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Walker's World: France's food fight
London, April 16, 2008 France has fought a stubborn and increasingly desperate rearguard action for the past 30 years to protect its farmers against the competition of world markets through the mechanism of Europe's Common Agricultural Policy. But suddenly, using the opportunity of the global food crisis, France is back on the offensive, saying Europe needs to guarantee its farmers higher prices and more ... more WWF Joins World's Leading Environment Proponents In CCS Call 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 17, 2008WWF has joined some of the world's leading environment proponents in calling for the rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration plants. The conservation organisation says it must be determined as a matter of urgency whether the technology works or not, and whether it will play a role in the world's response to climate change. "If we reach a three-degree rise in ... more Smithsonian Scientists Find Evidence That Could Rewrite Hawaii's Botanical History 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution have discovered data that suggests one of Hawaii's most dominant plants, Metrosideros, has been a resident of the islands far longer than previously believed. Their findings are being published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B in London on April 16. Metrosideros, commonly called "ohi'a" in the Hawaiian Islands, has puzzled research ... more Self Seeding: An Innovative Management System 
Madison WI (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Winter cover crops provide important ecological functions that include nutrient cycling and soil cover. Although cover crop benefits to agroecosystems are well documented, cover crop use in agronomic farming systems remains low. Winter cover crops are usually planted in the fall after cash crop harvest and killed the following spring before planting the next cash crop. Recent research has ... more Consortium To Study Mysterious Death Of Honey Bees And Bumblebees 
Amherst MA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The mysterious disappearance of honey bee colonies in the United States due to colony collapse disorder is a major concern for New England growers of cranberries and blueberries, who must rent thousands of hives from commercial bee operations to maintain fruit harvests worth over $100 million each year. John Burand of the University of Massachusetts Amherst has received a three-year, $150 ... more |
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Johannesburg (AFP) April 16, 2008A Chinese ship carrying a consignment of weapons destined for Zimbabwe was cleared through customs at the South African port of Durban on Wednesday, police and transport officials said. "There are arms on the vessel and the ship is on the outer anchorage of the port and it's been docked here since April 14," Nicholas Gunther of the police explosives unit in Durban told South Africa's SAPA ... more Over-fished species go into evolutionary overdrive: study 
Paris (AFP) April 16, 2008Relentless commercial fishing can trigger rapid evolutionary changes when only smaller, younger fish are left behind, a study released Wednesday shows. Moreover, those changes among fish populations -- a desperate bid to adapt -- may be difficult or impossible to reverse. Boom-and-bust cycles in over-fished species can wreak economic havoc on fishing communities, and can trigger a ... more Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal For GOES-R To NASA 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008As Northrop Grumman prepares to observe the sixth anniversary of excellent on-orbit performance of NASA's Aqua spacecraft, the company announced it has submitted a proposal to NASA to design and develop the next generation of satellites that will continuously monitor the earth and its environment from a geostationary orbit. Northrop Grumman's proposal for the Geostationary Environmental ... more NATO chief urges Russia to reverse decision on Georgia regions 
Brussels (AFP) April 16, 2008NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Wednesday called on Russia to reverse its decision to boost ties with the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. "I am deeply concerned by the actions Russia has taken to establish legal links with the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the NATO chief said in a statement. "I urge the Russian Federation to ... more India's weather office forecasts good summer monsoon 
New Delhi (AFP) April 16, 2008India's weather office on Wednesday forecast that the June-to-September annual monsoon rains that are key for crops and the rural economy would be better than average. Indian economic policymakers are depending on ample monsoon rains to help farmers produce more food grains to tame rising prices after inflation hit a three-year high at 7.41 percent last week as global food costs soar. ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The Cleantech Group at Heslin Rothenberg Farley and Mesiti P.C. continues to monitor Intellectual Property trends in the Cleantech arena. In addition to its signature Clean Energy Patent Growth Index, the Group has analyzed litigation trends in the clean energy area and has found that litigation has proliferated over the last several years. Issued patents are one indicator of innovation ... more Hydroprocessing Technology Could Lead The Way For Global Bio Jet Fuels 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Apr 17, 2008This Frost and Sullivan research titled Global Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Market A Strategic Overview provides a strategic and analytical insight into the alternative aviation fuel market in commercial aviation that is poised to rise. It also points out the most prospective aviation fuel that is feasible for the market. In this research, Frost and Sullivan's expert analysts ... more Historic Alliance Calls For A National Task Force On Carbon Capture And Storage 
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 17, 2008In an historic alliance, industry, union and environment organisations have called on the Federal Government to establish a National Carbon Capture and Storage Taskforce to combat climate change. The new taskforce, proposed by the Australian Coal Association (ACA), CFMEU, The Climate Institute (CI), and WWF, would be charged with developing and implementing a nationally coordinated plan to ... more Analysis: Reps. want old FutureGen back 
The Department of Energy's new plans for the FutureGen project -- a 5-year-old initiative to develop clean-coal technology -- look fishy, policymakers said Tuesday. President Bush launched the program in his 2003 State of the Union address as part of an effort to increase research and development of carbon capture and sequestration technologies in the United States. CCS technology, if ... more Analysis: Iraq oil law a deal -- spokesman 
Washington, April 16, 2008 Iraq's central and Kurdish region governments have reached a deal on an oil law, including a method for weighing the validity of the oil deals the Kurds have signed with foreign firms, the top government spokesman told United Press International. Ali al-Dabbagh said an agreement has also been made on the classification and funding for the Kurds' security forces, the Peshmerga, which ... more
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