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Asian wheat could strengthen U.S. wheatManhattan, Kan., April 2, 2009 Wheat species from Asia could aid in the U.S. fight against a blight that causes wheat to shrivel and turn chalky white, scientists in Kansas said. Fusarium graminearum fungi infects wheat heads, producing mycotoxins that reduce the kernels' value and quality. Wheat collected from Japan, China and South Korea contain anti-fungal genes that could increase resistance in U.S. wheat varieties, said Guihua Bai, a molecular plant biologist at the Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit in Man ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 29, 2009 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and several state health agencies are warning of an outbreak of campylobacteriosis associated with drinking raw milk. The FDA said at least 12 confirmed illnesses have been recently reported in Michigan. Symptoms of campylobacteriosis include diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever. The FDA said it is collaborating with health officials in Michi ... more  
Moscow (AFP) March 28, 2010Hundreds of people protested on Sunday in Moscow against the reopening of a factory environmentalists say will lead to waste being dumped into the world's oldest lake, a Greenpeace activist said. "The fate of (factory) workers must be decided while taking into account the fate of (Lake) Baikal - and not that of the oligarchs," Russian writer Valentin Rasputin said in a message read out duri ... more 
Qixingcun, China (AFP) March 29, 2010Peasant farmer Dong Guicheng wakes up every morning hoping for rain, but each day a crippling drought instead brings more disappointment and desperation. In a scene repeated by millions of people in a vast area of China's parched southwest, Dong treks daily to a dwindling reservoir to fetch scarce water for his walnut and chestnut trees, which have seen almost no rain for half a year. Hi ... more |
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NASA Study Finds Atlantic Conveyor Belt Not SlowingPasadena CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2010 New NASA measurements of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, part of the global ocean conveyor belt that helps regulate climate around the North Atlantic, show no significant slowing over the past 15 years. The data suggest the circulation may have even sped up slightly in the recent past. The findings are the result of a new monitoring technique, developed by oceanographer Josh Willis of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using measurements from ocean-observing sat ... read more |
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