Archive for the ‘Water - Air Quality / Agriculture’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The United Nations World Food Programme said today that attacks onaid workers on the ground and threats to ships delivering food aid toSomalia, are jeopardising the lives of millions who now need urgent foodassistance. "Somalia is at a ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Global warming is likely to increase the proportion of the population affected by kidney stones by expanding the higher-risk region known as the "kidney-stone belt" into neighboring states, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center and UT Dallas have found.Dehydration is one of the risk factors linked to kidney-stone disease, and ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) will allow producers who would otherwise be ineligible for the new disaster assistance programs to become eligible by paying a fee as required by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (the 2008 Act). The 2008 Act requires producers who wish to ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Organophosphates are a common class of chemicals used in pesticides,herbicides, and nerve gases. Each year, thousands of people arepoisoned by these chemicals and die as they develop intermediatesyndrome - when muscles weaken and the respiratory system fails. Astudy published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicinereveals how researchers from Sri Lanka, Australia, ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
A key aspect of the international climate change agreement slated to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 focuses on reducing carbon emissions due todeforestation and degradation (REDD). But most REDD discussions focus on tropical deforestation while ignoring the potential carbon savings that couldbe realized from reduced forest degradation. In a ...
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
This year, the world and, in particular, developing countries and the poor have been hit by both food and energy crises. As a consequence, prices for many staple foods have risen by up to 100%. When we examine the causes of the food crisis, a growing population, changes in trade ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Health Canada estimates unsafe drinking water causes 90,000 illnesses and 90 deaths every year. News headlines warning of contaminants[1] (i.e. arsenic, benzene, chlorine) and pesticides in tap water have stirred controversy and confusion. Canadians are also learning that water in single-serve, disposable plastic bottles isn't an environmentally-friendly solution to their ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
BlueInGreen, an Arkansas-based company that provides systems for dissolved gas treatment of water systems, announced a two-year, $750,000 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to study the cost-effective removal of pharmaceutical residuals from wastewater using a new hyper ozonation ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced today that he is releasing Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) acres for livestock grazing in counties recently designated as Presidential Disaster Areas because of flooding. The release permits grazing only in counties designated as primary and contiguous disaster areas and only because ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
The Cabinet Office "Food Matters" report publishedyesterday (Monday) represents a missed opportunity to create an all-embracing food and farming strategy for the 21st century, according to the NFU. NFU president Peter Kendall said that while the report provided a useful foundation for future work and a positive contribution to the ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
This summer, as the Midwest suffers from severe flooding, a new study finds that most flood victims do not utilize available disaster relief services. An accompanying editorial suggest that the findings can help agencies such as the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) to better distribute relief ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A recent paper published in the journal Plant Physiology provides a comprehensive overview of the genomics tools and resources available for the rapidly growing Rosaceae scientific community. Rosaceae is an economically important group of plants that comprises more than 3,000 species, including strawberry, apple, peach and pear. Members of this ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
NFU President Peter Kendall has warned a negative decision from the Secretary of State on culling badgers as part of a TB control strategy would be completely devastating to farming families and their businesses. "Current speculation on a negative decision on badger culling remains just that, speculation, based on a ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
American farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996, especially corn, cotton and soybean varieties, according to a new USDA report. USDA's Economic Research Service (ERS) report, Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S. was released July 2, 2008. Key findings include: - Adoption ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
One hundred years of the NFU is about to come alive in the form of a new book. 'From Campbell to Kendall: A history of the NFU' is being launched to celebrate the organisation's centenary. The lavishly illustrated 208-page hardback charts one hundred years of history by focussing on the ...
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