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Rooftop farming booming in New YorkNew York (AFP) April 23, 2010 Urban farming is a growth industry in New York city's concrete jungle, and with little open land free agriculturalists and beekeepers have taken to the rooftops to pursue their passion. Andrew Cote uses the emergency fire ladder to climb up to the roof of his East Village building, where he tends to 250 bee hives. Cote, a professor of Japanese literature doubles up as president of the New York City Beekeepers Association, and is happy that the city authorized beekeeping in mid-March after an 11- ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) April 25, 2010Oceanographers said on Sunday they had measured a system of mighty currents off Antarctica that are a newly-discovered factor in the equation of climate change. The system, known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW), is generated in clockwise movement in four big sea shelves that abut Antarctica - the Weddell Sea, Prydz Bay, Adelie Land and Ross Sea. Extremely cold water sinks to the bottom ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 26, 2010The death toll rose to 12 from tornadoes that ripped through southern US states over the weekend, officials said Monday. Rescue workers were still seeking victims and survivors in Mississippi and Alabama, where dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. In Mississippi, the death toll remained at 10 with several others injured, according to emergency management officials. Alabama auth ... more  
Majuro (AFP) April 23, 2010A group of eight Pacific island countries agreed Friday to push ahead with plans to close off 4.5 million square kilometres of high seas areas to fishing to save rapidly depleting tuna stocks. Officials from the group known as the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) - which controls areas responsible for a quarter of the world's tuna supply - agreed to extend the ban to new areas on the h ... more |
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Bone-Eating Worms 30 Million Years OldKiel, Germany (SPX) Apr 26, 2010 An international team of scientists led by the paleontologist Steffen Kiel at the University of Kiel, Germany, found the first fossil boreholes of the worm Osedax that consumes whale bones on the deep-sea floor. They conclude that "boneworms" are at least 30 Million years old. This result was published in the current issue of the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS, April 19, 2010). Six years ago Osedax was first described based on specimens living o ... read more |
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