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China begins moving 330,000 people for water projectBeijing (AFP) Aug 12, 2010 China has begun relocating 330,000 people as part of a massive project to divert water from the Yangtze River to the drought-prone north including the capital Beijing, state media said Thursday. The South-North Water Diversion Project is the country's largest relocation programme since the building of the Three Gorges Dam, which involved the relocation of 1.27 million people, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Authorities began moving the first 500 residents on Wednesday in central Hubei ... read more |
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Ames IA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010By planting switchgrass and using certain agronomic practices, farmers can significantly reduce the amount of nitrogen and nitrates that leach into the soil, according to Iowa State University research. Matt Helmers, associate professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering, and Antonio Mallarino, professor of agronomy, have been studying the amount of nitrates that pass through soil ... more  
Huntsville, Ala. (UPI) Aug 10, 2010 The annual Perseid meteor shower, which peaks this week, announced itself with a bright, streaking fireball over Alabama, observers said. NASA officials said a meteor just 1 inch wide lit up the sky while streaking through the Earth's atmosphere last week, The Christian Science Monitor reported Tuesday. Sky-watching cameras operated by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Hunts ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 10, 2010Envisat has been observing a rare event in the Arctic since early August - a giant iceberg breaking off the Petermann glacier in North-West Greenland. The Petermann glacier is one of the largest glaciers connecting the Greenland inland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean. Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating 'ice tongue'. Th ... more |
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New Zealand dairy backs product in China hormone scandalWellington (AFP) Aug 11, 2010 New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra said Wednesday it is "100 percent confident" in its milk supplies to a Chinese company under investigation over claims of tainted milk powder. Parents and doctors in China's Hubei province have expressed fears that hormones in milk powder produced by Synutra International have caused young girls to develop breasts prematurely. Synutra said the questionable milk powder was all imported from New Zealand. Fonterra confirmed in a statement that it supplied milk ... read more |
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