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GMO Crops Could Eventually Make Own Nitrogen FertilizerEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 29, 2011 Two University of Alberta researchers have published a step by step plan to one-day end the use of environmentally harmful chemicals on commercial crops by developing plants that produce their own fertilizer. U of A plant biologist Allen Good says the energy required to produce nitrogen fertilizers has pushed the world-wide cost for agricultural producers to a $100 billion a year. Good says that while they are necessary for high yields, those nitrogen fertilizers also damage the environment. ... read more |
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  Toxicologists Find Weathered Crude Oil Less Toxic to Bird Eggs After collecting weathered crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, researchers at The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) at Texas Tech have repo ... more | .. |
  Climate-change-induced wildfires may alter Yellowstone forests Climate change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem will increase the frequency of wildfires and alter the composition of the forests by 2050, according to a team of ecologists who modeled the effec ... more | .. |
 Beetles play an important role in reducing weeds Researchers funded by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA) have found that ground beetles reduce the amou ... more | .. |
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 New study finds cancer-causing mineral in US road gravel As school buses drive down the gravel roads in Dunn County, North Dakota, they stir up more than dirt. The clouds of dust left in their wake contain such high levels of the mineral erionite that tho ... more | .. |
  Tropical storm Don aims for Texas coast Tropical storm Don strengthened slightly on Thursday as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward the southeast coast of Texas, the National Hurricane Center said. ... more | .. |
  AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents in the capital Mogadishu Thursday in a bid to secure aid routes for drought victims. ... more | .. |
  Cambodian girl dies from bird flu: WHO A four-year-old Cambodian girl has become the seventh person to die from bird flu in the country this year, officials said Friday. ... more |
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  Seoul officials under fire as storm toll hits 59 South Korean city planners and developers were blamed Friday for allegedly causing "man-made" disasters that killed at least 59 people and left thousands homeless after record rainfall this week. ... more | .. |
  China extends journalist's jail sentence A Chinese journalist jailed in 2007 after reporting on corruption and due to be released this year has had his sentence extended, rights activists and his lawyer said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Ancient footprints show human like walking began nearly 4 million years ago Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that ancient footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania, show that human-like features of the feet and gait existed almost two million years earlier than pr ... more | .. |
  1 tiny electron could be key to future drugs that repair sunburn Researchers who have been working for nearly a decade to piece together the process by which an enzyme repairs sun-damaged DNA have finally witnessed the entire process in full detail in the laborat ... more |
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  Diamond Impurities Bonanza for Geologists Studying Earth's History Jewelers abhor diamond impurities, but they are a bonanza for scientists. Safely encased in super-hard diamond, impurities are unaltered, ancient minerals that tell the story of Earth's distant past ... more | .. |
 Artificial lung mimics real organ's design and efficiency An artificial lung built by Cleveland researchers has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ, using air - not pure oxygen as current man-made lungs require - for the source of the essential ... more | .. |
  The tallest tree in the land The next time you're outdoors, see if you can spot the tallest tree. If you're in the desert Southwest, this may be an easy task - trees there are few and far between, and tend to hunch low to the g ... more | .. |
 Food imports put Cuban reforms at risk High food imports are putting Cuban economic reforms at risk because of the drain they pose on foreign exchange resources. ... 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 widens ban on radioactive beef Japan widened a ban on beef to cattle from a second tsunami-hit region Thursday, citing elevated radiation levels in the meat of animals because of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
  AU forces battle rebels in drought-hit Mogadishu Somali government forces and African Union troops battled insurgents on Thursday in heavy fighting in the capital Mogadishu in efforts to secure aid routes for drought victims. ... more | .. |
Ravenous wolves colonise France, terrorise shepherds A bloody, stinking sheep's carcass greets shepherd Yves Vignon as he walks to check on his flock on the foggy Alpine heights. It's the 17th of his ewes to be savaged in a month. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam army smuggling timber in Laos: activists The Vietnamese army is playing a key role in smuggling wood from the jungles of Laos, a multi-million dollar activity that threatens millions of livelihoods, a new report said Thursday. ... more |
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Australia farmer sues neighbours over GM An Australian farmer on Thursday launched legal action against his neighbour after genetically modified canola blew onto his farm, prompting authorities to strip him of his organic licence. ... more | .. |
  Poachers nabbed with world's rarest tortoise Police in Madagascar have arrested two men attempting to smuggle out nearly 200 threatened tortoises, including two dozen of the rarest species on Earth, a conservation group said Thursday. ... more | .. |
'Land grabs threaten Africa food security' Large land grabs by foreign countries and corporate entities are endangering food security in sub-Saharan Africa, an area already under pressure from famine, drought and endemic conflict, the State of the World 2011 report said. ... more |
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Lunar dust poses lower health risk than urban air pollution study shows
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 Flights resume in Argentina after volcanic ash delays Flights resumed late Wednesday at Buenos Aires and Montevideo's main international and domestic airports after ash from Chile's Puyehue volcano forced cancellations for two days, officials said. ... more | .. |
WFP begins emergency airlifts to hunger-stricken Somalia The World Food Programme airlifted 10 tonnes of emergency supplies to Mogadishu Wednesday to feed thousands of malnourished children in drought-hit Somalia. ... more | .. |
 Nigerian defence chief pledges trials for abusive soldiers Nigeria's defence chief on Wednesday pledged that soldiers who commit abuses will face the law after accusations of dozens killed in security raids in the violence-hit northeast. ... more | .. |
 At least 36 killed as torrential rains hit S. Korea At least 36 people were killed and dozens missing Wednesday after the heaviest rains in decades pounded South Korea, triggering landslides and inundating hundreds of homes. ... more |
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Herders kill animals as Horn of Africa drought worsens Butchered sheep and goats are strung up in a thorn tree ready for cooking in this remote north Kenyan village, as though the people are preparing a giant celebration feast. ... more | .. |
  Algae suspected as boars found dead on French beach Dozens of wild boars have turned up dead this month around a beach in western France, suspected victims of poisonous blue-green algae, officials say. ... more | .. |
Hundreds riot in China over vendor's death Hundreds of people rioted in southwest China after security forces reportedly beat a disabled street vendor to death, government authorities and state media said. ... more |
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