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Japan to start screening food for radioactivityTokyo (AFP) March 17, 2011 Japan instructed local authorities on Thursday to start screening food for radioactivity after accidents at an earthquake-hit nuclear power plant sparked fears of wider contamination. It is the first time Japan has set radiation limits on domestically produced food, a health ministry official said. The limits are in line with an anti-disaster programme prepared in advance by the government's atomic power safety commission, said the official. Limits vary depending on the type of foodstuff but ... read more |
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 Forgotten forage grass rediscovered A U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher says he has rediscovered a forage grass well suited to contemporary intensive rotational livestock grazing. ... more | .. |
 Tainted pork is latest food scandal to hit China China has been hit by a fresh food scandal after the country's largest meat processor was forced to apologise when an illegal additive was reportedly found in some of its pork products. ... more | .. |
  Mercosur-EU trade pact far from certain Prospects for a workable trade pact between Latin America's Mercosur economic bloc and the European Union appear far from certain amid continuing bickering over the impact that free commodities trade may have on European farming communities. ... more | .. |
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 Seedless Cherimoya, The Next Banana Mark Twain called it "the most delicious fruit known to man." But the cherimoya, or custard apple, and its close relations the sugar apple and soursop, also have lots of big, awkward seeds. Now new ... more | .. |
 Seedlings Thrive With Distant Relatives, Seeds With Close Family A variety of plant seedlings suffer most from competition when planted with close relatives, and grow best when planted alongside distant relatives in field soils, researchers from Case Western Rese ... more | .. |
 Untapped Crop Data From Africa Predicts Corn Peril If Temperatures Rise A hidden trove of historical crop yield data from Africa shows that corn - long believed to tolerate hot temperatures - is a likely victim of global warming. Stanford agricultural scientist Da ... more | .. |
 Knee-high fence to halt rampaging Australian toads Australia's popular Kimberley wilderness region has resorted to a long knee-high fence to keep out the poisonous cane toad, which is rapidly overrunning the tourist attraction. ... more |
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China's low-altitude economy takes flight across multiple industries
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  DLR Releases Satellite Images Of Japanese Disaster Area After the severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' was activated on the morning of the 11 March 2011. All participating institutions were asked t ... more | .. |
 NASA Images Tsunami Impact Across Northeastern Japan The extent of inundation from the destructive and deadly tsunami triggered by the March 11, 2011, magnitude 8.9 earthquake centered off Japan's northeastern coast about 130 kilometers (82 miles) eas ... more | .. |
 USDA And Russian Scientists Develop High-Tech Crop Map AgroAtlas is a new interactive website that shows the geographic distributions of 100 crops; 640 species of crop diseases, pests, and weeds; and 560 wild crop relatives growing in Russia and neighbo ... more | .. |
 Nairobi criminals dump old ways and go organic Crime, poverty and festering raw sewage are fertilising one of the most unlikely projects in Nairobi's Kibera slum: an organic farm run by former criminals. ... more |
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 Chinese farmers go online to sell produce For years, Wang Yulan and her husband drove their three-wheeled vehicle to an outdoor market near Beijing to sell broccoli, peppers, eggplants and tomatoes grown on their small plot of land. ... more | .. |
 Can Bees Color Maps Better Than Ants? In mathematics, you need at most only four different colors to produce a map in which no two adjacent regions have the same color. Utah and Arizona are considered adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, ... more | .. |
 Earth's Biodiversity: What Do We Know And Where Are We Headed Earth's biodiversity-the number of microorganisms, plants, and animals, their genes, and their ecosystems (such as rainforests and grasslands)-is declining at an alarming rate, even faster than the ... more | .. |
 New Commission Confronts Threats To Food Security From Climate Change Recent droughts and floods have contributed to increases in food prices. These are pushing millions more people into poverty and hunger, and are contributing to political instability and civil unres ... more |
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Russia's Burevestnik: A Nuclear-Powered Missile That Defies Convention
U.S. deploys carrier strike group to the Caribbean
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 OSI Geospatial to supply New Zealand navy OSI Geospatial signed a $2 million contract with Siemens to provide an Integrated Bridge System for the New Zealand navy's frigate Platform System Upgrade Program. ... more | .. |
 Study Shows No-Till's Benefits For Pacific Northwest Wheat Growers Wheat farmers in eastern Oregon and Washington who use no-till production systems can substantially stem soil erosion and enhance efforts to protect water quality, according to research by U.S. Depa ... more | .. |
Arab world faces more food crises The wave of political upheaval engulfing the Arab world was unleashed in large part because of high food prices in countries that depend on imports to feed burgeoning populations. But as imports swell, new crises are on their way. ... more | .. |
 Can Bhuvan Give Google Earth A Run For Its Money Google Earth has competition at hand. Bhuvan, Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) answer to the Google application, is snapping at its heels. However, Bhuvan, a satellite mapping tool and th ... more |
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 NASA And Other Satellites Keeping Busy With This Week's Severe Weather Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a h ... more | .. |
UN alarmed at huge decline in bee numbers The UN on Thursday expressed alarm at a huge decline in bee colonies under a multiple onslaught of pests and pollution, urging an international effort to save the pollinators that are vital for food crops. ... more | .. |
  Rainwater Harvesting 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 homeowne ... more | .. |
 Mexico approves GM maize pilot project Mexico has approved its first pilot project to grow genetically-modified (GM) maize, a move expected to draw fire from environmental groups who fear its impact on treasured local corn. ... 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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 NASA Warns Ice Melt Speeding Up The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study - the longest to date of changes in polar ic ... more | .. |
 Philippines to fight invading species Like some bad science-fiction movie, Philippine fishermen are encountering strange alien creatures: tough, speckled fish with sharp spines that tear and rip their nets. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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