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China to spur rice output as drought shrivels wheatBeijing (AFP) Feb 9, 2011 China called Wednesday for higher rice output to offset damage to its wheat crop in the drought-stricken north and pledged $1 billion in spending to battle a problem the UN warned could be "very serious". The drought affecting large swathes of northern China is the worst in six decades in many areas and has left key grain-growing regions with no real rainfall in more than three months. At a meeting on Wednesday chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, the government decided to allocate funds to pay rice-g ... read more |
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 US trade chief urges Europe to open market to GM foods A top US trade official said she will bang down the door of the European Commission Thursday in a bid to break a longstanding impasse blocking the march of genetically-modified foods. ... more | .. |
  Water shortages to force Mideast cooperation: study A report for the Swiss and Swedish governments warned on Thursday that water shortages in the Middle East were so alarming that opposing camps in the region would have little choice but to cooperate. ... more | .. |
China PM vows to keep prices stable despite drought Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday his government was confident it could maintain grain supplies and keep prices stable as a severe dry spell in wheat-growing regions imperils the winter crop. ... more | .. |
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  Snows fall in north China, but drought to persist Light snow covered much of drought-hit north China on Thursday, but the welcome respite was unlikely to signal the end of a severe dry spell that has sparked UN warnings about the impact on crops. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Earth Data System Earns Praise If you're distributing 412 million data products in a year to more than 1.1 million users, how do you ever make sure people are getting what they want? The Earth Observing System Data and Informatio ... more | .. |
 A Snowy US Panorama By Satellite Last week 30 U.S. states were affected by a massive winter storm. This week satellite images created by NASA provide a snowy panorama of that fallen snow. The Geostationary Operational Environ ... more | .. |
 TRMM Satellite Totaled Cyclone Yasi's Heavy Rainfall In Queensland Queensland, which is still trying to recover from earlier widespread flooding as a result of above-normal rainfall due to La Nina and previous tropical cyclone activity, just received a direct hit o ... 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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 Stunning Satellite Imagery Of Cyclone Yasi From Space Earth observation scientists at the University of Leicester have recorded stunning images of tropical cyclone Yasi by orbiting satellites. Japanese Meteorological Agency and European Space Age ... more | .. |
 Bordeaux wines face climate threat: experts Bordeaux's fabled wine grapes are under threat from global warming, climate experts told a meeting of industry leaders Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Hungarian plant still releasing toxic mud: Greenpeace A Hungarian alumina plant that caused a massive toxic sludge spill in October, is releasing poisonous substances straight into the surrounding area, Greenpeace revealed on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Drought threatens China crops, UN Food agency warns A severe winter drought is threatening crop production in China, the world's biggest wheat provider, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in an alert issued Tuesday. ... 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 Severe Amazon Droughts In Five Years Alarms Scientists New research shows that the 2010 Amazon drought may have been even more devastating to the region's rainforests than the unusual 2005 drought, which was previously billed as a one-in-100 year event. ... more | .. |
 Pollutants In Aquifers May Threaten Future Of Mexico's Fast-Growing 'Riviera Maya' Pharmaceuticals, illicit drugs, shampoo, toothpaste, pesticides, chemical run-off from highways and many other pollutants infiltrate the giant aquifer under Mexico's "Riviera Maya," research shows. ... more | .. |
 Arctic Fisheries Catches 75 Times Higher Than Previous Reports University of British Columbia researchers estimate that fisheries catches in the Arctic totaled 950,000 tonnes from 1950 to 2006, almost 75 times the amount reported to the United Nations Food and ... more | .. |
 Helping Feed The World Without Polluting Its Waters A growing global population has lead to increasing demands for food. Farmers around the world rely, at least in part on phosphorus-based fertilizers in order to sustain and improve crop yields. But ... more |
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 Long-Lived Mexican Trees May Illuminate Fates Of Past Civilizations A new, detailed record of rainfall fluctuations in ancient Mexico that spans more than twelve centuries promises to improve our understanding of the role drought played in the rise and fall of pre-H ... more | .. |
 Southern Africa floods threaten more crops Floods and heavy rain across southern Africa have damaged thousands of hectares (acres) of farmland and more may be hit in coming weeks, raising fears for food supplies, the UN food agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Russia resumes sturgeon caviar exports to Europe Russia has resumed sturgeon caviar exports to the European Union after a nine-year ban, a fisheries watchdog said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Argentina admits to malnutrition deaths Argentine officials admitted deaths due to malnutrition among the country's poor of indigenous Latin American people and promised government action to minimize the problem. ... 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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 CryoSat Ice Data Now Open To All Scientists can now tap into a flow of new data that will help to determine exactly how Earth's ice is changing. This information from ESA's CryoSat mission is set to make a step change in our unders ... more | .. |
 Iran opens centre for satellite images Iran on Sunday opened its first centre to receive satellite images, a new stage in its space programme that coincides with celebrations marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. ... more | .. |
 First Results Of Cluster's Auroral Acceleration Campaign Auroras, more commonly known as the northern and southern lights, are one of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring natural phenomena. New insights into the processes that generate Earth's auroras (an ... more | .. |
  'Red Mud' Disaster's Main Threat To Crops Is Not Toxic Metals 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 bount ... 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
'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 | .. |
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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