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Pastoralists in drought-stricken Kenya receive insurance payouts for massive livestock lossesMarsabit, Kenya (SPX) Oct 27, 2011 In the midst of a drought-induced food crisis affecting millions in the Horn of Africa, an innovative insurance program for poor livestock keepers is making its first payouts, providing compensation for some 650 insured herders in northern Kenya's vast Marsabit District who have lost up to a third of their animals. Known as Index Based Livestock Insurance or IBLI, payouts are triggered when satellite images show that grazing lands in the region have deteriorated to the point that herders are expec ... read more |
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 Plants feel the force "Picture yourself hiking through the woods or walking across a lawn," says Elizabeth Haswell, PhD, assistant professor of biology in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. "Now ask ... more | .. |
 China links up with Gates to fund aid projects China and the foundation run by philanthropist Bill Gates on Wednesday struck a deal to work together on new health and agricultural innovations for poor countries around the world. ... more | .. |
 Stem Rust-resistant Wheat Landraces Identified U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have identified a number of stem rust-resistant wheat varieties and are retesting them to verify their resistance. Stem rust occurs worldwide w ... more | .. |
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 Ancient cooking pots reveal gradual transition to agriculture Humans may have undergone a gradual rather than an abrupt transition from fishing, hunting and gathering to farming, according to a new study of ancient pottery. Researchers at the University of Yor ... more | .. |
 How plants sense low oxygen levels to survive flooding As countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and parts of the United States and United Kingdom have fallen victim to catastrophic flooding in recent years, tolerance of crops to partial or com ... more | .. |
 Breakthrough in the production of flood-tolerant crops This week thousands of families lost their homes and crops as flood waters swept across Central America. In Thailand huge tracts of farmland were submerged as the country faced its worst flooding in ... more | .. |
 Eighth Brazilian farmer since May killed in Amazon An agricultural leader protesting illegal deforestation was shot to death in northern Brazil, the eighth environmentalist farmer to be killed since May in the Amazon, activists said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Begins GeoEye-2 Satellite Integration Lockheed Martin has announced that it will begin integration of GeoEye's next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite, known as GeoEye-2, with the planned delivery of its integrated prop ... more | .. |
  China the culprit of potential water wars? Scarcity of water in Asia could become a thorny issue for the region and trigger major conflicts, an expert says. ... more | .. |
 Topsy-turvy wine weather makes grape sorters shine A topsy-turvy growing season, which zigzagged from drought to hail to heat wave, produced a distressingly mixed crop in Bordeaux this year - but gave optical grape sorters a chance to shine. ... more | .. |
 Putting light-harvesters on the spot How the light-harvesting complexes required for photosynthesis get to their site of action in the plant cell is reported by RUB biologists in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The team led ... more |
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 Mongol herder killed in China land dispute: rights group A Chinese truck driver has killed an ethnic Mongol herder who was trying to protect his grazing land, a rights group said, five months after a similar incident sparked protests in Inner Mongolia. ... more | .. |
 Better use of Global Geospatial Information for Solving Development Challenges Representatives from 90 United Nations Member States and more than 50 international and civil society organizations and private sector entities will gather in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23 to 27 ... more | .. |
 New bacteria toxins against resistant insect pests Toxins from Bacillus thuringiensis bacteria (Bt toxins) are used in organic and conventional farming to manage pest insects. Sprayed as pesticides or produced in genetically modified plants, Bt toxi ... more | .. |
  Biden denounces Somali guerrillas over famine US Vice President Joe Biden on Monday sharply criticized the Islamist Shebab rebels over Somalia's famine, saying that the group has hindered efforts to bring food to the hungry. ... more |
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Trump says to meet Putin in Budapest after 'great' call
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 Study Reveals Diversity of Life in Soils Microscopic animals that live in soils are as diverse in the tropical forests of Costa Rica as they are in the arid grasslands of Kenya, or the tundra and boreal forests of Alaska and Sweden. That c ... more | .. |
 Chinese wine students are boon for Bordeaux One of France's oldest oenology schools, La Tour Blanche, is fighting falling enrolment through a tie-up with a Beijing wine school, the latest in a string of Bordeaux institutes to look East for their future. ... more | .. |
 Canadian scientists map the cannabis genome A team of Canadian researchers has sequenced the genome of Cannabis sativa, the plant that produces both industrial hemp and marijuana, and in the process revealed the genetic changes that led to th ... more | .. |
 Genetically modified cotton worries some The contamination of wild cotton in Mexico with genetically modified cotton poses a risk to biodiversity, agricultural experts say. ... more |
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 Food without preservatives - thanks to self-cleaning equipment Eclairs and other pastries should taste light and fluffy. If the pastry dough contains too many microorganisms, though, it will not rise in the oven. Now, researchers have devised a system that clea ... more | .. |
 Outside View: Japan woos U.S. biotech A delegation of Japanese biotech executives will be in the Washington suburbs this month in hopes of wooing business and corporate partners in Montgomery County, Md., one of the most affluent districts in the United States and which is home to countless numbers of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. ... more | .. |
 Farmland floods do not raise 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 | .. |
 NASA, Japan Release Improved Topographic Map of Earth NASA and Japan released a significantly improved version of the most complete digital topographic map of Earth on Monday, produced with detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The ... more |
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Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice
Unexpected discovery on Saturn's moon challenges our view on chemistry before life emerged
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 NASA Readies New Type of Earth-Observing Satellite for Launch NASA is planning an Oct. 27 launch of the first Earth-observing satellite to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Sate ... more | .. |
 NASA postpones climate satellite launch to Oct 28 NASA on Wednesday set October 28 for its planned launch of a satellite to help weather forecasters predict extreme storms and offer scientists a better view of climate change. ... more | .. |
 US rivers and streams saturated with carbon Rivers and streams in the United States are releasing enough carbon into the atmosphere to fuel 3.4 million car trips to the moon, according to Yale researchers in Nature Geoscience. Their findings ... more | .. |
 Southern Africian farmers using fertilizer trees to improve food security On a continent battered by weather extremes, famine and record food prices, new research from the World Agroforestry Centre documents an exciting new trend in which hundreds of thousands of poor far ... more |
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S Africa to release report on Iraq's oil-for-food South Africa will soon release a report into alleged corruption in the now-defunct UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq, which reportedly implicates senior ruling party officials, the presidency said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Tuvalu grapples with drought The drought in the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, which declared a state of emergency this month because of a severe shortage of fresh water, is likely to last until January, the government says. ... more | .. |
Famine-hit Somalis struggle as aid efforts fall short Trapped in famine-hit Afgoye, a rag-hut city ruled by Islamist Shebab rebels and the world's largest camp for displaced people, Saedo Saleh knew she had to escape when her baby son fell sick. ... more | .. |
 Method of studying roots rarely used in wetlands improves ecosystem research A method of monitoring roots rarely used in wetlands will help Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers effectively study the response of a high-carbon ecosystem to elevated temperatures and levels ... more |
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