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Nearly half China farmers suffer land grabs: reportBeijing (AFP) Feb 7, 2012 More than 43 percent of Chinese farmers in a wide-ranging study have been victims of land grabs and local governments have made huge profits in the process, state press said Tuesday. Land grabs have become an explosive issue in China as officials seeking to cash in on a property boom increasingly force farmers off their land to make way for construction - an issue repeatedly condemned by Premier Wen Jiabao. In one recent protest, villagers in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong faced off ... read more |
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  'Atlantis' gone in new Google map image A Google Earth image with an undersea gridlike pattern some suspected were sunken streets of the mythological city of Atlantis has been updated, official said. ... more | .. |
 China's heir apparent bigger than Pope: Iowa governor The upcoming visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, the growing Asian power's likely next leader, is going to be the biggest thing that's happened to Iowa since Pope John Paul II visited in 1979, the farm state's governor said Monday. ... more | .. |
  China water project to begin operating in 2013: report A massive project to divert water from China's south to its drought-prone north - which has seen hundreds of thousands of people relocated - will become partly operational next year, state media reported. ... more | .. |
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 Africa land grabs 'could cause conflicts' The stampede by wealthy states for arable land across Africa and other developing regions could trigger a series of conflicts if governments fail to protect the rights of their people, two recent studies on land grabs warn. ... more | .. |
 China considers Google Maps request Chinese authorities say an application by Google for an online maps license, required for operating such services in China, is under official examination. ... more | .. |
 Livestock, not Mongolian gazelles, drive foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks Wildlife health experts from the Wildlife Conservation Society have published evidence which supports the conclusion that Mongolian gazelles-one of the most populous large land mammals on the planet ... more | .. |
  Deforestation threatens Brazil's wetland sanctuary The Pantanal, a stunning biodiversity sanctuary in central-western Brazil, is threatened by intensive farming and deforestation, a leading environmental group warned as the world marked World Wetlands Day on Thursday. ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
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 NASA's GCPEX Mission: What We Don't Know about Snow Predicting the future is always a tricky business - just watch a TV weather report. Weather forecasts have come a long way, but almost every season there's a snowstorm that seems to come out of nowh ... more | .. |
 Cattle outbreak hitting Paraguay exports Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have hit Paraguay hard, forcing a drop in beef exports that may top 30 percent this year, latest trade data indicated. ... more | .. |
 Report Taps into Innovative Financing to Secure Future for Sustainable Water Infrastructure Innovative financing and pricing flexibility are key to preparing the nation's aging freshwater systems to handle growing demand and environmental challenges, according to a Charting New Waters repo ... more | .. |
 Biodiversity enhances ecosystems global drylands An international team of researchers including Dr. Bertrand Boeken of the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev suggest in a new study that plant biodi ... more |
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 Truckloads of Chinese rice enter N. Korea: activist Long convoys of Chinese lorries laden with rice were seen entering North Korea after Beijing reportedly agreed to provide major food aid to Pyongyang's new regime, a South Korean activist said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Geoengineering and global food supply Carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of coal, oil, and gas have been increasing over the past decades, causing the Earth to get hotter and hotter. There are concerns that a continuation of thes ... more | .. |
 Recent study by Mars underscores health benefits of cocoa flavanols A comprehensive investigation of flavanol absorption and metabolism has provided a critical step forward in our understanding of how cocoa flavanols work in the body to exert their circulatory and c ... more | .. |
  Extreme droughts could increase by 15 percent in Spain by the middle of the century A team at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has designed a new method for calculating drought trends. Initial results suggest that by the year 2050 there could be a 15% increase compared to th ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 Overgrazed grasslands tied to locust outbreaks While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing co ... more | .. |
 Iran grain imports stalled by sanctions At least 24 cargo ships carrying a total 480,000 tonnes of wheat and other grains are sitting off Iran's coast, unable to unload because of the effects of sanctions on the Islamic republic, an industry source said. ... more | .. |
 S. America drought hits corn yields Drought in Central and South America is affecting corn yields, a boon for U.S. corn exporters but a cause of major worries for agriculture traders in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Mexico. ... more | .. |
 Mining threatens herders in Mongolia: report Mining in southern Mongolia is threatening the livelihoods of herders and straining water supplies, a report said Monday, as foreign companies race to exploit the country's rich mineral deposits. ... more |
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 Fungi-filled forests are critical for endangered orchids When it comes to conserving the world's orchids, not all forests are equal. In a paper to be published Jan. 25 in the journal Molecular Ecology, Smithsonian ecologists revealed that an orchid's fate ... more | .. |
 Climate-driven heat peaks may shrink wheat crops More intense heat waves due to global warming could diminish wheat crop yields around the world through premature ageing, according to a study published Sunday in Nature Climate Change. ... more | .. |
 Iraq water crisis could stir ethnic clash Iraq is facing worsening water shortages caused by the failure of successive postwar governments to ensure supplies and extensive dam-building in neighboring states that could trigger sectarian conflict. ... more | .. |
 Grafted watermelon plants take in more pesticides The widely used farm practice of grafting watermelon and other melon plants onto squash or pumpkin rootstocks results in larger amounts of certain pesticides in the melon fruit, scientists are repor ... more |
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DAMPE space telescope finds universal spectral feature that narrows field on cosmic ray origins
ThinKom Develops Self-Funded Mobile HPM Weapon to Counter Drone Swarms
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 Improving crops from the roots up Research involving scientists at The University of Nottingham has taken us a step closer to breeding hardier crops that can better adapt to different environmental conditions and fight off attack fr ... more | .. |
 Barclays tops roll of shame at Davos Barclays was accused of driving millions of people into poverty by speculating on food prices as campaigners at Davos conferred their annual Public Eye shame award on the British bank on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Pythagoras Solar Turns Organic Valley HQ into Energy Generating Asset Pythagoras Solar has announced the completion of its industry leading solar window project at the Organic Valley headquarters in La Farge, Wisconsin. Organic Valley, the nation's largest cooperative ... more | .. |
 'Rules' may govern genome evolution in young plant species A new University of Florida study shows a hybrid plant species may experience rapid genome evolution in predictable patterns, meaning evolution repeats itself in populations of independent origin. ... more |
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 Pollution sparks panic water buying in China Pollution in China's southern region of Guangxi sparked panic buying of bottled water this week after a mining firm dumped toxic cadmium into a river, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Science to help rice growers affected by Japan's tsunami Under a year since a huge tsunami inundated paddy fields in Japan with salty sludge, scientists are near to developing locally-adapted, salt-tolerant rice. Following a Japan-UK research collab ... more | .. |
 Sweeten up your profits with the right hybrid New University of Illinois sweet corn research shows that higher yield and profitability are possible with greater plant populations of certain hybrids. Although it's a common practice to stud ... more | .. |
 Davos grapples with surging demand for fuel, food Petrol is already beyond the price range of many Africans while surging population levels should force governments in Asia to limit car use, political and business leaders said Wednesday. ... more |
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