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Europe in a pickle over GM crops rulesBrussels (AFP) Sept 25, 2010 As America chews over a bid to market "Frankenfish" salmon, Europe wants to drop scientific objections from decisions about genetically modified crops in a move even its backers admit leaves a strange taste in the mouth. With the GM industry and its opponents each sharpening their legal claws, European nations will on Monday debate a proposed rule change that would allow officials to accelerate authorisations for 15 new transgenic crops while letting those who want to keep them off their territories ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 19, 2010China's state-owned Sinochem Group has asked the government to back a potential bid for Canada's Potash Corp, the world's largest fertiliser maker, local media reported Sunday. "Sinochem has submitted written material to relevant agencies in the government saying that potash (used to make fertiliser) is key to national food security, and hoping it can get support," the Economic Observer repo ... more 
Johannesburg (AFP) Sept 19, 2010South Africa produces too much maize. Its neighbours not enough. But rather than feeding its neighbours, South Africa's surplus maize may feed Chinese chickens, due to regional worries about genetically modified crops. South African farmers grew 13 million tonnes of maize in the harvest that ended around May. That included a surplus of four million tonnes, an excess that has pushed down priz ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2010The tropical Pacific Ocean has transitioned from last winter's El Nino conditions to a cool La Nina, as shown by new data about sea surface heights, collected by the U.S-French Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 oceanography satellite. This OSTM/Jason-2 image of the Pacific Ocean is based on the average of 10 days of data centered on Sept. 3, 2010. A new image depicts places w ... more |
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GOES-13's Family of Tropical Cyclones: Karl, Igor And JuliaGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2010 On September 15, three tropical cyclones were active in the Atlantic Ocean basin, two of them powerful Category Four hurricanes on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 satellite captured an image of Tropical Storm Karl and Hurricanes Igor and Julia in one image on Sept. 15 at 1445 UTC (10:45 a.m. EDT). At that time, Tropical Storm Karl (left) was making landfall in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Category 4 Hurricane Igor was spinning in ... read more |
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