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Premier Power Continues Growth In Spain Despite Crash Of Spanish PV Market
Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 11, 2009Despite the once hot Spanish solar farming market coming to a grinding halt, Premier Power Renewable Energy's business in Spain will grow by more than 200 percent this year with future prospects increasingly bright. ASIF, a Spanish solar PV industry association, estimates that the commercial rooftop market will become the leading market segment in Spain, growing to more than 4.4 gigawatts ... more EcoSystem Announces Integrated Biofuel Feedstock Machine 
Dayton OH (SPX) May 11, 2009EcoSystem has announced its plans to conduct operational trials of its Feedstock Machine at targeted poultry and swine processing companies. The Feedstock Machine is an integrated, scalable solution that converts poultry and swine manure into high protein feeds, natural oils, and high quality soil amendments. The Feedstock Machine consists of three major subsystems: ... more Bioelectricity Promises More Miles Per Acre Than Ethanol 
Stanford CA (SPX) May 11, 2009Biofuels such as ethanol offer an alternative to petroleum for powering our cars, but growing energy crops to produce them can compete with food crops for farmland, and clearing forests to expand farmland will aggravate the climate change problem. How can we maximize our "miles per acre" from biomass? Researchers writing in the online edition of the May 7 Science magazine say the best bet ... more India Using ESRI Software For Image Processing 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has reached an agreement with NIIT GIS Limited (ESRI India), ESRI's distributor in India, to equip its five Regional Remote Sensing Service Centres (RRSSCs) with ArcGIS Server and the Image extension. The centers in Jodhpur, Dehradun, Kharagpur, Nagpur, and Bangalore use Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite and other imagery to create thematic ... more Brazil drought staunches famed Iguazu falls 
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) May 7, 2009An acute drought in Brazil has hit the famed horseshoe-shaped Igauzu falls which straddle two countries, cutting back the tumbling waters to reveal the rocky sides. Only a third of the usual volume of water is now flowing over the top of the stunning falls, which were listed as a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1984 and border both Brazil and Argentina, Globo television said. At the foo ... more |
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Greenfield MA (SPX) May 07, 2009U.S. sales of organic products, both food and non-food, reached $24.6 billion by the end of 2008, growing an impressive 17.1 percent over 2007 sales despite tough economic times, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA), which has made available final results from its 2009 Organic Industry Survey. While the overall economy has been losing ground, sales of organic products reflect ... more 'Ghost fishing' major sea threat: UN report 
Nairobi (AFP) May 6, 2009Lost or discarded fishing nets can continue to catch fish for years and are a growing threat to the planet's marine ecosystem, according to a United Nations report released Wednesday. "The report estimates that abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear in the oceans makes up around 10 percent, (640,000 tonnes) of all marine litter," said a statement from the UN Environment Programme. ... more New And Improved Tomato Analyzer 
Wooster OH (SPX) May 07, 2009Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes, making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software. The Tomato Analyzer is "rapidly becoming the standard for fruit morphological characterizations," according to a study led by Marin Talbot Brewer of The Ohio State University's Department of Horticulture and Crop Science. Details of the team's latest Tomato Analyzer resea ... more Helping Agriculture Reduce Air Quality Emissions 
Davis CA (SPX) May 07, 2009Farmers and ranchers interested in reducing air quality emissions from off-road mobile or stationary agricultural sources are invited to apply between April 30 and June 26, 2009, for funds made available under a new air quality provision of the 2008 federal Farm Bill. "The primary goal of this new portion of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is to help farmers and rancher ... more German court rules against US biotech giant Monsanto 
Berlin (AFP) May 5, 2009US biotech giant Monsanto lost a court battle Tuesday against a move by Germany to outlaw a type of genetically modified maize manufactured by the firm seen as a danger to the environment. The administrative court in the central city of Brunswick denied the company an emergency injunction against the ban on MON 810 maize, which Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner introduced last month on enviro ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) May 05, 2009As people become more educated, studies have demonstrated that they tend to choose foods that are lower in calories but higher in nutrients. They also pay more. In a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, researchers from the University of Washington compared the eating habits and food costs of a sample of 164 adults in the Seattle, Washington area. ... more Fertilization Intensifies Competition For Light And Endangers Plant Diversity 
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 05, 2009When grasslands are fertilized their productivity is increased but their plant diversity is diminished. In the last 50 years levels of plant-available nitrogen and phosphorous have doubled worldwide. This additional supply of plant nutrients is predicted to be one of the three most important causes of biodiversity loss this century. The research, under the leadership of Professor And ... more Six-billion-dollar upgrade for Taiwan's sewers 
Taipei (AFP) May 4, 2009Taiwan Monday announced that it would spend more than 200 billion Taiwan dollars (six billion US dollars) on a six-year project to upgrade its sewerage systems. The project aims to divert wastewater from 35.77 percent of Taiwan's households for treatment before being released into the rivers and oceans, said the cabinet-level Construction and Planning Administration. Critics say Taiwan h ... more Indian Ocean buoys help predict monsoon: scientists 
Washington (AFP) May 4, 2009Scientists said Monday they had reached the halfway point in a project to set up buoys across the Indian Ocean, helping farmers predict the monsoon in some of the world's poorest areas. The buoys measure wind, rainfall, temperature and other figures around the Indian Ocean, which has lagged behind the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans in data collection. The international project, which began ... more RISAT Begins Sending Images: ISRO 
Kolkata, India (PTI) May 04, 2009The all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite (RISAT), launched on April 20, has begun sending images, a top official of Indian Space Research Organisation said here on Friday. "The RISAT has begun taking images since two days ago," ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair said on the sidelines of an interactive session with members of the Calcutta Chamber of Commerce. He said that the RISAT would ta ... more
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