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Relief as storm leaves PhilippinesManila (AFP) Aug 16, 2012 Tropical Storm Kai-tak blew out of the Philippines on Thursday, offering some relief for millions of people struggling to recover from a brutal few weeks of monsoon rains that claimed 109 lives. However civil defence chief Benito Ramos said floods could still hit the Cagayan river basin, a farming region of more than two million people as runoff from storm-induced rains descend from surrounding mountain ranges. "The storm is gone but we're still on red alert. In 10 hours we'd know how much water ... read more |
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 Seeds of hope amidst Philippine floods Amidst horrendous flooding around Manila and major rice-growing across Luzon in the Philippines, some good news has emerged for rice farmers - Submarino rice - rice that can survive around 2 weeks o ... more | .. |
  Plants exhibit a wide range of mechanical properties From an engineer's perspective, plants such as palm trees, bamboo, maples and even potatoes are examples of precise engineering on a microscopic scale. Like wooden beams reinforcing a house, cell wa ... more | .. |
  Global water sustainability flows through natural and human challenges Water's fate in China mirrors problems across the world: fouled, pushed far from its natural origins, squandered and exploited. In this week's Science magazine, Jianguo "Jack" Liu, director of Michi ... more | .. |
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  Neolithic Man: The First Lumberjack? During the Neolithic Age (approximately 10000-6000 BCE), early man evolved from hunter-gatherer to farmer and agriculturalist, living in larger, permanent settlements with a variety of domesticated ... more | .. |
 Diversity keeps grasslands resilient to drought, climate change For much of the year drought has been plaguing American grasslands. But a recent study found that grasses do not appear to be losing the turf war against climate when it comes to surviving with litt ... more | .. |
 China's water at risk from coal projects The 16 large-scale coal bases that China has planned will trigger severe water crises in the country's arid northwest, a new Greenpeace report warns. ... more | .. |
 Bill Gates kicks off search for toilet of the future Microsoft co-founder turned global philanthropist Bill Gates on Tuesday launched a search for a new toilet better suited to developing countries. ... 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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 Rooftop farms flourish in space-starved Hong Kong On the rooftop of a tower block above the hustle and bustle of teeming Hong Kong, dedicated growers tend to their organic crops in a vegetable garden. ... more | .. |
  Perseid Meteors In Their Prime The Perseid meteors should put on the peak of their yearly display late this Saturday night and early Sunday morning (August 11-12, 2012). "December's Geminids often outperform them by a bit," says ... more | .. |
 New technology eliminates plant toxins Plants produce toxins to defend themselves against potential enemies, from herbivorous pests to diseases. Oilseed rape plants produce glucosinolates to serve this purpose. However, due to the conten ... more | .. |
 Researchers Demonstrate Control of Devastating Cassava Virus in Africa An international research collaboration recently demonstrated progress in protecting cassava against cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a serious virus disease, in a confined field trial in Uganda ... more |
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 Drought causes 1bn euros crop damage in Italy Heatwaves and drought have caused around one billion euros ($1.2 billion) in crop damage in Italy, the head of the country's agricultural association said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong tests babies over Japanese milk formula Hong Kong said Thursday it will test babies who have consumed Japanese-made infant formulas found to have insufficient levels of iodine, after the products were ordered off the city's shelves. ... more | .. |
  MSG-3, Europe's latest weather satellite, delivers first image Today, the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) instrument on MSG-3 captured its first image of the Earth. This demonstrates that Europe's latest geostationary weather satellite, l ... more | .. |
 Asia, US plains facing water extraction crisis Heavily-populated regions of Asia, the arid Middle East and parts of the US corn belt are dangerously over-exploiting their underground water supplies, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature. ... 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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 Using wastewater as fertilizer Sewage sludge, wastewater and liquid manure are valuable sources of fertilizer for food production. Fraunhofer researchers have now developed a chemical-free, eco-friendly process that enables the r ... more | .. |
 New Zealand court backs farm sale to Chinese group New Zealand's Court of Appeal on Wednesday rejected a bid to stop a Chinese company from buying a bankrupt dairy farm group, in a case that has stirred heated debate about foreign land ownership. ... more | .. |
 Interview With Scott Braun About NASA's Upcoming Hurricane Campaign Scott Braun is the Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) mission principal investigator and a research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Scott studies hurricanes ... more | .. |
 Test flight over Peru ruins could revolutionize archaeological mapping Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests underway in Peru of a new system being developed at Vanderbilt University go well. The Aurora Flight Scien ... more |
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 Early weaning, DDGS feed could cut costs for cattle producers If the drought forces producers to feed a larger portion of distillers dried grains with solubles, cattle can maintain gains and improve meat quality if the animals are weaned early, a Purdue Univer ... more | .. |
 India's economic growth seen lower as rains play truant India's economic growth could slip to near six percent this year with the country facing the spectre of its third drought in a decade, a top government policymaker says. ... more | .. |
 Roots and microbes: Bringing a complex underground ecology into the lab Beneath the surface of the earth, an influential community of microbes mingles with plant roots. In the first large-scale analysis of those communities, scientists have now catalogued and compared t ... more | .. |
  India's puny monsoon sparks fears of drought India's monsoon rains that lash the country each summer arrived late and have been feeble this year, leading to hardship for hundreds of millions of farmers like 61-year-old Rameshwar Dayal. ... 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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 UCLA research makes possible rapid assessment of plant drought tolerance UCLA life scientists, working with colleagues in China, have discovered a new method to quickly assess plants' drought tolerance. The method works for many diverse species growing around the world. ... more | .. |
 France's Veolia boosts cost cutting, stock tumbles French utility group Veolia Environnement said Thursday it would increase cost cutting despite swinging back into profit in the first half, sending its stock price tumbling. ... more | .. |
 Philippine floods persist, toll rises to 23 Rescuers deployed rubber boats while doctors fanned across cramped evacuation centres in the Philippines as the death toll from five days of flooding reached 23 on Thursday, officials said. ... more | .. |
 European data center for GMES Sentinel satellites at DLR The ground segment for GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) is starting to take shape: The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Oberpfaffe ... more |
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 Chinese mapping satellite handed over to surveying authority The company responsible for designing the Ziyuan III, China's first high-resolution remote-sensing satellite for civilian use, has officially transferred its use to the National Administration of Su ... more | .. |
 Space Technologies Tackle Human and Environmental Security Problems Secure World Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the Summer 2012 issue of Imaging Notes magazine dedicated to highlighting the urgent, interrelated issues of Earth remote sensing for se ... more | .. |
Parched fields as drought devastates US crops The sweat pours down Larry Hasheider's face as he walks across his parched cornfields to show the result of one of the worst droughts to strike the United States in decades. ... more | .. |
 France orders Google to hand over Street View data France's data-protection authority said Tuesday it wants Google to hand over data secretly collected from Internet users by its Street View mapping cars which it failed to delete as promised. ... more |
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