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Detroit's Urban Farms Could Provide A Majority Of Produce For Local ResidentsEast Lansing MI (SPX) Nov 17, 2010 Transforming vacant urban lots into farms and community gardens could provide Detroit residents with a majority of their fruits and vegetables. As city officials ponder proposals for urban farms, a Michigan State University study indicates that a combination of urban farms, community gardens, storage facilities and hoop houses - greenhouses used to extend the growing season - could supply local residents with more than 75 percent of their vegetables and more than 40 percent of their fruits. ... read more |
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 Change In Temperature Uncovers Genetic Cross Talk In Plant Immunity Like us, plants rely on an immune system to fight off disease. Proteins that scout out malicious bacterial invaders in the cell and communicate their presence to the nucleus are important weapons in ... more | .. |
 New Research Changes Understanding Of C4 Plant Evolution A new analysis of fossilized grass-pollen grains deposited on ancient European lake and sea bottoms 16-35 million years ago reveals that C4 grasses evolved earlier than previously thought. Thi ... more | .. |
 Biochemistry Of How Plants Resist Insect Attack Determined Many plants, including crops, release volatiles in response to insect attack. The chemical compounds can be a defense or can be an aromatic call for help to attract enemies of the attacking insect. ... more | .. |
  Chile mulls water pipeline for arid north Chile is working on a $3.85 billion plan to pipe freshwater to its arid north as part of a government strategy to stimulate social and economic development in the region. ... more |
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 Storm-hit St. Lucia banana growers need months to recover The banana industry in Saint Lucia and the Windward Islands could need more than six months to fully recover from a hurricane that devastated the key export earner, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17 The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. There is always some uncerta ... more | .. |
  Volcano buries Indonesian farmers' savings Indonesian farmer Ari Sutikno was a month away from harvesting his rice crop when Mount Merapi volcano buried it - and his family's income - under a layer of hot ash. ... more | .. |
 Beijing to melt snow to address water shortage Beijing will collect and melt snow this winter in a bid to quench the water shortage that has plagued the Chinese capital for years, state media reported Friday. ... more |
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 Arabs face severe water crisis by 2015 Lebanon, once considered to have an abundance of water, is threatened with acute shortages as the Arab world lurches toward severe water scarcity as early as 2015. ... more | .. |
Large land deals a threat to farmers: U.N. Large-scale acquisitions of agricultural land and expansion of biofuel feedstock crops are driving farmers deeper into poverty and hunger, U.N. studies showed. ... more | .. |
 Russia, Japan, China firms in billion dollar fertiliser deal Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday oversaw the signing of a one-billion-dollar deal with Japanese and Chinese firms for a fertiliser plant, despite diplomatic tensions with Tokyo. ... more | .. |
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 Leaking Underground CO2 Storage Could Contaminate Drinking Water Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help fight climate change could bubble up into drinking water aquifers near the surface, driving up levels of contaminants in the water tenfold ... more | .. |
 Gene Discovery Suggests Way To Engineer Fast-Growing Plants Tinkering with a single gene may give perennial grasses more robust roots and speed up the timeline for creating biofuels, according to researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Poli ... more | .. |
  In Greece's fallow fields, solar energy stirs The son and grandson of farmers, Spyros Papathanassiou spends most of the day overseeing his family olive press and winery in the outskirts of Asopia, a village northeast of Athens. ... more |
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 Robust Methods For GMO Detection Ready At Hand A new Reference Report published by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) lists 79 reference methods for GMO analysis which have been validated according to international standards. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Launch Global Scheme To Boost Rice Yields While Reducing Damage To Environment One of the world's largest global scientific partnerships for sustainable agricultural development has launched a bold new research initiative that aims to dramatically improve the ability of rice f ... more | .. |
  GPS IIF-1 Introduces A Host Of New Capabilities For Users There's no satellite system that touches so many lives in so many ways around the world like the Global Positioning System. From finance to farming, from ATMs to UAVs, from rescue missions to shoppi ... more |
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 NASA Study Quantifies Role Of Melt In Loss Of Old Arctic Sea Ice Since the start of the satellite record in 1979, scientists have observed the continued disappearance of older "multiyear" sea ice that survives more than one summer melt season. Some scientists sus ... more | .. |
 Invasive grass threatens U.S. grazing land An invasive species of "devil" weed in range lands in the western United States could make millions of acres of grazing land worthless, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Go For Getz And A South Pole Flyover On Nov. 4, 2010, the DC-8 flew over South Pole Station, a research station at Earth's geographic South Pole, before heading back to IceBridge's mission base in Punta Arenas, Chile. Credit: Digital M ... more | .. |
 Study launched to boost rice production A $600 million global scheme to boost rice yields was announced in Hanoi Wednesday. ... more |
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