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EU cuts Mediterranean tuna fishing to protect stocks
Brussels (AFP) April 15, 2009The Mediterranean tuna fishing season will be 15 days shorter this year with quotas and fleets also cut, EU sources said Wednesday: but environmentalists complained it was too little, too late. The bluefin fishing season begins officially on Thursday and will end on June 15, two weeks earlier than the scheduled 2008 season. At the same time the European Commission has reduced allowed quo ... more Corn, soy yields gain little from genetic engineering: study 
Washington (AFP) April 14, 2009The use of genetically engineered corn and soybeans in the United States for more than a decade has had little impact on crop yields despite claims that they could ease looming food shortages, a study released on Tuesday concluded. "A hard-nosed assessment of this expensive technology's achievements to date gives little confidence that it will play a major role in helping the world feed itse ... more African pygmy genetics are traced 
Paris (UPI) Apr 14, 2009A French-led study has plotted African pygmies' ancestry, determining the pygmies' ancestors and neighboring farmers separated about 60,000 years ago. The researchers at the Pasteur Institute said all African Pygmies living in Central Africa descend from a unique population who lived around 20,000 years ago. Pygmies are characterized by a forest-dwelling hunter-gathering lifestyle, dist ... more Pro-Kremlin groups stage macabre animal circus 
Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009The ostrich stood in the snow with a sign reading "bureaucrat" hung round its neck. A mostly young crowd surrounding the frightened bird guffawed. The ostrich, standing beside a bucket of sand, had been brought from a farm near Moscow and put on display in a cordoned-off area on a busy Moscow street by a pro-Kremlin youth group. The activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia) called on ... more Analysis: Wind up, but for how long? 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2009Despite the current economic climate, wind-farm construction and turbine manufacturing are blowing along at surprisingly high rates - at least for now. In 2008, the U.S. wind industry hit a new record, installing 8,358 megawatts of new wind-energy capacity at a price tag of $17 billion, according to the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade association. But the new ... more |
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Mexico City (AFP) April 9, 2009Some two million residents of Mexico City on Thursday began 36 hours without water under an emergency plan over Easter vacation to respond to a record drop in water supply and to work on repairs. The cuts, in the giant city of some 20 million that once sat on lakes, coincide with Semana Santa, Mexico's second most important holiday season when many leave the city. They are part of a five ... more 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 |
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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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