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Europe flooding toll hits 9 deadWarsaw (AFP) May 18, 2010 Flooding across central Europe caused more disruption with three more bodies found in Poland and Slovakia, taking the total death toll to nine, authorities announced Tuesday. In Poland, an eight-year-old boy drowned in the southern city of Krakow and the body of an 80-year-old woman was recovered Tuesday morning from a highland stream in the southern mountain resort of Zakopane. Five people have now been killed in the floods in Poland over the last three days, national fire brigade spokesman Paw ... read more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 17, 2010A new, less selective approach to commercial fishing is needed to ensure the ongoing productivity of marine ecosystems and to maintain biodiversity, according to a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. The paper, 'Ecosystem-based fisheries management requires a change to the selective fishing philosophy', was written by a team of authors l ... more 
Buenos Aires (UPI) May 14, 2010 Mercosur countries are inching toward winning European Union agreement to talk about an association agreement that runs counter to the wishes of Europe's heavily subsidized farmers. After protracted lobbying by member countries of the Latin American trade bloc - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay - the EU announced it would reopen talks that have remained suspended since 2004. ... more  
Stanford CA (SPX) May 17, 2010Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have identified a gene in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that might be important for ethanol production from plant material, providing insights into the bioethanol alternative to 'fossil fuels'. Combining new high-throughput genome sequencing technology with traditional genetic methods, this study highlights the previously unk ... more |
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EU envoy appeals against unilateral Nile-sharing dealCairo (AFP) May 13, 2010 A senior EU envoy urged seven east African countries on Thursday to settle differences with Egypt and Sudan over sharing the waters of the Nile river and refrain from signing a new deal on their own. Marc Franco, who heads the European Union delegation in Egypt, issued the appeal as Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda were expected to launch the signing on Friday of a new water-sharing deal. The agreement would replace a 1959 accord betweeb Egypt a ... read more |
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