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Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) May 12, 2009The challenge of meeting future water needs under the impacts of climate change and rapidly growing human demands for water may be less bleak than widely portrayed a team of Swedish and German scientists says. If the overall water resources in river basins were acknowledged and managed better, future food crises could be significantly reduced, say researchers from Stockholm Resilience Cent ... more CARE Recieves Grant For Sustainable Agriculture Program In Peru 
New York NY (SPX) May 12, 2009The ACE Group has announced that the ACE Charitable Foundation is making a three-year, $600,000 grant to CARE, one of the world's largest humanitarian aid agencies, to help create and support the Sustainable Andean Agriculture program in Peru. The program, designed by CARE, offers an innovative response to the global food crisis by training and organizing local farmers to increase the prod ... more Air Quality Funding Boost For California Agriculture 
Fresno CA (SPX) May 12, 2009Dave White, Chief of the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, enriched California's air quality resources by $5 million during his first visit to California as head of the national conservation agency. The additional money will bring to $20.9 million the funds NRCS in California is making available to help farmers and ranchers reduce air quality emissions from off-road mobile or ... more DuPont Agriculture Businesses Growing Strongly 
Wilmington DE (SPX) May 12, 2009Robust research and development product pipelines and local investments in business infrastructure will continue to fuel double-digit growth of the DuPont Agriculture and Nutrition business through 2013, said two DuPont leaders during an investors' Business Review Series here. James C. Collins, Jr., vice president and general manager - DuPont Crop Protection, and Daniel Glat, Pioneer regio ... more Leading Indicators Of Land Degradation In Abu Dhabi 
Washington DC (SPX) May 12, 2009Desert environments are characterized by poor vegetative cover, strong winds, dry, non-cohesive sandy soils, and hyper-arid conditions. In this context, the land resources of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the United Arab Emirates are subjected to various land degradation stresses, including wind erosion, salinization, waterlogging, landfilling, and overgrazing. To sustain the land resources ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) May 11, 2009NOAA and NASA officials announced Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co. Has been selected to build two satellites for NOAA's next generation geostationary satellite series, GOES-R. The new series, poised to begin launching in 2015, will double the clarity of today's satellite imagery and provide more than 20 times the information. A previous contract award was re-evaluated by NASA and ... more Defense Focus: The Age of Wars Part 7 
Washington (UPI) May 8, 2009 Small professional armies are much more popular for large, prosperous, secure nations and empires to run than massive conscript armies. That is why the army of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years was far smaller than the enormous citizen armies that the old Roman Republic was able to raise in earlier centuries from a seemingly limitless reservoir of sturdy yeoman farmers in the Italian peni ... more Virtual Earth gets 3D Photosynth views 
San Francisco (AFP) May 7, 2009Microsoft on Thursday enhanced its Virtual Earth online mapping service with Photosynth technology that melds pictures to create 3D views of places and spaces. The move allows businesses or government agencies to provide virtual tours of locations displayed online with 360-degree views. "The integration of Photosynth into Virtual Earth marks an important step in enabling businesses to us ... more 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 |
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Lincoln NB (SPX) May 08, 2009Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water - all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute. Humans have marveled for millennia at how water beads up and rolls off flowers, caterpillars and some insects, and how insects li ... more NASA Selects Northrop Grumman To Build Earth Science Instrument 
Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2009NASA's Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument. The cost-plus-award fee, incentive fee contract has a maximum value of $44.5 million over 10 years. Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems Sector will perform the ... more US Organic Sales Grow By 17.1 Percent In 2008 
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
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