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More Frequent Drought Likely In Eastern AfricaSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2011 The increased frequency of drought observed in Eastern Africa over the last 20 years is likely to continue as long as global temperatures continue to rise, according to UC Santa Barbara scientist Park Williams. The new research, published in Climate Dynamics, indicates that more drought poses increased risk to millions of people in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, who currently face potential food shortages. "Forecasting precipitation variability from year to year is difficult, and research on ... read more |
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  Fishy Consequences Of Transplanting Trout, Salmon, Whitefishes Not all trout are created equal. Those swimming up the streams of British Columbia might resemble their cousins from Quebec, yet their genetic makeup is regionally affected and has an impact on how ... more | .. |
 Slowly but surely, Bordeaux vineyards go organic Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. ... 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Bulgaria sets first annual bear hunting quota Bulgaria's environment ministry set an annual brown bear hunting quota for the first time on Thursday, following a decades-long ban on killing the protected animals. ... more | .. |
  UN says Pakistan still in emergency after floods The United Nations Thursday said Pakistan is still in emergency mode six months after monsoon flooding ravaged the country and that $1 billion was still needed to help the 20 million people affected. ... more |
  
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 Call for halt to pesticides in bee deaths Pesticides implicated in widespread bee deaths should be discontinued in Britain pending scientific evidence about their effects, U.K. politicians were told. ... more | .. |
 First-Ever Global Map Of Surface Permeability Informs Water Supply University of British Columbia researchers have produced the first map of the world outlining the ease of fluid flow through the planet's porous surface rocks and sediments. The maps and data, ... more | .. |
 Immersive Data Collection And Peer Networks Key To Effective Watershed Councils Community watershed councils can establish a social infrastructure that facilitates successful science-based management by participating in data collection and forming neighborhood peer networks, ac ... more | .. |
 Wheat Resistance Genes Failing, New Approach Needed To Stop Flies Many of the genes that allow wheat to ward off Hessian flies are no longer effective in the southeastern United States, and care should be taken to ensure that resistance genes that so far haven't b ... more |
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  Australians face flood recovery tax Australia unveiled a flood tax on higher earners Thursday as Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the deluge would shave 0.5 points off GDP in fiscal 2010 and cost Aus$5.6 billion for recovery. ... more | .. |
 Battling Superweeds With Less Chemicals They pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they've been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen. They are "superweeds" - undesirable plants ... more | .. |
 China's demand for desalination lags 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. ... more | .. |
 Nailing Down A Crucial Plant Signaling System Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cel ... more |
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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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 New Anglo-Swiss Research Questions Impact Of GM Wheat On Insects An Anglo-Swiss research project has found that the impact of disease-resistant genetically-modified wheat plants on insects may be negligible. Many studies have looked at the effects of geneti ... 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 |
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 World needs global food system overhaul: report The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050. ... more | .. |
 China drought threatens water supplies: state media A months-long dry spell across northern China is threatening drinking water supplies and crops, and more bone-dry conditions are expected, state media said Monday. ... more | .. |
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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
  Russia Launches Meteorological Satellite Russia launched on Thursday a Zenit-3SB rocket carrying a meteorological satellite from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said. "The launch was carried ... more | .. |
 NASA's Glory Mission Will Study Key Pieces Of Climate Puzzle Earth's climate continues to change at a rapid pace. Last week, NASA announced that 2010 was tied as the warmest year on record. Likewise, the last decade was the warmest in the 130-year global temp ... 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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