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Dry Lake Reveals Evidence Of Southwestern MegadroughtsLos Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 03, 2011 There's an old saying that if you don't like the weather in New Mexico, wait five minutes. Maybe it should be amended to 10,000 years, according to new research. In a letter published recently in the journal Nature, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers and an international team of scientists report that the Southwest region of the United States undergoes "megadroughts"-warmer, more arid periods lasting hundreds of years or longer. More significantly, a portion of the research indicates ... read more |
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  Queens University Scientists Behind Safer Drinking Water In US Pioneering technology by scientists at Queen's University Belfast, which is transforming the lives of millions of people in Asia, is now being used to create safer drinking water in the United State ... more | .. |
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 Productivity And Quality Of Grape Vary According To Plot Of Vineyard Under Cultivation Not all the terrain of the same vineyard has the same properties. Research undertaken by Neiker-Tecnalia (the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development) confirmed that, over the sam ... more | .. |
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 Sustaining The Biodiversity Of The Western Great Plains Fire, cattle and even prairie dogs all could play a role in sustaining the biodiversity of the western Great Plains, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researcher. As large g ... more | .. |
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 New Growth Inhibitors More Effective In Plants, Less Toxic To People A Purdue University scientist and researchers in Japan have produced a new class of improved plant growth regulators that are expected to be less toxic to humans. Angus Murphy, a professor of ... more | .. |
 Amid wine boom, Chinese buy up Bordeaux chateaux China gained another foothold in the booming wine trade with Bordeaux when a Chinese jewellery magnate added a chateau in the south west of France to his glittering assets. ... more |
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 China says drought eased after snow, rain China has said that snow and rain in the country's northern wheat-growing regions over the past week had helped to ease a crippling drought that had sparked fears about rising global food prices. ... more | .. |
 Treaty denying Egypt Nile veto set for ratification Egypt is set to lose its veto power on rights to Nile waters after Burundi signed a deal paving the way for the ratification of a new treaty on the great river, an official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
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Chinese luxury group buys Bordeaux vineyard The Chinese jewelry group Tesiro has bought a French family-owned wine chateau in the world-renowned Bordeaux region, industry officials told AFP on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Good Progress On Troubleshooting Orbital Sciences and NASA engineers are making good progress in troubleshooting the ground support equipment issue that caused the postponement of the Glory launch on Feb. 23. Launch will be no earl ... more | .. |
 Ministerial Panel Deliberates Google's Planned Launch Of Street View A Israeli ministerial team headed by Intelligence and Atomic Energy Minister Dan Meridor on Monday discussed Google Street View, which is due to be operated in Israel in the near future. Exper ... more | .. |
 Google backs climate-change weather insurance startup Google on Monday was among investors pumping $42 million into a climate change inspired technology startup that calculates the chances of crops being ruined by weather. ... more |
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Russia's Burevestnik: A Nuclear-Powered Missile That Defies Convention
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Seed collection in Norway vault grows A seed vault in Norway has received seeds for rare lima beans, blight-resistant cantaloupe and antioxidant-rich tomatoes from South America, officials said. ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Region A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand's South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiom ... more | .. |
  Overfertilizing Corn Undermines Ethanol Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less. A new paper in the latest online edition of the American Chemical Society's jour ... more | .. |
Scientists warn of water woes Demand for water in agriculture and energy production could spike in the coming decades while catastrophic floods and droughts strike more often, a water conference in Canada is to hear this week. ... more |
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 High food prices threaten seething Mideast As if the Middle East wasn't battered enough by political turmoil, analysts say the region is likely to be hit by rising food prices - one of the problems that triggered the unrest. ... more | .. |
Drought rattles farmers in eastern China Yu Ruicheng's weathered face creases with worry as she stands on her dry wheat field in eastern China, where a record drought is threatening to send soaring global food prices even higher. ... more | .. |
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 Oldest Water On Earth New evidence bolsters the notion that deep saline groundwaters in South Africa's Witwatersrand Basin may have remained isolated for many thousands, perhaps even millions, of years. The study, ... more | .. |
 Examining Climate Change Effects On Wheat Wheat growers in the Southwest have a better idea about how to adjust to climate change in the decades ahead, thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Arizona. Researchers ... more | .. |
 Transitioning To Organic Farming As the organic food trend continues to grow; more farmers are converting from conventional agriculture to organic production. One of the fastest growing markets in the U.S. is the production of orga ... more |
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Southern U.S. said source of ant spread Global invasions of fire ants can be traced back to the southern United States where the nuisance insect first gained a hold in the 1930s, researchers say. ... more | .. |
Glory And Taurus Ready For Liftoff The launch of NASA's Glory spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 23. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 576-E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Califor ... more | .. |
Water filter for disaster use developed Canadian researchers say they're working on a cheap, portable, paper-based water filter coated with silver nanoparticles for use in emergencies and disasters. ... more |
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