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Over 3,900 substandard milk collection stations have been shut down in China following a contamination scandal last year that left at least six children dead, state media said Wednesday. Song Kungang, head of the China Dairy Industry Association, said authorities had inspected all the nation's 20,393 milk stations between November 2008 and April this year, the official Xinhua news agency ... read more
Paris (AFP) June 2, 2009Genetically-engineered crops and conventional crops would have to be grown in segregated areas to meet environmental concerns about transgenic farming in Europe, agricultural scientists said on Tuesday. The so-called Co-Extra report, a four-year research project funded by the European Commission, aims at giving expert guidance into the controversy over engineered crops in the European Union ... more
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Harrisburg PA (SPX) Jun 04, 2009A new vegetable and herb garden at the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence highlights the possibilities of home gardening as a means to help families cope with tighter household budgets, Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said today. "Growing your own food is a great way to cut costs and experience the satisfaction of growing nutrient-rich fresh fruits and vegetables," said Wolff. "From our ... more  
Washington (AFP) June 3, 2009Google on Wednesday expanded "Google Flu Trends," its online tool for tracking influenza outbreaks, to Australia and New Zealand. Google said it had built a flu model for the state of Victoria by working with its own search data and historical flu data from the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. "We then extrapolated this model to produce flu models at a national and ... more 
Paris (AFP) June 3, 2009The cattle industry is the biggest driver of destruction of the Amazonian rain forest, Greenpeace said on Wednesday, in a report that called for trade and financial retaliation against illegal ranchers. In a report timed to coincide with UN talks on climate change, the campaign group said clearance of the Amazon had helped give Brazil the world's largest cattle sector and made it the world's ... more 
Rome (AFP) June 3, 2009Aid to farmers in poor countries could help curb greenhouse gas emissions affecting climate change and reduce poverty and hunger for some billion people worldwide, the UN food agency said Wednesday. "If agriculture in developing countries becomes more sustainable... and becomes more resilient against the impact of climate change, this should help to reduce the number of currently around one ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jun 02, 2009Large bombardments of meteorites approximately four billion years ago could have helped to make the early Earth and Mars more habitable for life by modifying their atmospheres, suggests the results of a paper published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta. When a meteorite enters a planet's atmosphere, extreme heat causes some of the minerals and organic matter on its outer crust ... more 
Washington (AFP) May 29, 2009Officials in the eastern US state of Maryland have come up with an innovative, cost-saving way to protect the environment: they use goats to mow the grass. The State Highway Administration came up with the novel idea while building an 85-million-dollar road bypass near the town of Hampstead, northwest of Baltimore, after it found that the construction site was home to bog turtles, the ... more 
Salt Lake City (UPI) May 28, 2009 The U.S. government says a Utah law setting permissible selenium levels in the Great Salt Lake is illegal because it violates a treaty on migratory birds. The Utah standard of up to 12.5 parts per million in mallard eggs would kill about 10 percent of the birds before they hatch, The Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday. The current level in the lake is about 2.7 parts per million. ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) May 29, 2009ESA's next Earth Explorer, SMOS, has recently passed the all-important Flight Acceptance Review, signifying that all the elements that make up the mission are in place for launch later this year. The satellite can now be prepared for its journey to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The Flight Acceptance Review is a formal procedure to ensure that all the mission elements are in ... more |
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