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When it rains, it poursBoston MA (SPX) Sep 19, 2012 Extreme precipitation in the tropics comes in many forms: thunderstorm complexes, flood-inducing monsoons and wide-sweeping cyclones like the recent Hurricane Isaac. Global warming is expected to intensify extreme precipitation, but the rate at which it does so in the tropics has remained unclear. Now an MIT study has given an estimate based on model simulations and observations: With every 1 degree Celsius rise in temperature, the study finds, tropical regions will see 10 percent heavier rainfall extre ... read more |
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  Warmer Temperatures Make New USDA Plant Zone Map Obsolete Gardeners and landscapers may want to rethink their fall tree plantings. Warming temperatures have already made the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new cold-weather planting guidelines obsolete, ac ... more | .. |
  Britain grants first licence for badger cull Up to 3,000 badgers could be killed in England after a government agency on Friday issued the first licence for a pilot cull in a bid to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in cattle. ... more | .. |
 Italian architect designs world's biggest vertical garden A shopping centre near Milan is claiming an unusual record - the biggest vertical garden in the world, covering a surface of 1,263 square metres (13,600 square feet) with a total of 44,000 plants. ... more | .. |
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 Farmers accuse Madagascar mining giant of killing bees A swath of farmland around a giant nickel and cobalt mine in Madagascar has been contaminated by pesticides that have wiped out local bee populations, a group of farmers claimed Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 China's Synutra in $130 mn French milk factory deal Chinese infant formula producer Synutra will make its first foray abroad with a 100 million euro tie-up with Sodiaal to build a dried milk plant, the French dairy company said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Amazon's flying water vapor rivers bring rain to Brazil As devastating drought spreads across much of the globe, British-born pilot Gerard Moss flies above the Amazon rainforest to show how its "flying rivers" - humid air currents - bring rain to Brazil and South America. ... more | .. |
 New gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants The discovery of a new gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants. Research led by Michigan State University and appearing on the cover of this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie ... 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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 Food industry's high-quality co-streams used effectively as raw material for new products European, Canadian, African and Indian researchers are developing together new ways of using the substantial co-streams from fish and oil plant processing. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland c ... more | .. |
 New analysis in Science tells how world eradicated deadliest cattle plague A new analysis published in Science traces the recent global eradication of the deadliest of cattle diseases, crediting not only the development of a new, heat-resistant vaccine, but also the insigh ... more | .. |
 Genes render some rice species sterile Researchers have identified a set of three genes that are responsible for hybrid sterility in rice, or the inability of many hybrid rice species to pass their genes on to the next generation. These ... more | .. |
 Studies shed light on how to reduce the amount of toxins in plant-derived foods A number of environmental toxins pose considerable health threats to humans, and the heavy metal cadmium (Cd) ranks high on the list. Most of us are exposed to it through plant-derived foods such as ... more |
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 Parched soils trigger more storms Afternoon storms are more likely to develop when soils are parched, according to a new study published this week in Nature which examined hydrological processes across six continents. The resu ... more | .. |
 The Gravity of Water The signature of drought was easy to read in the southern United States in the summer of 2011. It was in the brown, wilted crops and the bare fields. It was in the clouds of dust that rolled across ... more | .. |
 Summer rain more likely over drier soils Summer rain is more likely over drier soil - this is the conclusion scientists have drawn from a detailed analysis of satellite data. State-of-the-art computer models predict the opposite effect; th ... more | .. |
 Researchers Use "Banker Plants" to Help Battle Whitefly Pests A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is showing growers how to combat whiteflies and other crop pests by using plants as storehouses for predatory insects that can migrate to cash crops ... 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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 Screening technique uncovers five new plant activator compounds A new high-throughput screening technique developed by researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) has been used to uncover five novel immune-priming compounds in Arabidopsis plants. Discove ... more | .. |
  People smugglers get rich, Canberra reacts The kingpins of Asia's people smuggling racket have made millions of dollars smuggling everyone from farmers to terrorists, a report by the New Straits Times said. ... more | .. |
 Former world leaders call on UN Security Council to recognize water as a top concern The world confronts a water crisis with critical implications for peace, political stability and economic development, experts warn in a new report being launched Sept. 11 jointly by the InterAction ... more | .. |
 Drought sends US producer prices surging US producer prices jumped 1.7 percent in August, the largest monthly rise in three years, sparked by skyrocketing crop prices due to drought and higher energy costs, fresh data released Thursday showed. ... more |
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 Turf study to monitor runoff, establish fertilizer management practices Improperly applied fertilizer to newly placed sod may result in nutrient runoff into the water supply, but just when is the best time to apply fertilizer and what kind is the best for new turf? ... more | .. |
 China probes claims children fed modified rice China is investigating whether more than 20 children were fed genetically modified rice in a project that involved Chinese and US researchers, state media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Lake, not quake, source of Californian bad smell A rotten egg smell which had Californians turning up their noses was caused by dead fish or algae in a nearby lake, and nothing more sinister, experts said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  More satellite launches planned for upgrading maritime monitoring China plans to launch eight more satellites by 2020 to further improve the country's maritime monitoring network, a national English-language newspaper reported Thursday. The planned launches ... 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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Vietnam warns of water conflicts Nations could soon be engaged in conflicts over access to water, Vietnam's president warned Friday, as he called for sustainable exploitation of Southeast Asia's Mekong River. ... more | .. |
 Changes in water chemistry leave lake critters defenseless Imagine that the players on your favourite football team were smaller than their opponents, and had to play without helmets or pads. Left defenseless, they would become easy prey for other teams. Si ... more | .. |
 Wild bees: Champions for food security and protecting our biodiversity Pollinating insects contribute to agricultural production in 150 (84%) European crops. These crops depend partly or entirely upon insects for their pollination and yield. The value of insect pollina ... more | .. |
 Astrium installs new terminal in Mexico to receive SPOT 6 and SPOT 7 imagery Astrium Services and the Mexican federal government's Ministry of agriculture, livestock farming, rural development, food and fisheries (SAGARPA), signed an agreement this spring to upgrade the ERME ... more |
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 Little evidence of health benefits from organic foods You're in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin. You figure you'v ... more | .. |
 Spinach power gets a big boost An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, ... more | .. |
 Bees, fruits and money Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. This ecosystem service, however, provided ... more | .. |
 Concern about plans to close unique Canadian environmental project The Canadian government's plans to discontinue in 2013 a unique environmental research project that has yielded insights into water pollution, climate change and other topics for almost 40 years wou ... more |
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