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 Science & Tech  Cal - 4 days ago - motherjones.com You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming--it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions
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Aquaponic
Science & Tech  Nelson - 21 days ago - amazus.org Have you noticed that our need for food has been contributing for the degradation of the environment and that we need new solutions if our population continues to grow. This degradation comes from pesticides, fertilizers or from overfishing.
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 Science & Tech  Marty - 118 days ago - mailonsunday.co.uk You've heard of the factory chicken. Now meet the factory vegetable. Grown in their millions in trays of nutrient-enriched water inside a heated, artificially-lit greenhouse large enough to house ten football pitches
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 Science & Tech  Eduardo - 144 days ago - cnn.com Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current. An expedition by 19 scientists studied the geology and biology of eight Macquarie Ridge.
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Aid to Burma
Science & Tech  Juli - 153 days ago - app.e2ma.net The alarming casualties in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) from Cyclone Nargis continue to rise on a daily basis. With a grant of at least US $100,000, TPRF is partnering with Friends of the World Food Program (FWFP) to help the World Food Programme (WF
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An Unlikely Way to Save a Species: Serve It for Dinner
Science & Tech  Jan - 163 days ago - nytimes.com Saving plants and animals that were once fairly commonplace in America and are now threatened or endangered often involves urging people to eat them.
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 Science & Tech  Echo - 163 days ago - iht.com The earth's uncertain oil reserves and dwindling freshwater supply may get all the attention, but modern society is also overtaxing the ground itself.
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 Science & Tech Marty - 166 days ago - news.google.com A GRAIN, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." So wrote the legendarily snobbish Samuel Johnson in  ;his Dictionary of 1755. He was referring to the humble oat
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 Science & Tech  Rebecca - 169 days ago - blog.wired.com Though their justification is environmental rather than animal, researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands are trying to grow meat in a lab, raising the possibility of a carnivorous diet disconnected from killing.
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 Science & Tech  Cissy - 212 days ago - dailymail.co.uk Potentially toxic chemicals are being incorporated into food, packaging, health supplements and other products by stealth, it is claimed. Manufacturers boast that nanoparticles can deliver drugs or vitamins more effectively, kill harmful bugs in food or
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Biofuels: Fields of Dreams
Science & Tech  Brendan - 214 days ago - timesonline.co.uk Are biofuels the answer to exhausted oil wells or just another nightmare scenario?
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 Science & Tech  Simone - 217 days ago - redorbit.com The first study of how individual wandering albatrosses find food shows that the birds rely heavily on their sense of smell. The birds can pick up a scent from several miles away, U.S. and French researchers have found.
"This is the first time anyone
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 Science & Tech  John - 219 days ago - science.howstuffworks.com By the 1960s, NASA achieved an extraordinary technological feat by sending men into space. Yet one deceptively simple aspect of space travel took several more years to perfect: the food. Today most space food looks a lot like food here on the ground.
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Researchers Map the Corn Plant's Massive Genome in Effort for New Breeds
Science & Tech  Ralph - 225 days ago - centralkansas.cox.net ST. LOUIS (Associated Press) -- Scientists at universities and corporations are about to get a major leg up in their tireless _ and profitable _ effort to reinvent the corn plant. A group of researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis have map
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 Science & Tech  Terrah - 230 days ago - news.uns.purdue.edu A pig virus that exists worldwide has become more dangerous as the virus has mutated and then combined with other pathogens, according to Purdue University researchers. It's not known why a virus that has been known to infect swine for almost 40 years
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