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Modeling The Fiery Past And Future Of Planet EarthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2010 Wildfires may seem like a fixed and unchanging force of nature. They're not. Over long time scales, research has shown that both the climate and humans have a profound effect on wildfire activity around the globe. Now new NASA research shows that while we have been suppressing this natural force for the past century, we may be, inadvertently, about to put nature back in control. Charcoal layers in sediments and methane concentration in ice cores show that the amount of global burning can flu ... read more |
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  Human Activities Overload Ecosystems With Nitrogen Humans are overloading ecosystems with nitrogen through the burning of fossil fuels and an increase in nitrogen-producing industrial and agricultural activities, according to a new study. While nitr ... more | .. |
 Pacific Island Crop Varieties Highly Vulnerable Hoping to save the vulnerable varieties of bananas painted by the artist Paul Gauguin, rare coconuts, and 1,000 other unique varieties of staple fruit and vegetable crops across the Pacific, crop sp ... more | .. |
 Can Naturally Raised Beef Find Its Place In The Industry As consumer demand for naturally raised beef continues to increase, researchers at the University of Illinois have discovered that naturally raised beef can be produced effectively for this niche ma ... more | .. |
  Electrified Nano Filter Promises To Cut Costs For Clean Drinking Water With 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 u ... more | .. |
 Earth's Deep Water Cycle Theory Needs Revision A 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 ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 25, 2010Russia will lift a ban on flour exports on January 1, 2010, while the export embargo on grain will continue, Russian news agencies reported Monday, citing a government decree. The decree, issued October 20 but published Monday, lifts a ban on exports of wheat and wheat-and-rye flour. But it extends a ban on grain exports until June 30, 2011, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. Firs ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2010The United States on Monday awarded Jordan a 275-million-dollar grant to improve water distribution and wastewater collection in the northeastern city of Zarqa. The money was granted under the US-run Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) which helps developing countries reduce their levels of poverty as long as they meet performance criteria on the rule of law and democratic principles. ... more 
Turin, Italy (AFP) Oct 26, 2010Was it a back to the future moment? Chefs and farmers gathered in northern Italy urging a revolution in global eating habits by returning to the common sense that guided farmers of old. "You shouldn't go over the river to get what you have on your side," cautioned Gunnar Karl Gislason from Iceland. He was one of dozens of chefs at the Salon of Taste in Turin, an international food fest ... more |
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London's fruit trees offer bountiful urban harvestLondon (AFP) Oct 25, 2010 An apple tree heavy with fruit hangs over the road from a private garden, unnoticed by passers-by until fruit pickers start the age-old harvest ritual - smack in the midst of London's urban jungle. Brandishing a long pole, Rupert Kenyon stretches to get the apples from even the highest branches while Marlene Barrett gathers them into a cart, to be sold or juiced. The city pickers' motivation is two-fold: partly in protest about tonnes of London fruit regularly left to rot, and partly out of env ... read more |
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