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China to invest 30 billion dollars in water saving projectsBeijing (AFP) Dec 25, 2010 China plans to invest 30 billion dollars on water conservation projects in 2011 to reduce the impact of natural disasters on grain production, state media said Saturday. The report comes after severe flooding and droughts across the country this year destroyed crops and drove up food prices, pushing inflation to its highest level in more than two years in November. The investment - up 10 percent on year - would go towards improving irrigation and projects to combat weather-related disasters, t ... read more |
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 Waterways Contribute To Growth Of Potent Greenhouse Gas Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, has increased by more than 20 percent over the last century, and nitrogen in waterways is fueling part of that growth, according to a Michigan State Universit ... more | .. |
 Recreating Colonial Hydrology Hydrologists may have a new way to study historical water conditions. By synthesizing present-day data with historical records they may be able to recreate broad hydrologic trends on a regional basi ... more | .. |
  Goji Berries Have A Significant Placebo Effect A University of Granada professor specialist in Nutrition explained that the species Lycium Barbarum - currently imported from China - comes from the Mediterranean regions and grows in other mild re ... more | .. |
 France rediscovers its forgotten wines Bernard Plageoles' eyes flash with anger as he describes a largely futile 30-year struggle to dissuade fellow vintners from ripping up the now rare grape varietals that once defined this historic wine region. ... more |
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Jailing China food activists has 'chilling effect': UN envoy Convicting food safety whistleblowers in China has a "chilling effect" on other activists, a UN envoy said Thursday, after the November jailing of a man who campaigned for victims of a tainted milk scandal. ... more | .. |
Bangladesh's once plentiful rivers run low on fish Bangladesh's rivers have provided for fisherman Rafiqul Islam's family for generations but a few years ago the 27-year-old noticed his nets were coming up empty. ... more | .. |
Honeybee virus may threaten wild cousins Eleven species of wild pollinators in the United States have turned up carrying some of the viruses known to menace domestic honeybees, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile The expected emergence of a new state in southern Sudan following a January independence referendum is causing alarm in Cairo because the signs are the infant state will join other African countries battling Egypt for a greater share of the Nile River's waters. ... more | .. |
South Korea fights foot-and-mouth outbreak South Korea says it will begin vaccinating livestock to stem an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that has forced the destruction of thousands of animals. ... more | .. |
New Zealand blocks Hong Kong firm's farm bid New Zealand on Wednesday blocked a Hong Kong firm's bid to buy a bankrupt dairy farm group in a proposal which sparked heated debate about foreign land ownership. ... more | .. |
 Bioethics Commission Calls For Enhanced Federal oversight In Field of Synthetic Biology The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues has released its first report-a wide-ranging review of the emerging field of synthetic biology - issuing 18 recommendations including a ... more |
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 Australians buy cows and sheep with a mouse Buying sheep and cattle in Australia used to be a tough business - drovers would herd livestock thousands of kilometres across the hot and remote Outback for auction. Now ranchers can buy a herd with just a few clicks of a mouse from the comfort of a tractor cab. ... more | .. |
 Chavez, farmers square off over land seizure Scores of farmers in western Venezuela squared off with the military at road blocks Monday, saying they would rather die than have President Hugo Chavez turn their land over to thousands of homeless flood victims. ... more | .. |
  Satellites Give An Eagle Eye On Thunderstorms It's one of the more frustrating parts of summer. You check the weather forecast, see nothing dramatic, and go hiking or biking. Then, four hours later, a thunderstorm appears out of nowhere and rui ... more | .. |
 Plant Consumption Rising Significantly As Population And Economies Grow Humans are consuming an increasing amount of the Earth's total annual land plant production, new NASA research has found. As the human population continues to grow and more societies develop m ... more |
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 NASA Satellite Data Addresses Needs Of California Growers 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 importan ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying t ... more | .. |
US water has large amounts of likely carcinogen: study A US environmental group has found that drinking water in 35 American cities contains hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen, The Washington Post reported Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Unstable Antarctica: What's Driving Ice Loss Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using data from Earth observing satellites and airborne science missions, scienti ... more |
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 Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided," said Dr. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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