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Australians are being urged to eat a camel to save the country's desert resources that are even scarcer because of continuing drought conditions. An academic from Charles Darwin University wants people to develop a taste for wild camel meat and dine on it at least once every two weeks, a report in the Courier Mail newspaper stated. This would cut down on the more than 1 million ... read more 
Baghdad (AFP) June 18, 2009Turkey has pledged to double the flow of water into the Euphrates river in Iraq over the summer by opening dam floodgates, one of Iraq's vice presidents said on Thursday. "Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi received this morning a verbal message from the office of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding increasing Iraq's water share," Hashemi's office said. It said that on ... more
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2009When a swarm of hundreds of small to moderate earthquakes erupted beneath California's Salton Sea in March, sending spasms rumbling across the desert floor, it set off more than just seismometers. It also raised the eyebrows of quite a few concerned scientists. The reason: lurking underground, just a few kilometers to the northeast, lays a sleeping giant: the 160-kilometer-(100-mile) long ... more  
Waterberg, Namibia (AFP) June 16, 2009The three cheetah cubs roll around in the grass, totally involved in their game, the two males wanting to play with the wooden log their little sister has snatched away from them. "They had a bad start in life as their heavily pregnant mother was shot," said Leigh Whelpton, a volunteer at the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia. "The farmer who killed it, noticed movement in the ... more 
Paris (AFP) June 17, 2009By mid-century, climate change may have outrun the ability of Africa's farmers to adapt to rising temperatures, threatening the continent's precarious food security, warns a new study. Growing seasons throughout nearly all of Africa in 2050 will likely be "hotter than any year in historical experience," reports the study, published in the current issue of the British-based journal Global ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2009No human is a clone of their parents but the same cannot be said for other living things. While your DNA is a combination of half your mother and half your father, other species do things differently. The advantage of clonal reproduction is that it produces an individual exactly like an existing one-which would be very useful for farmers who could replicate the best of their animals or crops ... more |
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Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 18, 2009Dairy genetics, nutrition, herd management and improved animal welfare over the past 60 years have resulted in a modern milk production system that has a smaller carbon footprint than mid-20th century farming practices, says a Cornell University study in the Journal of Animal Science (June 2009). "As U.S. and global populations continue to increase, it is critical to adopt management ... more 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 18, 2009Cornell's composting operation does more than turn food scraps and animal bedding into nutrient-rich compost: It reduces the university's total waste stream by half, making it Tompkins County's second largest recycler. For these efforts, Cornell's eight-acre composting facility received a 2009 Environmental Quality Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in April. Cornell ... more  
Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 17, 2009The interstellar stuff that became incorporated into the planets and life on Earth has younger cosmic roots than theories predict, according to the University of Chicago postdoctoral scholar Philipp Heck and his international team of colleagues. Heck and his colleagues examined 22 interstellar grains from the Murchison meteorite for their analysis. Dying sun-like stars flung the Murchison ... more 
Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Jun 16, 2009A new study by researchers from the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and the United Kingdom's Waen Associates has found that by 2050, hotter conditions, coupled with shifting rainfall patterns, could make anywhere from 500,000 to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to support even a subsistence level of food crops. ... more |
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