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Save the fish and feed the people, says EU fisheries chiefBrussels (AFP) July 13, 2011 "Our children will have fish," says Europe's fisheries commissioner Maria Damanaki, the Greek official behind an ambitious plan released Wednesday to replenish withering fish stocks within four years. Under a scheme upsetting big fishing states France and Spain even before its release, the Greek commissioner is proposing the novel idea of fishermen trading quotas at the national level. "If it's business as usual, in 10 years only eight out of 136 stocks will be healthy," she told AFP on the basi ... read more |
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  Gulf states tighten grip on think tanks Regional think tanks and research institutions engaged in current affairs studies are coming under closer scrutiny from Arab governments that are uneasy about the range of topics the think tanks can debate that the regulated local media cannot. ... more | .. |
  Intense rains generate alerts in Central America An elongated low pressure "tropical wave" prompted several Central American countries to issue heavy rain warnings Tuesday, and called on their citizens to take protective measures. ... more | .. |
  Pandemic flu vaccine not linked to rare nerve disorder Vaccines used in the 2009 "swine flu" pandemic caused no perceptible rise in a neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome, a study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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 Freed Vietnam dissident hopeful over protests Fresh out of prison and starting a new life in the United States, Vietnamese dissident Tran Khai Thanh Thuy is hoping that rare public protests will escalate into a threat to the communist leaders. ... more | .. |
  International Experts Blend Space Technologies and Crowdsourcing to Enhance Disaster Management Tools Space-based technologies - from Earth remote sensing spacecraft to global navigation and telecommunications satellites - are potent tools in both shaping disaster preparedness and in dealing with th ... more | .. |
  Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technolog ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin and Esri Sign Partnership Towards On-Demand Geospatial Apps and Services Lockheed Martin and Esri will collaborate on technologies to put online geospatial apps and services in the hands of more military, intelligence, homeland security and emergency response users world ... more |
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Nuclearn Deploys Gamma2 AI to Revolutionize Nuclear Plant Operations
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  Twelve million need food aid in Horn of Africa: FAO Twelve million people are in need of food aid because of drought and conflict in the Horn of Africa region, a senior economist at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Licensing deal to boost HIV drug access US pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences will allow generic drug makers to copy four HIV medicines under a deal announced Tuesday to give people in poor countries access to cheaper AIDS treatment. ... more | .. |
 Floods kill at least 20 in Nigeria's largest city Floods triggered by a heavy downpour this week killed at least 20 people in Nigeria's largest city of Lagos, emergency services officials said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan, Sea Shepherd trade blows at whaling meet Japan and the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday swapped angry words at the world whaling conference here over the hunting of cetaceans around Antarctica. ... more |
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 Cyprus anger mounts over 'criminal' munitions blast Anger mounted in Cyprus on Tuesday over the deaths of 12 fire brigade and armed services personnel in a huge munitions blast that sparked severe power cuts on the Mediterranean holiday island. ... more | .. |
 Support for Japan PM at record-low 15 percent Support for the cabinet of Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan has plunged to 15 percent, the lowest level since his centre-left party took power in 2009, a newspaper poll said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Do anti-whaling campaigns backfire in Japan? Campaigns to harass Japan's whaling fleet only harden domestic opinion against environmentalists, a Japanese observer says at global whaling talks in the British Channel Islands. ... more | .. |
  N.Korea says storm left casualties, destroyed homes A tropical storm that hit the Korean peninsula late last month washed away homes, factories and roads and caused unspecified casualties, the official news agency said Tuesday. ... more |
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Israel targets Iran Guards, Tehran prison in fresh wave of strikes
Israel says struck to 'obstruct access routes' to Iran's Fordo
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 Japan quake makes 2011 costliest year: Munich Re Japan's earthquake in March is set to make 2011 the costliest year to date for natural disasters, reinsurer Munich Re said on Tuesday, although the number of deaths globally is relatively low so far. ... more | .. |
  China province seeks to ease 'one-child' policy China's most populous province has asked for permission to ease the one-child policy after more than 30 years, an official said Tuesday, as concerns grow over gender imbalances and an ageing population. ... more | .. |
 Radioactive ash found in waste plants near Tokyo Japanese waste incineration plants near Tokyo have found high levels of radiation in ash, and officials said Tuesday it may be from garden waste contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. ... more | .. |
 China jails six over riots in industrial hub China has jailed six people over riots that erupted last month in the nation's southern industrial heartland, state media said Tuesday. ... more |
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  Early embryos can correct genetic abnormalities during development Professor William G. Kearns told the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that a three-day-old embryo (called a cleavage stage embryo) with an incorrect number ... more | .. |
  Cool-season grasses more profitable than warm-season grasses Access to swine effluent or waste water can help a producer grow more grass. But a Texas AgriLife Researcher says the grass is "greener" economically if it is a cool-season rather than a warm-season ... more | .. |
 Sweetpotato foundation seed tested in commercial operations Sweetpotato is gaining popularity in the United States, where health-conscious consumers have created increased demand for the tasty, versatile food. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, ... more | .. |
  Air pollution linked to learning and memory problems and depression Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests. While other studies h ... more |
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Lunar dust poses lower health risk than urban air pollution study shows
Macron says Europe must become 'space power' again
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 Australian volcano eruptions overdue Using the latest dating techniques, scientists from the University of Melbourne's School of Earth Sciences and the Melbourne School of Engineering have calculated the ages of the small volcanoes in ... more | .. |
  NASA's Aura Satellite measures pollution from New Mexico, Arizona fires NASA's Aura Satellite has provided a view of nitrogen dioxide levels coming from the fires in New Mexico and Arizona. Detecting nitrogen dioxide is important because it reacts with sunlight to creat ... more | .. |
  Antarctic krill help to fertilize Southern Ocean with iron A new discovery reveals that the shrimp-like creature at the heart of the Antarctic food chain could play a key role in fertilising the Southern Ocean with iron - stimulating the growth of phytoplan ... more | .. |
 New study suggests severe deficits in UK honeybee numbers A study published by the University of Reading's Centre for Agri Environmental Research suggests that honeybees may not be as important to pollination services in the UK than previously supposed. Th ... more |
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  Qatar royal in bid to save rare bird Qatar's royal family is trying to save the world's rarest parrot, a bird not seen in its native Brazil for more than 10 years, conservationists say. ... more | .. |
 Global warming: Cities, too, are carbon 'sinks' Scientists on Tuesday offered a slender piece of good news about global warming, reporting that cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas. ... more | .. |
  Wis. company product cleans with ozone A U.S. company says its ozone-based laundry disinfectant system can cut the cost of doing commercial laundry in half. ... more | .. |
 Antarctic suvey finds undersea volcanoes A British Antarctic Survey team says it has discovered underwater volcanoes in waters around the remote Sandwich Islands. ... more |
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