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Whales, Tuna And The Clash Of CivilizationsTokyo (RIA Novosti) Mar 23, 2010 On March 12, Pete Bethune, captain of the Ady Gil, an anti-whaling boat belonging to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, was arrested for illegally boarding a Japanese ship. The arrest was the logical outcome of Western environmentalists' war against Japanese whalers in the Antarctic this season. The Ady Gil collided with the Japanese whaling security ship Shonan Maru No. 2 in January. Later the environmentalists threw bottles of butyric acid at the whaling ship Yushin Maru No. 3. Japan claims ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 22, 2010El Nino 2009-2010 just keeps hanging in there. Recent sea-level height data from the NASA/European Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 oceanography satellite show that a large-scale, sustained weakening of trade winds in the western and central equatorial Pacific during late-January through February has triggered yet another strong, eastward-moving wave of warm water, known as a Kelvin wave ... more  
Amsheet, Lebanon (AFP) March 21, 2010Rose Hatem's home overlooks the Mediterranean and is just a short distance from one of Lebanon's longest rivers. But twice a week the 60-year-old has to buy water for her daily needs. "I have been buying in water since I moved here 14 years ago," Hatem told AFP in the picturesque village of Amsheet, north of the Lebanese capital Beirut. "In the summer, when demand is high, I'm often left wit ... more 
Paris (AFP) March 21, 2010Scientists said on Sunday they had made a nanotech device to strip salt from seawater, paving the way to small-scale or even battery-powered desalination for drought-hit regions and disaster zones. The tiny prototype is reported on the eve of the UN's World Water Day, which aims to highlight the worsening problems of access to clean water. Conventional desalination works by forcing water ... more |
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New variety of lentil is developedWashington (UPI) Mar 18, 2009 The U.S. Agricultural Research Service says it is getting ready to make public a newly developed variety of lentil called Essex. The service, a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, says Essex offers high seed yields for growers, nitrogen-fixing bacteria for wheat crops and a tasty source of protein for consumers to add to soups, salads and other fare. The lentil variety was developed by plant geneticist George Vandemark, who leads the ARS Grain Legume Genetics and Physiology Resea ... read more |
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