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One of the world's rarest deer has been found in a tiny patch of Philippines forest that is being cut down by farmers and loggers, according to a British-Filipino scientific expedition. The team said it "found fresh deer droppings, deer tracks and evidence of feeding activity" by the Visayan spotted deer during the group's three-week sortie into Mount Mandalagan in the north of Negros island ... read more 
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2009Soil moisture is essential for seeds to germinate and for crops to grow. But record droughts and scorching temperatures in certain parts of the globe in recent years have caused soil to dry up, crippling crop production. The falling food supply in some regions has forced prices upward, pushing staple foods out of reach for millions of poor people. NASA researchers are using satellite data ... more
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Reykjav�k, Iceland (SPX) May 29, 2009The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE from scientists at the University of Iceland and Marine Research Institute in Reykjavik provides insights into possible mechanisms of the collapse of fisheries, due ... more 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) May 29, 2009As global food demand grows and fuel prices keep its rising prices, fertilizers industry face new challenges driven by new trends like environmental regulations and concerns, raising organic products demand and high transport costs. The study analyses the following: Argentinean Fertilizers Classification, fertilizers market growth, market forecast, drivers and restraints, and competitive ... more 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2009The U.S. soybean crop is suffering nearly $2 billion in damage a year due to rising surface ozone concentrations harming plants and reducing the crop's yield potential, a NASA-led study has concluded. The study, presented at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly meeting, May 24 in Toronto, is based on five years of soybean yields, surface ozone, and satellite measurements of tropos ... more 
Columbia MO (SPX) May 29, 2009A plant's immune system protects the plant from harmful pathogens. If the system overreacts to pathogens, it can stunt plant growth and reduce seed production. Now, University of Missouri researchers have identified important suppressors that negatively regulate the responses of the immune system in the plant species Arabidopsis thaliana. Understanding the immune system of plants would all ... more |
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Geneva (AFP) May 26, 2009Heavy rains and flooding have displaced 10,000 people and killed 28 in Tajikistan over the past month, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Tuesday. A month of non-stop rain damaged over 2,000 buildings, drowned 3,000 livestock and wiped out 40,000 hectares (98,840 acres) of crops, said Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for OCHA. Tajikistan's government ... more  
Beijing (AFP) May 26, 2009Hundreds of angry tea farmers attacked a police station in southern China after rumours spread that one man had been killed in custody for fighting for farmers' rights, state media said Tuesday. The attackers damaged the station in Guangdong province with stones and bricks and set police vehicles on fire in Saturday's incident, the China Daily said of the latest in a string of attacks on ... more 
Paris (AFP) May 25, 2009Climate change is widening viral disease among farm animals, expanding the spread of some microbes that are also a known risk to humans, the world's top agency for animal health said on Monday. The World Animal Health Organisation -- known as OIE, an acronym of its name in French -- said a survey of 126 of its member-states found 71 percent were "extremely concerned" about the expected impac ... more 
Baghdad (AFP) May 24, 2009Turkey has increased the flow of water in the Euphrates river by opening sluices upstream after Iraq complained its farmers faced an imminent crisis, Iraq's water resources minister said on Sunday. Turkey has increased the volume of water running through the Euphrates by 130 cubic metres (4,550 cubic feet) per second to 360 (12,600) although the extra flow will bring only limited relief to ... more |
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