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EU announces biggest-ever food aid package
Brussels (AFP) March 4, 2008The EU Commission on Tuesday announced its biggest ever food aid package, to alleviate hunger among the world's poorest, and warned swiftly rising prices could yet force it to increase the amount. "Vulnerable people in many of the world's poorest countries are increasingly exposed to natural disasters, conflict and economic pressures," said EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Louis Michel. ... more France proposes tougher EU rules for modified crops 
Brussels (AFP) March 3, 2008France on Monday proposed scrapping the EU's present system for authorising genetically modified crops for tougher standards which take into account a wide range of environmental and safety factors. A European Commission spokeswoman said that no member state spoke against the French proposals, while French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said about six of them spoke in favour, includi ... more Genetic code of corn cracked 
Tucson AZ (UPI) Mar 04, 2008U.S. researchers said they have cracked the genetic code of corn, one of the world's most important food and biofuel crops. Researchers from Washington University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Iowa State University and the University of Arizona used a genetic physical map created by the University of Arizona to complete a working draft of the corn genome. The group sequenced a ... more JT to raise own food production after dumpling scare 
Tokyo (AFP) March 4, 2008Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) said Tuesday it would boost its own production of frozen foods in the wake of a safety scare involving pesticide-tainted dumplings that it imported from China. "We are moving towards an increase in our own production in the future," said JT spokeswoman Yukiko Seto. The group has been under fire since a food poisoning scandal erupted a month ago over frozen dumplin ... more West Coast Salmon Return In Smaller Numbers 
Silver Spring MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2008NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely culprit for the dramatically low returns of Chinook and coho salmon to rivers and streams along the West Coast of the United States in 2007. Researchers from NOAA's Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers are comparing data on the low food production of the California Current in 2005 ... more |
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Fresno CA (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Pacific Gas and Electric Company and BioEnergy Solutions have announced that their biogas-to-pipeline injection project in Fresno County has begun production of renewable natural gas derived from animal waste. It is the first project in California that will deliver pipeline-quality, renewable natural gas to a utility. "With nearly two million dairy cows in California, there is great potential ... more Sudan villagers, environment suffer from oil boom 
Rier, Sudan (AFP) March 4, 2008Kicked out of sleepy Nile fishing hamlets lost forever to Sudan's oil boom, villagers in the south curse a refinery for causing forced relocations, for spreading disease and ravaging the environment. Activists also warn that the 2006 arrival of White Nile Petroleum Company, a consortium led by Malaysia's Petronas, in Unity State threatens the Sudd wetlands, the world's largest maze ... more New Material Can Find A Needle In A Nuclear Waste Haystack 
Evanston IL (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Nuclear power has advantages, but, if this method of making power is to be viable long term, discovering new solutions to radioactive waste disposal and other problems are critical. Otherwise nuclear power is unlikely to become mainstream. A team of Northwestern University chemists is the first to focus on metal sulfide materials as a possible source for nuclear waste remediation methods. ... more Outside View: China's energy diplomacy 
Toronto, Canada (UPI) Mar 04, 2008China's building of a port in Pakistan, its extra-polite friendship with the rulers of Myanmar and now its offer to Iran to pick up gas from Pakistan if India shows no interest in doing so is all part of the country's quest for energy to feed its export economy. The West has very cleverly shifted its smokestack manufacturing industry to China. There, a mix of its own but rapidly depleting ... more Key Discovered For Converting Waste To Electricity 
Minneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 05, 2008Researchers at the University of Minnesota studying bacteria capable of generating electricity have discovered that riboflavin (commonly known as vitamin B-2) is responsible for much of the energy produced by these organisms. The bacteria, Shewanella, are commonly found in water and soil and are of interest because they can convert simple organic compounds (such as lactic acid) into ... more |
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Tuscon AZ (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within the last decade after all, according to new research. The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright spots in some Martian gullies indicate that liquid water flowed down those gullies sometime since 1999. "It rules out pure liquid water," said lead author Jon D. Pelletier of The University of Arizona in Tucson. ... more NASA's SDO Mission to Improve Predictions Of Violent Space Weather 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 04, 2008About 93 million miles from us lies an immense nuclear furnace spanning 100 Earths. In just one second, it produces enough power to supply the entire United States for nine million years. It is the closest star, our sun. Although its light powers almost all life on Earth, the sun has a dark side. Storms from the sun can knock our finely tuned technological civilization off balance, disrupt ... more Trimble Introduces Flexible GNSS Mapping And GIS Solution 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Trimble has introduced a flexible Global Navigation Satellite System receiver for Geographic Information System data collection and mapping-the GPS Pathfinder ProXRT receiver. The receiver combines a high- performance GPS receiver with Trimble H-Star technology, OmniSTAR correction capability, and optional GLONASS capability to provide various levels of positioning accuracies-from ... more Antenna Software Launches AMP Location At Gartner Wireless And Mobile Summit 
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2008Antenna Software has announced the immediate availability of AMP Location from the Gartner Wireless and Mobile Summit. As the open and flexible location-based services engine of the Antenna Mobility Platform, AMP Location enables organizations to simplify the integration and application of the latest GPS and Location-Based Services technologies into their mobile business solutions. ... more MyGuide Turns To ModusLink To Streamline Its Supply Chain Operations In Europe 
Waltham MA (SPX) Mar 04, 2008MyGuide has turned to ModusLink to streamline its supply chain operations in Europe. By leveraging ModusLink's Optimized Configuration Solution for late-stage product customization, MyGuide is able to implement a more cost-effective, reactive supply chain that can adapt to dynamic shifts in demand. ModusLink will perform light manufacturing and fulfillment of MyGuide's entire line of GPS ... more
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