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Deconstructing a Mystery: What Caused Snowmaggedon?Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2012 In the quiet after the storms, streets and cars had all but disappeared under piles of snow. The U.S. Postal Service suspended service for the first time in 30 years. Snow plows struggled to push the evidence off of major roads. Hundreds of thousands of Washington metropolitan residents grappled with the loss of electricity and heat for almost a week. By Feb. 10, 2010 the National Weather Service reported that three storms spanning from December to February in the winter of 2009-10 had dumped a wh ... read more |
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  Shedding light on genetics of rice metabolism A large-scale study analyzing metabolic compounds in rice grains conducted by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and their collaborators has identified 131 rice metabolites and clar ... more | .. |
 5-10 percent corn yield jump using erosion-slowing cover crops The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State University study on using cover crops between rows of corn reveals that higher yields - by as much as 10 percent - are possible using the s ... more | .. |
 Fresh city tomatoes, any time Why not produce lettuce, beans and tomatoes where most of the consumers are to be found: in the city? The flat roofs of many buildings are well-suited for growing vegetables. Rooftop greenhouses can ... more | .. |
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 Pleiades captures its first images using e2v sensors Pleiades, the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) Earth observation satellite, has captured its first images using e2v high performance imaging sensors. Two types of e2v sensors (for panchroma ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 Early farmers may have impacted climate 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. ... 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 |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 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 | .. |
 Valentine's flowers inspected for pests Before they woo or wow sweethearts, hundreds of millions of cut flowers get a critical look over from U.S. specialists looking for pests and disease. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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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 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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 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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