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Race against time in flood-swept Polish townSandomierz, Poland (AFP) May 20, 2010 Where residents only days ago trod the streets of the southern Polish town of Sandomierz, rescue workers criss-crossed the floodwater in small metal boats Wednesday, scrambling to evacuate 4,000 people. "The dykes gave way at 3:00 am (0100 GMT) this morning and the evacuation kicked off shortly afterwards," Wieslaw Kulig, a volunteer fire-fighter in the community of 25,000, told AFP. Like other locations across a swathe of southern Poland, Sandomierz - a picturesque Renaissance-era town on the ... read more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 19, 2010Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 19, 2010 A new CSIRO report will help ensure the delivery of maximum ecological benefits from water allocations in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB). Funded by the National Water Commission, the report; Ecological Outcomes of Flow Regimes in the Murray-Darling Basin, provides information that will assist water managers to improve and justify delivery of environm ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 18, 2010The United States Tuesday closed off a large chunk of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing as fears a giant oil slick could be swept to Florida's beaches and coral reefs overshadowed progress in stemming the spill. The cautionary closure, totaling 45,728 square miles (118,530 kilometers) - around 19 percent of the Gulf's federal waters - was announced as politicians in Washington raged over the a ... more  
West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 18, 2010Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a Purdue University researcher has reported finding evidence that North Korea has been logging in what is designated as a protected United Nations forest preserve. Guofan Shao, professor of geo-eco-informatics, studies the Mount Paekdu Biosphere Reserve, a 326,000-acre forest preserve in North Korea. Since many researchers are unable to visit Nor ... more |
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Atrazine Is The Main Weapon Against Weeds In Sweet CornUrbana-Champaign IL (SPX) May 18, 2010 Life without atrazine would complicate weed management in corn, especially for sweet corn growers. A study at the University of Illinois looked at 175 sweet corn fields in the Midwest to find out just how important this 50-year-old, broad-spectrum herbicide is in sweet corn grown for processing. "If the use of atrazine was phased out completely, our data indicate the greatest burden would be on those growers who rely on less tillage for weed control, have particularly weedy fields, have early seas ... read more |
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