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June 15, 2011
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Controlling Starch in Sugar Factories
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2011
Factory trials conducted by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have led to recommendations for controlling or preventing starch buildup in processed raw sugars and products made with those sugars. The study was led by chemist Gillian Eggleston with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Commodity Utilization Research Unit in New Orleans, La. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency. Eggleston has been studying sugarcane that comes into factories containing too much ... read more

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Early Frenchmen enjoyed home brew
Early inhabitants of France enjoyed a brew or two, archaeologists from Centre de Bio-Archeologie et d'Ecology in Montepellier reported Tuesday. ... more
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GM rice spreads, prompts debate in China
Genetically modified rice has been spreading illegally for years in China, officials have admitted, triggering a debate on a sensitive aspect of the food security plan in the world's most populous nation. ... more
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White band disease treatment? Antibiotics
Antibiotics, the ubiquitous cure for human ills, also may be a treatment for white band disease affecting certain coral species, California researchers report. ... more
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Another Brazilian killed in Amazon land dispute
Another resident of Brazil's Amazon has been shot dead in the sixth such murder over land disputes in the region in the past three weeks, a church-linked Pastoral Land Commission said Tuesday. ... more
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Google applies for China mapping licence: report
Google and its joint venture partner in China have applied for a licence to operate an online mapping service in the world's biggest web market, a report said Tuesday. ... more
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Led by China, fish farms soaring: study
Nearly half of the fish eaten around the world now comes from farms instead of the wild, with more foresight needed in China and other producers to limit the ecological impact, a study said Tuesday. ... more
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WATER WORLD

Mini-submarines to gauge Lake Geneva pollution
Two mini-submarines that have filmed the wreckage of the doomed luxury cruise liner Titanic will dive into Lake Geneva to gauge its pollution levels, Swiss researchers said Tuesday. ... more
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Fish farms spark green debate in New Zealand
As a flock of seagulls swoops on a salmon farm in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, attracted by the thrashing fish within, tour boat operator Peter Beech sighs and says: "I'm not sure this is a fight we can win." ... more
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UN calls for eco-friendly farming to boost yields
The United Nations food agency on Monday called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity to feed the world's growing population. ... more
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New NASA Map Reveals Tropical Forest Carbon Storage
A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The da ... more
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Satellite and Radar Data Reveal Damage Track of Alabama Tornadic Thunderstorms
This image shows the radar reflectivity from the National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Birmingham, Ala. at 5:10 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, as a supercell thunderstorm moved across the city. ... more
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WATER WORLD

Baylor Study Finds Widespread Stream Biodiversity Declines at Low Levels of Urban Development
A new study from biology researchers at Baylor University and the University of Maryland-Baltimore has found that there are consistent and widespread declines in stream biodiversity at lower levels ... more
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Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk
As millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. Midwest and South recover from Mississippi River flooding, scientists report that river flooding can increase levels of potentially harmful flame retarda ... more
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Early agricultural piracy informs the domestication of rice
The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domesticatio ... more
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Super varieties of wheat expected to boost yields and block wheat rust
Five years after the launch of a global effort to protect the world's most important food crop from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust, scientists say they are close to producing ... more
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Planet's soils are under threat warns University academic
The planet's soils are under greater threat than ever before, at a time when we need to draw on their vital role to support life more than ever, warns an expert from the University of Sheffield in t ... more
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NASA's infrared image of major Hurricane Adrian reveals its stormy life's blood
Strong thunderstorms are the life's blood of tropical cyclones, and infrared and radar satellite data from NASA confirms that the eastern Pacific Ocean's first hurricane has plenty of them and they' ... more
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Water's surface not all wet
Air and water meet over most of the earth's surface, but exactly where one ends and the other begins turns out to be a surprisingly subtle question. A new study in Nature narrows the boundary to jus ... more
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Methane gas from cows - the proof is in the poo
Scientists could have a revolutionary new way of measuring how much of the potent greenhouse gas methane is produced by cows and other ruminants, thanks to a surprising discovery in their poo. ... more
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Satellite study helps thirsty Sahel
Embattled farmers in the Sahel countries of West Africa can take heart from a new study that should boost the accuracy of rainfall prediction in one of the world's most fragile regions. ... more
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NASA launches ocean-watch satellite
The US space agency on Friday launched a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and measure how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate. ... more
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Russia likely to end ban on EU vegetables
Russia agreed to end its ban on vegetable imports from EU farmers after a high-powered EU intervention during annual talks, called to explore ways of integrating Moscow into the European mainstream. ... more
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Japan recalls Shizuoka tea over radiation fears
Japan has detected radiation above the legal limit in tea grown in Shizuoka, the heart of the nation's green tea industry, officials said Friday, blaming the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. ... more
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Lender tests drought insurance for African farmers
Development lenders are forging new weather insurance schemes to protect small farmers in the developing world from being wiped out by drought, the head of a World Bank subsidiary said Thursday. ... more
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NASA ocean-watch satellite set for Friday launch
The US space agency said it would attempt to launch on Friday a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate. ... more
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Climate change will cut water for farmers: UN
The UN food agency on Thursday warned climate change will restrict the availability of water for farming in decades to come, including in the Mediterranean region, and urged governments to take action. ... more
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Hot Towers in First Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific
The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirme ... more
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Aquarius to Study the Power of Sea Salt
A new observatory is about to leave Earth to map a powerful compound of global importance: Common everyday sea salt. Researchers suspect that the salinity of Earth's oceans has far-reaching effects ... more
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Freshwater algae mystery solved
The pristine state of unpolluted waterways may be their downfall, according to research results published in a paper this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. A species of freshwa ... more
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From seawater to freshwater with a nanotechnology filter
In this month's Physics World, Jason Reese, Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Strathclyde, describes the role that carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could play in the d ... more
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Three Satellites See Eruption of Puyehue-Cordon Volcano from Space
NASA's Terra Satellite, the GOES-13 and GOES-11 satellites all captured images of the ash plume from southern Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Volcano this week. The volcano is located in Puyehue National Par ... more
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