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China to look to Africa for food: studyJohannesburg (AFP) Nov 23, 2011 China will increasingly look to Africa over the next decade as the world's most populous nation seeks to ensure it has sufficient food supplies, according to a study published Wednesday. While China has is recent years turned to Africa to secure energy and raw material resources to fuel its rapidly-growing economy, it will soon be for food commodities, according to Standard Bank research analysts Simon Freemantle and Jeremy Stevens. "Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) immense and largely untapped agricu ... read more |
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 Global commission charts pathway for achieving food security in face of climate change In the lead up to UN global climate talks in Durban, South Africa later this month, an independent global commission of eminent scientists released a set of concrete recommendations to policy makers ... more | .. |
  Smithsonian scientists use fossil feathers reveal lineage of extinct, flightless ibis A remarkable first occurred recently at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History when ornithologists Carla Dove and Storrs Olson used 700- to 1,100-year-old feathers from a long extinct ... more | .. |
  Bleak future for Bay area tidal marshes? A new study, led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO), projects a bleak future for San Francisco Bay's tidal marshes under high-end sea-level rise scenarios that are increasingly likely. PRBO and col ... more | .. |
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 Introducing L-PEACH: Tool for understanding peach tree development In peach trees, as in other plants, the energy used to create carbohydrates that support growth and development comes from solar radiation through the process of photosynthesis. Peach tree productiv ... more | .. |
 Vermicompost beneficial for organically grown tomatoes Marketable yields of organic horticultural crops frequently fall below those of conventional crops; this and other factors restrict widespread adoption of organic production. Researchers recen ... more | .. |
  Hurricane Kenneth becomes late-season record-breaking major hurricane NASA satellites have been watching hurricane Kenneth in the eastern Pacific. Kenneth became a late-season major hurricane. In fact, Kenneth sets a record for the latest season major hurricane in the ... more | .. |
  New evidence of interhuman aggression and human induced trauma 126,000 years ago The study of a cranium of an East Asian human from the late Middle Pleistocene age from Maba, China, brings to the fore evidence that interhuman aggression and human induced trauma occurred 126,000 ... more |
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'No doubt' Canadian firm will be first to extract deep sea minerals: CEO
Tabletop particle blaster: How tiny nozzles and lasers could replace giant accelerators
Set it and forget it: Autonomous structures can be programmed to jump days in advance | .. |
  Limited options for meeting 2C warming target We will only achieve the target of limiting global warming to safe levels if carbon dioxide emissions begin to fall within the next two decades and eventually decrease to zero. That is the stark mes ... more | .. |
 New projection shows global food demand doubling by 2050 Global food demand could double by 2050, according to a new projection by David Tilman, Regents Professor of Ecology in the University of Minnesota's College of Biological Sciences, and colleagues, ... more | .. |
 New Projection Shows Global Food Demand Doubling by 2050 Global food demand could double by 2050, according to a new projection reported this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The analysis also shows that the worl ... more | .. |
 Kenneth dwindles to category one hurricane Hurricane Kenneth dwindled Wednesday from to a category one storm, as it spun away from Mexico's coastline and off into the Pacific Ocean. ... more |
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  Uncertainty surrounds Egypt military's democracy pledge Reasons behind a sudden proposal by Egypt's military authority to swiftly transfer power to civilian rule are far from clear and could be an attempt to undermine the protesters, analysts said. ... more | .. |
 Historic floods disrupt Thai education Thailand's university drop-out rate is likely to shoot up after devastating floods kept schools closed for weeks and affected hundreds of thousands of students, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 FBI, DHS dismiss report of water plant hack US investigators have dismissed a report that computer hackers were behind the failure of a water pump at a plant in the midwestern US state of Illinois. ... more | .. |
  UN seeks more aid for Philippine war, flood victims A senior UN official on Wednesday called for a doubling of international aid to nearly 700,000 people displaced by conflict and floods in the southern Philippines, many of whom are living in dire conditions. ... more |
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Iran FM warns Europe against 'strategic mistake' at IAEA; Iran obtained 'sensitive' Israeli intel
DOD is investigating Hegseth's staffers over Houthi-strikes chats
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  Macedonians plant millions of trees on 'Tree Day' Macedonians were given a day off work Wednesday to plant almost six million trees as part of government efforts to revive forests and increase ecological awareness in the Balkan country. ... more | .. |
  Bulgaria choking on hazardous air Air quality in Bulgaria has deteriorated sharply over the past week with dust pollution up to five times over the norm, posing a grave health risk, the environment ministry said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  S.Africa elite police mulling Zuma aide charges on newspaper South Africa's elite Hawks police said Wednesday they are mulling a probe into how a top newspaper obtained a copy of a sealed interview with President Jacob Zuma's spokesman over a weapons deal. ... more | .. |
  Necropsy planned for beached whale A team of whale experts will try to determine Wednesday what killed a fin whale that washed ashore on Sunset Beach in San Diego, researchers said. ... more |
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  Grizzlies still need protecting, US court rules Conservationists welcomed Tuesday a US appeals court ruling that grizzly bears still need protecting, after federal authorities sought to have them taken off an endangered species list. ... more | .. |
 Carbon investors anxiously eye UN climate talks More and more economies are looking to create carbon markets to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, but development is being stymied by uncertainty in climate politics. ... more | .. |
  Ionized plasmas as cheap sterilizers for developing world University of California, Berkeley, scientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial - able to kill bacteri ... more | .. |
 Study Details Links Between Climate, Groundwater Availability Everyone knows that climate affects our water supply, but new research from North Carolina State University gives scientists and water-resource managers an unprecedented level of detail on how clima ... more |
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Trump-Musk showdown threatens US space plans
Japanese company aborts Moon mission after assumed crash-landing
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 Rivers may aid climate control in cities Speaking at the URSULA (Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas) Conference, in Sheffield, Dr Abigail Hathway, of the University of Sheffield, will demonstrate how rivers can cool their ... more | .. |
 Harm not those strangers that pollinate In an irony of nature, invasive species can become essential to the very ecosystems threatened by their presence, according to a recent discovery that could change how scientists and governments app ... more | .. |
 Mimicking the brain, in silicon For decades, scientists have dreamed of building computer systems that could replicate the human brain's talent for learning new tasks. MIT researchers have now taken a major step toward that goal b ... more | .. |
  Nigeria plans to relaunch satelite in December The Nigerian Communications Satellite-1Replacement (NigComSat-1R) would be launched on Dec. 19, according to a top official with the Nigerian Communications Satellite. The company's Managing Directo ... more |
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 Mid-ocean creatures control light to avoid becoming snacks If you're a snack-sized squid or octopus living in the ocean zone where the last bit of daylight gives way, having some control over your reflection could be a matter of life and death. Most p ... more | .. |
  Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today's climate Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning is the main cause of future global warming. ... more | .. |
 Hidden hunger from wildlife loss How do you balance the need for biodiversity conservation and human health? For Christopher Golden, '05, a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Harvard University Center for the Environment, that question is at ... more | .. |
 Climate change effect on release of CO2 from peat far greater than assumed Much of the world's peatlands lie in regions predicted to experience increased frequency and severity of drought as a result of climate change- leading to the peat drying out and releasing vast stor ... more |
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