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Italy's military 'narcos' cook up cannabis cures



Florence, Italy (AFP) Feb 1, 2017
It's every stoner's nightmare: marijuana plants as far as the eye can see and not a spliff in sight. "No, I have never tried it, and I don't have any intention of trying it either," says Antonio Medica, the colonel in charge of the Italian military's cannabis laboratory in Florence. As he inspects pristine plant buds destined to be cut and dried into a version of the drug for medical use, the veteran officer is nonetheless sure he is producing some really good stuff. "Absolutely yes, I can a ... read more

CLIMATE SCIENCE
17 million face hunger in Horn of Africa due to drought
With very little rain in the last weeks and none expected for two months, more than 17 million people face hunger in the Horn of Africa, the UN food agency warned Sunday. ... more
WATER WORLD
Macedonians send out SOS from Europe's oldest lake
A fishing boat glides across the shimmering surface of Europe's oldest lake, a haven of biodiversity and a UNESCO World Heritage Site - one that conservationists warn faces multiple development threats. ... more
FARM NEWS
Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research
A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported. ... more
FARM NEWS
Pigs and chocolate: Using math to solve problems in farming
Improving cocoa yields for the chocolate industry, estimating the quality of meat in pigs and refining the design of a hydroponics system, were three farming challenges tackled by academics at a rec ... more
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Nanoparticle fertilizer could contribute to new 'green revolution'
The "Green Revolution" of the '60s and '70s has been credited with helping to feed billions around the world, with fertilizers being one of the key drivers spurring the agricultural boom. But ... more
WATER WORLD
Floating towards water treatment
Floating wetlands may seem odd but are perfectly natural. They occur when mats of vegetation break free from the shore of a body of water. That got ecological engineers curious about how they affect ... more
WATER WORLD
How water can split into two liquids below zero
Did you know that water can still remain liquid below zero degrees Celsius? It is called supercooled water and is present in refrigerators. At even smaller temperatures, supercooled water could exis ... more
FARM NEWS
Crop achilles' heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be the best at turning higher levels of light into carbohydrates - through the process of photosynthesis - while the lower shaded leaves would b ... more
FARM NEWS
How do people choose what plants to use
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic needs, such as food, medicine and shelter, as well as other needs, such as recreati ... more
FARM NEWS
Intense industrial fishing
China, the world's largest seafood producer, has done something extraordinary. For the past 20 years, despite minimal management and some of the most intense industrial fishing in the world, it has ... more


Wheat virus crosses over, harms native grasses

WOOD PILE
Trees supplement income for rural farmers in Africa
Trees may be easy to spot on the plains of Africa but they are often overlooked as a source of income for farmers. A University of Illinois study shows trees on farms may help reduce rural poverty a ... more
FARM NEWS
Harvests in the US to suffer from climate change
Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions will likely impact wheat, maize and so ... more
WATER WORLD
Mighty river, mighty filter
Huckleberry Finn wouldn't recognize today's lower Mississippi River. Massive walls separate the river from low-lying lands along the bank, an area called the floodplain. Floodplains were once the sp ... more
WATER WORLD
New plant opens in bid to head off Gaza water crisis
The largest desalination plant in the Gaza Strip partially opened Thursday with international help as the impoverished and blockaded Palestinian enclave seeks to prevent a water crisis. ... more

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NASA Airborne Mission Chases Air Pollution Through the Seasons
Earth is a planet that breathes with the seasons. In winter months atmospheric gases and air pollution accumulate, waiting dormant until spring and summer bring sunshine and plant-life, sparking transformations that change the make-up of gases in the atmosphere. A NASA airborne mission will take a world-wide survey of these seasonal transformations by flying from the heart of winter in the North ... more
Wind satellite heads for final testing

How satellite data changed chimpanzee conservation efforts

NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite Sends First Images to Earth

NASA space radio could change how flights are tracked worldwide
Under a new space-based tracking system, no plane would ever have to be off the grid, thanks in part to a reconfigurable radio developed for NASA. NASA's powerful radio communications network allows us to receive data such as pictures of cryovolcanoes on Pluto - or tweets from astronauts aboard the International Space Station. But to send larger quantities of data back and forth faster, NA ... more
IAI debuts GPS anti-jamming system

ISRO to Launch Standby Navigation Satellite to Replace IRNSS-1A

First-ever GPS data release to boost space-weather science



High-tech maps of tropical forest diversity identify new conservation targets
New remote sensing maps of the forest canopy in Peru test the strength of current forest protections and identify new regions for conservation effort, according to a report led by Carnegie's Greg Asner published in Science. Asner and his Carnegie Airborne Observatory team used their signature technique, called airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy, to identify preservation targets by ... more
Risk of tree species disappearing in central Africa 'a major concern,' say researchers

Forests 'held their breath' during global warming hiatus, research shows

Trees supplement income for rural farmers in Africa

DuPont Industrial Biosciences to develop new high-efficiency biogas enzyme method
DuPont Industrial Biosciences has been awarded a grant from the European Commission to demonstrate high-efficiency enzyme production to increase biogas yields as part of the DEMETER project, funded from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation program. Enzyme technology has been proven to improve biogas yields and process robustne ... more
A better way to farm algae

Cathay Pacific to cut emissions with switch to biofuel

Populus dataset holds promise for biofuels, materials, metabolites



Eltek to provide solar energy for hospitals in Zimbabwe under UNDP programme
Eltek has announced a contract with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to provide complete photovoltaic solar solutions for 104 hospitals in Zimbabwe. Eltek will provide full delivery, installation, service and monitoring of the solar systems which use Eltek's breakthrough Rectiverter technology as a key component. The Rectiverter combines the functions of a rectifier and an inver ... more
Saudi Arabia takes low-carbon energy approach

100 percent renewable energy sources require overcapacity

France issues first 'green bonds' with record 7 bln euro sale

Prysmian UK to supply land cable connections for East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm
Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, has secured a Pounds 27 million contract with East Anglia One Limited to supply and install the land cable connection for the East Anglia ONE offshore wind farm. Comprising of 102 turbines, the Pounds 2.5 billion wind farm will generate sufficient electricity to power 500,000 homes. The contract involves the ... more
Russia's nuclear giant pushes into wind energy

The power of wind energy and how to use it

Largest US offshore wind farm gets green light



Deutsche Bank to stop financing coal projects
German banking giant Deutsche Bank on Tuesday announced it would stop financing coal projects as part of its commitments under the Paris Agreement to tackle global warming. "Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries will not grant new financing for greenfield thermal coal mining and new coal-fired power plant construction," it said in a statement. Existing exposure to such projects will be grad ... more
Rio Tinto signals coal exit with Australia sale

IEA urges Poland to curb reliance on coal

People aren't the only beneficiaries of power plant carbon standards

'Abduction' of China tycoon sparks fear in Hong Kong
The mystery over the reported abduction from Hong Kong of a Chinese billionaire deepened Wednesday after a newspaper advert appeared in his name pledging loyalty to China, in a case that has heightened fears over Beijing's meddling. The whereabouts of financier Xiao Jianhua - one of China's richest men - are unclear after reports in overseas Chinese-language media that he was taken from Ho ... more
Hong Kong leadership favourite testifies in corruption trial

Trump to ruffle feathers in Year of the Rooster

2016 baby bump after China relaxes one-child rule



Apple joins group devoted to keeping AI nice
A technology industry alliance devoted to making sure smart machines don't turn against humanity said Friday that Apple has signed on and will have a seat on the board. Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Google-owned British AI firm DeepMind last year established the non-profit organization, called "Partnership on AI," which will have its inaugural board meeting in San Francisco o ... more
New wave of robots set to deliver the goods

Over to you, automation

Making AI systems that see the world as humans do

Toxic mercury in aquatic life could spike with greater land runoff
A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton - tiny animals at the base of the marine food chain - if land runoff increases by 15 to 30 percent, according to a new study. And such an increase is possible due to climate change, according to the pioneering study by Rutgers University and other scientists published in Science Advances. "With climate change, w ... more
Increasing factory and auto emissions disrupt natural cycle in East China Sea

Synthetic chemicals: Ignored agents of global change

How India's 'Garden City' became garbage city



More than 40 detained in Chile for spreading forest fires
Authorities have detained 43 people suspected of stoking some of the deadly Chilean forest fires that have killed 11 people and destroyed large swaths of land, President Michelle Bachelet said Sunday. For nearly two weeks, fires have raged across seven regions in south and central Chile, devastating more than 400,000 hectares (988,000 acres), Bachelet said in her latest update on the tragedy ... more
Chile wildfires kill 10 people: president

Chile fires cause 'worst forestry disaster' in its history

Chile orders extra funds to fight fire 'catastrophe'

Macedonians send out SOS from Europe's oldest lake
A fishing boat glides across the shimmering surface of Europe's oldest lake, a haven of biodiversity and a UNESCO World Heritage Site - one that conservationists warn faces multiple development threats. Lake Ohrid, which straddles the mountainous border of Macedonia and Albania, has been in existence for up to three million years and is home to more than 200 species of flora and fauna found ... more
Marine microbes recycle iron from the debris of dead algae

Mako shark makes 13,000-mile trek across Atlantic Ocean

Invasive sedge protects dunes better than native grass



California state of emergency over storm damage
Governor Jerry Brown late Monday declared a state of emergency for counties across California to help deal with damage from powerful December and January storms. Drought-stricken California was hard-hit by rainstorms that struck in early December, and high winds and heavy rains from a storm that began in early January and continued through the weekend. "I find that conditions of extreme ... more
Bangladesh plants million trees to cut lightning toll

Powerful storms kill at least 16 in southeast US

It's freezing inside... that tornado?

China trade cost 3.4 mn US jobs in 2001-2015: report
A yawning trade deficit with China cost 3.4 million US jobs between 2001 and 2015, according to a report published Tuesday which coincided with abrupt White House efforts to retool trade policy. Mounting American reliance on Chinese imports and unfair Chinese trade practices have also helped hollow out the US manufacturing sector, which accounted for nearly three quarters of all the jobs los ... more
Tech firms unite to challenge Trump on immigration

An uneasy Silicon Valley denounces Trump immigration ban

Trump economic advisor bashes Germany on currency: report

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New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms
The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space. The magnetic field of these solar eruptions are difficult to predict and can interact with Earth's magnetic fields, cau ... more
Extreme space weather-induced blackouts could cost US more than $40 billion daily

ALMA starts observing the sun

Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun

Plants emit different odors when eaten by invasive species
According to a new study, plants put out a unique combination of volatile compounds when attacked by exotic pests. Plants have developed a diverse array of defensive mechanisms, and smell is one of them. When chewed on by insects and other leaf-eaters, plants emit different combinations of smells. The smells vary, but the purpose is to attract species that prey upon the plant-eating pes ... more
Beleaguered bees hit by 'deformed wing virus'

Researchers develop label-free technique to image microtubules

Four Bengal tigers born in El Salvador animal park





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