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China says drought won't affect world food pricesBeijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2011 China sought Tuesday to alleviate fears about the global impact of a drought in its wheat-growing regions that has raised concern it could send world food prices soaring. The situation "will not affect international food prices", foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told reporters at a regular press briefing. "The recent drought may have some impact on winter wheat production but authorities are taking active measures to minimise the impact," he said. He added that China had "abundant" reser ... read more |
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  Somalia: Jihadists, regime eye big pushes As Somalia enters its 21st year of war, the U.S.-backed transitional government has doled out long-overdue back pay to its troops and says it's preparing a big offensive against Islamist al-Shahaab rebels who hold most of the lawless country. ... more | .. |
  Cell-based flu shot beats current vaccine: study Flu vaccines made from lab-grown cells work at least as well as those derived from viruses cultivated in chicken eggs, the preferred method for 50 years, according to a study released Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Six hurt as record snow buries South Korean market Six people were injured when an awning at a South Korean market collapsed Wednesday under the weight of record snowfall, a fire and rescue service spokesman said. ... more | .. |
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  New cyclone lashes Australia's Darwin Torrential rain and high winds lashed Darwin Wednesday as a new tropical cyclone bore down on Australia's north, just two weeks after a top-strength storm caused massive destruction. ... more | .. |
  Revisited Human-Worm Relationships Shed Light On Brain Evolution "Man is but a worm" was the title of a famous caricature of Darwin's ideas in Victorian England. Now, 120 years later, a molecular analysis of mysterious marine creatures unexpectedly reveals our co ... more | .. |
  Understanding Patterns Of Seafloor Biomass The vast majority of the biological production in the world's oceans occurs within sunlit surface waters - the so-called photic zone. Through the process of photosynthesis, tiny marine plants called ... more | .. |
 China rice laced with heavy metals: report Up to 10 percent of rice grown in China is contaminated with harmful heavy metals stemming from pollution linked to the nation's rapid industrialisation, a report said. ... more |
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 Tiny Crustacean Holds The Record For Most Genes In An Animal Scientists have discovered that the animal with the most genes--about 31,000--is the near-microscopic freshwater crustacean Daphnia pulex, or water flea. By comparison, humans have about 23,000 gene ... more | .. |
 44-Year-Old Mystery Of How Fleas Jump Resolved If you thought that we know everything about how the flea jumps, think again. In 1967, Henry Bennet-Clark discovered that fleas store the energy needed to catapult themselves into the air in an elas ... more | .. |
 A New Way To Attack Pathogens Scientists have discovered a new way to attack dangerous pathogens, marking a hopeful next step in the ever-escalating battle between man and microbe. In a paper published online Feb. 10 in th ... more | .. |
  Polar Bear Births Could Plummet With Climate Change University of Alberta researchers Peter Molnar, Andrew Derocher and Mark Lewis studied the reproductive ecology of polar bears in Hudson Bay and have linked declining litter sizes with loss of sea i ... more |
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 Ancient Teeth Raise New Questions About The Origins Of Modern Man Eight small teeth found in a cave near Rosh Haain, central Israel, are raising big questions about the earliest existence of humans and where we may have originated, says Binghamton University anthr ... more | .. |
  Microsponges From Seaweed May Save Lives Microsponges derived from seaweed may help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are an essential comp ... more | .. |
 On Their Own Two Feet A fossilized foot bone recovered from Hadar, Ethiopia, shows that by 3.2 million years ago human ancestors walked bipedally with a modern human-like foot, a report that appears Feb. 11 in the journa ... more | .. |
  Cross-Border Conservation Vital To Protect Birds In A Climate-Change World Countries need to increase co-operation over conservation to protect birds and other wildlife in an era of climate change, according to a new continental-scale study. Experts have established ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Paper Archives Reveal Pollution's History Some of the history preserved in old tomes and newspapers may be hiding in between the lines of print. A Weizmann Institute scientist has found that the paper in such collections contains a record o ... more | .. |
 Newly Discovered Pheromone Linked To Aggressive Behavior In Squid Scientists have identified a pheromone produced by female squid that triggers immediate and dramatic fighting in male squid that come into contact with it. The aggression-producing pheromone, believ ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Looking for a leader in CPAC Since 1975, when a former California governor named Ronald Reagan attended the Conservative Political Action Conference to argue that the movement needed to speak in "bold colors rather than pale pastels," CPAC has been a must stop for most anyone who wanted to be president of the United States. ... more | .. |
Google 'very, very proud' of cyber revolutionary Google is "very, very proud" of cyberactivist Wael Ghonim, a young executive at the company who emerged as a leading voice of the Egyptian uprising, company boss Eric Schmidt said Tuesday. ... more |
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Cyclone Bingiza kills five in Madagascar Tropical Cyclone Bingiza has killed at least five people and affected nearly 3,000 after it pummeled northern Madagascar, authorities said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Latin America urges Japan to stop whaling Latin American members of the International Whaling Commission urged Japan Monday to stop "scientific" whaling in Antarctic waters and respect sanctuaries for the species. ... more | .. |
  Australia floods to cut growth: bank Australia's record floods will shear one percentage point off growth in the March quarter, the central bank said Tuesday, with preliminary estimates showing a 15 percent drop in coal output. ... more | .. |
Rights group opposes China bear-bile listing An animal rights group said Tuesday it has urged authorities in China to block the possible stock listing of a company that farms the bile of bears for medicinal purposes, citing cruelty to animals. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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 Volcanic vents found in Antarctic waters British researchers say the discovery of deep-sea volcanic vents in the Antarctic's Southern Ocean suggests they're more common than previously thought. ... more | .. |
  Study: Sulfur emissions on the rise After a decade of decline, worldwide sulfur emissions increased between 2000 and 2005, driven by growth in developing economies, a U.S. study says. ... more | .. |
  Poignant Chinese AIDS film moves Berlin festival A heart-wrenching documentary about AIDS sufferers in China and the discrimination they face in their daily lives has won a rapturous reception at the Berlin film festival. ... more | .. |
Walker's World: The new Egypt needs food As Egypt seeks to establish a new and representative political system after the fall of the Mubarak regime, the one helpful action the United States and Europe could take would be to ensure that Egypt's drama doesn't turn into desperate tragedy by ensuring its food supply. ... more |
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Floods disrupt Sri Lanka's rice production Recent flooding in Sri Lanka destroyed more than one-third of the county's upcoming rice harvest, a government official said. ... more | .. |
 Garbage floats off Greek island after landfill collapses Waters off the Greek island of Andros were choked with garbage on Monday after a landfill was flushed into the sea in an environmental disaster indicative of Greece's chronic waste management woes. ... more | .. |
Cyclone Bingiza hits Madagascar Tropical cyclone Bingiza hit Madagascar on Monday, the disaster management authority said, adding that the north of the Indian Ocean island had been put on high alert. ... more | .. |
India 'cannot pollute way to prosperity' says minister India's crusading environment minister has rejected criticism that his pro-green policies are driving away foreign investors and said the country "cannot pollute its way to prosperity". ... more |
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