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 Baghdad (AFP) June 28, 2009 
Turkey has increased by more than 50 percent the flow of the Euphrates river to Iraq, the Iraqi water resources ministry said on Sunday, in a timely boost for agriculture. "Turkey increased the flow of the Euphrates today to 570 cubic metres (20,000 cubic feet) a second (m3/s) and we hope that our Turkish neighbours continue to increase water levels to guarantee irrigation for our agriculture ... read more 
Prague (AFP) June 28, 2009One man was killed and some 380 people were forced to flee their homes overnight as more flooding swept through the Czech Republic, police said Sunday. Firefighters overnight evacuated several villages and two holiday resorts near Strakonice and Prachatice in the southwest, which has been hit with heavy rainfall. The one fatality was a 47-year-old man whose body was found late Saturday ... more
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Madison, Wis. (UPI) Jun 26, 2009 Food and energy demand will soar in the coming years because of population growth, says a U.S. report that urges more investment in global agriculture. The report, by Deutsche Bank and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, says the population growth will sharply increase demand for food, fiber and fuel. "We are at a crossroads ... more  
Phnom Penh (AFP) June 28, 2009Lightning strikes killed five people in Cambodia in a single day, a local newspaper reported Sunday. Two people were killed in Kampot province, in Cambodia's south, while three were killed in the central provinces of Kampong Chhnang and Kampong Speu, according to the newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea Daily. It said four of the victims, all killed on Friday, were farmers working in the fields ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the decade since NASA's QuikScat satellite and its SeaWinds scatterometer launched in June 1999, the satellite has measured the wind speed and wind direction of these powerful storms ... more 
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009Infoterra has completed an oil slick mapping and interpretation project of offshore Seychelles in collaboration with Seychelles Petroleum Company (Seypec). This is the largest slick mapping project ever undertaken of offshore Seychelles - with the acquisition of over 150 radar satellite scenes across the 500,000 km2 area - the project was undertaken during April and May to take advantage ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Without the process of domestication, humans would still be hunters and gatherers, and modern civilization would look very different. Fortunately, for all of us who do not relish the thought of spending our days searching for nuts and berries, early civilizations successfully cultivated many species of animals and plants found in their surroundings. Current studies of the domestication of ... more 
Bogota, Colombia (UPI) Jun 25, 2009 Cocaine production in Latin America fell last year because of declining demands in global markets, tougher law enforcement, and shifting trends in the production and consumption of narcotics. Cooling markets have also led to a reduction in the value of the coca leaf -- the raw ingredient in the production of cocaine -- causing some farmers to stop growing the crop. The downturn ... more 
Tallahassee FL (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Reductions in the flow of the Apalachicola River have far-reaching effects that could prove detrimental to grouper and other reef fish populations in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to a new Florida State University study that may provide new ammunition for states engaged in a nearly two-decade water war. The Florida State researchers found that in years with low river flow, the ... more  
Memphis TN (SPX) Jun 26, 2009The University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Buckeye Technologies, and Myriant Technologies have announced plans for a research and demonstration plant that will explore ways to harness byproducts from some of the most promising cellulosic ethanol techniques to make environmentally friendly versions of petroleum products. The plant is to be located at Buckeye's ... more |
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