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Climate Record Suggesting Severe Tropical Droughts as Northern Temperatures RisePittsburgh PA (SPX) May 12, 2011 A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet's densely populated tropical regions will most likely experience severe water shortages as the crucial summer monsoons become drier. The Pitt team found that equatorial regions of South America already are receiving less rainfall than at any point in the past millennium. The researchers report in the Proceedings of the Nati ... read more |
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  Over a billion tons of food wasted every year: UN Around a third of the food produced in the world every year - around 1.3 billion tons - gets lost or wasted, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Venezuela parliament authorizes new satellite program with China Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday endorsed a new satellite contract program with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries. The parliament published the author ... more | .. |
 Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolution higher than two meters. Scanex ... more | .. |
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 Egypt PM to discuss Nile water in Africa visits Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf departed on Wednesday for visits to Uganda and Ethiopia that will be dominated by the talks on sharing the Nile River, which has been at the centre of a dispute between Nile Basin countries. ... more | .. |
 Asia's suffering bears exploited for bile A frenzied black bear growls and shakes the bars of a cage barely bigger than itself. Like thousands of others across Asia, it is waiting for its owner to extract bile, a treasured substance in traditional Chinese medicine. ... more | .. |
 India's new satellite beams high quality images India's latest advanced remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 has beamed high quality images distinctly showing the northern and western regions of the country, the space agency said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Availability of Local Food Key to Improving Food Security Most strategies to assist the hungry, including food banks and providing food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are short-term, emergency solutions. Those who rely on the ... 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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 Green roofs as a cost-effective way to keep water out of sewers Green roofs like the one atop a Con Edison building in Long Island City, Queens can be a cost-effective way to keep water from running into sewer systems and causing overflows, Columbia University r ... more | .. |
 TRMM Maps a Wet Spring, 2011 for the Central U.S. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite has been keeping track of the drenching rainfall that has been occurring in the central U.S. this springtime, and a newly created rain map from t ... more | .. |
  Quebec unveils $80 bln plan for undeveloped north Quebec unveiled an $80-billion plan on Monday to rev up forestry and mining development over the next 25 years in its vast northern region, dubbed one of the world's last unspoiled wildernesses. ... more | .. |
 Pivotal Shift Underway in Satellite Observations of Earth Making use of Earth remote sensing satellites to help monitor and perhaps defuse conflict is among the topics presented in the Spring 2011 issue of Imaging Notes magazine - a unique publication devo ... more |
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 Indonesia turns ASEAN focus to food, energy security Indonesia on Saturday warned fellow Southeast Asian states that rising food and energy prices could drive more people into poverty and urged coordinated action to fight inflation. ... more | .. |
 Soils of U.K., Europe drying out Satellite measurements show that soils of Britain and Europe are drying out from record low rainfall in the region this spring, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 US farmers dodge the impacts of global warming at least for now Global warming is likely already taking a toll on world wheat and corn production, according to a new study led by Stanford University researchers. But the United States, Canada and northern Mexico ... more | .. |
 Saudis reject Mecca holy water scare Saudi authorities have rejected claims that holy Zamzam water from a spring inside the Grand Mosque complex of Mecca is polluted and stressed there were no health risks. ... more |
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 Study: Global warming reduced corn, wheat harvests Climate change has stunted the worldwide increase in corn and wheat yields since 1980 by 3.8 and 5.5 percent respectively, according to a new study in the journal Science. ... more | .. |
 Researchers propose whole-system redesign of US agriculture Transformative changes in markets, policy and science, rather than just incremental changes in farming practices and technology, will be critical if the United States is to achieve long-term sustain ... more | .. |
 Seed Mixtures And Insurance Pest Management Are Future Norm In The Corn Belt As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic in ... more | .. |
 New study reveals when livestock can transmit foot-and-mouth disease A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time-about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that t ... more |
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 It Takes a Community of Soil Microbes to Protect Plants From Disease Those vegetables you had for dinner may have once been protected by an immune system akin to the one that helps you fight disease. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley N ... more | .. |
 Expert panel calls for transforming US agriculture A group of leading scientists, economists and farmers is calling for a broad shift in federal policies to speed the development of farm practices that are more economically, socially, and environmen ... more | .. |
 Blue Revolution Key to Getting "More Crop per Drop" Increasing demand for water continues to threaten the livelihood of millions of small-scale farmers who depend on water for their crops. At a time when one in eight people lacks access to safe water ... more | .. |
Latin food prices push inflation: report Soaring food prices are hurting the poor and underprivileged and undermining Latin American governments' efforts to control inflation, the Inter-American Development Bank said. ... more |
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Orion spacecraft prepared for lunar mission as stacking with SLS rocket achieved
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 Portable tech might provide drinking water and power to villages Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electri ... more | .. |
 Grazing as a conservation tool Rotational grazing of cattle in native pasturelands in Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado regions can benefit both cattle and wildlife, according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society. ... more | .. |
  Prince Charles urges US not to overtax Mother Nature Britain's Prince Charles warned Wednesday at a US conference debating the future of food that unsustainable farming methods are overtaxing nature and pushing the global food system into crisis. ... 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 |
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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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 Market Lighting Affects Nutrients 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 m ... more |
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