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Eggs recalled, exports halted as China's food crisis worsens Beijing (AFP) Oct 29, 2008 
Chinese retailers pulled eggs off shelves Wednesday and a supplier was ordered to stop exports, amid fears the toxic threat of the chemical melamine was far more widespread than first reported. Dalian city in northeast China said it had imposed an export ban on Hanwei Group, which sold to Japan and other parts of Asia, after some of its products were found to contain melamine ... read moreFreezing Pakistan quake survivors wait for aid 
Wam, Pakistan (AFP) Oct 30, 2008Thousands of villagers in southwest Pakistan waited for aid in freezing conditions Thursday after a powerful earthquake that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed at least 170 people. The 6.4-magnitude pre-dawn quake on Wednesday flattened mud-brick houses and triggered landslides in the impoverished province of Baluchistan bordering Afghanistan, killing or injuring their occupants as they ... more |
Antarctic sea ice improves after four years of extreme lows: US scientists
Water emerges as a dangerous new war target Indonesia landfill collapse kills five Indonesia landfill collapse kills four Swiss vote down proposal for massive 'climate fund' Philippines' 'Cockroach Lord' goes to bat for misunderstood bugs 'Significant' acceleration of global warming since 2015: study Eight dead as tornados surge across central US In Finland, kids take hovercraft to school over frozen Baltic Sea Four dead, at least 12 injured after tornados hit Michigan: US media 
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Global Financial Crisis To Hit Biotechnology Sector
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2008Australia's CSIRO Livestock Industries and its partner, New Zealand's principal pastoral food Research Institute, AgResearch, have predicted the global financial crisis could significantly reduce investment in biotechnology and agricultural science. On the opening day of their joint three-day Horizons in Livestock Sciences Conference in Christchurch, AgResearch's General Manager of Applied ... more World's Fish Catches Being Wasted As Animal Feed 
New York NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2008An alarming new study to be published in November in the Annual Review of Environment and Resources finds that one-third of the world's marine fish catches are ground up and fed to farm-raised fish, pigs, and poultry, squandering a precious food resource for humans and disregarding the serious overfishing crisis in our oceans. Lead author Dr. Jacqueline Alder, senior author Dr. Daniel Paul ... more Study Rules Out Inbreeding As Cause Of Amphibian Deformities 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 30, 2008Although research has linked inbreeding with elevated rates of deformity in a wide variety of animals, a new study finds it plays no part in the high incidence of malformation among salamanders. Purdue University researchers recently examined 2,000 adult and juvenile salamanders and found that 8 percent had visible deformities, mainly consisting of missing, extra or dwarfed digits ... more  |
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World threatened by ecological 'credit crunch': WWF
Paris (AFP) Oct 29, 2008Reckless borrowing against Earth's exhausted bounty is driving the planet toward an ecological "credit crunch", the World Wildlife Fund warned on Wednesday. Growing demands on natural capital -- such as forests, water, soil, air and biodiversity - already outstrip the world's capacity to renew these resources by a third, according to the WWF's Living Planet Report. "If our demands on ... more California gets ready for earthquake drill 
Los Angeles (UPI) Oct 29, 2008 The U.S. Geological Survey says it's preparing for the largest earthquake drill in the nation's history - the Great Southern California ShakeOut. The 10 a.m. PST on Nov. 13 the drill will simulate what might occur during and after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the U.S. West Coast. The exercise is based on a USGS scenario created with emergency responders, power, water and transportatio ... more New plant sciences primer is released 
Washington (UPI) Oct 29, 2008 The U.S. National Academies have released a new primer on the achievements and promise of plant genome sciences. Officials said the primer, based on an expert consensus report from the National Research Council, explores the potential of the National Plant Genome Initiative , a federal multiagency project that coordinates research in plant sciences to understand and ultimately harness ... more Global Business Backs UN Climate Change Deal 
Warsaw (AFP) Oct 29, 2008Global business leaders meeting Wednesday in Warsaw endorsed the United Nations' drive to clinch a new global framework to curb climate change at its December 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen. "Business is a solution to the climate change crisis," Lars G. Josefsson, president and CEO of European power giant Vattenfall, told reporters after roundtable talks of business leaders on climate cha ... more |
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