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New Insect Birth Control Strategy Zaps Cotton PestsTucson TX (SPX) Nov 09, 2010 Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of sterile moths has virtually eliminated of the world's most destructive cotton pests from Arizona. The novel control strategy, published in the Nov. 7 advance online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology, has allowed growers to maintain high cotton yields without spraying insecticides to cont ... read more |
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  Time For A Rain Dance In many areas of the world, including California's Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use "cloud seeding," a weather modification process designed ... more | .. |
 River Flows Across US Altered By Land And Water Management The amount of water flowing in streams and rivers has been significantly altered in nearly 90 percent of waters that were assessed in a new nationwide USGS study. Flow alterations are a primary cont ... more | .. |
  German police, activists gear up for nuclear showdown German police and protesters geared up Monday for the final journey of a shipment of 123 tonnes of nuclear waste that drew a wave of angry protests during its much-delayed trip from France. ... more | .. |
  Grasses Have Potential As Alternate Ethanol Crop Money may not grow on trees, but energy could grow in grass. Researchers at the University of Illinois have completed the first extensive geographic yield and economic analysis of potential bioenerg ... more |
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  Google Maps embroiled in Central America border dispute Costa Rica on Saturday stepped up pressure on international mediators to engage in its territory dispute with Nicaragua, after Google Maps was cited in an incident that saw the neighboring countries dispatch forces to their joint border. ... more | .. |
 Climate change hurting China's grain crop: report Climate change could trigger a 10 percent drop in China's grain harvest over the next 20 years, threatening the country's food security, a leading agriculture expert warned in comments published Friday. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Find That Evergreen Agriculture Boosts Crop Yields A unique acacia known as a "fertilizer tree" has typically led to a doubling or tripling of maize yields in smallholder agriculture in Zambia and Malawi, according to evidence presented at a confere ... more | .. |
 Expanding Croplands Chipping Away At World's Carbon Stocks Nature's capacity to store carbon, the element at the heart of global climate woes, is steadily eroding as the world's farmers expand croplands at the expense of native ecosystem such as forests. ... more |
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 China deal boosts Scottish whisky industry Scottish distillers were Sunday toasting an agreement between the British and Chinese governments which will ensure that only whisky made in Scotland can be sold as Scotch in China. ... more | .. |
  Did Earth Encounter Pieces Of An Alien Visitor Last Night Did Earth encounter pieces of an alien visitor last night? Apparently so! It appears tiny pieces of Comet Hartley 2 may have presented a spectacular and startling sky show across the country yesterd ... more | .. |
 Last Tango In Space Adding to their unique information from previous tandem missions, ESA's ERS-2 and Envisat satellites have been paired up again - for the last time. Data from this final duet are generating 3D models ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: The Eye Of Typhoon Megi The German Aerospace Center radar satellite TerraSAR-X looked right into the eye of Typhoon Megi while it was in the middle of the South China Sea. The image, acquired on 21 October 2010, shows the ... more |
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 Simulating A Century Of Agriculture Impact On Land And Water Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don't have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crop ... more | .. |
 Europe taking phosphates out of wash in water clean-up Europe took steps Thursday to ban phosphates from laundry detergents in little over a year in a bid to clean up its rivers, lakes and marine waters. ... more | .. |
 Syr Darya River Floodplain, Kazakhstan, Central Asia Central Asia's most important cotton-growing region is concentrated in the floodplain of the Syr Darya. The river was one of the farthest points reached by the ancient Greek leader Alexander of Mace ... more | .. |
 SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year In Orbit 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 i ... more |
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 Mississippi Foresters Anticipate Biomass Boost Mississippi tree farmers look forward to new biomass facilities in the state providing a new market for wood, according to an article published Saturday in the Clarion-Ledger. The Jackson, Mis ... 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 | .. |
 After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more | .. |
  UN urges aid to counter Djibouti's five year drought The United Nations on Wednesday launched an appeal for 38.9 million dollars in aid for 120,000 people struck by a five year drought in the east African state of Djibouti. ... more |
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 British watchdog says Google 'Street View' broke law Google committed a "signficant breach" of British law when its Street View cars grabbed personal data but the Internet giant will not be fined, the country's information commissoner said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
  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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