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Early farmers may have impacted climateBangui, Central African Republic (UPI) Feb 10, 2012 Present-day humans may not be the first to have affected world climate, researchers say, citing possible changes in Africa triggered by farmers 3,000 years ago. French geochemist Germain Bayon, writing in the journal Science, says early farmers in Central Africa may have contributed to the disappearance of rainforests that were "abruptly" replaced by savannas, broad grasslands dotted with shrubs and trees. Bayon and his colleagues studied weathering of sediment samples drawn from the mou ... read more |
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 Libya fallout fans Sahel hunger pangs as crisis looms Sahel states are bracing for a long, potentially deadly hungry season, many weakened by the return of people from Libya who are unemployed, armed and creating fresh strife in already-vulnerable countries. ... more | .. |
  Miami battling invasion of giant African snails No one knows how they got there. But an invasion of African giant snails has southern Florida in a panic over potential crop damage, disease and general yuckiness surrounding the slimy gastropods. ... more | .. |
 Chinese snap up Aussie vines in hunt for top drop The coal-rich hills of Australia's Hunter Valley have long fed China's steel furnaces but the winemaking region is riding a fresh boom as the Asian power's middle classes toast their new wealth. ... more | .. |
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Mauritania goes hungry amid Sahel food crisis: WFP A food crisis in Mauritania as a result of drought is expected to be three times worse that in 2010, when the Sahel was crippled by food shortages, the World Food Programme said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Consumers Willing to Buy Sustainable US Cotton As the interest in environmentally responsible business practices grows globally, researchers are interested in how that interest translates into consumer sales. Researchers from the University of M ... more | .. |
 Brazil to lead world in biotech crops: association Brazil is on course to dislodge the United States as the world's top producer of biotech crops in the coming years, a leading promoter of farm biotechnology said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Water group Suez strives to overcome Australian problem The French environmental services group Suez said Wednesday that it would preserve a solid balance sheet after releasing 2011 results that were hit by problems at an Australian desalination plant. ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
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 Electron-beam irradiation reduces virus-related health risk in lettuce and spinach A team of scientists studying the effects of electron-beam irradiation on iceberg lettuce and spinach has had its research published in the February issue of the leading microbiology journal, Applie ... more | .. |
 Yangtze river pollution sparks panic in China A cargo ship spilled acid into China's longest river last week, contaminating tap supplies and sparking a run on bottled water in eastern China, the government and state media said. ... more | .. |
 Romania's incoming agriculture minister slammed for GM links A coalition of 70 environmental rights groups on Wednesday asked for Romania's incoming agriculture minister to be replaced because of his links to the genetically-modified (GM) crop industry. ... more | .. |
 Nearly half China farmers suffer land grabs: report 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. ... more |
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  VIIRS Eastern Hemisphere Image - Behind the Scenes The Suomi NPP satellite is in a polar orbit around Earth at an altitude of 512 miles (about 824 kilometers), but the perspective of the new Eastern hemisphere 'Blue Marble' is from 7,918 miles (abou ... more | .. |
 Blue Marble By Suomi NPP A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of t ... more | .. |
 First Light' Taken by NASA's Newest CERES Instrument The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping to assure ... 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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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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 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 | .. |
 '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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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