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NASA Satellite Data Addresses Needs Of California GrowersMoffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2010 With the capability to provide valuable information about individual farm fields, vineyards and orchards, NASA satellites soon will provide California growers in the San Joaquin Valley with important information about crop growth, irrigation demands and forecasts, as well as imagery of their fields throughout the growing season. To support irrigation management decisions by agricultural producers, NASA has launched a project that uses the Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS), a sof ... read more |
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  A Positive Step In The Face Of Uncertainty Enormous uncertainty. These two words describe the condition of Phoenix's climate and water supply in the 21st century. Reservoirs have dipped to their lowest levels, continuous drought has plagued ... more | .. |
  Report: Humanity 'pushing' plant resources Humanity is pushing the Earth's plant resources harder as population continues to grow and countries develop modern economies, a NASA report says. ... more | .. |
 China move on beef 'disappointing': US Senator A leading US senator who has urged Beijing to reopen its markets to US beef said Thursday he was disappointed that high-level trade talks with China had only yielded an agreement to resume negotiations. ... more | .. |
 US Senators push for China action on beef Key US senators pressed China to open its markets to US beef within weeks after high-level trade talks in Washington yielded an agreement for fresh negotiations on the issue next year. ... more |
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German giants Bayer, BASF team up on GM rice German chemicals giants Bayer and BASF said Thursday they were teaming up to produce genetically modified rice seeds, technology than can boost yields but which is criticised by environmentalists. ... more | .. |
 Facebook face recognition finds friends in photos Facebook is using facial recognition software to let US users automatically identify friends in photos at the world's leading online social network. ... more | .. |
McDonald's to speed up China expansion American fast food giant McDonald's Corp. is planning its biggest expansion yet in China by opening up to 200 new restaurants across the country next year. ... more | .. |
 Hot With Decades Of Drought: Expectations For The Southwest An unprecedented combination of heat plus decades of drought could be in store for the Southwest sometime this century, suggests new research from a University of Arizona-led team. To come to ... more |
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 Cadillac Desert Withstands The Test Of Time And Technology In 1986, Marc Reisner published "Cadillac Desert: The American West and its disappearing water," a foundational work about the long-term environmental costs of U.S. western state's water projects an ... more | .. |
 Facebook intern maps world via online 'friends' A Facebook intern interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe has created a map of the world by sampling data from the social network's 500 million user base. ... more | .. |
 Decline Of West Coast Fog Brought Higher Coastal Temperatures Last 60 Years Fog is a common feature along the West Coast during the summer, but a University of Washington scientist has found that summertime coastal fog has declined since 1950 while coastal temperatures have ... more | .. |
 Freshwater Sustainability Challenges Shared By Southwest And Southeast Water scarcity in the western U.S. has long been an issue of concern. Now, a team of researchers studying freshwater sustainability in the U.S. have found that the Southeast, with the exception of F ... more |
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  Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday from about 0600 to 0800 GMT, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Wild seeds seen as world crop 'insurance' British scientists say they plan to collect wild plant relatives of essential food crops including wheat, rice and potatoes to preserve their genetic traits. ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellite Sees An Early Meteorological Winter In US Midwest NASA's Terra satellite captures daily visible and infrared images around the Earth and took a daytime image of a blanket of snow in the Upper Midwest this week. Even though astronomical winter is le ... more | .. |
  US southwest could see 60-year drought: study A worst-case scenario devised by US researchers shows that the American southwest could experience a 60-year stretch of heat and drought unseen since the 12th century. ... more |
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 Forgotten vines help wine makers fight climate change Grapes on the vine crave sunshine, but wine growers in France and elsewhere are starting to worry that global warming is giving them too much of a good thing. ... more | .. |
 No rice please, we're Indonesians Indonesia is one of the world's biggest producers - and consumers - of rice, but in the interests of public health and food sustainability the government has launched an ambitious drive to wean people off their beloved staple. ... more | .. |
 Redrawing The Map Of Great Britain Based On Human Interaction A group of researchers at MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used one of the world's largest databases of telecommunications records to redraw the map of Great Britain. The r ... more | .. |
 Plants Remember Winter To Bloom In Spring With Help Of Special Molecule The role a key molecule plays in a plant's ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists. Many flowering plants ... more |
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 New Discovery About How Flowering Time Of Plants Can Be Controlled Researchers at Umea Plant Science Center in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winte ... more | .. |
Argentine shepherds, farmers protect forests from soy A group of small farmers and shepherds in this northern Argentine town have been protesting the destruction of forests to make way for soy crops by routinely blocking a major highway. ... more | .. |
Shanghai halts sale of suspected 'dyed' oranges: report Shanghai authorities have ordered fruit vendors to stop selling oranges that have allegedly been dyed with a toxic wax, Chinese media said Friday, in the country's latest food safety scare. ... more | .. |
  Phones are a feminist issue in Bangladesh Dressed in a colourful sari, clutching boxes of herbal tea in one hand and a battered old Nokia mobile phone in the other, Monowara Talukder doesn't look like the average business executive. ... more |
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