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Dog meat could come off Chinese menusBeijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 Dog and cat meat - age-old delicacies in China - could be off the menu in the food-loving nation under its first law against animal abuse, state press said Tuesday. People who eat either animal, both of which are viewed as promoting bodily warmth, would face fines of up to 5,000 yuan (730 dollars) and up to 15 days in jail if the law is passed, the Chongqing Evening News said. It said "organisations" involved in the practice would be fined from 10,000 to 500,000 yuan. The report gave no other ... read more |
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Stable Climate And Plant Domestication LinkedNew York NY (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 Sustainable farming and the introduction of new crops relies on a relatively stable climate, not dramatic conditions attributable to climate change. Basing their argument on evolutionary, ecological, genetic and agronomic considerations, Dr. Shahal Abbo, from the Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and colleagues, demonstrate why climate change is not the likely cause of plant domestication in the Near East. Rather, the variety of crops in the Near East ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 26, 2010Today's farmers are interested in wind energy because they're good managers; farming is all about maximizing profits and reducing risk. Wind energy does both. It's an additional, steady source of income that doesn't require extra work, a second crop that can be harvested without effort or significant use of land. Some people might believe because wind turbines are such large structures tha ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jan 25, 2010On 2 January, Mount Nyamulagira in the Democratic Republic of Congo erupted, spewing lava from its southern flank and raising concerns that the 100 000 people in the town of Sake could be under threat. Fears were also triggered in Goma as rumours circulated that an eruption was imminent at the nearby Nyiragongo volcano, which devastated the city in 2002. Following the eruption, scien ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2010Following the devastating earthquake on Haiti, relief organisations require rapid, reliable and meaningful information on the local situation, the state of the infrastructure and the extent of the damage for their deployment in the disaster zone. In this context, scientists from the German Aerospace Center are giving important support by providing free access to maps of the crisis region based o ... more |
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Five jailed for polluting Chinese city's water: reportBeijing (AFP) Jan 23, 2010 Five people have been jailed for spilling industrial waste into a drinking water source, causing the supply for a city of five million people to be cut off for a week, state media reported Saturday. Three petrochemical company managers in Huai'an, eastern China, hired two private contractors in February last year to empty waste into an irrigation ditch connected to the city's drinking water supply, Xinhua news agency said. Residents reported a strange smell coming from their taps, leading to an ... read more |
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