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July 25, 2011
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Aura Detects Pollution in the Great Lakes Region
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 25, 2011
Fires throughout Ontario are generating pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite in the Great Lakes region. The fires have also forced thousands of residents to evacuate to other areas in Canada, according to CBC News. About 112 fires have ravaged 81,545 acres so far, said the province's minister of natural resources, Linda Jeffrey. Because of the smoke from wildfires blowing south, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency issued an air pollution alert, according to the Duluth ... read more

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TerraSAR-X image of the month - Volcanic eruption in Chile
The crater of the Chilean volcano Puyehue displays a striking, circular outline in this image from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite - ... more
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Horn of Africa drought seen from space
Drought in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti is pushing tens of thousands of people from their homes as millions face food insecurity in a crisis visible from space. ESA's SMOS satellite shows t ... more
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Famine in Somalia is 'immoral': UN aid coordinator
With the world scrambling to rescue 12 million people on the brink of starvation in the Horn of Africa, UN emergency official Cristina Amaral said the fact that children are dying of hunger is "immoral". ... more
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Aid reaches drought-ravaged Somalia
The International Red Cross said Sunday it had handed out 400 tonnes of food in drought-hit parts of rebel-held southern Somalia as the UN prepares to host emergency talks on the crisis in the region. ... more
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How to eat well and save the planet too
Eating used to be so simple. If you liked it and could afford it, down the hatch it went. Yum-yum, end of story. ... more
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Somali rebels maintain aid ban, reject famine
Somalia's Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents said Friday a ban on foreign aid groups remained in force and rejected a UN declaration that parts of the country had been hit by famine. ... more
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Central America launches its 'Google' of weather
Officials launched a database Thursday they dubbed the "Google of Central American weather," designed to predict natural disasters as the region grapples with devastating consequences blamed on climate change. ... more
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Climate change 'may make truffles a German delicacy'
Truffles, a luxury delicacy in French and Italian cuisine, may soon be adding flavour to blander dishes, as it migrates further north amid climate change, a Swiss scientist said Friday. ... more
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Somali relief in rebel-held areas raises challenges
Relief efforts are being ramped up for two famine-struck regions of Somalia controlled by a US-designated terrorist group, but there are deep concerns as to the implications of dealing with them. ... more
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Climate Adaptation of Rice
Rice - which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world's population - could become adapted to climate change and some catastrophic events by colonizing its seeds or plants with the spore ... more
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Spread Of Fungus-Farming Beetles Is Bad News For Trees
North Carolina State University researchers have found that a subset of fungus-farming ambrosia beetles may be in the early stages of a global epidemic threatening a number of economically important ... more
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The Future of Cover Crops
Winter cover crops are an important component of nutrient cycling, soil cover and organic matter content. Although its benefits are well documented, cover crop use in farming systems is relatively l ... more
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Landsat Satellites Track Continued Missouri River Flooding
Flooding along the Missouri River continues as shown in recent Landsat satellite images of the Nebraska and Iowa border. Heavy rains and snowmelt have caused the river to remain above flood stage fo ... more
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Japan's contaminated beef scare widens
A scare over radiation-tainted Japanese beef deepened Thursday with the number of cattle thought to have been contaminated and shipped around the country rising to nearly 1,500, reports said. ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

Kenyan herders flee as cattle die in Horn of Africa drought
Abdi Seikh Musa was once a flourishing livestock herder, but now, as extreme drought grips the Horn of Africa, his animals are dying as the people of northern Kenya struggle for survival. ... more
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Deal signed for space-based imaging
Thales Alenia Space Italia will study the definition and feasibility of Europe's Multinational Space-based Imaging System . ... more
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Greenpeace Australia raided over GM wheat action
Australian police on Thursday raided the Sydney offices of Greenpeace over their destruction of an experimental crop of genetically modified wheat at a government research farm. ... more
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Dry onion skin has a use
More than 500,000 tonnes of onion waste are thrown away in the European Union each year. However, scientists say this could have a use as food ingredients. The brown skin and external layers are ric ... more
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Soil microbes accelerate global warming
More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere causes soil to release the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, new research published in this week's edition of Nature reveals. "This feedb ... more
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Summer's superfruit challenged: Latin American blueberries found to be 'extreme superfruits'
One of the treats of summer-fresh, antioxidant-rich blueberries-has new competition for the title of "superfruit." But at least the contenders are keeping the title in the family. Researchers ... more
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US heartland suffers under killer heat, humidity
A searing heatwave brought summer misery to the American heartland and caused more than a dozen deaths as it blanketed up to 17 US states in soaring temperatures and oppressive humidity. ... more
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Millions facing misery in Somalia famine
Struggling through parched bush and baking heat, Rahmo Mohammed brought her severely malnourished son Saeed to Ethiopia's Kobe refugee camp to save him. ... more
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Fukushima cattle farmers despair over beef ban
Using a special permit, beef rancher Masami Yoshizawa makes a weekly trip inside Japan's nuclear no-go zone around a crippled atomic plant to feed 300 of his cows that still live in the area. ... more
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UN declares famine in southern Somalia
The UN officially declared famine Wednesday in two southern Somalia regions as the world slowly mobilised to save the 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years. ... more
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Chile is more dangerous for Argentina than vice versa
Invasive plant species in Chile pose a higher threat to its neighbour, Argentina, than vice versa. This was concluded by scientists from the University of Concepcion in Chile and the Helmholtz Centr ... more
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Link found between increased crops and deforestation in Amazon, but issue not so cut and dry
A Kansas State University geographer is part of a research team out to prove what environmental scientists have suspected for years: Increasing the production of soybean and biofuel crops in Brazil ... more
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UN declares famine in southern Somalia
The UN officially declared famine in two southern Somalia regions Wednesday as the world slowly mobilised to save 12 million people battling hunger in the region's worst drought in 60 years. ... more
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WATER WORLD

EU tightens nuclear waste disposal rules
The European Union on Tuesday tightened rules on the disposal of radioactive waste with strict conditions on exporting it outside EU borders, but the move did not please environmentalists. ... more
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WATER WORLD

After PCs, Bill Gates sets out to reinvent WCs
The man who reinvented computers and made PCs a household item in most wealthy nations, Microsoft tycoon turned philanthropist Bill Gates, is now focusing his attention on recasting the WC. ... more
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CLIMATE SCIENCE

US urges Eritrea to reveal scope of drought
The United States on Tuesday urged Eritrea to reveal how severely it has been hit by the Horn of Africa's drought, warning that people may be at risk inside the authoritarian country. ... more
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Sierra Leone launches $61 million water project
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Tuesday launched a $61 million (43 million euro) project to revamp three water stations and supply pipeborne water to three main cities. ... more
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