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Brazil spends $1.3 mln to ease NE drought: RousseffRio De Janeiro (AFP) June 4, 2012 Brazil will spend $1.3 million to send water to the drought-ravaged northeast which is in the grips of its worst dry spell in a half-century, President Dilma Rousseff announced Monday. Speaking on local radio here, Rousseff said the newly released funds will pay for more than 3,300 tanker trucks to carry water to the affected areas. Drought has been taking a heavy toll more than 1,100 towns, triggering fighting in some areas. Local dams in the region are running dry and scarce water supplies ... read more |
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  Brazil farmers in legal feud with Monsanto over GM soy Illegally smuggled into Brazil 14 years ago, transgenic soy has proved a boon to domestic farmers and now accounts for 85 percent of total production. ... more | .. |
  Syrian refugees draining water-poor Jordan dry Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have fled from carnage and violence at home to neighbouring Jordan are draining the desert kingdom's meager water resources, officials and experts say. ... more | .. |
 France to ban Swiss pesticide as bee threat The French government is to ban a pesticide made by Swiss giant Syngenta used in rapeseed cultivation that has been found to shorten bees' lifespan, Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said Friday. ... more | .. |
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 Tomato genome becomes fully sequenced For the first time, the genome of the tomato, Solanum lycopersicum, has been decoded, and it becomes an important step toward improving yield, nutrition, disease resistance, taste and color of the t ... more | .. |
 Time is ticking for some crop's wild relatives A botanist brings a species of alfalfa from Siberia, to the United States. His hope? The plant survives, and leads to a new winter-hardy alfalfa. But what also happened during this time in the late ... more | .. |
 Livestock industry beefs up Illinois economy recent report conducted by the University of Illinois provides an economic snapshot of the current state of the livestock industry, giving the Illinois livestock industry data to back up their impor ... more | .. |
 Australia and China eye joint farming plan Australia is seeking Chinese investment to develop farming land in its sprawling north in a joint bid to boost food security for the Asian giant's 1.3 billion citizens, reports said Thursday. ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
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 Shiraz with your Peking Duck? Sacre bleu! China's rapid emergence as a major international wine market has sparked intense debate among growers about how best to pair their wines with the country's rich array of culinary delights. ... more | .. |
  CryoSat goes to sea CryoSat was launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the Arctic, but data from the Earth-observing satellite have also been exploited for other studies. High-resolution mapping of the topogr ... more | .. |
 S Korea to develop geostationary satellite for environmental monitoring South Korea has fully embarked on the development of a geostationary environmental satellite with the goal of launching it in 2018, the government said Monday. The Ministry of Environment said ... more | .. |
 LiDAR Technology Reveals Faults Near Lake Tahoe Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, Calif., referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard a ... more |
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 One in seven suffer malnourishment: UN food agency One in seven people suffer from malnourishment, the head of the UN's food agency said Wednesday in a report released ahead of a summit on sustainable development to be held in Rio de Janeiro June 20-22. ... more | .. |
 Women warming to white wines in China: experts Fruity reds are the kings of the Chinese wine market, but experts at Asia's biggest wine fair say women are leading a trend toward whites that will open new revenue streams for producers worldwide. ... more | .. |
 Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower. Determining the proper time to flower, important if a plant is to reproduc ... more | .. |
 BGU Researchers Test Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have created a man-made oasis in the desert with the successful application of a solar-powered desalination system that provides water for irriga ... 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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 Not a 1-way street: Evolution shapes environment of Connecticut lakes Environmental change is the selective force that preserves adaptive traits in organisms and is a primary driver of evolution. However, it is less well known that evolutionary change in organisms als ... more | .. |
 Groundwater depletion in semiarid regions of Texas and California threatens US food security The nation's food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture, according to a new study by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere. ... more | .. |
Earthquake hits Italy's balsamic vinegar producers The strong quake which struck Italy on Tuesday, killing 15 and destroying buildings, has also dealt a blow to Modena's balsamic vinegar industry - days after a quake in the area hit Parmesan production. ... more | .. |
 Satellite maps ocean floor A European satellite launched in 2010 to measure sea-ice thickness in the arctic is also yielding high-resolution mapping of the ocean floor, scientists say. ... more |
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Winemakers push China sales at top Asian wine fair Some of the world's top wine producers will attend Asia's biggest wine fair in Hong Kong this week, eyeing new consumers in the booming but still relatively untapped Chinese market. ... more | .. |
Winemakers push China sales at top Asian wine fair Some of the world's top wine producers will attend Asia's biggest wine fair in Hong Kong this week, eyeing new consumers in the booming but still relatively untapped Chinese market. ... more | .. |
 DNA vaccine and duck eggs protect against hantavirus disease Army scientists and industry collaborators have successfully protected laboratory animals from lethal hantavirus disease using a novel approach that combines DNA vaccines and duck eggs. The work app ... more | .. |
 The secret to good tomato chemistry There is nothing better than a ripe, red, homegrown tomato, and now researchers reporting online in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have figured out just what it is that makes some of the ... 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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 Food, water safety provide new challenges for today's sensors Sensors that work flawlessly in laboratory settings may stumble when it comes to performing in real-world conditions, according to researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Labora ... more | .. |
 Commonly used pesticide turns honey bees into 'picky eaters' Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that a small dose of a commonly used crop pesticide turns honey bees into "picky eaters" and affects their ability to recruit their nestmates to otherwise ... more | .. |
 Nea Kameni volcano movement captured by Envisat Archived data from the Envisat satellite show that the volcanic island of Santorini has recently displayed signs of unrest. Even after the end of its mission, Envisat information continues to be exp ... more | .. |
 My American Landscape Contest: A Space Chronicle of Change To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the United States' Landsat Earth-observing program - which first rocketed into space on July 23, 1972 - NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey are giving someth ... more |
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 N. Korea suffering severe drought: state media North Korea is suffering a prolonged and widespread drought, state media says, raising fears it will worsen already dire food shortages in the impoverished communist country. ... more | .. |
 Sahel food crisis to remain critical in coming months: UN UN aid chief Valerie Amos said Thursday that a humanitarian crisis arising from food shortages in the drought-stricken Sahel would remain critical in the next few months. ... more | .. |
  Rousseff under pressure to veto Brazil's new forest code Activists on Thursday said they handed Brazil's president a petition with nearly two million signatures urging her to veto a new forestry code that could result in increased Amazon rainforest deforestation. ... more | .. |
 Earth's water cycle intensifying with atmospheric warming In a paper published in the journal Science, Australian scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif ... more |
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