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Market Lighting Affects NutrientsWashington DC (SPX) May 04, 2011 Many people reach toward the back of the fresh-produce shelf to find the freshest salad greens with the latest expiration dates. But a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may prompt consumers to instead look for packages that receive the greatest exposure to light--usually those found closest to the front. The study was led by postharvest plant physiologist Gene Lester while at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Crop Quality and Fruit Insects Research Unit in Weslaco ... read more |
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 Study urges different grazing practices Rotational grazing of cattle on Brazil's native pasturelands could have benefits for both cattle and wildlife, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Origin Of Rice Points To China Rice originated in China, a team of genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history through large-scale gene re-sequencing. Their findings, which ... more | .. |
  Europe bids to 'halt' biodiversity loss Europe set new targets Tuesday to halt a mainly man-made loss of species costing billions each year as campaigners called for tougher environmental demands on farmers. ... more | .. |
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 Britain's Prince Charles begins US visit on city farm Days after the pomp of his son Prince William's wedding in London, Britain's Prince Charles picked his way through an urban farm in a gritty part of Washington as he began a US visit Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Satellites Reveal Tornado Tracks in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama Tornado tracks from last week's powerful tornado outbreak are visible in data from NASA's Aqua satellite and the Landsat satellite. Among the more than 150 tornadoes reported on April 27 and 28, 201 ... more | .. |
 Internet satellite images available to all The European Space agency says it added 13,000 satellite radar images to almost 45,000 camera images on the Internet for anyone wanting to explore our planet. ... more | .. |
China sees growing demand for 'soft gold' cashmere Factory worker Wu Suqing hunches over a machine knitting a green cashmere sweater bound for a department store in China where demand for the luxury wool is growing even as Western sales shrink. ... 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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 Genetic study says China source of rice Genome researchers tracking the evolutionary history of rice say domesticated rice may have appeared as far back as around 9,000 years ago in China. ... more | .. |
 WWF welcomes first Bulgaria ban on Danube sturgeon fishing The environmental group WWF welcomed on Monday Bulgaria's ban on catching sturgeon in the Danube, as the species faces extinction due to overfishing for its caviar. ... more | .. |
  Filthy toilets a blight on Asian prosperity Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living, with dire effects on poverty reduction and public health. ... more | .. |
 How the fruit fly made its way out of Africa The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster used to be found only in sub-Saharan Africa but about 10,000 years ago it began to colonize Asia and Europe. This period saw the start of human agriculture and ... more |
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  Chinese pay price for world's rare earths addiction Peasant farmer Wang Tao used to grow corn, potatoes and wheat within a stone's throw of a dumping ground for rare earths waste until toxic chemicals leaked into the water supply and poisoned his land. ... more | .. |
 Scorpion venom bad for bugs but good for pesticides Fables have long cast scorpions as bad-natured killers of hapless turtles that naively agree to ferry them across rivers. Michigan State University scientists, however, see them in a different light ... more | .. |
 NASA Mission Seeks to Uncover a Rainfall Mystery Scientists from NASA and other organizations are on a mission to unlock the mysteries of why certain clouds produce copious amounts of rain. In a field mission that is now under way, aircraft are ca ... more | .. |
 Stressed out crop impede higher agriculture yields Like people, plants experience stress. And also, like people, the response to that stress can determine success. People can exercise, or rest, or talk about the problem. For plants, ways ... more |
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U.S. deploys carrier strike group to the Caribbean
Trump: Qatar is readying peacekeepers for Gaza
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Lima to declare itself a GMO-free zone The city of Lima plans to declare the Peruvian capital a "GMO-free zone" after a controversial government decree that critics fear will see the country flooded with genetically modified organisms. ... more | .. |
 Suez Environnement reports strong start to year French utility and waste management group Suez Environnement said on Thursday its first-quarter sales and operating profit rose strongly and confirmed its annual financial targets. ... more | .. |
China food scandals spark new safety fears A wave of tainted-food scares has renewed fears in China over continued product-safety problems despite a government promise to clean up the food industry following a deadly 2008 milk scandal. ... more | .. |
  Food vs fuel: the debate is over A new study released by the Grain Farmers of Ontario should put an end to the ongoing debate of whether the grain we grow should be used for food or fuel. We can and should do both. The abunda ... more |
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 GOES-13 Satellite Eyeing System With High Risk of Severe Weather A low pressure area currently over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin has created conditions that call for a forecast of severe weather in the eastern third of the U.S. and one area is even la ... more | .. |
 Turkey to build water channel to bypass Bosphorus: PM Turkey plans to build a water channel connecting the Black and Marmara seas as an alternative to the congested Bosphorus Strait, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Texas drought could extend for months The worst drought to hit Texas in 45 years, which has sparked wildfires consuming 1.5 million acres, could continue to summer and beyond, meteorologists say. ... more | .. |
 Rural development gets help from the sky The International Fund for Agricultural Development has been funding projects in Madagascar for over 30 years to eradicate rural poverty. With the country facing an exploding population and food cri ... 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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 Satellite tracking of sea turtles reveals potential threat posed by manmade chemicals The first research to actively analyze adult male sea turtles (Caretta caretta) using satellite tracking to link geography with pollutants has revealed the potential risks posed to this threatened s ... more | .. |
 Development in fog harvesting process In the arid Namib Desert on the west coast of Africa, one type of beetle has found a distinctive way of surviving. When the morning fog rolls in, the Stenocara gracilipes species, also known as the ... more | .. |
  Japan farmers rally against nuclear plant company Hundreds of angry Japanese farmers protested Tuesday outside the Tokyo head office of nuclear plant operator TEPCO, taking with them vegetables, milk and and even two cows affected by the atomic crisis. ... more | .. |
 Rising food costs could fuel Asian poverty Soaring food prices threaten to push millions of people in developing areas of Asia into extreme poverty, a report from the Asian Development Bank warned. ... more |
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 China's water supply at risk Climate change is threatening China's water supply, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Distribution of British soil bacteria mapped for the first time Britain's soil bacteria have been mapped for the first time in the most comprehensive study of a country's soil biodiversity to date. The results were published in the journal Environmental Microbio ... more | .. |
 Growing threat of wheat rust epidemics worldwide For more information, see http://icarda.org/wheatrust/ and www.globalrust.org Researchers meeting at a scientific conference in Aleppo this week reported that aggressive new strains of wheat rust d ... more | .. |
 Running ring around hurricanes predictions Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use e ... more |
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