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'Red Mud' Disaster's Main Threat To Crops Is Not Toxic MetalsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2011 As farmers in Hungary ponder spring planting on hundreds of acres of farmland affected by last October's red mud disaster, scientists are reporting that high alkalinity is the main threat to a bountiful harvest, not toxic metals. In a study in the ACS journal Environmental Science and Technology, they also describe an inexpensive decontamination strategy using the mineral gypsum, an ingredient in plaster. Erik Smolders and colleagues note that a dam burst at a factory processing aluminum o ... read more |
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  GOES-13 Satellite Sees Groundhog's Day On Ice Punxsutawney Phil predicted that spring will come on time, and NASA satellite data suggests that residents in more than one-third of the U.S. are now anxious for the prediction to come true. A ... more | .. |
  Sugar prices fall back from 30-year peak Sugar prices fell back Thursday from a 30-year peak reached a day earlier as cyclone Yasi prepared to strike Australia, the dollar weakened and oil prices extended gains above $100, analysts said. ... more | .. |
  Drought threatens 2 million people in Somalia: UN Drought in Somalia is threatening two million people, the vast majority living in zones controlled by radical Islamist insurgents where it is impossible to send aid, a UN official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
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  Amazon's double dry spell worries scientists A pair of unusually severe droughts have parched the Amazon in recent years, raising concern about the rainforest's future as a major absorber of carbon emissions, said a study on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Innovation Of The Week: Giving Farmers A Reason To Stay While the coast of The Gambia is a popular-and economically thriving- tourist destination for European vacationers, the inland portion of the country provides little means for young men to make a li ... more | .. |
 Australia cyclone could cost farming at least $500 million A huge cyclone that was Wednesday set to slam into Australia's agricultural heartland could wipe half a billion dollars from its sugar industry and decimate the nation's banana crops, growers said. ... more | .. |
Tiger mauls Indonesian plantation worker to death A rare Sumatran tiger attacked and killed a man on southern Sumatra island, a conservationist said on Friday, underlining the growing problem of human-animal conflict in Indonesia. ... more |
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China's low-altitude economy takes flight across multiple industries
China's satellite network group advances Beidou-internet integration
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 'Armchair' archaeologist sees Saudi sites An Australian researcher says he's found many potential archaeological sites in Saudi Arabia - from his office in Perth, using satellite images from Google. ... more | .. |
 Rain In Spain Is On The Decline A study led by the University of Zaragoza (UNIZAR) has studied precipitation trends in Spain's 10 hydrological basins over the 1946 to 2005 period. The results show that precipitation has declined o ... more | .. |
UN hopes for fast ratification of biodiversity treaty The UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity said Friday it hopes a global treaty on the harvesting of genetic resources will be ratified by early 2012. ... more | .. |
Australian agriculture faces massive storm bill Flood-ravaged Australia was facing up to Aus$800 million in crop losses after a horror cyclone smashed through key banana and sugar farms, threatening inflation and exports, analysts said. ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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Russia's Burevestnik: A Nuclear-Powered Missile That Defies Convention
China hails coming of 'multipolar world' ahead of Trump-Xi talks
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 Two Rivers Water Company Acquires Orlando Reservoir And Associated Water Rights Two Rivers Water Company has announced it has acquired the Orlando Reservoir and associated surface flow water rights in Huerfano County, Colorado. The Orlando Reservoir has an absolute decree ... more | .. |
  Terrified Australians await cyclone fury Anxious families hunkered silently on the floor of a makeshift shelter, pets and a few precious belongings around them, waiting for dreaded Cyclone Yasi to unleash its terrible fury. ... more | .. |
China's drought could have serious global impact Wide swathes of northern China are suffering through their worst drought in 60 years - a dry spell that could have a serious economic impact worldwide if it continues much longer, experts say. ... more | .. |
Japan researchers collect wild eel eggs for first time Japanese researchers have collected eel eggs from the wild for the first time ever, shedding light on the mystery surrounding the spawning habits of the fish. ... more |
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Study: Bees can follow sun on cloudy days Bees can navigate using the sun even on cloudy days using clues from polarized light to determine the hidden sun's position, Australian researchers say. ... more | .. |
India's crops affected by erratic climate A number of India's key crops are experiencing the effects of climate change, experts say. ... more | .. |
 More Frequent Drought Likely In Eastern Africa 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 Pa ... more | .. |
Plant gene work could benefit food crops New findings on how plants adapt to unfavorable conditions could one day be used to help food crops survive changing environments, a U.S. researcher says. ... more |
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Orion spacecraft prepared for lunar mission as stacking with SLS rocket achieved
Flight Readiness Achieved for CarbSAR Mission With SSTL and Oxford Space Systems
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More Africa droughts as global temps rise The increased frequency of drought conditions in Eastern Africa for the last 20 years is likely to continue while global temperatures rise, researchers say. ... 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 | .. |
 Smaller Rows Contribute To More Soybean Yields In Colder Climates Soybean production has continued to increase in the Northeast United States with more and more first time growers planting the crop and many experienced growers planting alongside corn crops. To sav ... more | .. |
 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 |
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China goes rabbit-crazy for Lunar New Year In stews, as pets or adorning shop windows, rabbits are ubiquitous as millions of Chinese mark the Lunar New Year, hoping for a more tranquil time ahead as the old Year of the Tiger roars its last. ... more | .. |
 Notre Dame Biologists Call For Regulation Of Rare Plant Sales People are increasingly obtaining endangered or threatened plants, often illegally, and moving them outside their native range, according to an article in the journal Nature by Patrick Shirey and Ga ... more | .. |
Iraq water shortages raise ethnic tensions A worsening water shortage in Iraq is raising tensions in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, where Arab farmers accuse the Kurdistan region of ruining them by closing the valves to a dam in winter. ... more | .. |
 Traffic Monitoring With TerraSAR-X/TanDEM-X Satellite Constellation Traffic monitoring from space, day and night, from more than 500 kilometres up above; is that possible? Indeed it is! In fact, it has been demonstrated several times in the past - once with the Shut ... more |
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