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Egypt seeks food and water security in SudanKhartoum (AFP) March 27, 2011 Egypt will make the completion of a partially-built canal spanning an unnavigable section of the river Nile in south Sudan a top priority, a cabinet spokesman said on Sunday. As Prime Minister Essam Sharaf visited Egypt's soon-to-be partitioned southern neighbour, cabinet spokesman Magdi Radi told a news conference in Khartoum: "We want to start the building of the Jonglei Canal, because it is a top priority. It offers to provide four billion cubic metres of Nile water (annually)." The 360-kilom ... read more |
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 Russia aims to boost caviar exports with fish farms Once the world's top exporter of black caviar, Russia is building fish farms to harvest the gourmet delicacy as it aims to bring its sturgeon stocks back from the brink. ... more | .. |
Japan finds contaminated lettuce shipment Lettuce contaminated with radiation above the legal limit has been found at a wholesale market in central Japan, shipped from a farm north of Tokyo, officials said Saturday. ... more | .. |
Taiwan bans food imports from five Japan areas Taiwan on Friday imposed a ban on food imports from five Japanese areas near a quake-damaged nuclear power plant due to radiation concerns. ... more | .. |
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  Developing Strategies In A Desert Watershed That Sustain Regional Water Supplies U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are helping meet the water demands of a riparian desert region that is home to a national conservation area and a thriving military base. Agric ... more | .. |
 Tree Resin The Key Evidence Of Current And Historic Insect Invasions A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered that insects that bore into trees as long ago 90 million years, or as recently as last summer, leave a calling card that's rich with informat ... more | .. |
 Report Uncovers Key Trends In Water Resources Research The report "Confronting the Global Water Crisis through Research - 2010", carried out by Elsevier, reveals the increasingly international and strategic nature of water resources research. Exam ... more | .. |
 Putting Food Scares Under The Microscope As the increasing number food scares causes consumers to question the safety of everyday food items, researchers at Queen's University Belfast have completed the first ever analysis of all the food ... 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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  Scanner eyes Earth's coastlines from space Images of Earth's coastal regions from a space-borne scanner are helping scientists monitor events from oil spills to plankton blooms, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant Countries across the world have shunned Japanese food imports as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo. ... more | .. |
 Two Rivers Water Company Signs Agreement On 1000 Acres Of Farmland Two Rivers Water Company has announced that the Company has signed agreements to acquire an additional 1,000 acres of land adjacent to irrigated farmland it currently owns in Pueblo County, Colorado ... more | .. |
  Drought-Prone Pasts May Foretell New York's And Atlanta's Futures New York City and Atlanta have both experienced droughts in the past few decades that required them to implement water restrictions and conservation measures. However, a new study of tree-ring data ... more |
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 Carbon Tax Must Not Comprise Food And Fibre Production Despite the commitment to excluding agriculture's direct emissions from its carbon tax, the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) continues to be extremely concerned about the Government's emerging car ... more | .. |
 NASA Global Hawk Takes Earth's Temperature Over Pacific Ocean A Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter ... more | .. |
 NASA IR Satellite Imagery Shows Cyclone Cherono Dwindling Three days of NASA infrared satellite imagery provides a clear picture to forecasters of the effect wind shear has had on former Cyclone Cherono. Wind shear increased near Cyclone Cherono this weeke ... more | .. |
 Pakistan food prices too high: UN food relief agency Pakistan's government has pushed food prices too high for an impoverished population, as malnutrition levels rise despite the recovery of crops after devastating floods, a UN food relief official said Wednesday. ... 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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 Fears mount in Asia over Japanese food Supermarkets across Asia are selling fewer Japanese products and restaurants in "Little Tokyo" districts are suffering as fears rise that Japan's food chain is being dangerously tainted with radiation. ... more | .. |
 Nestle brand faces 'difficulties' with coffee supply Food giant Nestle's coffee subsidiary Nespresso is facing supply difficulties due to poor weather conditions affecting some crops, the brand's chief executive said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Thirst For Knowledge: NASA Eyes World's Water As the world moves toward adding a few more billion people in the coming decades, many people who keep an eye on the horizon find themselves worried about water. Drinking water, water for irrigation ... more | .. |
 Japan nuclear food scare spreads to US, Europe Japan's radiation food scare rippled around the world Wednesday as the United States blocked imports of dairy and other produce from areas near a disaster-hit nuclear power plant. ... more |
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 Native Americans Modified American Landscape Years Prior To The Arrival Of Europeans A new study by Baylor University geology researchers shows that Native Americans' land use nearly a century ago produced a widespread impact on the eastern North American landscape and floodplain de ... more | .. |
  MU Researcher Works To Save One Of The World's Most Endangered Birds The Tuamotu Kingfisher is a multicolored, tropical bird with bright blue feathers, a dusty orange head, and a bright green back. The entire population of these birds - less than 125 - lives on one t ... more | .. |
 Food Agency calls for increased, safe urban water supplies The UN's food agency marked World Water Day on Tuesday by calling for new and innovative approaches to ensuring city dwellers in developing countries have access to safe and adequate water supplies. ... more | .. |
 Major legal blow to European anti-GM crops lobby Europe's top court adviser dealt a huge blow to the anti-GM foods lobby Tuesday, saying states broke EU law by halting genetically-modified crop cultivation without first seeking action in Brussels. ... 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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 France urges European controls on all Japanese produce France has urged the European Commission to impose "systematic controls" on imports of fresh produce from Japan into the EU, amid fears of nuclear contamination, the agriculture ministry said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Optimizing Yield And Fruit Size Of Figs The common fig is a subtropical, deciduous fruit tree grown in most Mediterranean-type climates. Although some believe that figs may be the oldest cultivated fruit species on earth, global expansion ... more | .. |
 Green Sludge Can Protect Groundwater From Radioactive Contamination Radioactive waste decaying down at the dump needs millions of years to stabilize. The element Neptunium, a waste product from uranium reactors, could pose an especially serious health risk should it ... more | .. |
 Chemical-Free Pest Management Cuts Rice Waste In 2006, Maria Otilia Carvalho, a researcher from the Tropical Research Institute of Portugal had an ambitious goal: to cut the huge losses of rice - a staple food crop for half of humanity - due to ... more |
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 New Software Calculates Heating Costs In Greenhouse Operations In parts of the United States where ornamental and vegetable plants are produced in greenhouses during cold seasons, heating costs are second only to labor costs for greenhouse operators. Greenhouse ... more | .. |
 African cities need 'greener' water infrastructure: UN African cities need to move toward greener water and sanitation projects, such as rainwater collection, to keep pace with booming urban populations, a new United Nations report said Monday. ... more | .. |
 France fines Google 100,000 euros over Street View France's data privacy regulator said Monday it had imposed a record fine of 100,000 euros ($142,000) on Google for private information collected while compiling its panoramic Street View service. ... more | .. |
 Iraq wastes 50% of water: UNICEF Fifty percent of water resources are wasted in Iraq, where six million people have no access to clean water, the United Nations said on Monday, the eve of World Water Day. ... more |
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