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Floods kill 25, wreck homes in French RivieraDraguignan, France (AFP) June 17, 2010 Rescuers combed wrecked cars and homes for bodies on the French Riviera on Thursday after the worst floods in two centuries killed 25 people including a two-year-old, authorities said. Authorities in the Var, a popular holiday region, raised the death toll to 25 on Thursday from an earlier count of 22 after the floodwaters engulfed streets in torrents of mud and drove people onto the roofs of their homes. A two-year-old child died after falling into the flood water as a family scrambled to escap ... read more |
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The value of rivers and wild food resources to Aboriginal people is the focus of new research that will help transform water management on Cape York in northern Queensland. The project is an innovative partnership between CSIRO and the Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resource Management Office in the Mitchell River delta. Kowanyama Aboriginal lands cover over 4000 square kilometres, ... more 
Ames IA (SPX) Jun 16, 2010Two years into a study looking at methods of combining a living cover crop between corn rows shows that yield can be maintained at high levels using environmentally friendly practices. Researchers are testing between-row cover grasses as part of research looking at ways to reduce soil runoff and keep vital nutrients in the soils while crop residue, called stover, is removed from farm field ... more 
Hong Kong (AFP) June 15, 2010Two of Hong Kong's richest tycoons will each buy almost 130 million US dollars worth of Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering, which could be the world's biggest. Li Ka-shing, head of conglomerate Cheung Kong Holdings, and Lee Shau-kee, chief of property giant Henderson Land, have signed on as cornerstone investors, each scooping up a billion Hong Kong dollars (128 million US) ... more |
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High Yield Crops Keep Carbon Emissions LowPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 The Green Revolution of the late 20th century increased crop yields worldwide and helped feed an expanding global population. According to a new report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, it also has helped keep greenhouse gas emissions at bay. The researchers estimate that since 1961 higher yields per acre have avoided the release of nearly 600 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. "That's about 20 years of fossil fuel burning at present rates," say ... read more |
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