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Microrobots Could Be Used For Search And Rescue, Agriculture, Environmental MonitoringEngineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places too perilous for people...
New Discovery Could Pave The Way For Identification Of Rogue CFC ReleaseA new discovery by scientists at the Universities of East Anglia and Frankfurt could make it possible in future to identify the source of banned CFCs that are probably still being released into the atmosphere...
U.N.-NGO Meeting Concludes With Participants Calling On World Leaders To Do More For MDGsA group of more than 350 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) concluded a U.N. forum in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday with a call for world leaders to step up their commitments to achieving the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Rose, 9/1). "In a wide-ranging declaration adopted at the end of the three-day meeting ...
IPS Examines Agricultural Funding In AfricaInter Press Service examines how some African countries are benefiting from the global agriculture fund the G8 pledged $22 billion to in July 2009...
International Experts Gather To Address Pressing Threats To Food SecurityFrom catastrophic floods in Pakistan that have left millions homeless and hungry to the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake, relief efforts are under way in many parts of the world where disasters have brought food crises along with destruction...
Research Initiatives Collaboration Between SRNL, Chernobyl LaboratoryUnder a recently signed agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and the Ukraine's International Radioecology Laboratory (IRL) will collaborate on radiation ecology research, including projects in the region impacted by the catastrophic accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant 24 years ago...
East Midlands Farmers Urged To Strap Up During Harvest, UKFarmers across the East Midlands are being reminded to wear safety straps when driving their tractors, especially during the busy harvest period. Not wearing a lap strap or seat restraint puts farmers at greater risk of being thrown from the cab and crushed between the tractor and the ground. They are also putting themselves at risk of serious injury from being thrown around inside the cab...
Organic Strawberries Have More Antioxidants And Vitamin C But Less Potassium And PhosphorusOrganic strawberries were found to have more vitamin C and antioxidants than non-organic ones, and they also had a nicer taste, but are 13.4% smaller and have considerably lower levels of dietary minerals potassium and phosphorous, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal PloS One...
California Firm Recalls Cooked Shredded Pork Skin Products Produced Without InspectionTrinh Company, a San Jose, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,070 pounds of cooked shredded pork skin products because the products were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...
Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed Outside Current Ottawa-Gatineau Regulated Area, CanadaThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed the presence of the emerald ash borer (EAB) in the City of Ottawa, outside the current Ottawa - Gatineau regulated area. An adult EAB was retrieved from an insect trap south of Fallowfield Road near Richmond Road. Movement restrictions on regulated wood materials will be placed on the affected property...
World Bank Calls For More Integrated Approach To Global Water ManagementThe World Bank on Tuesday issued a report (.pdf) calling for a more integrated approach to worldwide water management, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (9/1)...
Global Agricultural Experts Meet For FANRPAN Regional ConferenceMore than 200 agricultural experts from around the world are meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, for the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network's (FANRPAN) regional conference, New Era/allAfrica.com reports (Sasman, 8/31)...
WFP, UNICEF Heads Appeal For More Flood Aid For PakistanAfter touring flood-hit areas in Pakistan on Tuesday, the executive directors of UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) appealed for more flood relief aid, VOA News reports (Maroney, 8/31). WFP head Josette Sheeran "warned during a joint press conference in the capital, Islamabad, that there is a triple threat unfolding as the crisis widens and deepens," U.N. News Centre writes...
Also In Global Health News: Monkeypox In Congo; Indonesian Volcano; Latrines In Cambodia; Maternal Health In IndiaMonkeypox Prevalence Surges In Smallpox 'Vaccine Naive' In Congo The New York Times reports on monkeypox cases, which are "surging in tropical Africa...
Media Examine Floods' Impact In PakistanNews outlets reported on the effects of major flooding in Pakistan and described the situation on the ground. "The worst floods in Pakistan's history already have swept through the nation's most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops ... leaving many people in need of emergency food...
Innovative Low Cost, High-Speed Filter Uses Electrified Nanostructures To Purify WaterBy dipping plain cotton cloth in a high-tech broth full of silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes, Stanford researchers have developed a new high-speed, low-cost filter that could easily be implemented to purify water in the developing world. Instead of physically trapping bacteria as most existing filters do, the new filter lets them flow on through with the water...
Disgusting Conditions At Egg Farms Linked To Salmonella OutbreakInspections of Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms revealed horrendous hygiene conditions, with huge chicken manure heaps, live rodents, and wild birds within the hen houses of two farms. Conditions have been described as disgusting, stomach churning, repulsive, and shocking...
SCAN Health Plan Arizona Second Annual Community Water Drive Nets 19,000 Bottles Of Water: A Thirsty Donation For Local Heat Relief EffortsDehydration is a serious concern during Arizona's summer months, especially for seniors. For the second consecutive year, SCAN Health Plan Arizona challenged its business partners to a community water drive. Together ten local companies that serve the needs of seniors donated 19,000 cases of bottled water for local community organizations and senior centers...
Ten Million Face Hunger In Central Africa; Niger Flooding Exacerbates Food Shortage, Leaves 200,000 HomelessFlash floods have "worsened an already chronic humanitarian crisis caused by drought" in central Africa where aid agencies have warned that "10 million people are already facing severe food shortages, particularly in the landlocked countries of Chad and Niger, after a drought led to the failure of last year's crops," the Independent reports...
Development Of New 'Light Switch' Chloride BinderChemists at Indiana University Bloomington have designed a molecule that binds chloride ions -- but can be conveniently compelled to release the ions in the presence of ultraviolet light. Reporting in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (online), IU Bloomington chemist Amar Flood and Ph.D...
Environmental Threat From Fertilizer ChemicalsFertilizer chemicals may pose a bigger hazard to the environment - specifically to creatures that live in water - than originally foreseen, according to new research from North Carolina State University toxicologists...
Agroforestry A Success In North KoreaIn a country where good news is scarce, a pioneering agroforestry project in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is restoring heavily degraded landscapes and providing much-needed food for communities living on the sloping lands...
Apple Genome Decoded By ScientistsAn international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics...
Cameroon Rolls Out Emergency Cholera Plan As Region's Outbreak ContinuesCameroon will need approximately $4.8 million for its emergency response to the cholera outbreak, which has killed nearly 300 people in the northern part of the country, Agence France-Presse reports. According to AFP, state radio reported yesterday that "the government's response to the outbreak will be rolled out in two phases...
Malawi's President Threatens To Close Newspapers, Expel Donors In Response To Reports Of Food Shortages"Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika threatened to chase donors away from the southern African nation on Thursday and close newspapers for reporting that more than one million people are in need of food aid," Reuters reports. "I am tired. This country is not run by you donors or the newspapers in this country...
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