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 Beijing (AFP) July 31, 2009 
The "heaviest rains in 70 years" lashed Shanghai Thursday, flooding 3,000 homes and leaving nearly 2,000 travellers stranded at the city's airports, state media reported. Between 80 to 140 millimetres (three to 5.5 inches) fell in most areas of China's largest city, official news agency Xinhua reported, adding that vehicles had been damaged by falling branches. No casualties were reported. ... read more 
Brighton, England (AFP) July 30, 2009Hundreds of people paid their last respects Thursday at the funeral of Henry Allingham, the world's oldest man and a veteran of World War I, who died earlier this month aged 113. Allingham - who jokingly put his longevity down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women" - was given full military honours, including a flypast by five replica World War I aircraft. A single church bell to ... more |
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Chicago (AFP) July 30, 2009The world's fisheries are at risk of collapse, but recovery is possible if governments act to manage commercial fishing, a comprehensive study published Thursday has found. Several regions in the United States, Iceland and New Zealand have made significant progress in rebuilding stocks devastated by decades of overfishing through careful management strategies. But the study, published in ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Using a combination of theoretical modeling, energy calculations, and field observations, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have for the first time described a mechanism that explains how some of the ocean's tiniest swimming animals can have a huge impact on large-scale ocean mixing. "We've been studying swimming animals for quite some time," says John ... more 
Alexandria, Egypt (UPI) Jul 30, 2009 Hopes that the 10 Nile Basin countries would sign a water-sharing agreement at a meeting in Alexandria to settle one of the planet's most contentious water issues have been dashed -- for now at least -- after Egypt and Sudan rejected any cuts in their traditional quotas. But the prospects of a long-term accord on an equitable share-out of the waters of the 3,470-mile Nile, the world's ... more |
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St. Louis MO (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Rice is one of the most important crops worldwide, as it feeds over half of the world's population. Domesticated rice is an important supply of the world's rice. However, these strains are genetically static and cannot adapt to changing growing conditions. Traditional varieties, or landraces, of rice are genetically evolving and provide a pool of traits that can be tapped to improve crops ... more  
Solomons MD (SPX) Jul 31, 2009While policymakers across of the globe are relying on environmental restoration projects to fuel emerging market-based environmental programs, an article in the July 31 edition of Science by two noted ecologists warns that these programs still lack the scientific certainty needed to ensure that restoration projects deliver the environmental improvements being marketed. Markets identify the ... more 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2009People make environmental choices the same way they manage money, preferring smaller gains right away to bigger gains later, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. This behavior reflects "delay discounting," a mental filter used to make decisions about current versus future gains and losses, David Hardisty, M.Phil., and Elke Weber, Ph.D., of Columbia ... more |
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