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Latin American Working To Rejuvenate Crop CollectionsSan Jose, Costa Rica (SPX) Apr 08, 2011 Crop specialists in Central America have announced that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the heartlands of ancient agriculture to regenerate thousands of unique varieties of coffee, tomatoes, chili peppers, beans and other major crops through a partnership between the Global Crop Diversity Trust and 19 Latin American genebanks. One of the oldest collections targeted by the project is Costa Rica's Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE). An array of challenges-inc ... read more |
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 World food prices fall for first time in eight months World food prices fell for the first time in eight months in March after record highs largely due to oil prices, though the situation remains volatile, the UN's food agency said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Low Fertilizer Use Drives Deforestation In West Africa Low-input farming for cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degredation of West Africa's tropical forest area, according to a new study by researchers at the Inter ... more | .. |
  Egypt in talks with Uganda over new Nile treaty A 40-member Egyptian delegation held talks with Uganda's president on a new treaty signed by upstream countries for the equitable sharing of the Nile waters, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
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 China milk activist 'force-fed on hunger strike' A Chinese father who was jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal said he was force-fed China-made milk powder while on hunger strike, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Seeing Rice With X-Rays May Improve Crop Yields Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the ... more | .. |
 Cost Effective Manure Management Recycling manure is an important practice, especially for large livestock producers. Manure can be used as fertilizer to aid in crop production, aiding livestock producers that grow their own feed c ... more | .. |
  Spring Is Fireball Season What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors. "Spri ... 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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  Arctic Ice Gets A Check Up Scientists tracking the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice said that 2011 was among the lowest ice extents measured since satellites began collecting the data in 1979. Using satellites to track ... more | .. |
 Research On Satellite Imagery Aims To Advance Sustainable Agriculture Irrigating agricultural crops places huge demands on water resources around the globe. In Spain for instance, where agriculture is a major contributor to the nation's economy, 85% of country's total ... more | .. |
 Quake-hit sake brewers urge Japanese to party Sake brewers from quake-hit northeastern Japan have urged people to enjoy their usual boisterous parties under cherry blossom as a means to help the regional economy. ... more | .. |
Huge rooftop greenhouse is Montreal's local farm A Montreal company is eagerly awaiting a crop of tomatoes, cucumbers and herbs grown in a vast greenhouse perched on top of an office building, and billed as the world's first rooftop garden farm. ... more |
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Romanian agriculture minister pleads for GM soy Romanian Agriculture Minister Valeriu Tabara on Wednesday said he wanted his country to grow genetically-modified soy, a crop that is not currently allowed by the European Union. ... more | .. |
 Sugar-Grain Sized Meteorites Rocked The Climates Of Early Earth And Mars Bombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according to research ... more | .. |
 Manage Biological Invasions Like Natural Disasters Biological invasions get less prime-time coverage than natural disasters, but may be more economically damaging and warrant corresponding investments in preparedness and response planning, according ... more | .. |
 Record Loss Of Ozone Over Arctic ESA's Envisat satellite has measured record low levels of ozone over the Euro-Atlantic sector of the northern hemisphere during March. This record low was caused by unusually strong winds, known as ... 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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 New Information Provides Sustainable Options For Greenhouse Operations Containers made from plastics are used in most traditional greenhouse operations. While plastic containers are practical, strong, and can be formed to any size, shape, or color, the extensive use of ... more | .. |
 First ban on all Japanese food over nuclear crisis India banned all food imports from Japan Tuesday, the first country to impose a blanket block over radiation from a stricken nuclear plant, as shares in its operator plunged to an all-time low. ... more | .. |
 Researchers Say Children Need Horticultural Interventions Could "interventions" bring children closer to nature? Researchers in Finland think so. A new study published in HortTechnology compares urban and rural children's relationships with plants and reco ... more | .. |
 Response To Japan's Disaster Relief Efforts When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by pr ... more |
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 Libya warns of disaster if 'Great Man-Made River' hit 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. ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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Orion spacecraft prepared for lunar mission as stacking with SLS rocket achieved
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami And Earthquake Damage In Japan Japan needs maps. Not just any kind-detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this bridge is out, this port is damaged, t ... more | .. |
 Earth Movements From Japan Earthquake Seen From Space Satellite images have been essential for helping relief efforts in Japan following the massive quake that struck on 11 March. Now scientists are using ESA's space radars to improve our understanding ... 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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