Cropping Systems Trial (WICST) in 1990. This ... more Navajo Receives Finance Commitment For Its 200MW Xinjiang Wind Farm Project 
Atlanta GA (SPX) Apr 07, 2009Navajo Wind Energy has announced that it has received a letter of intent to finance its 200 MW wind farm project located in Xinjiang, China. The value of the 200 MW project is in excess of US$450,000,000. As previously announced, Navajo has come to a terms agreement with Mingchuang Energy Manufacturing Co. Ltd. to create a joint venture partnership on projects located in China. Both compan ... more |
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Washington, April 3, 2009 Wind farms placed off U.S. coastlines could contribute significantly to meeting the nation's energy needs, says an Interior Department study. Turbines off the Atlantic Coast potentially could produce 1,000 gigawatts of electricity, enough to meet 25 percent of the nation's electrical demands, the study says. Turbines located off the Pacific Coast also hold great potential but wou ... more NASA Continues To Advance International Polar Year Science 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2009Although the International Polar Year officially came to a close in February, NASA is continuing to push the frontiers of polar science from space, the air and the surface of ice. On Monday, NASA embarks on the first of two airborne field campaigns in the Arctic to take a closer look at Greenland and Iceland ice sheets and the region's sea ice and glaciers. From space, NASA's Ice, Cl ... more Indiana Firm Lands Wind Farm Contract 
Indianapolis IN (SPX) Apr 03, 2009Horizon Wind Energy has selected Bowen Engineering as the balance of plant contractor for the Meadow Lake wind farm in White County, Indiana. This 200 megawatt facility is the first of several wind farms Horizon is developing in Indiana. "Horizon is a leader in wind energy, and our team is pleased to work with such an outstanding firm," said Bowen Operations Manager Dennis Ward. ... more Satellites Will Help Predict Disasters 
Beijing, China (XNA) Apr 02, 2009China's first two satellites dedicated to environment and disaster monitoring were delivered to their users yesterday. Both Huanjing-1A and Huanjing-1B have two charge coupled device cameras, with a 30-m resolution and a 720-km width, each on board, the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense said in a statement. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, in ... more Climate Change Fears For Deadly Virus Outbreaks In Livestock 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2009Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week's meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate. Since 1998, rising temperatures have led to outbreaks of bluetongue (BT) across most of Europe, which have killed over 2 million ruminants (mainly sheep). The outbreak ... more
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