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Medvedev hints at end to Russia grain export banMoscow (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 President Dmitry Medvedev Monday said Russia's ban on grain exports would be lifted once it had worked out how much it has harvested, in an apparent contradiction of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Putin said last week Russia would not lift a ban on grain exports before next year's harvest, extending the major world producer's embargo until at least mid-2011. But on a visit to the southwestern city of Voronezh, one of Russia's main grain producing regions, Medvedev said: "As for the embargo on gr ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 02, 2010An unmanned aircraft system guided by satnav has been developed within ESA's Business Incubation Centre to provide rapid monitoring of land areas and disaster zones. The planes have already helped Spanish farmers in Andalusia to fight land erosion. The German start-up company MAVinci has developed the new system that uses autonomous micro-air vehicles (MAVs) with a wingspan of less than tw ... more  
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 31, 2010Every year, the world is treated to several well-known meteor showers. The Leonids, Draconids, Perseids and others usually get mentioned in the mainstream media, giving the general public a taste of just how much material flies at our planet from space. The predictable, regular showers are produced by debris from the tails of comets, and astronomers have been able to link certain events to ... more  
Rome (AFP) Sept 1, 2010Pakistani farmers are in desperate need of wheat seeds for the next sowing season after floods devastated much of the country's farmland and seed stock, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday. "Unless people get seeds over the next few weeks they will not be able to plant wheat for a year," said Daniele Donati, director for FAO emergency operations in Asia, the Middle E ... more |
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The Face Of The EarthBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 30, 2010 For a month now, we have been acquiring altitude models with the TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X satellite pair. Already, over 1000 products have come out of our operational processing chain. Alongside many test images, some of the data also give an insight into how humankind has shaped the surface of the Earth - and how the highs and lows around them have determined the course of their lives. Many of the interferometric images created over the last few weeks have used test data acquired over flat areas t ... read more |
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