Seed Daily - Land Seed Water Food

May 29, 2014

Weather Impacts on Food: A QandA with NASA's Molly Brown
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2014
When floods, droughts, and other natural disasters hit isolated and poor regions of the world, it can have devastating impacts on the local price of food. Research scientist Molly Brown from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is using satellite data to investigate and model the relationship between weather shocks and food prices - an ambitious endeavor in light of a changing climate. After giving a talk on food security at NASA Goddard's studio, Brown sat down with NASA-TV ... read more

Previous Issues

May 28

May 27

May 26

May 24

May 23

Australian organic farmer loses GM test case An Australian farmer who lost his organic produce licence after his fields were contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola crop failed Wednesday to win his test case for losses. ... more		NMSU's drought-tolerant alfalfa variety created to meet New Mexico growers' needs Robert Flynn and Ian Ray, both alfalfa experts at New Mexico State University, have been researching a new drought-tolerant alfalfa variety. The Billy Melton variety, developed by Ray, NMSU professo ... more		Satellite imagery shows drought-ridden Lake Powell at half capacity Diminished by overzealous water withdrawals and a lengthy drought throughout the Southwest, Lake Powell, the meandering mass of water held by Glen Canyon dam, has slowly emptied in recent years. It now sits below half capacity. ... more
				Asia's largest wine expo opens in Hong Kong Asia's biggest wine and spirits fair opened in Hong Kong on Tuesday, drawing the world's top producers from France to Chile despite China reporting the first decline in wine consumption for a decade. ... more		Wondering about the state of the environment? Just eavesdrop on the bees Researchers have devised a simple way to monitor wide swaths of the landscape without breaking a sweat: by listening in on the "conversations" honeybees have with each other. The scientists' analyse ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

European farmers adapting to climate change A new Stanford study finds that due to an average 3.5 degrees Fahrenheit of warming expected by 2040, yields of wheat and barley across Europe will drop more than 20 percent. New Stanford research r ... more		Deep-buried carbon may pose climate risk: study Stocks of organic carbon buried deep underground could pose a global warming threat if disturbed by erosion, farming, deforestation, mining or road-building, a study warned Sunday. ... more		AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department		US Farmers Can Turn their Ag Waste Problems into Profit The time is now for U.S. farmers to fully monetize the massive amounts of biomass energy bound up in crop residues, animal manure and other forms of ag waste, advises Roy M. Palk, senior energy advi ... more
				China Bright Food to buy majority stake in Israel's Tnuva China's state-owned Bright Food will take a majority stake in Israel's biggest food producer Tnuva, it said Thursday in the latest step of an overseas buying spree. ... more		The Added Value of Local Food Hubs As the largest purchaser of wholesale produce in Santa Barbara County, UC Santa Barbara's residential dining services provided the perfect avenue for a pilot project incorporating local pesticide-fr ... more

William Cress Corporation - We Build To Last

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

With climate changing, Southern plants do better than Northern locals Can plants and animals evolve to keep pace with climate change? A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that for at least one widely-studied plant, the ... more		Shrub growth decreases as winter temps warm up Many have assumed that warmer winters as a result of climate change would increase the growth of trees and shrubs because the growing season would be longer. But shrubs achieve less yearly growth wh ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Big drop in wintertime fog needed by fruit and nut crops California's winter tule fog - hated by drivers, but needed by fruit and nut trees - has declined dramatically over the past three decades, raising a red flag for the state's multibillion dollar agr ... more
				Migrating birds stop off in Cyprus at their peril Under the cover of night, activists patrol key poaching sites in southeast Cyprus, described as an ecological disaster zone for endangered migratory birds on their Mediterranean stopover. ... more		The State of Rain Using modern weather satellites to monitor rainfall has become a robust, widely practiced technique. However, establishing a reliable context for relating space-based rainfall observations to curren ... more

Sentinel-1 aids Balkan flood relief

Japan launches land observing satellite

Airbus partners with BAE for radar satellite imagery

China's domestic navigation system guides Pakistan

Beidou to help safeguard fishermen on high seas

China's BeiDou system standard ratified by IMO

Vines choke a forest's ability to capture carbon

International standards reducing insect stowaways in wood packaging material

Canadian forestry firm sues over environmental audit

Green and yellow - straw from oilseed as a new source of biofuels

EU study assesses turning CO2 into methanol for use in transport

New, fossil-fuel-free process makes biodiesel sustainable

	California drought 'to cost farmers $1.7 billion' One of California's worst droughts in decades could cost the US state's farmers $1.7 billion, a study warned Monday, a week after alarmingly early wildfires forced tens of thousands of homeowners to evacuate. ... more		Madagascar unleashes poisoned rain to break locust plague The choppers swoop in, dumping insecticide over a plague-stricken village in Madagascar's stunning central highlands. ... more		US acts to fight disease harming 'fair trade' coffee The US government announced Monday a new $5 million effort to fight a disease savaging Central America's "fair trade" coffee bean harvest and pressuring the price of a morning cup. ... more		Drought sounds alarm, fuels hunger fears for indigenous Guyana Thousands of indigenous people near Guyana's border with Brazil are battling drought so persistent they fear crop failure and hunger. ... more

Small-Body Robot Review Charts Path From Module Design to System-Level Co-Design

Drone Radar Over Alaska and Wyoming Points Way to Buried Ice on Mars

Sub-Neptunes Vanish Around Red Dwarf Stars in McMaster Exoplanet Survey

EU tackles massive food wasting 'best before' labelling		Growing Camelina and Safflower in the Pacific Northwest		Indonesian island hopes to spark green power revolution		Colorado River reaches Sea of Cortez for first time nearly two decades		Ban condemns water cuts in Syria's Aleppo
Asian consortium lifts bid for Australian food manufacturer		Novel ORNL technique enables air-stable water droplet networks		Corn dwarfed by temperature dip suitable for growing in caves, mines		Winners and losers in cereal production from El Nino		Eight dead, hundreds ill from 'tainted water' in Philippines

Bee biodiversity boosts crop yields

Study says pesticides to blame for honeybee colony collapse

Rising CO2 poses significant threat to human nutrition

As CO2 levels rise, some crop nutrients will fall

Native algae species to blame for 'rock snot' blooms in rivers worldwide

Lebanon faces water crisis after record winter drought

Alibaba opens fortunes from Wall St to Chinese backwaters

Space brings fresh water to Morocco

Rice or wheat? How grains define cultural identity

Huge strides in global water and sanitation: UN

Economics of high tunnels examined in southwestern United States

Food security increased by new scientific model in agricultural production

History to Blame for Slow Crop Taming

Plantable containers show promise for use in groundcover production, landscaping

Climate: Rising C02 levels to hit grain nutrition

Caracas to begin four months of water rationing

NASA Begins Field Campaign to Measure Rain in Southern Appalachians

Nature's chemical diversity reflected in Swedish lakes

Hot Dogs! Burgers! Babaganoush! An immigrant's restaurant adds new flavor to Rehoboth Beach

France definitively bans GM corn

Free Newsletters - Space - Defense - Environment - Energy

Buy Advertising

Media Advertising Kit

Editorial & Other Enquiries

Privacy statement

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2014 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.