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Japan moves closer to nuclear payoutTokyo (AFP) Aug 3, 2011 Japan's government moved a step closer Wednesday to multi-billion-dollar compensation payouts for the victims of the country's enduring nuclear crisis, but angry farmers demanded faster action. Parliament passed a law to create a state-backed entity that would help embattled operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) pay the compensation bill for the disaster, estimated to reach tens of billions of dollars. Japan's government has agreed to help TEPCO compensate evacuees and other victims, con ... read more |
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  Aid efforts falter as widening Somali famine looms As warnings grow that famine could engulf all of southern Somalia, the relief efforts needed to ease the crisis are being hampered by escalating conflict and restrictions by rebels on aid groups. ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong's CKI soars after British water deal Shares in a firm controlled by Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing hit a record high Wednesday, a day after it announced a $3.9 billion deal to buy one of Britain's biggest water utilities. ... more | .. |
Aid groups warn famine may engulf southern Somalia The harsh drought ravaging the Horn of Africa is likely to worsen and could trigger famine in more regions of Somalia, aid groups warned Tuesday as they struggle to help the millions already affected. ... more | .. |
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Fleeing Somalis overstretch drought relief efforts Arriving in their hundreds every day to seek relief in overcrowded Kenyan camps, weak and weary Somalis fleeing extreme drought and conflict face a new struggle to get food and shelter. ... more | .. |
Hong Kong tycoon to buy British water utility Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing on Tuesday announced his firm would buy one of Britain's biggest water utilities in a deal worth nearly $4 billion. ... more | .. |
  Reforestation's cooling influence a result of farmer's past choices Decisions by farmers to plant on productive land with little snow enhances the potential for reforestation to counteract global warming, concludes new research from Carnegie's Julia Pongratz and Ken ... more | .. |
  UC Riverside chemists transform acids into bases Chemists at the University of California, Riverside have accomplished in the lab what until now was considered impossible: transform a family of compounds which are acids into bases. As our ch ... more |
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US sinks international deal on decarbonising ships
Beyond Gravity boosts Swiss production of solar array mechanisms
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 Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed t ... more | .. |
 Cows clock-in for monitored mealtimes Electronic ear tags are being used to provide an early warning system that will help farmers identify sick animals within a herd. The new system, being trialled by scientists at Newcastle Univ ... more | .. |
  NASA Satellite Tracks Severity of African Drought Northeast Africa continues to reel from the effects of the worst drought to strike the region in decades. The arid conditions are contributing to famines that the U.S. Department of State says are a ... more | .. |
 Tropical Storm Muifa appears huge on NASA infrared imagery The width of an image from the AIRS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite is about 1700 km (1056 miles), and the clouds and thunderstorms associate with Tropical Storm Muifa take up that en ... more |
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 Record-breaking US drought in July: data July was a record-breaking dry month in parts of the United States, with 12 percent of the country under an "exceptional" drought causing crop losses and water shortages, authorities said Monday. ... more | .. |
 ICRC boosts food aid to rebel-held Somali regions The International Committee of the Red Cross said Monday it had distributed food to 162,000 drought-stricken people in south and central Somalia, regions largely controlled by Islamist rebels. ... more | .. |
 New study outlines economic and environmental benefits to reducing nitrogen pollution A new study co-authored by Columbia Engineering professor Kartik Chandran and recently published in the journal, Environmental Science and Technology, shows that reducing nitrogen pollution generate ... more | .. |
Africa bank blames famine on climate change, conflict The famine in Africa's fragile Horn of Africa region was caused by climate change and "our collective failure to end the Somali civil war," the head of the African Development Bank said Monday. ... more |
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Zelensky urges allies against appeasing Russia after US trip
Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to 'immediate ceasefire' in Qatar talks
Gaza reports 45 dead in Israeli strikes as truce breaches by both sides increase | .. |
 GMO Crops Could Eventually Make Own Nitrogen Fertilizer Two University of Alberta researchers have published a step by step plan to one-day end the use of environmentally harmful chemicals on commercial crops by developing plants that produce their own f ... more | .. |
 Beetles play an important role in reducing weeds Researchers funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) have found that ground beetles reduce the amou ... more | .. |
 NASA AIRS Movies Show Evolution of US 2011 Heat Wave The continuing heat wave in the United States in July 2011 has broken temperature records in many locations, killed dozens and seen nearly half of all Americans under heat advisories at its peak. ... more | .. |
 Food imports put Cuban reforms at risk High food imports are putting Cuban economic reforms at risk because of the drain they pose on foreign exchange resources. ... more |
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Japan widens ban on radioactive beef Japan widened a ban on beef to cattle from a second tsunami-hit region Thursday, citing elevated radiation levels in the meat of animals because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
'Land grabs threaten Africa food security' Large land grabs by foreign countries and corporate entities are endangering food security in sub-Saharan Africa, an area already under pressure from famine, drought and endemic conflict, the State of the World 2011 report said. ... more | .. |
WFP begins emergency airlifts to hunger-stricken Somalia The World Food Programme airlifted 10 tonnes of emergency supplies to Mogadishu Wednesday to feed thousands of malnourished children in drought-hit Somalia. ... more | .. |
AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital Mogadishu in efforts to secure aid routes for drought victims. ... more |
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Quantum radio receiver uses laser light and atomic resonance to detect microwaves
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Australia farmer sues neighbours over GM An Australian farmer on Thursday launched legal action against his neighbour after genetically modified canola blew onto his farm, prompting authorities to strip him of his organic licence. ... more | .. |
Ravenous wolves colonise France, terrorise shepherds A bloody, stinking sheep's carcass greets shepherd Yves Vignon as he walks to check on his flock on the foggy Alpine heights. It's the 17th of his ewes to be savaged in a month. ... more | .. |
 Using Satellites for Human and Environmental Security Needs Can satellites attuned to curbing human rights violations become an instrument for stopping genocide here on Earth? An opinion editorial asks this question and more in the Summer 2011 issue of ... more | .. |
Herders kill animals as Horn of Africa drought worsens Butchered sheep and goats are strung up in a thorn tree ready for cooking in this remote north Kenyan village, as though the people are preparing a giant celebration feast. ... more |
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How Dairy Farms Contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have produced the first detailed data on how large-scale dairy facilities contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases. This research was conducted ... more | .. |
 Saving fuel while plowing Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2011 Less friction, less power, less fuel - plowshares coated with diamond-like carbon (DLC) slide through the soil like a hot knife through butter. As a result, the t ... more | .. |
 Grazing Management Effects on Stream Pollutants Surface water quality is important for the proper function of aquatic ecosystems, as well as human needs and recreation. Pasturelands have been found to be major sources of sediment, phosphorus and ... more | .. |
 UN readies aid airlift to Mogadishu The UN's World Food Programme readied aircraft with food aid bound for the Somali capital Mogadishu amid intensifying relief efforts for millions hit by drought across the Horn of Africa region. ... more |
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