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World seed banks get funds to tackle climate, other threats
2013-01-31 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Scientists have agreed on a $109 million plan to strengthen the world's biggest seed banks of crops such as rice and wheat to help protect and develop new varieties resistant to climate change and other threats. The Global Crop Diversity Trust and the CGIAR Consortium of agricultural researchers said on Thursday that a five-year plan would help secure storage of more than 700,000 samples of crops at 11 existing gene banks from the Philippines to Belgium. "This will drive the creation of a real...
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In Energy Taxes, Tools to Help Tackle Climate Change
2013-01-30 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: To understand the complicated politics of climate change in the United States, you may want to talk to Pamela Johnson, president of the National Corn Growers Associations Corn Board. She is concerned about the weather. The drought that parched the lower 48 states cut the harvest at her northern Iowa farm by about 40 bushels an acre. For the first time in memory, she says, she had to rely on the federally subsidized crop insurance program to stay afloat. And yet Ms. Johnsons main concern, and...
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Fera and Waters Corporation Partner to Tackle Food Safety Issues
2013-01-25 14:11:08| Electronics - Topix.net
The Food and Environment Research Agency and Waters have officially opened the first food safety training facility , the first of its kind in Europe.
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Tanzania: Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to tackle climate change
2013-01-25 01:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AlertNet: The loss of more than half their livestock in the 2009 drought has led Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania's Arusha region to breed fewer, stronger cattle and end their traditional focus on numbers alone as symbols of wealth and status. The impact of that devastating drought, which dealt a blow to the whole nation's economy, is still visible in the small number of cattle in many villages of Engarenaibor in Arusha's Longido district. The district's cattle breeders and owners lost at least...
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Tackle clamshell mode issues with Apple laptops
2013-01-25 00:06:28| CNET News.com
A quick PRAM reset or settings change may help a stubborn MacBook that refuses to enter clamshell mode. [Read more]
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