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Venice suffers worst flooding of yearVenice, Italy (AFP) Dec 23, 2009 Floodwaters drenched most of Venice on Wednesday, reaching a record 143 centimetres (56 inches) for the year, authorities said. Some 56 percent of Venice was under the water, caused by wind and rain combined with the lagoon city's periodic tidal phenomenon, a monitoring and forecasting centre said. The phenomon known simply as "acqua alta" (high water) was highest at around 5:00 am (0400 ... read more |
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Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP) Dec 17, 2009Weeks after a devastating flash flood, residents of Jeddah fear that further heavy rainfall could bring a huge, brimming reservoir of raw sewage cascading onto Saudi Arabia's Red Sea capital. Until the November 25 flood submerged homes and roads, killing at least 120 people, every day a line of tanker trucks made their way from Jeddah, a city of 2.6 million with almost no municipal sewerage ... more  
St. Helena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 21, 2009 Slowing the rate of delivery would reduce the amount of water lost in vineyards in California's Napa Valley, a Stanford researcher said. Using water efficiently is a priority in the Napa Valley, where summers are hot and dry and grapevines must be irrigated to thrive. Deep cracks caused by the natural shrinking and swelling of soil means that at least 10 percent of irrigation ... more 
Pittsburgh (UPI) Dec 18, 2009 A machine with computer vision could replace human workers in sorting strawberry plants, engineers in Pittsburgh said. To maintain good quality, commercial U.S. growers must replace several hundred million strawberry plants each year. To date, the plants have been sorted -- good from the bad -- by humans, engineers at Carnegie Mellon said in a release Thursday. The engineers have ... more |
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Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Dec 21, 2009Cetrel and Novozymes have announced a research partnership to turn sugarcane waste into green energy. Using Cetrel's know-how in waste-stream treatment and Novozymes' biotech expertise, the partners aim to enable sugar and ethanol production plants in Brazil to turn bagasse, the waste from sugarcane production, into biogas using enzymes. The biogas can be used to produce electricity for ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2009The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES, developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-P, arrived on Thursday, December 17 on a C-17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from its manufacturing plant in El Segundo, Calif. The GOES-P satellite is targeted to launch on February ... more  
Callicoon, New York (AFP) Dec 20, 2009After a lifetime struggling to make money from the land, New York farmer Bill Graby has discovered he's sitting on treasure -- possibly the biggest natural gas deposit in America. "It's like winning the lottery," says the 6.6-foot (two-meter) dairy farmer from the picturesque town of Callicoon in the Catskills hills. ... more |
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