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December 21, 2015

Red palm weevils can fly 50 kilometers in 24 hours
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 19, 2015
The red palm weevil (Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) has been a pest of coconut palms in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines for a long time. More recently, it's become a pest of 40 different palm species in the Middle East and North Africa after it was found there in the 1980s. In order to learn more about their flight capabilities and to predict their future dispersal, scientists from California and Saudi Arabia captured 192 adult weevils and tethered them to computerized flig ... read more

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How NASA Sees El Nino Effects From Space This winter, weather patterns may be fairly different than what's typical - all because of unusually warm ocean water in the east equatorial Pacific, an event known as El Nino. Because of El Nino, C ... more		Dutch ruling: What does it mean for Shell in Nigeria? A Dutch appeals court on Friday permitted four Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue oil giant Shell for environmental pollution at a court in the Netherlands. ... more		New transmitter could make wireless devices more energy-efficient Solar tracking panels support high quality rice yields in Japan agrivoltaics trial U.S. increases bounty to $50M for Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro		Millet: The missing link in transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer New research shows a cereal familiar today as birdseed was carried across Eurasia by ancient shepherds and herders laying the foundation, in combination with the new crops they encountered, of 'mult ... more
				Tropical groundwater resources resilient to climate change Tropical groundwater may prove to be a climate-resilient source of freshwater in the tropics as intense rainfall favours the replenishment of these resources, according to a new study published in E ... more		NASA Examines Global Impacts of the 2015 El Nino People the world over are feeling, or will soon feel, the effects of the strongest El Nino event since 1997-98, currently unfolding in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean. New NASA satellite observ ... more

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Deep core of African lake gives insight to ancient lake levels, biodiversity Syracuse Earth sciences professor Christopher Scholz and former Ph.D. student Robert Lyons have an unprecedented glimpse into the past of a lake with explosive biodiversity. Along with colleagues fr ... more		Pigs that are resistant to incurable disease developed at University of Missouri Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus was first detected in the U.S. in 1987. Pigs who contract the disease have extreme difficulty reproducing, don't gain weight and have a hig ... more		Scientists create first map of the wheat epigenome Scientists at the University of Liverpool have carried out the first ever genome-wide survey of heritable molecular changes that regulate gene activity in wheat, in what could become a new tool to i ... more		Models overestimate rainfall increases due to climate change Lawrence Livermore researchers and collaborators have found that most climate models overestimate the increase in global precipitation due to climate change. Specifically, the team looked at 2 ... more

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Central America tests drought-resistant 'miracle' beans

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African leaders urge world to save drought-hit Lake Chad

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Brazilian farmers learn to love Amazon's trees again

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