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Fish farms spark green debate in New ZealandPicton, New Zealand (AFP) June 14, 2011 As a flock of seagulls swoops on a salmon farm in New Zealand's Marlborough Sounds, attracted by the thrashing fish within, tour boat operator Peter Beech sighs and says: "I'm not sure this is a fight we can win." Beech has plied the pristine waters at the top of the South Island all his life but fears plans to increase aquaculture in the Sounds will create an ecological time bomb in the area his family has lived in for six generations. The New Zealand government has announced the end of a 10-ye ... read more |
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  Outside chaotic Luanda, Chinese workers build new city In an open field 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of Angola's chaotic capital, a $3.5-billion city seems to rise from nothing, a showpiece in government's drive to build one million new homes. ... more | .. |
  Japan to compile second reconstruction budget Prime Minister Naoto Kan instructed his cabinet ministers on Tuesday to compile another relief budget to help efforts to rebuild the nation's northeast devastated by the March quake and tsunami. ... more | .. |
  N.Z. quake kills one, condemns thousands of homes New Zealand on Tuesday said the latest Christchurch earthquake had killed one man and also confirmed fears that thousands of homes in the city would have to be abandoned. ... more | .. |
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  Genetic study indicates slower evolution Thirty mutations are passed from each parent to their child, a finding that affects evolution and medical research, University of Montreal researchers found. ... more | .. |
 S. America rattled by volcano devastation Several Latin American countries in the path of volcanic ash unleashed from a Chilean Andean crater are facing critical shortages of water, agricultural collapse, disruptions in transportation and growing risks to human and animal health. ... more | .. |
  Japan city to give radiation counters to children Japan's Fukushima city said Tuesday it would hand radiation measuring devices to 34,000 children to gauge their exposure from the crippled nuclear power plant about 60 kilometres (40 miles) away. ... more | .. |
 UN calls for eco-friendly farming to boost yields The United Nations food agency on Monday called for greater use of environmentally sustainable techniques by poor farmers in order to increase crop intensity to feed the world's growing population. ... more |
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  Rock-climbing garbage collectors clean Rio hills Using ropes but no brooms, four rock-climbing garbage collectors are tasked with removing tonnes of trash dumped down hillsides by residents of Rio's famed favelas. ... more | .. |
  Tibet again closed to foreigners: travel agents Foreign tourists will be barred from going to Tibet until the end of July, travel agents said Monday, the second time this year the troubled region has been closed to overseas visitors. ... more | .. |
 Families flee as shocks hit N. Zealand quake probe Grieving families of Christchurch earthquake victims were further traumatised Monday when powerful aftershocks sent them fleeing from an inquest into their loved ones' deaths. ... more | .. |
 China flood deaths rise, more rain expected China said Monday the number of people confirmed killed in recent floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain had leapt past 100 as authorities warned the downpours were set to continue. ... more |
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  Japan ruling party suspends PM's rival Ozawa Japan's ruling Democrat Party on Monday suspended power-broker Ichiro Ozawa for three months after he abstained from a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Naoto Kan, a report said. ... more | .. |
  Baylor Study Finds Widespread Stream Biodiversity Declines at Low Levels of Urban Development A new study from biology researchers at Baylor University and the University of Maryland-Baltimore has found that there are consistent and widespread declines in stream biodiversity at lower levels ... more | .. |
 Flooding of farmland does not increase levels of potentially harmful flame retardants in milk As millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. Midwest and South recover from Mississippi River flooding, scientists report that river flooding can increase levels of potentially harmful flame retarda ... more | .. |
 Can evolution outpace climate change? Animals and plants may not be able to evolve their way out of the threat posed by climate change, according to a UC Davis study of a tiny seashore animal. The work was published in the journal Proce ... more |
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European Response to Escalating Space Security Crisis
BlackSky to deliver advanced Gen-3 tactical ISR capabilities to international customer
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  Adjustable valves gave ancient plants the edge Controlling water loss is an important ability for modern land plants as it helps them thrive in changing environments. New research from the University of Bristol, published in the journal Current ... more | .. |
 Early agricultural piracy informs the domestication of rice The origins of rice have been cast in a new light by research publishing in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on June 9, 2011. By reconciling two theories, the authors show that the domesticatio ... more | .. |
 New Parallelization Technique Boosts Our Ability To Model Biological Systems Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for using multi-core chips more efficiently, significantly enhancing a computer's ability to build computer models of bi ... more | .. |
  Bacteria living on old-growth trees may help forests grow Biology researchers discover that bacteria living in mosses on tree branches twice as effective at 'fixing' nitrogen as those on the ground A new study by Dr. Zoe Lindo, a post-doctoral fellow ... more |
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 Super varieties of wheat expected to boost yields and block wheat rust Five years after the launch of a global effort to protect the world's most important food crop from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust, scientists say they are close to producing ... more | .. |
 Why animals don't have infrared vision On rare occasion, the light-sensing photoreceptor cells in the eye misfire and signal to the brain as if they have captured photons, when in reality they haven't. For years this phenomenon rem ... more | .. |
 Jellyfish blooms transfer food energy from fish to bacteria Jellyfish can be a nuisance to bathers and boaters in the Chesapeake Bay on the United States' East Coast and many other places along the world's coasts. A new study by researchers at the Virg ... more | .. |
 Ecology biased against non-native species The recent field of invasion biology faces a new challenge as 19 eminent ecologists issue a call to "end the bias against non-native species" in the journal Nature. Often called aliens, hitchh ... more |
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Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
York Space demonstrates successful payload commissioning for BARD mission
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 How spiders breathe under water Gazing into the depths of a pond, it's hard to miss the insects that whirl and zip beneath the surface. However, only one species of spider has joined them: the diving bell spider, Argyroneta aquati ... more | .. |
 Integrating agriculture and forestry in the landscape is key to REDD Evidence from benchmark sites across the tropics is proving that an integrated, multifunctional approach that allows for land-use sharing in agriculture, forests and other functions can achieve good ... more | .. |
 Planet's soils are under threat warns University academic The planet's soils are under greater threat than ever before, at a time when we need to draw on their vital role to support life more than ever, warns an expert from the University of Sheffield in t ... more | .. |
Chile volcano ash grounds Australia, N.Z. flights Ash from Chile's volcanic eruptions prompted Australian airlines to ground some domestic services and flights to New Zealand Sunday, stranding tens of thousands of people after plumes drifted across the Pacific. ... more |
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 Stranding records are faithful reflection of live whale and dolphin populations Whales are the earth's largest creatures, yet they are incredibly hard to study in the open ocean. For decades scientists have used boats, aircraft and even high cliffs to conduct visual surveys and ... more | .. |
 Satellite study helps thirsty Sahel Embattled farmers in the Sahel countries of West Africa can take heart from a new study that should boost the accuracy of rainfall prediction in one of the world's most fragile regions. ... more | .. |
  NASA launches ocean-watch satellite The US space agency on Friday launched a satellite to observe levels of salt on the surface of the world's oceans and measure how changes in salinity may be linked to future climate. ... more |
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