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Radiation, legal fears slow Japan quake clean-upHigashimatsushima, Japan (AFP) April 7, 2011 Nearly four weeks after a massive tsunami slammed into northeastern Japan, the devastation it left in its wake has barely been touched as radiation and legal issues hamper the clean-up. Huge freight ships lie on the shoreline, mangled train carriages are strewn across a hillside, and tsunami barriers overturned by the wave's force litter the area, the visible reminders of the biggest earthquake ever to hit Japan. Experts say clearing away the rubble is a vital step in allowing victims to move on ... read more |
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  Latin American Working To Rejuvenate Crop Collections Crop specialists in Central America have announced that a major rescue effort is underway in one of the heartlands of ancient agriculture to regenerate thousands of unique varieties of coffee, tomat ... more | .. |
  Danube Will Solve Hungary's Environmental Disaster The high-waters of the Danube River will neutralize the impact of Hungary's toxic waste spill, ecologists from Moscow, Chisinau and Kiev agreed on Thursday during a RIA Novosti video conference. ... more | .. |
  Climate Beliefs Shift With Weather Social scientists are struggling with a perplexing earth-science question: as the power of evidence showing manmade global warming is rising, why do opinion polls suggest public belief in the findin ... more | .. |
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 World food prices fall for first time in eight months World food prices fell for the first time in eight months in March after record highs largely due to oil prices, though the situation remains volatile, the UN's food agency said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Still no tsunami alert system in Med, experts deplore The Mediterranean still lacks a tsunami alert system, despite good intentions voiced after the Asian tsunami of 2004, scientists deplored Thursday in Vienna. ... more | .. |
 Japan using gas to avoid explosion at atomic plant Workers at Japan's stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen into a crippled reactor in a bid to prevent a possible explosion, as the government mulled widening an exclusion zone around the site. ... more | .. |
  China warns world not to interfere in artist case China on Thursday warned the international community it had "no right to interfere" in the case of outspoken artist Ai Weiwei, who has been detained for investigation of unspecified economic crimes. ... more |
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  Seafood radiation strikes Japan's culinary heart The discovery of radiation in seafood has hit Japan right in its culinary heart, as the nation that brought sushi to the world contemplates having to change thousand-year-old eating habits. ... more | .. |
  New Device Promises Safer Way To Deliver Powerful Drugs A new drug delivery device designed and constructed by Jie Chen, Thomas Cesario and Peter Rentzepis promises to unlock the potential of photosensitive chemicals to kill drug-resistant infections and ... more | .. |
  Precedent-Setting Evidence Of The Benefits Of Biodiversity Frequent reports of accelerating species losses invariably raise questions about why such losses matter and why we should work to conserve biodiversity. Biologists have traditionally responded ... more | .. |
  Low Fertilizer Use Drives Deforestation In West Africa Low-input farming for cocoa, cassava and oil palm has resulted in widespread deforestation and degredation of West Africa's tropical forest area, according to a new study by researchers at the Inter ... more |
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  Russia Plans To Spend 195 Million Dollars On Antarctic Research Up To 2013 Russia plans to allocate some 6 billion rubles ($195 million) for research in Antarctica up to 2013, the head of Russia's meteorological service said on Tuesday. The Russian government approve ... more | .. |
 Fish Farm Waste Can Drift To Distant Shores Concentrated waste plumes from fish farms could travel significant distances to reach coastlines, according to a study to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Environmental Fluid Mechani ... more | .. |
 Third Dimension Of Specific Cell Cultivation At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers of the DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) succeeded in specifically cultivating cells on three-dimensional structures. The fascina ... more | .. |
 Number Of Days Of Rain In Iberian Peninsula Has Increased Since 1903 A research team, led by the University of Extremadura, has for the first time analysed the frequency of rainfall over the whole of the Iberian Peninsula from 1903 to 2003. The results show that the ... 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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 Egypt in talks with Uganda over new Nile treaty A 40-member Egyptian delegation held talks with Uganda's president on a new treaty signed by upstream countries for the equitable sharing of the Nile waters, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 State of Japan's stricken nuclear reactors Workers grappling to control damaged nuclear reactors on Japan's northeast coast began pumping nitrogen into a containment vessel on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 China milk activist 'force-fed on hunger strike' A Chinese father who was jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal said he was force-fed China-made milk powder while on hunger strike, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Japan nuclear plant workers evacuated: company Workers battling to control the stricken nuclear plant on Japan's northeast coast were ordered to evacuate after a 7.4 magnitude quake hit the area and a local tsunami warning was issued, operator TEPCO said Thursday. ... more |
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  Both victims of Port Sudan raid Sudanese: Khartoum Sudan said on Thursday the two people killed in an air strike on its Red Sea coast were Sudanese, denying reports that a top Hamas militant was the target of the attack claimed to have been carried out by Israel. ... more | .. |
  Japan considers wider nuclear evacuation zone Japan said Thursday it is considering expanding the area covered by a compulsory evacuation order, with no immediate end in sight to the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. ... more | .. |
 Powerful quake hits Japan, local tsunami alert A powerful earthquake hit northeastern Japan late Thursday, seismologists said, prompting Japanese authorities to issue a localised tsunami alert. ... more | .. |
 BoJ warns on quake impact, offers loans The Bank of Japan on Thursday warned of the pressures on an economy reeling from its biggest recorded earthquake, a tsunami and nuclear crisis, and unveiled a lending scheme for banks in affected areas. ... 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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  Super bug found in Indian water, seepage Researchers say they discovered antibiotic-resistant super bugs in New Delhi's water. ... more | .. |
 Common Nanoparticles Found To Be Highly Toxic To Arctic Ecosystem Queen's researchers have discovered that nanoparticles, which are now present in everything from socks to salad dressing and suntan lotion, may have irreparably damaging effects on soil systems and ... more | .. |
 Seeing Rice With X-Rays May Improve Crop Yields Most people experience X-ray computed tomography (CT) scanners when they are evaluated for a suspected tumor or blood clot. But in the lab of Dr. Quin Liu, PhD., in Wuhan China, rice plants were the ... more | .. |
 Climate Change Is Making Our Environment 'Bluer' The "colour" of our environment is becoming "bluer", a change that could have important implications for animals' risk of becoming extinct, ecologists have found. In a major study involving thousand ... more |
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 Cost Effective Manure Management Recycling manure is an important practice, especially for large livestock producers. Manure can be used as fertilizer to aid in crop production, aiding livestock producers that grow their own feed c ... more | .. |
  It's Not Over When It's Over: Storing Sounds In The Inner Ear Research shows that vibrations in the inner ear continue even after a sound has ended, perhaps serving as a kind of mechanical memory of recent sounds. In addition to contributing to the understandi ... more | .. |
 World's Reef Fishes Tussling With Human Overpopulation In an unprecedented collaborative analysis published in the journal PLoS Biology, scientists from 49 nations demonstrated that the ability of reef fish systems to produce goods and services to human ... more | .. |
 Drought-Exposed Leaves Adversely Affect Soil Nutrients Chemical changes in tree leaves subjected to warmer, drier conditions that could result from climate change may reduce the availability of soil nutrients, according to a Purdue University study. ... more |
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