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Urban Gardeners BewareIndianapolis IN (SPX) Sep 29, 2010 Not since victory gardens helped World War II era Americans on the home front survive food shortages have urban gardens been as necessary and popular as they are today. With more food production in cities, the safety of the produce grown there becomes increasingly important. As city dwellers across the country are harvesting fruits and vegetables for family consumption and planning ahead for the next planting season, geochemist Gabriel Filippelli, Ph.D., professor of earth sciences at the School o ... read more |
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Hadejia, Nigeria (AFP) Sept 28, 2010They sleep where they can, the men seeking dry spots on roadsides, women and children piling into houses still standing as huge numbers of displaced return to flood-hit villages in Nigeria's north. In the daytime, they dig through mud that used to be their homes to find anything salvageable. Fishermen work the floodwaters surrounding marooned villages while children swim nearby. "It has ... more  
Geneva (AFP) Sept 28, 2010UN agencies warned on Friday that the world will fail to meet an end-2010 deadline for "universal" access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment, while new crisis-driven funding cuts could unravel any gains. The World Health Organisation, UNAIDS, and the UN Children's Fund UNICEF said in a joint report that the target of universal access - defined as access for 80 percent of the HIV positive popula ... more  
Fort Collins, Colo. (UPI) Sep 28, 2010 The oldest trees on the planet, some almost 5,000 years old, are under threat from two enemies in their Western U.S. mountain sanctuaries, scientists say. Bristlecone pines, including one tree named Methuselah that is 4,800 years old, are up against two enemies: white pine blister rust, an Asian fungus that came to the United States from Asia by way of Europe 100 years ago, and an outbr ... more |
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Iceland mackerel quota 'completely justified': ministryReykjavik (AFP) Sept 28, 2010 Iceland's unilateral decision to hike its mackerel quota was "completely justified," a spokesman for the fisheries ministry said Tuesday, adding Iceland was never subject to a mackerel limit. The European Union's fisheries chief Maria Damanaki said on Monday she was ready to battle Iceland and the Faroe Islands for unilaterally raising their mackerel quotas in their row with the bloc dubbed the "mackerel war." "Iceland has never been subject to a quota, and as a coastal state, we can set our ow ... read more |
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