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Herbicide Found in Water May Pose Greater Danger
Environment  (tags: water, Herbicides, health risk, crops, spray )

Lone
- 121 days ago - washingtonpost.com
CHICAGO, Aug. 24 -- Drinking water containing a common herbicide could pose a greater public health risk than previously thought because regular municipal monitoring doesn't detect frequent spikes in the chemical's
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Biofuels May Speed Up, Not Slow Global Warming: Study
Environment  (tags: biofuels, alternative energies, environment, government, humans, science, study, research, tech, technology, climate, climate change, global warming, atmosphere, rainforests, destruction, crops, corn, society, world, news, ecosystems, energy, forests, gre )

SirRobert
- 312 days ago - google.com
The use of crop-based biofuels could actually speed up rather than slow down global warming, by fueling the destruction of rainforests.
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Kenya's Elephant Problem
Environment  (tags: elephant, environment, farmers, crops, conflict )

Bethany
- 588 days ago - theworld.org
Kenyan farmers are troubled by their newest neighbors -- elephants. A growing elephant population is destroying crops and creating violent confrontations. Jessica Partnow reports on a plan to reign in the pachyderms.
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Program Links Kids to Environs
Environment  (tags: environment, children, drought, crops, water, conservation, farmers, erosion prevention, education, natural resources )


- 822 days ago - al.com
The great drought of 2007 has been devastating to many of Alabama's farm families. On the days I drive from my home in Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, I pass field after field of burned-up corn and knee-high cotton. The economic toll on rural
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Arctic Vault Takes Shape for World Food Crops
Environment  (tags: environment, crops, seeds, artic, climate, agriculture )


- 826 days ago - news.yahoo.com
LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard (Reuters) - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster. Dynamited out of a mountainside on Spitsbergen island around 1,000 km (600 miles) from the
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Drought Worsens in NSW - Australia
Environment  (tags: australia, nsw, drought, rain, crops, frost, environment, water )

Chrissy
- 858 days ago - news.com.au
MORE than three quarters of NSW is now in the grip of drought, latest figures show. The percentage of the state in drought went up last month from 69.9 per cent to 75.8 per cent. The area of NSW experiencing marginal drought conditions has increased from
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