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Paving the Way for Space-Based Air Pollution SensorsAnnapolis MD (SPX) Jun 27, 2011 Although the nation's air has grown significantly cleaner in recent decades, about 40 percent of Americans - 127 million people - live in counties where pollution levels still regularly exceed national air quality standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency. Most of the areas with the heaviest pollution are in California, but other parts of the country are anything but immune. On the drive down I-95 between Baltimore and Washington D.C., for example, sweltering summer heat and rel ... read more |
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  Landscape coefficients prove useful for urban water conservation efforts Although water consumption and conservation are widely recognized as significant environmental concerns in the United States, most Americans are still unaware of the major impact of landscape irriga ... more | .. |
 Nigeria prepares to launch two earth observation satellites Nigeria has concluded plans to launch into orbit two satellites from Russia on July 7, a top government official with the country's National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has said. ... more | .. |
  Dairy manure goes urban When natural ecosystems are replaced by roads, homes, and commercial structures, soil is negatively impacted. Studies have shown that, among other issues, distressed urban soils are often significan ... more | .. |
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 New and old threats to soybean production University of Illinois researchers identified the top pathogens, pests and weeds affecting soybean production in a recent article in Food Security. Soybean aphid, soybean rust, soybean cyst nematode ... more | .. |
 Million-euro Danube plan will create 'green showcase': WWF Conservation group WWF on Friday hailed a 100 billion euro boost for Europe's Danube region, saying the EU plan would "showcase a modern, green society." ... more | .. |
 Bird flu outbreak hits Dutch chicken farm Dutch authorities were slaughtering thousands of chickens at a poultry farm in central Netherlands after an outbreak of a bird flu variety there, an agriculture ministry spokesman said. ... more | .. |
Hong Kong tailors tighten belts as wool costs rise Just as customers had begun returning to Vijay Sadhwani's Hong Kong tailor shop after the spasms of the world financial crisis, his business suffered another setback - the rocketing price of wool. ... more |
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Artificial ocean carbon recycling system turns seawater CO2 into bioplastic feedstock
Bacterium Breakthrough Points to New Path for Battery Self-Recycling
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 Artificial light quality affects herbivore preference for seedlings In horticultural production, growers often depend on systems that use artificial light to produce high-quality transplants. Although the systems are efficient, fluorescent lamps can produce plants w ... more | .. |
 Fungicides may not increase corn yields unless disease develops Unless a corn crop is at risk of developing fungal diseases, a Purdue University study shows that farmers would be smart to skip fungicide treatments that promise increased yields. Kiersten Wi ... more | .. |
  Patagonian shepherds fear Chile ash disaster While air passengers from Argentina to Australia suffer travel misery from Chile's volcanic ash cloud, Patagonian farmers have a graver problem: what to do with 1.5 million sheep. ... more | .. |
 European And US Consumer Views On Cloned Products Differ Not all consumers share the same attitudes toward animal cloning, but the latest research from Sean Fox, Kansas State University professor of agricultural economics, shows that Americans may be more ... more |
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 'Super sand' for better purification of drinking water Scientists have developed a way to transform ordinary sand - a mainstay filter material used to purify drinking water throughout the world - into a "super sand" with five times the filtering capacit ... more | .. |
 Early-season strawberry tested in high elevation conditions In response to increased awareness generated by the expanding local foods movement, demand for fresh strawberries has increased throughout the United States. The fresh market strawberry industry in ... more | .. |
 Pollination services at risk following declines of Swedish bumblebees Scientists from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the University of Lund have discovered that the community composition of bumble bee species and their relative abundances have cha ... more | .. |
 NASA sees Hurricane Beatriz 'wink' on the Mexican coast Hurricane Beatriz is skirting the southwestern Mexican coast and bringing heavy rains and high surf to coastal areas, including Mexico's biggest port. NASA satellite imagery showed that Beatriz seem ... more |
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Venezuela's Maduro to US: 'No crazy war, please!'
UK to urge more long-range missiles for Ukraine at London summit
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 Raytheon's First-of-Its-Kind Space-Based Hyperspectral Sensor Marks Second Year on Orbit A groundbreaking space sensor built by Raytheon has completed its second year on orbit, exceeding its design life by 100 percent. The Advanced Responsive, Tactically Effective Military Imaging Senso ... more | .. |
 Salivating over wheat plants may net Hessian flies big meal or death The interaction between a Hessian fly's saliva and the wheat plant it is attacking may be the key to whether the pest eats like a king or dies like a starving pauper, according to a study done at Pu ... more | .. |
 Purdue handheld technology detects chemicals on store produce Purdue University researchers recently took their miniature mass spectrometer grocery shopping to test for traces of chemicals on standard and organic produce. In the technology's first venture out ... more | .. |
 Probing the secrets of the ryegrasses LMU chemists led by Professor Dirk Trauner have developed a concise and efficient method for the synthesis of the alkaloid loline and related compounds. Loline alkaloids are a biologically interesti ... more |
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Philippines' Jollibee food chain eyes China Jollibee Foods Corp, the Philippines' top restaurant chain, said Wednesday it planned to set up 280 new stores this year, including 90 in China, as part of a major expansion drive. ... more | .. |
 New curation tool a boon for genetic biologists With the BeeSpace Navigator, University of Illinois researchers have created both a curation tool for genetic biologists and a new approach to searching for information. The project was a coll ... more | .. |
 Where have all the flowers gone? It's summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color.But for how long? Once, wildflower season in montane meadow ecosystems extended thr ... more | .. |
 Native Bees are Selective about Where They Live and Feed Native bees - often small, stingless, solitary and unnoticed in the flashier world of stinging honeybees - are quite discriminating about where they live, according to U.S. Geological Survey researc ... more |
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Europe plans satellite powerhouse to rival Musk's Starlink
Precision laser links overcome turbulence for better satellite communications
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 Landsat 5 Satellite Helps Emergency Managers Fight Largest Fire in Arizona History The largest fire in the history of the state of Arizona continues to burn and emergency managers and responders are using satellite data from a variety of instruments to plan their firefighting cont ... more | .. |
 Landsat 5 Satellite Sees Mississippi River Floodwaters Lingering On May 19, 2011, the Mississippi River reached a historic crest at Vicksburg. According to the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service, the river reached ... more | .. |
 NASA/NOAA GOES Project Releases 2 Week Movie of Chilean Volcanic Eruption The NASA/NOAA GOES satellite Project released a satellite animation of two-weeks of eruptions from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satel ... more | .. |
 Land barons seen behind Amazon activist killings Nearly a month after the murder in Brazil's Amazon of an activist couple believed to have been threatened by land and logging barons, the investigation has gone nowhere. ... more |
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 Earth from Space: A gush of volcanic gas This image shows the huge plume of sulphur dioxide that spewed from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle Volcanic Complex, which lies in the Andes about 600 km south of Santiago. After lying dormant ... more | .. |
 Baylor Study Finds Golden Algae Responsible for Killing Millions of Fish Less Toxic in Sunlight A new Baylor University study has found that sunlight decreases the toxicity of golden algae, which kills millions of fish in the southern United States every year. While golden algae is prima ... more | .. |
 Food prices to rise as France seeks reform A U.N.-backed report is predicting a decade of higher food prices just as France is pushing the issue of commodity trading reform to the top of the Group of 20 agenda. ... more | .. |
 Pesticide Impact: Comparing Lab, Field-Scale Results Assessing the environmental risk of pesticide use is an important, complex task that requires knowledge of the equilibrium sorption parameter. This helps researchers assess the risk of pesticides le ... more |
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