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When Albert Quek first moved into his home on the top floor of an eight-storey apartment block, he agonised about the limited space he had to pursue his passion for gardening. All he had was a one-square-metre (10.8-square-foot) balcony, barely large enough for his wife to sun the laundry, let alone for him to nurture a garden. Then he had a brainwave. "Why don't I do something verti ... read more
Cairo (AFP) June 5, 2009An animal welfare charity warned Egypt on Friday that its mass slaughter of pigs following the outbreak of swine flu risked damaging its lucrative tourism industry. The UK-based Compassion in World Farming, which coordinates a network of 34 animal welfare groups in 27 countries, said "the most horrific methods" had been used to kill 160,000 pigs in Egypt, including dumping them in mass ... more
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Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Members of the Pure Salmon Campaign coalition, a diverse group of stakeholders from key farmed salmon production and consumption nations including Canada, Chile, Scotland, Ireland and the United States, have urged Marine Harvest to eliminate its destructive environmental impacts by separating farmed fish from wild fish populations and finding new sources for fish feed. Marine Harvest is ... more 
Hampton VA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Rising surface ozone concentrations are damaging nearly $2 billion in annual U.S. soybean crops, a NASA study of satellite measurements indicates. The study, headed by NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was presented at the American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly meeting, May 24 in Toronto and looked at five years of soybean yields, surface ozone and satellite measurements of ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2009Elements of the soy industry have agreed to take a milestone step toward improving their production practices, which have led to widespread deforestation, displacement of small-farmers and indigenous peoples, and loss of natural habitats. On Thursday, participants in the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) unanimously agreed to implement a pilot program of voluntary production standards ... more 
Monterey CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2009U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish was recently featured at The Monterey Bay Aquarium's annual Cooking for Solutions, an event that celebrates sustainable, earth-friendly seafood products. The Catfish Institute, the marketing arm of the U.S. Farm-Raised Catfish industry, has been a sponsor of the event for the last three years. Over the course of this year's event more than 12,000 people were able ... more |
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Sacramento CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2009The E-Fuel Corporation, joined by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, will unveil the final production model of the E-Fuel MicroFueler, the world's first home ethanol system, at the California State Capitol. The MicroFueler, a household appliance-sized unit that creates ethanol fuel (E-Fuel100) from organic waste, is revolutionizing the green fuel industry. Since the prototype ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2009The image from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite shows the area around the Italian town of L'Aquila after the magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck on 6 April 2009. Two images from the satellite were combined for the picture, taken before and after the earthquake, to create an interferogram. The 'coloured rings' around L'Aquila stand out. These rings represent, in colour coding, the ground m ... more 
Guildford, UK (SPX) Jun 04, 2009DMC International Imaging has won a 100,000 euro contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to demonstrate the value of its coordinated multi-satellite optical imagery for tropical forest monitoring in Indonesia. There is an urgent need for the monitoring of global forests with varying spatial resolutions and regularity, and Earth Observation techniques can make a major contribution. Up ... more 
Beijing (AFP) June 3, 2009Over 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 ... more |
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