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World breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheatAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2012 A team of Australian scientists has bred salt tolerance into a variety of durum wheat that shows improved grain yield by 25% on salty soils. Using 'non-GM' crop breeding techniques, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry have introduced a salt-tolerant gene into a commercial durum wheat, with spectacular results shown in field tests. Researchers at the University of Adelaide's Waite Research Institute have led the effort to understand how the gene delivers salinity tolerance to the plants. The ... read more |
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  Scientists document first consumption of abundant life form, Archaea A team of scientists has documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea - a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth. ... more | .. |
 Commonly used herbicides seen as threat to endangered butterflies A Washington State University toxicologist has found that three commonly used herbicides can dramatically reduce butterfly populations. The research was aimed at possible effects on the Lange's meta ... more | .. |
  15-year study: When it comes to creating wetlands, Mother Nature is in charge Fifteen years of studying two experimental wetlands has convinced Bill Mitsch that turning the reins over to Mother Nature makes the most sense when it comes to this area of ecological restoration. ... more | .. |
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  BP oil spill hurt marshes, but recovery possible Crabs, insects and spiders living in coastal salt marshes affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were damaged by the massive oil spill but were able to recover within a year if their host p ... more | .. |
 EU-funded study underlines importance of Congo Basin for global climate and biodiversity With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical forest. The 'State of the Congo Basin F ... more | .. |
  Mapping the Moho with GOCE The first global high-resolution map of the boundary between Earth's crust and mantle - the Moho - has been produced based on data from ESA's GOCE gravity satellite. Understanding the Moho will offe ... more | .. |
  Mid-Atlantic suburbs can expect an early spring thanks to the heat of the big city If you've been thinking our world is more green than frozen these days, you're right. A recent study has found that spring is indeed arriving earlier - and autumn later - in the suburbs of Baltimore ... more |
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  Effects of flooding on Cairo When faced with a choice between a deluge or a controlled deluge in May 2011 that would protect the city of Cairo, Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers chose the latter by ordering an intentio ... more | .. |
  Global warming threat to coral reefs: Can some species adapt? Coral reefs are among the ecosystems most severely threatened by global warming, but hopeful new evidence has emerged that some coral species may be able to adapt to warmer oceans. In a study ... more | .. |
 The disappearing ponds of Kashmir Thirty years ago, Avend village in the south Kashmir district of Shopian was also called "Talaab Gaam" because of dozens of fresh water ponds surrounding it. All but one of these ponds have now disa ... more | .. |
  The white ghost of the Himalayas: A vision in the snow (Feature) Some days ago, on a wind-swept, desolate mountainside in Jammu and Kashmir's Kargil district, infra-red cameras captured a shape moving about in the cold winter night. To the naked, untrained eye, i ... more |
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  Walker's World: Sarkozy - 'Me or Chaos' French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 57, tried to revive his faltering re-election campaign Sunday with a mass meeting of more than 40,000 supporters at Villepinte, outside Paris. But the most important guest failed to appear. ... more | .. |
 Time to tackle water crisis, global forum told A global meeting on water opened in France on Monday with demands to provide billions of poor people with clean water and decent sanitation and address the spiralling demands of the future. ... more | .. |
  Asia climate disasters displace 42 million: ADB Climate-related disasters have displaced more than 42 million people in Asia over the past two years, the Asian Development Bank said Tuesday in a report calling for swift action to avert future crises. ... more | .. |
 Palestinians campaign for $450m desalination plant in Gaza The Palestinian Authority on Monday pushed plans at the World Water Forum here for a desalination plant costing more than 350 million euros ($450 million) to ease Gaza's chronic water problems. ... more |
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Space Force taps five firms to develop secure global tactical satcom solutions
SES Secures 5 Year Army Contract for Global Tactical Satellite Communications
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  S. Korean, Russian scientists bid to clone mammoth Russian and South Korean scientists signed a deal Tuesday on joint research intended to recreate a woolly mammoth, an animal which last walked the earth some 10,000 years ago. ... more | .. |
  Bloodhounds deployed to fight elephant poaching in DR Congo The Democratic Republic of Congo's famed Virunga National Park has deployed bloodhounds to track down elephant poachers, a park official said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Asia needs $40 bn a year for 'climate proofing': ADB The Asia-Pacific region needs to spend about $40 billion a year to "climate proof" its economies against the impact of global warming, Asian Development Bank vice president Bindu Lohani said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Russia HIV infections rise 5% in 2011: official Russia in 2011 saw a rise of five percent in the number of new HIV infections to 62,000 cases amid worrying signs that heterosexuals and women are increasingly at risk, its chief doctor said Monday. ... more |
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 Seychelles' idyllic habitat at risk from climate change Bursts of torrential rain lash the idyllic white beaches of the Seychelles, where conservationists fear that rare species such as the giant tortoise are at severe risk from climate change. ... more | .. |
  Nepal Tibetans 'suffocated' by Chinese influence At a cafe near a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal's capital Kathmandu, Tsewang Dolma stirs her iced tea nervously as she talks of her fears for the future of her people. ... more | .. |
 Water crunch looms without action on waste: UN report Water problems in many parts of the world are chronic and without a crackdown on waste will worsen as demand for food rises and climate change intensifies, the UN warned on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Salt-loving wheat could help ease food crisis Plant scientists on Sunday said they had bred a strain of wheat that thrives in saline soils, boosting the quest to feed Earth's growing population at a time of water stress and climate change. ... more |
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Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Picks Up New Skills
Argo and ThinkOrbital to launch first orbital mission using long-range X-ray imaging
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 Japan marks anniversary of tsunami tragedy Japan fell silent Sunday to honour the 19,000 people killed a year ago in a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in a generation. ... more | .. |
 Greenland icesheet more vulnerable than thought to warming The Greenland icesheet is more sensitive to global warming than thought, for just a relatively small - but very long term - temperature rise would melt it completely, according to a study published on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 China frees 24,000 abducted women, kids in 2011 Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted children and women last year, some of whom had been sold for adoption or forced into prostitution as far away as Angola, officials said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  Japan's nuclear disaster: a timeline As Japan marks the first anniversary of the quake-tsunami that triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant, here are key developments in the worst atomic accident since Chernobyl in 1986. ... more |
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 Spanish farmers struggle with lack of rain When Manuel Montesa takes sheep out to forage in mountains in northern Spain, he must bring water for them because streams near his town have run dry. ... more | .. |
 Belgian racing pigeons lure rich Chinese aficionados Rich Chinese pigeon fanciers are offering tens of thousands of euros to buy Belgian champions, to the despair of local pigeon-lovers unable to compete in such sky-high auction bids. ... more | .. |
 Japan strives to win back tourists Japanese tourism is still hurting a year after the tsunami and nuclear disaster, industry officials said here, warning that business was only likely to get fully back on track next year. ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds Thickest Parts of Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster A new NASA study revealed that the oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing at a faster rate than the younger and thinner ice at the edges of the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cap. The ... more |
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