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Midwestern Ethanol Plants Use Much Less Water Than Western Plants
Duluth MN (SPX) Apr 20, 2009Ethanol production in Minnesota and Iowa uses far less water overall than similar processes in states where water is less plentiful, a new University of Minnesota study shows. The study, which will be published in the April 15 edition of the journal Environmental Science and Technology, is the first to compare water use in corn-ethanol production on a state-by-state basis. The authors used ... more Satnav Reflection Technology For Remote Sensing Of The Earth 
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 17, 2009A rain of navigation signals falls constantly upon the Earth from GPS and the initial satellites in Europe's Galileo system, enabling an ever-increasing number of positioning and guidance services. Afterwards these microwave beams bounce back to space - where a proposed ESA mission aims to harness them as a scientific resource and explore their potential for terrestrial remote sensing appl ... more India Using Using Satellite To Study Rice 
New Delhi (PTI) Apr 17, 2009The Biophysics section of the Department of Physics of the University of Pune (UoP) has tied up with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a satellite named Space Recovery Experiment II (SRE-II) into space to study the effects of micro gravity on the production of rice. The experiment is the brainchild of Pandit Vidyasagar, head of the biophysics section, and will be sent ... more Brazil largest consumer of pesticides: study 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 17, 2009Brazil has become the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides, and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study released Friday. The Brazilian pesticide market has boiled to more than 6.9 billion dollars, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association. In the analysis led by Anvisa (Brazil's National Health Surveillance ... more China hauls US to WTO over poultry 
Geneva (AFP) April 17, 2009China on Friday lodged filed a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over "discriminatory" US legislation against Chinese poultry imports. "China considers that the US ... through Section 727, is in breach of its obligations," according to a request for formal consultations filed by the Chinese at the WTO. Beijing had launched the action in the WTO in respon ... more |
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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 EU seeks deep cuts in fishing capacity 
Brussels (AFP) April 15, 2009EU fishing fleet capacity should be cut drastically to revive dwindling fish stocks, the European Commission warns in a draft paper seen Thursday, despite fears of the social impact of such a move. The draft paper on reforming the European Union's common fishing policy risks inflaming growing discontent which has already led to French fishermen crippling English Channel ports with a three-da ... 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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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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