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New Insect Birth Control Strategy Zaps Cotton PestsTucson TX (SPX) Nov 09, 2010 Using pests as part of an insect birth control program helps to get rid of them, UA researchers find. A new approach that combines the planting of pest-resistant cotton and releasing large numbers of sterile moths has virtually eliminated of the world's most destructive cotton pests from Arizona. The novel control strategy, published in the Nov. 7 advance online publication of the journal Nature Biotechnology, has allowed growers to maintain high cotton yields without spraying insecticides to cont ... read more |
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  Storm deaths, cholera heap more misery on Haiti Struggling to rebuild in the grips of a cholera epidemic, quake-ravaged Haiti suffered further misery at the weekend as Hurricane Tomas claimed at least 21 lives, officials said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Flights resume to Indonesia after volcano chaos International flights to Indonesia's capital Jakarta returned to normal on Monday, officials said, a day ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama, after volcanic ash caused a weekend of travel chaos. ... more | .. |
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  Nicaragua, Costa Rica tense over map 'war' Costa Rica is recovering from the shock of a Nicaraguan border incursion over the small matter of a Google map misunderstood by the invaders. ... more | .. |
 Global talks in Laos seek quicker removal of cluster bombs A conference that begins in Laos on Tuesday aims to speed up efforts to rid the world of cluster bombs, which are estimated to have killed or wounded tens of thousands of civilians. ... more | .. |
  Modeling Glacier Fed Water Dependency Glaciers of large mountain regions contribute, to some extent considerably, to the water supply of certain populated areas. However, in a recent study conducted by Innsbruck glaciologists and climat ... more | .. |
 Storm-battered Haiti cleans up Tomas wreckage Haitians mopped up the muddy wreckage left by Hurricane Tomas Sunday, amid fears that flooding left by the killer storm will worsen a cholera epidemic that has killed more than 500 people so far. ... more |
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 Should Our Biggest Climate Change Fear Be Fear Itself From apocalyptic forecasting to estimates of mass extinctions, climate change is a topic which is filled with fearful predictions for the future. In his latest research, published in WIREs Climate C ... more | .. |
 Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended "volcanic winters" from gig ... more | .. |
 Study: Tuna black market worth billions of dollars The craze for sushi has fueled a black market in tuna worth billions of dollars, as governments collaborate with the industry despite fears for the species' survival, an investigation found. ... more | .. |
  Sweet Discovery Raises Hope For Treating Deadly Fast-Acting Viruses When a team of European researchers sought to discover how a class of antiviral drugs worked, they looked in an unlikely place: the sugar dish. A new research report appearing in the Journal of Leuk ... more |
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 Time For A Rain Dance In many areas of the world, including California's Mojave Desert, rain is a precious and rare resource. To encourage rainfall, scientists use "cloud seeding," a weather modification process designed ... more | .. |
 Water Flowing Through Ice Sheets Accelerates Warming And Ice Flow Melt water flowing through ice sheets via crevasses, fractures and large drains called moulins can carry warmth into ice sheet interiors, greatly accelerating the thermal response of an ice sheet to ... more | .. |
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 New Statistical Model Moves Human Evolution Back Three Million Years Evolutionary divergence of humans from chimpanzees likely occurred some 8 million years ago rather than the 5 million year estimate widely accepted by scientists, a new statistical model suggests. ... more | .. |
  Russian Drifting Polar Station SP-38 Opens In Chukchi Sea In the bitterly cold darkness more than a thousand kilometers above the Arctic Circle, a team of Russian scientists on Friday inaugurated a floating research station that will be home to 15 research ... more | .. |
 Oldest Ground-Edge Implement Discovered In Northern Australia The oldest ground-edge stone tool in the world has been discovered in Northern Australia by a Monash University researcher and a team of international experts. Evidence for stone tool-use amon ... more | .. |
 Volcano travel chaos as ash grounds Indonesia flights International airlines were forced to reschedule dozens of flights to Indonesia on Sunday as deadly Mount Merapi spewed ash into the sky, ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. ... more |
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 River Flows Across US Altered By Land And Water Management The amount of water flowing in streams and rivers has been significantly altered in nearly 90 percent of waters that were assessed in a new nationwide USGS study. Flow alterations are a primary cont ... more | .. |
 Long-Range Undersea Robot Goes The Distance Over the past decade, the undersea robots known as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have become increasingly important in oceanographic research. Today's AUVs fall into two groups: 1) propeller ... more | .. |
  Lawyer linked to Nobel winner says barred from leaving China A lawyer whose firm represents jailed Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo said he was stopped from leaving China on Tuesday and that others had been blocked to prevent them attending the Oslo prize ceremony. ... more | .. |
 China to rein in dioxin emissions to help air quality China has said it aims to cut the intensity of dioxin emissions in key industries by 10 percent by 2015, as part of efforts by the world's top polluter to tackle ever-worsening air quality. ... more |
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