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Philippines, Norway vaults play key roles in rice diversityLos Banos, Philippines (AFP) Oct 24, 2010 In a greenhouse near the Philippine capital, botanists grow strange grasses that bear tiny seeds which are promptly flown to a doomsday vault under Norway's Arctic permafrost. The Norway deliveries are just the newest facet of a decades-old effort by more than 100 countries to save the world's many varieties of rice which might otherwise be lost. A fire-proof, quake-proof, typhoon-proof gene bank set up by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines in 1962 now holds 115, ... read more |
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  Palestinians urge water strategy Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayaad on Friday called on the international community to help find a solution to the difficult access to water in the occupied territories. ... more | .. |
  Prototype NASA Earth Camera Goes For Test Flight A team of researchers and collaborators from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences in Tucson has successfully conducted the ... more | .. |
 TanDEM-X And TerraSAR-X Imaging Etna While Flying In Formation The TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X satellite pair have acquired their first image of Earth's surface, synchronised to the microsecond, while flying over Mount Etna in Italy. Scientists at the German Aerosp ... more | .. |
 No cloned steaks on EU plates The European Union on Tuesday announced plans for a five-year ban on animal cloning for food production as well as a traceability system for imports of semen and embryos of clones. "Cloning for ... more | .. |
 Yale Scientist Helps Pinpoint Threats To Life In World's Rivers The food chain - the number of organisms that feed on each other - in the world's streams and rivers depends more upon the size of the stream and whether the waterways flood or run dry than the amou ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2010With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills up to 98 percent of disease-causing bacteria in water in seconds without clogging. A report on the technology appears in Nano Letters, a monthly American Chemical Society journal. Yi Cui an ... more  
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 20, 2010Canadian fertilizer cartel Canpotex on Wednesday announced a deal to supply China's Sinofert with 3.15 million tonnes of potash over three years, for an estimated 2.2 billion US dollars. Sinofert said in regulatory filings in Hong Kong that it would pay no more than 600, 730 and 870 million US dollars for the potash in each of the three years, respectively. The actual price to be paid fo ... more 
Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2010A popular view among geophysicists is that large amounts of water are carried from the oceans to the deep mantle in "subduction zones," which are boundaries where the Earth's crustal plates converge, with one plate riding over the other. But now geophysicists led by the University of California, Riverside's Harry Green, a distinguished professor of geology and geophysics, present results t ... more |
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Insight Into Volcanic Eruptions, Courtesy Of SpaceParis, France (ESA) Oct 19, 2010 Scientists are crediting satellite imagery with helping to predict where volcanic eruptions could strike. It is well known that earthquakes can stress Earth's crust and trigger subsequent quakes, but there has been no proof of this for volcanoes until now. In September 2005, a volcanic event in Ethiopia's Afar Desert forced magma up through rocks in a crack, known as a dyke, resulting in a 60-km-long tear in Earth's crust. Over the next four years, 12 more dykes were created in the same region nea ... read more |
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