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Rainwater HarvestingAustin TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2011 For the past few years, one of the most common questions facing the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) hasn't been over contentious water rights or proposed water projects; it's been from homeowners wanting to know what type of roofing material is most suitable for collecting rainwater for indoor domestic use. "Rainwater harvesting is becoming fairly widespread, at least in Central Texas. There's interest born out of necessity because people are simply running out of water in rural areas or they ... read more |
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  Report: Eco-farming can double crop yields Food production in poor countries can be doubled within 10 years if small farms switch to ecological agriculture, a study issued by the United Nations says. ... more | .. |
 Grazing Of Cattle Pastures Can Improve Soil Quality A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has given growers in the Piedmont guidance on how to restore degraded soils and make the land productive. Researchers with the USDA's Agric ... more | .. |
 Humans Give Prey The Edge In Food Web A new paper by University of Calgary researchers, published in PLoS ONE, demonstrates the edge given to prey in the "space race" by human activity. The research was conducted by two University ... more | .. |
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 Singapore to triple desalination capacity by 2013 Singapore will more than triple its desalinated water capacity in two years' time when the country's second and largest desalination plant starts operations, the government said Monday. ... more | .. |
  GOCE Delivers On Its Promise ESA's GOCE satellite has reached its ambitious goal of mapping Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision. In two short years, the sophisticated satellite has collected the measurements needed to ... more | .. |
 A Research Study Reveals The Deterioration In The Mediterranean Farmland Patrimony A research study, in which Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is taking part, has concluded that traditionally irrigated Mediterranean landscape has suffered an important loss of the cultural a ... more | .. |
 Asia rice output threatened by pesticide overuse The unbridled manufacture and use of pesticides in Asia is raising the spectre of "pest storms" devastating the region's rice farms and threatening food security, scientists have warned. ... 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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 NASA reels from climate science setbacks A pair of costly satellite crashes have dealt a major blow to NASA's earth science efforts just as the US space agency faces scrutiny from Congress over whether climate science should be part of its focus at all. ... more | .. |
 New Day Dawns For Satellite To Study Earth's Ozone Layer After nine years in a clean room, an instrument that studies the Earth's atmosphere and protective ozone layer has been returned to service. NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III-ISS ... more | .. |
 NASA's Bolden defends Earth science NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended NASA's Earth science missions before a U.S. House committee, saying such projects were part of NASA's job. ... more | .. |
  Flood-Tolerant Rice Plants Can Also Survive Drought Rice, which is sensitive to drought due to its high water requirement, is particularly vulnerable to how global climate change is altering the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts. If rice ... more |
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 Diversifying Crops May Protect Yields Against A More Variable Climate A survey of how farmers could protect themselves by growing a greater diversity of crops, published in the March issue of BioScience, has highlighted economical steps that farmers could take to mini ... more | .. |
  What's Hitting Earth Every day about 100 tons of meteoroids - fragments of dust and gravel and sometimes even big rocks - enter the Earth's atmosphere. Stand out under the stars for more than a half an hour on a clear n ... more | .. |
 NASA to launch Earth observation satellite Friday NASA was poised to launch its Earth observation satellite, Glory, early on Friday after technical problems delayed its initial effort last month. ... more | .. |
 Modified alfalfa stirs debate in Texas The U.S. government's approval of genetically modified alfalfa is generating controversy in Texas, with organic farmers saying it will contaminate their crops. ... 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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 Polishing The Apple's Popular Image As A Healthy Food Scientists are reporting the first evidence that consumption of a healthful antioxidant substance in apples extends the average lifespan of test animals, and does so by 10 percent. The new res ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Invasive Species Widespread, But Not More Than At Home Range Invasive plant species have long had a reputation as being bad for a new ecosystem when they are introduced. Stan Harpole, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology at Iowa St ... 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 | .. |
 Dry Lake Reveals Evidence Of Southwestern Megadroughts 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 ... more | .. |
 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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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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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Canada's Role Grows Amid Droughts And Floods Famed especially for the excellence of its peacekeepers and ice hockey players, Canada's water experts are now increasingly needed to help countries elsewhere brace for drought, flood and unsafe wat ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 |
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