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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Just as we blend, cut, and fold ingredients together to follow a recipe, farmers use equipment to stir together soil and crop residue (stalks and roots of previous crops) before planting. This mechanical action is called tillage. Similar to our kitchen cupboard with a blender, mixer, and beater, farmers have access to a variety of tillage equipment. Farmers choose the "right" piece of tillage based on many factors, including location, soil type, crop, and landscape. Tillage has been around f ... read more |
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Solar panels cast shade on agriculture in a good wayWashington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2019 Imagine you are a farmer struggling to keep up with production demands because of the increasingly stressful climate. Or perhaps you are a producer of renewable energy struggling with dramatic heat ... more 
Humanity's next test: feed 10 billion without ruining EarthParis (AFP) Aug 2, 2019 Experts Friday began negotiating the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever of the role the land we live off plays in climate change, expected to highlight the stark choices humanity faces to feed 10 billion people while preserving Nature. ... more 
Buzz kill: mass bee deaths sting Russian beekeepersBobrovka, Russia (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 Anatoly Rubtsov looked despondently at the beehives lining his property. "The farm used to be loud, it sang," he said. Today just a faint buzz is audible but an overpowering rotting stench hung in the air after his bees were likely poisoned by a pesticide. ... more  
New wood membrane provides sustainable alternative for water filtrationPrinceton NJ (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 Inspired by the intricate system of water circulating in a tree, a team of researchers led by Princeton University, have figured out how to use a thin slice of wood as a membrane through which water ... more |
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IMF approves $206 mn aid to Sri Lanka after Cyclone Ditwah
Flights cancelled, roads flooded as rare storm soaks UAE Sri Lanka plans $1.6 bn in cyclone recovery spending in 2026 Brazil megacity Sao Paulo struck by fresh water crisis Indonesians reeling from flood devastation plea for global help Levee break near Seattle prompts evacuation order Flash flood kills dozens in Morocco town At least 20 dead in eastern Bolivia floods Press Release from Business Wire: Textron Inc. Flash floods kill 37 in Moroccan coastal town |
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Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmlandSan Juan (AFP) July 29, 2019 Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. ... more 
Poland needs to save water for non-rainy dayWarsaw (AFP) July 28, 2019 With his two fishing rods planted firmly on the bank of the Vistula river, 85-year-old Tadeusz Norberciak peers at rocks exposed on the dry riverbed, a telling sign of Poland's looming water crisis. ... more 
Trump uncorks French wine threat in digital tax retaliationWashington (AFP) July 27, 2019 US President Donald Trump vowed "substantial" retaliation against France on Friday for a tax targeting US tech giants, threatening to slap tariffs on French wine and blasting President Emmanuel Macron's "foolishness." ... more
Underground water pipes: another way for cities to keep coolBoulogne-Billancourt, France (AFP) July 25, 2019 As Paris swelters in record-breaking heat, visitors to some of the French capital's iconic landmarks are being kept cool without even knowing it by a labyrinthine network of underground water pipes. ... more  
Records tumble in Europe as heatwave bitesParis (AFP) July 24, 2019 Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands recorded their highest ever temperatures as a European heatwave soared towards its peak on Wednesday, impacting rail transport and prompting a number of drownings with people taking to the water. ... more |
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 Despite monsoon havoc, India monsoons below baseline amid water crisis
More Basra water crises unless Iraq govt fixes 'failures': HRWBaghdad (AFP) July 22, 2019 Human Rights Watch on Monday warned of a repeat of last year's deadly water crisis in Iraq's oil-rich southern province of Basra unless authorities correct decades of management failures. ... more  |
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Swine fever sends China's pork prices, imports soaringBeijing (AFP) July 19, 2019 Pork prices have been sent soaring and herds devastated as African swine fever tears through China's massive pig-farming industry, forcing the country to ramp up imports to satisfy demand - but analysts warn worse is yet to come. ... more 
China importers seek to lift tariffs on US farm goods: state mediaShanghai (AFP) July 21, 2019 Chinese importers are applying to their government to lift tariffs on some US agricultural imports, state media reported on Sunday, three weeks after the two sides reached a truce in their trade war. ... more
Lavender back in fashion with French farmersChatuzange-Le-Goubet, France (AFP) July 21, 2019 Working its way across a purple-green field in southern France, a claw-fitted tractor harvests plants of lavender destined to become essential oil as a traditional sector stages a modest comeback. ... more 
ORNL scientists make fundamental discovery to creating better cropsOak Ridge TN (SPX) Jul 24, 2019 A team of scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have discovered the specific gene that controls an important symbiotic relationship between plants and soil fungi ... more 
European farms, wildlife parched in post-heatwave droughtParis (AFP) July 16, 2019 Farmers, private households and wildlife around Europe are suffering in a drought following last month's record temperatures that scorched much of the continent. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 05, 2019 
The launch of the second Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, has been postponed to 2023 from 2021, according to documents of Russia space corporation Roscosmos published on the public procurement website.
In May, Roscosmos postponed the launch of the first Arktika-M satellite for the second half of 2020 from 2019 ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Lockheed Martin presented the 2nd Space Operations Squadron with a GPS Block III model satellite to celebrate the successful on-orbit testing of the new GPS III satellite at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, July 29.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Wood, 2nd SOPS mission chief, said the model is a physical representation of the modernization underway.
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 Bras�lia (AFP) Aug 4, 2019 
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro vowed Saturday to combat "illegal deforestation," a day after the head of the agency that measures deforestation said he was being sacked after a row over the scale of the problem in the Amazon rainforest.
"We are going to act effectively in the fight against illegal deforestation," Bolsonaro wrote on his Facebook account, along with a video in which environ ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Fuels made from agricultural or forestry wastes known as lignocellulosic biomass have long been a champion in the quest to reduce use of fossil fuels. But plant cell walls have some innate defenses that make the process to break them down more difficult and costly than it could be.
In a leap forward that could be a game changer for understanding how plant biomass can be more efficiently br ... more |
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 Krasnoyarsk, Russia (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Researchers at Siberian Federal University, together with colleagues from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), discovered new properties of material based on palladium, which can increase the performance of solar cells.
Palladium diselenide is a promising material whose properties have not yet been fully studied. For example, it was reported that its two-dimensional form ... more |
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 Lake Turkana, Kenya (AFP) July 19, 2019 
Kenya on Friday formally launched Africa's biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of wilderness that already provides nearly a fifth of the country's energy needs.
The $680-million (600 million euro) scheme, a sprawling 365-turbine wind farm on the eastern shores of Lake Turkana, is delivering 310 megawatts of renewable power to the national grid of East Africa's most ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) July 22, 2019 
A French television crew filming a protest against a newly approved Indian-owned coal mine was arrested by Australian police Monday and charged with trespassing.
Construction of the Adani project near the Great Barrier Reef has been under fierce debate for almost a decade, with environmentalists warning that fossil fuels damage the climate.
France 2 reporter Hugo Clement and three member ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 5, 2019 
Hong Kong riot police clashed with pro-democracy protesters for a third straight day Monday, as the city's leader warned the global financial hub was nearing a "very dangerous situation" and a rare strike caused transport chaos.
Clouds of tear gas billowed across multiple locations on Monday afternoon as the city buckled under a general strike, which protesters pushed to emphasise they still ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 31, 2019 
If you see the latest robot from the University of California, Berkeley scurrying across your kitchen floor, don't bother trying to step on it. The novel roach-like robot, described this week in the journal Science Robotics, can't be squashed.
The new robot, developed by engineers at Cal, can run nearly as fast as a cockroach and as is even harder to kill. If one were to stomp on the li ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 2, 2019 
Cutting air pollution saves human lives, but some studies suggest cleaning up the air could unintentionally accelerate global warming.
New research, however, revealed little evidence of a strong inverse relationship between air quality and warming.
Until now, the logic went as follows: pollution particles help seed more clouds with more water, and more water-rich clouds, scientis ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 1, 2019  US President Donald Trump spoke on Wednesday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin about wildfires in Siberia and trade, the White House said.
Trump "expressed concern over the vast wildfires afflicting Siberia. The leaders also discussed trade between the two countries," according to a brief statement from Trump's press office.
Earlier, the Russian state-run news agency Ria reported th ... more |
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 Lisbon (AFP) Aug 5, 2019 
Ferdinand Magellan set off from Spain 500 years ago on an epoch-making voyage to sail all the way around the globe for the first time.
The Portuguese explorer was killed by islanders in the Philippines two years into the adventure, leaving Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano to complete the three-year trip. But it is Magellan's name that is forever associated with the voyage.
"Magellan is sti ... more |
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 Conakry (AFP) Aug 1, 2019 
Six children aged between four and 10 died after they were struck by lightning while making tea under a mango tree in north-eastern Guinea on Wednesday, a witness said.
The storm began shortly before 7:00 pm (1900 GMT) in the town of Siguiri, close to the border with Mali, witness Mamadi Doumbouya, a local resident, told AFP.
He said eight children in total, accompanied by two of their m ... more |
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 Shanghai (AFP) Aug 5, 2019 
The Chinese yuan fell to its lowest level against the dollar since August 2010 in morning trade on Monday, fuelling speculation that Beijing is allowing currency depreciation to counter threatened US tariffs.
The offshore currency weakened to 7.1085 to the dollar, days after US President Donald Trump announced a plan to impose fresh tariffs on another $300 billion in Chinese goods, sharpenin ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jul 30, 2019 
The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.
A new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison physicists mimicked solar winds in the lab, confirming how they develop and providing an Earth-bound model for the future study of solar physics.
Our sun is essentially a big ball of ... more |
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 Larrau, France (AFP) Aug 5, 2019 
As day breaks over the Pyrenees mountains, hundreds of sheep scuttle up a valley, the clanging of their neck bells echoing around the hills that fringe the French-Spanish border.
For generations, shepherds in the region have steered sheep up the mountains in summer to graze on higher pastures, against breathtaking backdrops of sheer precipices and plunging valleys.
But the arrival last y ... more |
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