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SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year In OrbitParis, France (ESA) Nov 04, 2010 One year ago, ESA's SMOS satellite was launched to improve our knowledge of the water cycle. We are now not only closer to understanding more about Earth, but the novel technology employed by SMOS is clearly demonstrating a new way of monitoring Earth from space. The Earth Explorer Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite was lofted into space in the early hours of 2 November 2009 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The next six months were spent commissioning the missi ... read more |
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  Don't put us on the Google map, says German village A day after a small town became the first in Germany to welcome Google's controversial Street View service with open arms and cake, a tiny northern village responded Wednesday with a resounding "nein." ... more | .. |
  Indigenous Colombians shun turtle meat to save dying species Indigenous Wayuu people living on South America's northernmost tip are dropping their age-old tradition of eating turtle meat as a main protein source because the reptile is dying out. ... more | .. |
  Alcatel-Lucent To Host Solar Power System For Bell Labs Global HQ In 1954, Bell Labs pioneered the development of solar power technology, creating solar panels able to support the telephone service of American farmers living off the electricity grid. More th ... more | .. |
  European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards This year's ESA Innovation Prize for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has been awarded to an application that uses satellites to detect river pollution. A separate prize supported by ES ... more |
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 How Lead Gets Into Urban Vegetable Gardens If you're a vegetable gardener in a lot of older cities, there's a fair chance you have a significant amount of lead in your soil. One common mitigation approach is to build a raised bed and fill it ... more | .. |
 Groundwater Threat To Rivers Worse Than Suspected Excessive groundwater development represents a greater threat to nearby rivers and streams during dry periods (low flows) than previously thought, according to research released by CSIRO. In a ... more | .. |
 Paradise Lost And Found At Ramat Ancient gardens are the stuff of legend, from the Garden of Eden to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with Heidelberg University in Germany, ha ... more | .. |
 Broadening Market Opportunities For Africian Livestock Farmers As agricultural leaders across the globe look for ways to increase investments in agriculture to boost world food production, experts in African livestock farming are meeting in Addis Ababa this wee ... more |
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 Large-Scale Fish Farm Production Offsets Environmental Gains Industrial-scale aquaculture production magnifies environmental degradation, according to the first global assessment of the effects of marine finfish aquaculture (e.g. salmon, cod, turbot and group ... more | .. |
 Envisat In Its New Home ESA's Earth-observing satellite Envisat has moved to a lower orbit in order to conserve fuel and extend its life by three years, and is once again delivering invaluable data to thousands of scientis ... more | .. |
Inuit to appeal EU seals ruling Canadian Inuit and sealers will appeal a European court's refusal to suspend a ban on the import of seal products in Europe, they said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Disappearing Lake Chad harming regional stability: PM The future of rapidly shrinking Lake Chad will have a profound impact on peace and security in central Africa and coordinated action is needed to save it, Chad's prime minister said on Friday. ... more |
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  Scientists Watch For A Hartley-2 Meteor Shower This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep Impact/EP ... more | .. |
 Hanging On For Dear Life Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 coastal residents in Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri La ... more | .. |
Master chocolatiers give green cocoa a boost From its chocolate factory in the French Alps, Stephane Bonnat's family has been nurturing ties with cocoa farmers around the world for over a century, and together they are now driving a green revolution. ... more | .. |
 Modeling The Fiery Past And Future Of Planet Earth 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 ar ... more |
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 Japan looks to ancient village wisdom to save biodiversity Four decades ago the oriental white stork became extinct in Japan, the victim of rapid industrialisation and modern farm practices and heavy pesticide use that destroyed its habitat. ... more | .. |
 Bulgarian parliament allows brown bear hunting Bulgaria's parliament approved changes to the hunting law Thursday to allow the killing of brown bears, although environmentalists had slammed the move as catering to the hunting lobbies. ... more | .. |
 Canadian seal hunters lose bid to lift EU import ban A European judge has refused to suspend a ban on the import of seal products in Europe, dealing a blow to Canada's Inuit hunters and fur traders, according to a ruling released on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 FTC ends inquiry into Google 'Street View' data collection The US Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it was ending its inquiry into the collection of private wireless data by Google's "Street View" mapping service. ... more |
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 Teen Sailor Meets NASA Team That Helped Saved Her Life It has been almost six months since 16-year-old Abby Sunderland's 40-foot vessel, Wild Eyes, was damaged in a storm, leaving her stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean. But now, she finally got ... more | .. |
 Introducing The A-Train Mention the "A-Train" and most people probably think of the jazz legend Billy Strayhorn or perhaps New York City subway trains - not climate change. However, it turns out that a convoy of "A-Train" ... more | .. |
UN starts wheat aid to 500,000 Pakistani farmers The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said it had begun large-scale distribution of wheat seed in Pakistan to 500,000 farming families affected by catastrophic floods earlier this year. ... more | .. |
 New index measures impact of fish farming on environment Researchers in Canada on Wednesday released the first scientific index designed to measure the impact of fish farming on the environment. ... more |
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