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Wild seeds seen as world crop 'insurance'London (UPI) Dec 10, 2010 British scientists say they plan to collect wild plant relatives of essential food crops including wheat, rice and potatoes to preserve their genetic traits. The project, coordinated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, aims to safeguard valuable genetic traits in wild plants that could be bred into crops to make them more hardy and versatile, the BBC reported Friday. The plant material collected will be stored in seed banks in the long term, but will also be used in "pre-breeding trials ... read more |
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  Humans Helped Vultures Colonize The Canary Islands The Egyptian vulture population of the Canary Islands was established following the arrival of the first human settlers who brought livestock to the islands. A genetic comparison of Iberian an ... more | .. |
 Fred Can Help Explain How A Bee Sees Bees can see colours but they perceive the world differently to us, including variations in hue that we cannot ourselves distinguish. Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Imperi ... more | .. |
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  Bluefin tuna catches to be reduced in Pacific: reports Fishing nations have agreed to hold their catches of young bluefin tuna in the central and western Pacific in 2011 and 2012 below the 2002-2004 annual averages, press reports said Sunday. ... more | .. |
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  Cancun reignites climate talks flame A climate deal reached in Mexico has revived faith in UN-backed talks after last year's debacle in Copenhagen, but environmentalists warn the new measures are far less than what the planet needs. ... more | .. |
 78,000 tonnes of debris fished from China's Three Gorges Dam Workers in central China have fished 78,000 tonnes of debris out of the water at the Three Gorges Dam since October, state media said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Climate talks agree to pay to protect forests A new climate change deal reached in Mexico has set up a global framework to pay to protect rainforests vital to the ecosystem, but held off on the controversial introduction of a market role. ... more | .. |
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 No rice please, we're Indonesians Indonesia is one of the world's biggest producers - and consumers - of rice, but in the interests of public health and food sustainability the government has launched an ambitious drive to wean people off their beloved staple. ... more | .. |
 Redrawing The Map Of Great Britain Based On Human Interaction A group of researchers at MIT, Cornell University and University College London have used one of the world's largest databases of telecommunications records to redraw the map of Great Britain. The r ... more | .. |
 New Discovery About How Flowering Time Of Plants Can Be Controlled Researchers at Umea Plant Science Center in Sweden discovered, in collaboration with the Syngenta company, a previously unknown gene in sugar beets that blocks flowering. Only with the cold of winte ... more | .. |
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  Changes In Solar Activity Affect Local Climate Raimund Muscheler is a researcher at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University in Sweden. In the latest issue of the journal Science, he and his colleagues have described how ... more | .. |
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  Life Thrives In Porous Rock Deep Beneath The Seafloor Researchers have found compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor. The microbes in this hidden world appear to be an important source o ... more | .. |
 It's Time For Europe To Step Up Research In The Polar Regions Polar research must become an integral part of the European Union's research activities if Europe is to benefit from the dramatically changing face of the Polar Regions, the European Polar Board (EP ... more |
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 Plants Remember Winter To Bloom In Spring With Help Of Special Molecule The role a key molecule plays in a plant's ability to remember winter, and therefore bloom in the spring, has been identified by University of Texas at Austin scientists. Many flowering plants ... more | .. |
 Conditioning Reefs For The Future In a world first, a new 'state of the art' climate change experimental facility has been completed at the University of Queensland's Heron Island Research Station. The Climate Change Mesocosm ... more |
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