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India's financial and entertainment capital is facing a 30 percent cut in water supplies, despite an overnight deluge of monsoon rains on Wednesday that left some streets and homes flooded. The civic authorities in Mumbai introduced the reduction on Tuesday as levels ran "precariously low" at the six lakes that supply the city's 18 million population with 3.3 billion litres ... read more 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Freshwater fish are an important part of the diet of many peoples around the world, but it has been unclear when fish became an important part of the year-round diet for early humans. A new study by an international team of researchers, including Erik Trinkaus, Ph.D., professor of anthropology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, shows it may have happened in China ... more
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L'Aquila, Italy (AFP) July 8, 2009G8 leaders are to draw up "best practice" guidelines over the leasing of African farmland by foreign countries and corporations, according to a draft communique seen by AFP Wednesday. "We will work with partner countries and international organisations to develop a joint proposal on principles and best practices for international agricultural investment," said the draft Development and ... more 
Sydney (AFP) July 8, 2009An Australian town was set to ban bottled water on Wednesday over concerns about its environmental impact, in what is believed to be a world first. Bundanoon, a picturesque rural town with a population of just 2,000, was expected to vote heavily in favour of the move with a show of hands at a public meeting later. "At the moment we've got a lot of community support behind it. ... more  
Hanoi (AFP) July 6, 2009At least 22 people died and 13 others went missing in weekend storms that pummelled mountainous northern Vietnam, the government's disasters office said on Monday. The worst of the damage occurred in the province of Bac Kan, where 13 of the total number of dead perished, said the National Flood and Storm Control Committee. Flash floods "swept away everything in their path," the newspaper ... more 
Beijing (AFP) July 6, 2009At least 20 people have died and more than 670,000 had to be evacuated in China after torrential rain and floods destroyed houses, damaged roads and caused rivers to overflow, state media said Sunday. The fatalities occurred over several days of relentless heavy rain in the centre and south of the country, also leaving another five people missing, according to Xinhua news agency. ... more |
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Madrid (AFP) July 5, 2009Climate change, which could transform the Iberian peninsula into a semi-desert, is forcing winemakers in Spain to consider moving their vines to higher ground to escape the blistering heat. Spain, which has more hectares (acres) of vineyard than any other country in the world, "is in the frontline of climate change," said Juan Francisco Cacho, a wine expert at the University of Zaragoza. ... more 
Madison WI (SPX) Jul 03, 2009Creating consumer markets for forest-grown products, reducing nonpoint source pollution, protecting waterfowl habitat, diversifying farm operations-these are just a few of the ways agroforestry is moving to the forefront of the land-use discussion in North America. A new edition of "North American Agroforestry: An Integrated Science and Practice," published by the American Society of ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2009Most of the world's acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual "hunger season," according to an article published this week in open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hunger season is the time of year when the previous year's harvest stocks have dwindled, food prices are high, and jobs are scarce, and is often under recognized. ... more 
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 2, 2009 After years of wrangling, Turkey last month increased the water flow of the Euphrates River into Iraq by 50 percent, helping to boost agricultural harvests. But Iraq, wracked by a decadelong drought and a rundown agricultural sector, still faces a chronic shortage of water because Turkey controls the headwaters of the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, which rise in the Anatolian Plateau ... more |
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