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Australia Must Have Better Plan For A Variable Water FutureCanberra, Australi (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 The delivery of sustainable water supplies in Australia will require water managers and engineers to factor in a range of predicted variations in climate and long-term demand for water resources, according to a CSIRO climate and water expert, Dr Francis Chiew. "With an expected decline in water availability in parts of Australia comes the need for more reliable quantification of historical and likely future water availability," Dr Chiew said in an address to the Practical Responses to Climate Chan ... read more |
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Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 11, 2010Transgenic corn's suppression of the European corn borer has saved Midwest farmers billions of dollars in the past decade, reports a new study in Science. Research conducted by several Midwest universities shows that suppression of this pest has saved $3.2 billion for corn growers in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin over the past 14 years with more than $2.4 billion of this total benefit ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 08, 2010Using data from several research satellites, scientists will spend the next three years trying to understand the climate impacts of about 770 million tons of dust carried into the atmosphere every year from the Sahara Desert. Some Saharan dust falls back to Earth before it leaves Africa. Some of it streams out over the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea, carried on the wind as far away as ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 08, 2010A unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe has sent more than 30 terabytes of free Earth science satellite data to South African researchers to support sustainable development and environmental applications in Africa. The data from one of the instruments on NASA's Terra satellite provide observations of Africa's surface and atmosphere, including vegetation structur ... more |
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All water life in Hungary's toxic river is dead: officialBudapest (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 The entire ecosystem of a small river in Hungary which is situated in the area affected by a deadly toxic mud spill, has been destroyed, a disaster relief chief said Thursday. "The entire ecosystem of the Marcal river has been destroyed, because the very high alkaline levels have killed everything," Tibor Dobson, head of the regional disaster relief services, told the Hungarian news agency MTI. "All the fish are dead and we haven't been able to save the vegetation either," he said. "We've t ... read more |
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