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CSIRO Partners Global Water Footprint Network
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 24, 2009Australia's national scientific research agency, CSIRO, has joined a global network of private and public sector organisations which aims to promote the sustainable, fair and efficient use of the world's fresh water resources. The Water Footprint Network seeks to advance the concept of 'water footprinting' as a means of understanding and addressing the negative impacts on freshwater system ... more Nigerian Engineers Learn To Map African Resources Using NigeriaSat-1 
Guildford, UK (SPX) Apr 23, 2009Nigeria will soon be able to map and monitor African resources with local expertise. Nigeria's first satellite imaging engineers are receiving hands-on training at DMCii in Guildford, UK, to manage and process the images NigeriaSat-1 and the future NigeriaSat-2 and NX satellites upon their return to Nigeria. Now in training, Oludare Mabogunje and Kennedy Uti will play a crucial part in Nig ... more WWF wants turtle eggs off Malaysian menus 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) April 22, 2009Environmental group WWF Wednesday launched a campaign to stop Malaysians eating turtle eggs, in a bid to help save the marine creatures from extinction. Turtle eggs are openly sold in markets in parts of Malaysia. Turtles once arrived in their thousands to lay eggs on Malaysian beaches, but are now increasingly rare thanks to poaching and coastal development. The five-month online campai ... more Brussels wants to cut fishing fleets as stocks dwindle 
Brussels (AFP) April 22, 2009Drastic cuts in the European fishing fleet are needed, the EU Commission warned Wednesday, launching a consultation exercise to overhaul a sector which it said is making profits and fish stocks disappear. A raft of ideas are included in a consultative green paper formally adopted by the EU executive on Wednesday. "Nine out of ten fish stocks are exploited beyond their capacity to regener ... more California 2009 Farm And Ranch Lands Protection Program Signup Announced 
Davis CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2009Applicants for the Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP), administered by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), may apply for the program for the 2009 fiscal year between now and June 15, 2009. Ranking and selection of parcels will take place immediately thereafter and funds will be obligated by July 15, 2009. NRCS State Conservationist Ed Burton noted th ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Apr 20, 2009Studying satellite radar data from ESA's Envisat and the Italian Space Agency's COSMO-SkyMed, scientists have begun analysing the movement of Earth during and after the 6.3 earthquake that shook the medieval town of L'Aquila in central Italy on 6 April 2009. Scientists from Italy's Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell' Ambiente (IREA-CNR) and the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisic ... more RISAT2 Can See Through Thick Clouds 
Sriharikota, India (PTI) Apr 21, 2009India's newest eye in the sky, Radar Imaging Satellite-II (RISAT2), the first spy satellite launched from the spaceport here on Monday, has the capability to maintain vigil on the country's borders even at night and through clouds. The satellite, built with Israeli cooperation, enhances significantly India's capabilities in earth observation as it can track minute movements on land, source ... more Severity, Length Of Past Megadroughts Dwarf Recent Drought In West Africa 
Austin TX (SPX) Apr 21, 2009Droughts far worse than the infamous Sahel drought of the 1970s and 1980s are within normal climate variation for sub-Saharan West Africa, according to new research. For the first time, scientists have developed an almost year-by-year record of the last 3,000 years of West African climate. In that period, droughts lasting 30 to 60 years were common. Surprisingly, however, these decad ... more Walker's World: G8's thin food summit 
Washington, April 20, 2009 The good news is that the world's key agricultural ministers convened this weekend for the first time under the auspices of the G8 summit process. The bad news is that they addressed everything except the three large elephants in the room. Two of these elephants are familiar; the massive and market-distorting $300 billion a year spent on food subsidies and protection by the United State ... more Palestinians face dire water shortage: World Bank 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 20, 2009Palestinians face dire water shortages because of both bad Palestinian management and Israeli restrictions, the World Bank said in a report on Monday. The report, the first of its kind, noted the "complete dependence" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip "on scarce water resources shared and largely controlled by Israel." It also underlined that "the joint gover ... more |
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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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