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India won't be able to store another bumper cropNew Delhi (IANS) Apr 17, 2012 The problem of plenty is once again troubling the Indian government as it does not know where to store the bumper grains to be harvested for the third year in a row. Fears are rising that the grains would be out in the open, rot and be eaten by rodents even as millions go hungry in the country which is planning to enact a right to food law. The government's plans to create additional storage space have so far moved at a snail's pace. For instance, of the additional storage capacity of 19 million t ... read more |
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 Rapid climate change threatens Asia's Rice Bowl As Asia's monsoon season begins, leading climate specialists and agricultural scientists have warned that rapid climate change and its potential to intensify droughts and floods could threaten Asia' ... more | .. |
 Determining total fertility in strip-tilled fields Band fertilizer placement may cause non-uniform distribution in the soil. Why does this matter? Because when fertilizer is unevenly distributed, it may not be possible to use traditional sampling st ... more | .. |
 Strip-till improves soybean yield Crop yield can be improved by ensuring adequate nutrient availability. But how should you place the fertilizer and what cropping system gives the best yields? Research conducted by University ... more | .. |
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 Tackle fungal forces to save crops, forests and endangered animals More than 600 million people could be fed each year by halting the spread of fungal diseases in the world's five most important crops, according to research published in the journal Nature. Fu ... more | .. |
 No-till farming revolution grows in Indiana Indiana farmer Mike Starkey does not plow his fields and uses fertilizer only sparingly, but he is on the cutting edge of a growing trend in American agriculture. ... more | .. |
  Iran starts $1-bn project to bring water to desert Iran on Monday officially launched a $1-billion first phase of an ambitious project to pump water from the Caspian Sea to a city in its vast and expanding central desert, state media reported. ... more | .. |
  Half of England in drought: officials Half of England was officially in drought on Monday after the Environment Agency declared another 17 counties short of water, and warned the situation may continue until the end of the year. ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
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  FCC drops Google 'Street View' investigation US government telecom regulators have ended an investigation into Google's "Street View" online mapping service gathering data from private wireless hotspots. ... more | .. |
 Poor Spring Rain Projected in Africa Spring rains in the eastern Horn of Africa are projected to begin late this year and be substantially lower than normal. From March-May, the rains are expected to total only 60 to 85 percentage of t ... more | .. |
 Fuelling the agricultural energy debate The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) has released its submission to the Australian Government's Energy White Paper, reinforcing the importance of affordable fuel and energy to the long-term compet ... more | .. |
 Has the Dead Sea Used Up its Nine Lives? Rapidly dropping water levels of the Dead Sea, the lowest point on the earth's surface heralded for its medicinal properties, has been a source of ecological concern for years. Now a drilling ... more |
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 Which plants will survive droughts, climate change? New research by UCLA life scientists could lead to predictions of which plant species will escape extinction from climate change. Droughts are worsening around the world, posing a great challenge to ... more | .. |
 ITT Exelis delivers imaging system for next-generation, high-resolution GeoEye-2 satellite ITT Exelis Geospatial Systems has delivered GeoEye's next-generation commercial imaging system for the GeoEye-2 satellite to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company in Sunnyvale, Calif. When operation ... more | .. |
 Biggest environment satellite goes silent The European Space Agency said Thursday it had lost contact with Envisat, the biggest Earth-monitoring satellite in history. ... more | .. |
 'Serious' pesticide threat in former Soviet Union: UN agency The European Union and the UN's food agency announced an agreement on Thursday to manage vast stocks of obsolete pesticides in the former Soviet Union, warning they had become a "serious threat". ... more |
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Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm
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 Fungus threat escalates for food, wildlife: scientists Species of fungus, driven by trade, travel and climate change, pose a mounting threat to food supplies and biodiversity, scientists said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Climate said threat to Asia's 'Rice Bowl' Catastrophic flood-drought cycles could threaten Asia's rice production and pose a significant threat to millions of people across the region, researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Ancient Amazonians farmed without fire Modern farmers in the Amazon region could take lessons in sustainability from the area's inhabitants of 800 years ago, scientists say. ... more | .. |
 NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean The swirling flows of tens of thousands of ocean currents were captured in this scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "There is also a 20-minute lo ... more |
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 NASA Sees New Salt in an Ancient Sea The expansion of massive salt evaporation projects on the Dead Sea are clearly visible in this time series of images taken by Landsat satellites operated by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. ... more | .. |
 Use of common pesticide linked to bee colony collapse The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health ... more | .. |
 Researchers find evidence of banned antibiotics in poultry products In a joint study, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Arizona State University found evidence suggesting that a class of antibiotics previously banned by the U.S. ... more | .. |
 UN calls for funds for drought-hit Sahel Children's aid organisation UNICEF on Tuesday led a cross-agency appeal for funds for the Sahel region where 15 million are suffering from malnutrition, it 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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China tightens 'land grab' rules to defuse unrest China has tightened regulations governing forced land expropriations in a bid to put a lid on what has become an explosive social issue and one of the country's biggest sources of unrest. ... more | .. |
 India: reforms needed for water supply Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for transparent pricing of the country's water to avert the country's growing water scarcity. ... more | .. |
  Two anti-Qaeda fighters, farmer killed in Iraq Two members of a militia fighting Al-Qaeda and a farmer were killed Monday in attacks in northern Iraq, police officials said. ... more | .. |
 ONR Grant Expands Research of Typhoons, Monsoons, Internal Waves in Asia-Pacific The University of Miami (UM) announced that it has received a grant from the U.S. Office of Naval Research to expand its use of SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) in the Asia-Pacific Region. The new $1. ... more |
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 China makes public satellite data products The State Oceanic Administration (SOA) on Friday gave the public access to data products of the oceanic surveying satellite Haiyang-2, which monitors maritime environment and extreme weather. ... more | .. |
 Key ice shelf in Antarctica has shrunk by 85 percent A vast ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, a hotspot for global warming, has shrunk by 85 percent in 17 years, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 ESA and NASA join forces to measure Arctic sea ice Marking another remarkable collaborative effort, ESA and NASA met up over the Arctic Ocean this week to perform some carefully coordinated flights directly under CryoSat orbiting above. The data gat ... more | .. |
 Farmers Use GIS Technology for a Growing World Today's farmers have more technology at their disposal than ever before. One piece that is expected to greatly impact the production of food and fiber is geographic information systems (GIS) technol ... more |
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