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Egypt's fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate changeRosetta, Egypt (AFP) Jan 28, 2010 The Nile Delta, Egypt's bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import sand in a desperate bid to turn back the tide. Experts warn that global warming will have a major impact in the delta on agriculture resources, tourism and human migration besides shaking the region's fragile ecosystems. Over the last century, the Mediterranean Sea, which fronts the coast of the Nile Delta, has risen by 20 cen ... read more |
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Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Jan 26, 2010As agricultural land becomes increasingly valuable, the need to maximize its utilization increases and decisions about what crops to plant and where, become paramount. The sunflower family includes a number of valuable food crops, with sunflower seed production alone valued at about $14 billion annually. Yet the sunflower family is the only one of a handful of economically important plant ... more 
Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 26, 2010Parasitic wasps kill pest insects, but their existence has been largely overlooked by the public - until now. Four researchers from Arizona State University are among a consortium of 157 scientists (the Nasonia Genome Working Group) led by John Werren, a professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and Stephen Richards at the Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine, wh ... more 
New York NY (SPX) Jan 26, 2010Sustainable 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 ... more |
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DLR Scientists Support Relief Workers In Haiti Earthquake DisasterBonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 Following 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 on satellite data. At the moment, the researchers are focusing particularly on Port-au-Prince, the capita ... read more |
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