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Pelletized Manure Reduces Toxic RunoffMadison WI (SPX) Nov 19, 2010 There is considerable amount of uncertainty concerning the environmental impacts that animal hormones have on surface water. Higher concentrations of hormones in waterways have been found to cause physiological and sexual impairment in fish and other aquatic species. However, a study from the University of Delaware that examined estrogen concentrations runoff from agricultural fields fertilized with chicken manure found that it is as much about the application of the manure as it is about the meas ... read more |
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  UN-SPIDER Opens Beijing Office The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) set up its first office in China Tuesday in a bid to promote international cooperat ... more | .. |
 Algosolar Launches Bioponica Algosolar has launched Bioponica, a 10'x4' table with 120 gallon fish tank is designed to convert waste into produce. The design and method was conceived by partners David Epstein, D.O. a holistic o ... more | .. |
 Satellites Tracking Mt Merapi Volcanic Ash Clouds Since its latest series of deadly eruptions, Java's Mt Merapi has been spewing volcanic ash clouds into the air. Satellite data are crucial for assessing the eruption's danger to air traffic and pub ... 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 |
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 African Dust Caused Red Soil In Southern Europe Spanish and American researchers have conducted a mineralogical and chemical analysis to ascertain the origin of "terra rossa" soil in the Mediterranean. The results of the study reveal that mineral ... more | .. |
 Detroit's Urban Farms Could Provide A Majority Of Produce For Local Residents 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 far ... more | .. |
  Catastrophic Drought Looms for Capital City of Bolivia Catastrophic drought is on the near-term horizon for the capital city of Bolivia, according to new research into the historical ecology of the Andes. If temperatures rise more than 1.5 to 2 de ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 Enhancing Sustainable Development Of Earth From monitoring vanishing glaciers to the accounting of forestry, hydropower and mining assets as steps to boost sustainable development here on Earth, the power of satellite remote sensing plays an ... more | .. |
 Faster Flood Forecasting At SERVIR-Africa In September 2010, SERVIR Science Coordinator Dr. Ashutosh Limaye made his first journey to the SERVIR-Africa node at the Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development, or RCMRD, in Nairo ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 Italian activists call for stop to water privatisation Italian activists called for an immediate moratorium on the privatisation of water supply services in Italy on Friday, ahead of UN-backed talks on climate change in Cancun later this month. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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