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China's demand for desalination lagsBeijing (UPI) Jan 25, 2011 China's major desalination project in Tianjin, while seen as necessary to ease water shortages, hasn't generated the expected demand for the desalinated water since operations started there last April, The Guardian newspaper reports. The main drawback is the high cost of the water. Desalinated water costs $1.22 a cubic meter, compared with $0.75 for normal Tianjin water. Even though cheaper water sources in China - pumped from rivers, lakes and aquifers - are rapidly depleting from dec ... read more |
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 EU warns of stricter controls after German dioxin scare EU health commissioner John Dalli warned Monday that bloc-wide new measures are needed over and above German moves aimed at preventing a repeat of a damaging dioxin poisoning scare in farm produce. ... more | .. |
 New Crop Of Plant Scientists Emerges At CSIRO Some of Australia's top science and engineering students have begun a ten-week, hands-on work experience program at CSIRO Plant Industry's research facilities in Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Nar ... more | .. |
 Water pacts 'could bring Mideast peace' Water scarcity in the Middle East can be the catalyst for reducing, rather than causing, conflict in the volatile region, a Beirut think tank says in a report that urges a major "paradigm shift" in how regional states view the problem of dwindling water resources. ... more |
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 Japan to cull 410,000 chickens to fight bird flu Japan will cull around 410,000 chickens at a major poultry farm in western Miyazaki prefecture to tackle an outbreak of bird flu, an official said Sunday. ... more | .. |
Japan culls chickens in key poultry farming area Japan began slaughtering thousands of chickens on Wednesday in the country's largest poultry farming area to fight an outbreak of bird flu, a local official said. ... more | .. |
Farmland seizures spark sharp divide in Venezuela Farmers whose land is being taken away by the government of Hugo Chavez are gearing up for a struggle to keep their properties in fertile western Venezuela, a stronghold for the opposition. ... more | .. |
 Toward Controlling Fungus That Caused Irish Potato Famine Scientists are reporting a key advance toward development of a way to combat the terrible plant diseases that caused the Irish potato famine and still inflict billions of dollars of damage to crops ... more |
  
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 China earmarks $303 bn for safe water: report China plans to invest $303 billion in water infrastructure projects over the next five years that would give millions of rural residents access to safe drinking water, state media reported. ... more | .. |
 Philippines rice 2010 farm output hit by weather Rice output in the Philippines, the world's largest importer of the grain, fell last year as the country's farms were hit by a drought and typhoons, the agriculture ministry said Friday. ... more | .. |
  China farmers to get $15 bn subsidies amid drought China says it had earmarked about $15 billion in subsidies for millions of farmers who have been hit by a severe drought that has driven prices as the government tries to battle inflation. ... more | .. |
  From fire to flood for Australia's farmers Marshall Rodda weathered Australia's decade-long drought, but as he recovers from record-breaking floods the seasoned farmer can't help thinking that when it rains, it pours. ... more |
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  St. John, US Virgin Islands Part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, the island of St. John incorporates both a land-based national park and a sea-based national monument. First established in 1956 and later expanded by the U.S. Congr ... more | .. |
 Rising food prices spell trouble for Arabs Rising food prices, which triggered the downfall of the Tunisian regime and rioting in Algeria, threaten further trouble across the Middle East and North Africa, a region heavily dependent on food imports. ... more | .. |
 3D Model Of Ionosphere F-Region The first global simulation study of equatorial spread F (ESF) bubble evolution using a comprehensive 3D ionosphere model, SAMI3, has been demonstrated. The model self-consistently solves for the ne ... more | .. |
 Flooding In Brisbane Suburbs This detailed astronaut photograph illustrates flooding in suburbs of the Brisbane, Australia metropolitan region. The Brisbane area experienced catastrophic flooding following unusually heavy rainf ... more |
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 Choosing Organic Milk Could Offset Effects Of Climate Change Wetter, cooler summers can have a detrimental effect on the milk we drink, according to new research published by Newcastle University. Researchers found milk collected during a particularly p ... more | .. |
 Climate change could boost crops in US, China A global population explosion combined with the steady effects of climate change are forecast to create a worldwide food shortage in the next 10 years, but the news isn't all bad for some countries. ... more | .. |
 Germany moves to head off more dioxin food scares The German cabinet approved a package of measures on Wednesday aimed at preventing a repeat of this month's damaging scare over dioxin poisoning in farm produce. ... more | .. |
 ISRO Ready To Provide Satellite Images Of Sabarimala India's premier space agency ISRO has offered to provide to the Kerala government satellite pictures of Sabarimala area for taking measures to prevent disasters like the stampede that claimed 102 li ... more |
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 Purdue Wraps Up Livestock Emission Study, Starts Number Crunching Purdue University researchers have delivered data to the Environmental Protection Agency on a two-year National Air Emissions Monitoring Study that gives a look at air quality on and around livestoc ... more | .. |
 Gene maps could yield new grape varieties U.S. researchers say the future of wine-making hinges on developing news varieties of grapes and maps of the grape genome can help. ... more | .. |
 GM Chickens That Don't Transmit Bird Flu Developed Chickens genetically modified to prevent them spreading bird flu have been produced by researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh. The scientists have successfully developed ge ... more | .. |
 Gene Helps Plants Use Less Water Without Biomass Loss Purdue University researchers have found a genetic mutation that allows a plant to better endure drought without losing biomass, a discovery that could reduce the amount of water required for growin ... more |
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 Food Prices Insulate Agriculture Sector From Wider Economy Woes Much of the U.S. economy has been slow to recover from the recession. That hasn't been true of farmland markets, which have continued to climb, a group of Purdue University agricultural economists s ... more | .. |
 NASA Research Finds 2010 Tied For Warmest Year On Record Global surface temperatures in 2010 tied 2005 as the warmest on record, according to an analysis released Wednesday by researchers at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. ... more | .. |
 Lake Erie Hypoxic Zone Doesn't Affect All Fish The Same Large hypoxic zones low in oxygen long have been thought to have negative influences on aquatic life, but a Purdue University study shows that while these so-called dead zones have an adverse affect ... more |
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 Raytheon Climate-Monitoring Sensor Prepares for Launch A NASA spacecraft carrying a Raytheon-built sensor designed to measure the global distribution of aerosols in Earth's atmosphere has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in preparation for ... more | .. |
 Walker's World: The U.S., China and food Of all the geopolitical and geoeconomic issues that the Chinese and American presidents will discuss in their Washington summit this week, the looming world food crisis isn't on the agenda. It should be because, each in its own way, these two countries share a massive responsibility. ... more | .. |
 World is 'one poor harvest' from chaos, new book warns Like many environmentalists, Lester Brown is worried. ... more | .. |
 Russia To Launch Ocean Satellite In March Russia will launch an oceanography satellite in March to keep track of a vast amount of data that will help improve weather, climate and ocean forecasts, a Russian scientist said on Wednesday. ... more |
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