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Restoring forests and planting trees on farms can greatly improve food securityNairobi, Kenya (SPX) Sep 20, 2011 Restoring and preserving dryland forests and planting more trees to provide food, fodder and fertilizer on small farms are critical steps toward preventing the recurrence of the famine now threatening millions of people in the Horn of Africa, according to forestry experts from the CGIAR Consortium. Across the Horn, drought-induced famine has claimed tens of thousands of lives and swelled refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere, with millions of starving people - many of them children. Beari ... read more |
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 Breeding Soybeans for Improved Feed Modifying soybean seed to increase phosphorus content can improve animal nutrition and reduce feed costs and nutrient pollution. However, further research is needed to commercialize this valuable te ... more | .. |
  ADB approves $80m loan for Kathmandu water supply The Asian Development Bank said Monday it had approved an $80 million soft loan to Nepal to improve the chronically poor water supply for nearly three million people in the Kathmandu valley. ... more | .. |
 Brazil arrests two over Amazon activist killings Brazilian police have arrested two suspects over the killing in May of a husband and wife team of environmental activists who had been identifying illegal loggers, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
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 TUM scientists document aquatic species decline at dams and weirs Dams and weirs have a stronger impact on the ecosystem of watercourses than was previously realized. Species diversity in the dammed area upstream of weirs shows a significant decline: the diversity ... more | .. |
 Cities to grab lands equaling size of Mongolia In next 20 years In the next 20 years, more than 590,000 square miles of land globally - more than twice the size of Texas - will be gobbled up by cities, a trend that shows no signs of stopping and one that could p ... more | .. |
 Consumers willing to pay premium for healthier genetically modified foods Consumers are eager to get their hands on, and teeth into, foods that are genetically modified to increase health benefits - and even pay more for the opportunity. A study by Iowa State Univer ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep beneath an Earth desert, in the first ... more |
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  ERS satellite missions complete after 20 years After a final thruster firing last week to deplete its remaining fuel, ESA's venerable ERS-2 observation satellite has been safely taken out of service. Ground controllers also ensured the space env ... more | .. |
 New US lab trains global scientists in food safety Global food trade is a big and risky business. ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman to Complete Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder for Joint Polar Satellite Systems Northrop Grumman will build and deliver the Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) for the Joint Polar Satellite Systems (JPSS) under a contract with NASA. JPSS is a system of polar-orbi ... more | .. |
  Tools That Will Help Reduce Nitrogen Pollution A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) soil scientist in Colorado is helping farmers grow crops with less nitrogen-based fertilizer. The fertilizers are a major reason why agriculture is a si ... more |
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 Tanzania finds fishery improvements outweigh fuelwood losses When the government of Tanzania established Saadani National Park in 2005, it enhanced protection of the coastal mangrove ecosystem from further degradation. A study by a team of University of Rhode ... more | .. |
 Pakistan's breadbasket reels from more floods One year after record floods left 21 million Pakistanis reeling, thousands living on the country's southern fertile plains have seen their homes washed away for a second time - despite the spending of millions of dollars in aid to avert a fresh crisis. ... more | .. |
  Man kills two children, four adults in China axe attack A farmer with mental health problems killed six people, two of them children, with an axe as they made their way to a kindergarten in China Wednesday, the local government and media reports said. ... more | .. |
  Where does all the gold come from Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals ... more |
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 Homeowners, taxpayers pay billions to fight invasive pests Homeowners and taxpayers are picking up most of the tab for damage caused by invasive tree-feeding insects that hide in packing materials, live plants and other goods imported from countries into th ... more | .. |
 A scientific 'go' for commercial production of vitamin-D enhanced mushrooms A new commercial processing technology is suitable for boosting the vitamin D content of mushrooms and has no adverse effects on other nutrients in those tasty delicacies, the first study on the top ... more | .. |
 China plant resources need additional protections China needs to change where it sites its nature reserves and steer people out of remote rural villages toward cities to protect its valuable but threatened wild plant resources, according to an arti ... more | .. |
 China arrests 32 over 'gutter' cooking oil scam China said Tuesday it had arrested 32 people over the sale of cooking oil made from leftovers taken from gutters, in the latest food safety scandal to hit the country. ... more |
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 GIS Finds its Way to The Cloud Setting up a GIS system just got simpler thanks to cloud computing. Cloud computing furnishes technological capabilities - commonly maintained off-premise that are delivered on demand as a service v ... more | .. |
  Turkish delegation in Mogadishu for aid, trade issues A large Turkish delegation spent Monday in famine-hit Mogadishu assessing investment opportunities and delivering aid, a Somali government statement said. ... more | .. |
EU to maintain safety checks on food from Japan The European Union will extend until year's end checks on potential radioactive contamination in food imports from certain regions of Japan, the EU's executive said Friday. ... more | .. |
Number in need of help in East Africa rises to 13.3 mln: UN Drought, high food prices and fighting in Somalia has increased the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance in the Horn of Africa to 13.3 million, the UN said Friday. ... more |
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 Russia's Putin voted 'Baikal's worst enemy' Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been voted the "worst enemy of lake Baikal" in an online poll organised by Greenpeace, the environmental organisation said Friday ... more | .. |
 East Africa, Arab world face food crisis The United Nations warns that the famine in war-wracked Somalia is spreading and that 750,000 people could die in the next six months if international aid isn't increased. ... more | .. |
 Almost 90% of Tripoli now has water: NTC Nearly all of Tripoli has regained access to running water after nearly two weeks of shortages, the head of a prime ministerial task force told AFP on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Europe's anti-GM nations warned against unilateral action US biotech giant Monsanto scored points Thursday in a battle with GM sceptics in the EU, when Europe's highest court warned against fresh unilateral action against genetically-modified crops. ... more |
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 Record drought keeps grip on U.S. states The percentage of land suffering from exceptional drought reached record levels in August in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, scientists said. ... more | .. |
 Sustainable development world's top issue: UN chief United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday singled out sustainable development as the top issue facing the planet with the world's seven billionth person expected to be born next month. ... more | .. |
 Date palm decline: Iraq looks to rebuild Iraqi officials are pushing re-planting programmes for the country's date palms, which are famed across the Middle East as the region's best but have suffered terrible losses in past decades. ... more | .. |
 Study finds crop performance matters when evaluating greenhouse gas emissions Measuring the emission of greenhouse gases from croplands should take into account the crops themselves. That's the conclusion of a study in the Sept.-Oct. issue of the Journal of Environmental Qual ... more |
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