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Libya warns of disaster if 'Great Man-Made River' hitTripoli (AFP) April 3, 2011 Libya warned on Sunday that NATO-led air strikes could cause a "human and environmental disaster" if they damaged the country's massive Great Man-Made River (GMMR) project. Built at a cost of 33 billion dollars, the GMMR extracts water from deep beneath the Sahara desert at a depth of between 500 and 800 metres (1,600 to 2,500 feet), purifies it and transports it to the coastal cities of the north where most of the population is concentrated. Engineer and project manager Abdelmajid Gahoud told f ... read more |
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  Half China's dairies shut in safety audit: govt Nearly half of Chinese dairies inspected in a government safety audit have been ordered to stop production, a spokesman said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Mideast drought, factor in unrest, worsens Syrian President Bashar Assad is struggling to contain spreading unrest that threatens his regime by dangling the prospect of political reform but the crisis goes deeper than that. ... more | .. |
 Wine tasters swoon over Bordeaux's 'liquid beauty' Bordeaux is spoiled for choice as it unveils the 2010 vintage, its third smash hit in six years, in a week of barrel tastings for wine professionals from around the world. ... more | .. |
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 'Super' salmon resist climate change better: study Toughened by a punishing annual migration in western Canada, a special breed of sockeye salmon has proved better able to survive environmental change than other members of the species, a study said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Calculating Livestock Numbers By Weather And Climate Ranchers in the central Great Plains may be using some of their winter downtime in the future to rehearse the upcoming production season, all from the warmth of their homes, according to U.S. Depart ... more | .. |
 Improve Crop Yield By Removing Manure Solids Manure has long been used as a crop fertilizer, but the challenge of finding an efficient use of the nutrients found in manure is ever present. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in manure is low i ... more | .. |
 EU talks on modified foods break down Negotiations in the European Union on "novel foods" broke down on the issue of labeling food products from the offspring of cloned animals, officials said. ... 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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  High seas may have led migrants to Taiwan Rising seas in China thousands of years ago may have turned rice farmers into ancient mariners and led to human settlement on Taiwan, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 David vs Goliath fight in Ecuador's banana industry Ecologically friendly Ecuadoran banana producers, with the help of President Rafael Correa, are trying to secure their niche in a market dominated by multi-national giants. ... more | .. |
 Study: Ancient peoples had climate impact Thousands of years before the Industrial Revolution and greenhouse gases, humans were having an impact on the climate, a Swiss researcher says. ... more | .. |
 Local, Diversified Food Production Needed To Curb Food Price Crisis Food prices have soared to record highs and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world. The Wo ... more |
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 Ants And Termites Boost Dryland Wheat Yields Ants and termites have a significant positive impact on crop yields in dryland agriculture, according to a paper published in the journal 'Nature Communications' by scientists at CSIRO and the Unive ... more | .. |
 Japan finds radiation above legal limit in beef: report Japan has found radiation above the legal limit in beef from near a stricken nuclear plant, the first such finding in meat since a quake and tsunami triggered the atomic crisis, local media reported. ... more | .. |
  Google's citizen cartographers map out the world Google on Thursday revealed that an army of citizen cartographers is behind its widely used mapping service, helping the Internet search giant chart the world, including often inaccessible places. ... more | .. |
Philippines cracks down on Chinese poachers Philippine authorities on Thursday vowed to seek long jail terms for six Chinese caught poaching fish and sea turtles, as part of a crackdown against foreigners stealing marine wildlife. ... 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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 Japan urges trading partners not to overreact on food safety Japan on Wednesday asked trading partners at the World Trade Organization not impose what it described as unjustifiable import restrictions on its exports. ... more | .. |
 Good wheat harvest expected in Pakistan, despite floods The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Wednesday that Pakistan can expect a good wheat harvest despite severe flooding last year as seeds distributed to flood victims begin to ripen. ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Detect Extensive Drought Impact On Amazon A new NASA-funded study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of the forests in the vast Amazon basin in South America caused by the record-breaking drought of 2010. "The greenne ... more | .. |
 ADB and OPEC Fund aid Sierra Leone water project The African Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development are providing Sierra Leone $62 million for the reconstruction of three water stations, the head of the west African state's water company said on Tuesday. ... more |
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 Managing Grazing Lands With Fire Improves Profitability Texas Agrilife Research fire and brush control studies in the Rolling Plains on a working ranch-scale showed the benefits and limitations of managed fires for reducing mesquite encroachment while su ... more | .. |
 How Do Plants Fight Disease? How exactly bacterial pathogens cause diseases in plants remains a mystery and continues to frustrate scientists working to solve this problem. Now Wenbo Ma, a young plant pathologist at the Univers ... more | .. |
 Study Predicts Large Regional Changes In Farmland Area The effects of climate change and population growth on agricultural land area vary from region to region, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers. Regions with relative ... more | .. |
  Virus in Chinese ducks could infect humans Ducks, an important item in Chinese cuisine, have been felled by a new virus threatening Chinese duck farms, agricultural officials in that country say. ... 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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 Egypt seeks food and water security in Sudan 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. ... more | .. |
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 | .. |
 China 'to pull dairy licences in safety drive' More than one fifth of China's dairy producers will lose their licences after inspections aimed at preventing a repeat of a huge 2008 milk-contamination scandal, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
 Sweden responds to EU criticism of wolf hunt Sweden's environment minister on Monday said the country's wolf hunt was necessary to boost acceptance of the animal, in a response to a European Commission reprimand for allowing the cull. ... more |
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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 | .. |
 Billion-plus people to lack water in 2050: study More than one billion urban residents will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanization, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Measurements Of Winter Arctic Sea Ice Shows Continuing Ice Loss The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder ... more | .. |
 Against The Tide: Currents Keep Dolphins Apart Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other conservation and research groups have discovered that groups of dolphins in the western Ind ... more |
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