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Using Biochar to Boost Soil MoistureFlorence SC (SPX) Nov 14, 2011 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are leading the way in learning more about "biochar," the charred biomass created from wood, other plant material, and manure. The studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at laboratories across the country support the USDA priorities of promoting international food security and responding to global climate change. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency. Soil scientist Jeff Novak at the ARS Coastal Plains S ... read more |
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 Why cooking counts Next time you're out to dinner, you may want to think twice before ordering your steak rare. In a first-of-its kind study, Harvard researchers have shown that cooked meat provides more energy than r ... more | .. |
 Fast new test for terrible form of food poisoning Takeshi Yasumoto and colleagues explain that 20,000-60,000 people every year come down with ciguatera poisoning from eating fish tainted with a ciguatoxin - the most common source of food poisoning ... more | .. |
  China launches remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched the remote-sensing satellite Yaogan XII Wednesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi province, according to a press release from the center. ... more | .. |
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 Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause la ... more | .. |
  Regional cooperation off the menu in Dead Sea 7 Wonders bid Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority learned Friday that the Dead Sea had not been voted as one of the New 7 Wonders of Nature. ... more | .. |
 China's grain output in danger China will face yield losses in rice, wheat and corn - the country's three main crops - unless it takes steps to offset the effects of climate change, an expert warns. ... more | .. |
 Weird world of water gets a little weirder Strange, stranger, strangest! To the weird nature of one of the simplest chemical compounds - the stuff so familiar that even non-scientists know its chemical formula - add another odd twist. Scient ... more |
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 How parasites modify plants to attract insects Pathogens can alter their hosts, for example malaria parasites can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, but how they do it has remained a mystery. Scientists from the John Innes Centre on Norw ... more | .. |
 Castles in the desert - satellites reveal lost cities of Libya Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country. The fall of Gaddafi has o ... more | .. |
 Water dispute threatens last Iraq commercial farm The grass is yellowing, the cows are emaciated and milk production is a fraction of what it once was - Iraq's last major commercial farm is dying a slow death due to a dispute over water. ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X image of the month - Tents in the desert Viewed from above, the US 'Burning Man' festival resembles a spider web. The structure laid out on the site for this festival looks very much like a small town. In October and September 2011, the Te ... more |
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 Drinking water from plastic pipes - is it harmful? Pipe-in-pipe systems are now commonly used to distribute water in many Norwegian homes. The inner pipe for drinking water is made of a plastic called cross-linked polyethylene (PEX). Are these pipes ... more | .. |
  Mission Increases Jatropha Oil Supply Completing the 2011 Planting Season Mission NewEnergy is pleased to announce that it has materially completed its 2011 Jatropha tree planting season, adding 40,264 new acres and 14,331 new Jatropha contract farmers. The Company has re ... more | .. |
 China food chain shares up after buyout gets OK Shares in a Chinese restaurant chain extended its gains further Wednesday after a buy-out bid by the owners of US fast-food giants KFC and Pizza Hut was given regulatory approval. ... more | .. |
 Stalled Weather Systems More Frequent in Decades of Warmer Atlantic Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ... more |
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Trump says to meet Putin in Budapest after 'great' call
'Wonder weapon'? Five things about US Tomahawks coveted by Ukraine
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  UA scientists find evidence of Roman period megadrought Almost nine hundred years ago, in the mid-12th century, the southwestern U.S. was in the middle of a multi-decade megadrought. It was the most recent extended period of severe drought known for this ... more | .. |
  Aid groups warn over Pakistan flood fund Aid groups warned on Wednesday that vital relief efforts for five million people affected by floods in Pakistan's fertile southern belt could be cut back because of a shortfall in foreign donations. ... more | .. |
 Nitrogen Fertilizers' Impact on Lawn Soils Nitrogen fertilizers from farm fields often end up in aquatic ecosystems, resulting in water quality problems, such as toxic algae and underwater 'dead zones'. There are concerns that fertilizers us ... more | .. |
 Research team unravels tomato pathogen's tricks of the trade For decades, scientists and farmers have attempted to understand how a bacterial pathogen continues to damage tomatoes despite numerous agricultural attempts to control its spread. Pseudomonas ... more |
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 Thousand-Color Sensor Reveals Contaminants in Earth and Sea The world may seem painted with endless color, but physiologically the human eye sees only three bands of light - red, green, and blue. Now a Tel Aviv University-developed technology is using colors ... more | .. |
 Geologists find ponds not the cause of arsenic poisoning in India's groundwater The source of arsenic in India's groundwater continues to elude scientists more than a decade after the toxin was discovered in the water supply of the Bengal delta in India. But a recent study with ... more | .. |
 Peru's Congress approves 10-year GMO ban Peru's Congress announced Friday it overwhelmingly approved a 10-year moratorium on imports of genetically modified organisms in order to safeguard the country's biodiversity. ... more | .. |
 African farmers struggle to fund green projects As South Africa prepares to host UN climate talks at the end of the month, African farmers say they are struggling to access a key programme meant to help them take part in the fight against climate change. ... more |
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Are there living microbes on Mars? Check the ice
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 Asia's largest wine fair kicks off in Hong Kong Asia's largest wine fair kicked off in Hong Kong Thursday, attracting nearly 1,000 wine producers from around the world as the southern Chinese city cements its position as a key international wine hub. ... more | .. |
 Cultural thirst drives China's high-end tea boom Fifteen years ago the Lam family business picked up a consignment of aged tea from a defunct Hong Kong restaurant. Its value has since risen by a factor of 10,000, as the Lams have found themselves part of a boom that is both investment fad and cultural obsession. ... more | .. |
 Cattle parasite vaccine offers hope to world's poorest farmers A new approach to vaccinating cattle could help farmers worldwide, research suggests. Scientists have developed a technique using a harmless parasite - which lives in cows but has no effect on their ... more | .. |
 An analysis of water discourse over 40 years of UN declarations UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health has published a study of the changing language related to water in high-level declarations from eleven UN conferences on wa ... more |
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 Stalemate over organic farming slows progress in effort to combat food insecurity in Central Africa The polarized debate over the use of organic and inorganic practices to boost farm yields is slowing action and widespread farmer adoption of approaches that could radically transform Africa's food ... more | .. |
 Human-caused climate change a major factor in more frequent Mediterranean droughts Wintertime droughts are increasingly common in the Mediterranean region, and human-caused climate change is partly responsible, according to a new analysis by NOAA scientists and colleagues at the C ... more | .. |
 Halloween Weekend Snow Paints a Ghostly Picture in the U.S. Northeast A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the reg ... more | .. |
 Landsat's TIRS Instrument Comes Out of First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing Tuesday, October 4 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbe ... more |
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