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Animal activists in Shanghai rescued 300 cats from a dealer who was planning to sell the allegedly stolen pets to restaurants in southern China, a participant said Monday. The activists, acting on a tip-off from a cat lover, found 22 bamboo cages full of cats in a freight yard, from where they were to be shipped to Guangdong province, Lai Xiaoyu, 34, who was part of Friday night's rescue, to ... read more
Beijing (UPI) Jun 29, 2009 China's wheat harvest is set to grow for the sixth year in a row despite an earlier drought and recent torrential rains, the Ministry of Agriculture said. Around 90 percent of the estimated 122.5 million tons has been harvested, the ministry told national media outlets. Harvesting has finished in the provinces of Yunan, Sichuan, Hubei, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and the city of ... more
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Heavy rain, snow disrupts transport in Spain Washington slaps fee on plastic shopping bags Vietnam says parched Red River at record low Philippine volcano darkens New Year for 50,000 villagers Shocked residents survey Australia wildfire wreckage Honduras declares state of emergency amid drought Residents flee terrifying Australian wildfires Sarkozy scrambles to salvage carbon tax Thrill-seeking tourists flock to Philippine volcano 
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Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 30, 2009Scania has sold 85 ethanol-powered articulated buses to Busslink, operator of bus services for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL), the regional public transport company in the Swedish capital. "A continued commitment to ethanol power is consistent with SL's decision to buy only buses that operate on renewable fuels starting in 2010," says Leif Nystrom, who is in charge of bus and coach sales ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 29, 2009The GOES-O satellite lifted off from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:51 p.m. EDT atop a Delta IV rocket. From a position about 22,300 miles above Earth, the advanced weather satellite will keep an unblinking eye on atmospheric conditions in the Eastern United States and Atlantic Ocean. The GOES-O weather satellite is on its own following a successful ... more  
Baghdad (AFP) June 28, 2009Turkey 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 ... 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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X-MAT introduces X-FOAM: A game-changing ceramic foam for extreme environmentsOrlando, FL (SPX) Dec 01, 2025 X-MAT has announced the release of X-FOAM, a 1,300°C ceramic foam engineered for use in harsh environments demanding high thermal insulation and structural performance. ... more  
Bible 1.0: How Ancient Canon Became Our First Large Language ModelsSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2025 Modern large language models are treated as something radically new: vast statistical machines trained on almost everything humans have written, and able to regenerate knowledge on demand. Yet in structural terms, humanity has worked with something similar for millennia. ... more 
Digital twin successfully launched and deployed into spaceDavis CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2025 A dynamic digital twin designed by UC Davis researchers was launched into Earth's orbit last week aboard a SpaceX rocket. The innovation, which will model the current condition and predict the futur ... more
  
AI advances robot navigation on the International Space StationStanford CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2025 Imagine a robot about the size of a toaster floating through the tight corridors of the International Space Station, quietly moving supplies or checking for leaks - all without an astronaut at the c ... more 
Indian dance mudras yield advanced synergies for robotic hand controlLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2025 Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County extracted building blocks from precise hand gestures in Bharatanatyam, a classical Indian dance form. Their analysis revealed a richer set ... more 
MIT engineers design an aerial microrobot that can fly as fast as a bumblebeeBoston MA (SPX) Dec 05, 2025 In the future, tiny flying robots could be deployed to aid in the search for survivors trapped beneath the rubble after a devastating earthquake. Like real insects, these robots could flit through t ... more
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Madison WI (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) losses from tile drains are an underquantified portion of the terrestrial carbon cycle. This is particularly important in the eastern corn belt where tile drainage dominates the agricultural landscape. Specific land management practices, such as manure application, can play a large role in the export of DOC as soluble organic carbon is applied to or injected ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2009According to the most recent report on the status of the world's fisheries by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, fisheries supply at least 15% of the animal protein consumed by humans, provide direct and indirect employment for nearly 200 million people worldwide and generate $US85 billion annually. This same report indicates that 28% of the world's fisheries stocks are ... more 
Prague (AFP) June 25, 2009Severe floods after torrential downpours killed six people in the Czech Republic, emergency services said on Thursday. Hundreds of people were evacuated and houses swept away by rising floodwaters in the east of the country, where authorities have declared a state of emergency. Several villages were cut off on Thursday. A 55-year-old woman was swept away by a swollen river at Novy Jicin ... more 
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated surface and groundwater and helped create massive "dead zones" in coastal areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico. And ammonia from fertilized cropland has become a major source of air pollution ... more |
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OPERA satellite data sharpens US crop and water management
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