McDonald's earnings edge lower on tepid gobal sales
New York (AFP) July 22, 2014 -
McDonald's Tuesday said profit slipped in the second quarter amid fairly flat global sales as it pledged to take action against any wrongdoing in an Asian food safety scare.
McDonald's posted net earnings for the second quarter of $1.39 billion, down 0.7 percent from the year-ago period.
That translated into adjusted earnings per share of $1.40, four cents below expectations.
The US ...
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Street fishing thrives in waterways of Paris
Paris (AFP) July 22, 2014 -
Quentin Nespoulous is standing by Canal Saint Martin, a once run-down waterway in Paris that has been cleaned up and turned into a popular haunt for young bohemians.
Only this 19-year-old is not here for a hipster hangout or a canalside bistro, but to fish.
Nespoulous is part of a new wave of "street fishers" taking to the French capital's canals as well as the Seine, where pike, giant c ...
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LEDs shine in bedding plant production study
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 23, 2014 -
Growers of annual bedding plant seedlings or plugs work to produce compact, fully rooted transplants with a large stem diameter and high root dry mass--qualities that make seedlings less susceptible to damage during shipping and transplant.
To achieve these desirable qualities, greenhouse growers in northern latitudes must rely on supplemental lighting from high-pressure sodium lamps durin ...
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The Real Price of Steak
Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Jul 23, 2014 -
We are told that eating beef is bad for the environment, but do we know its real cost? Are the other animal or animal-derived foods better or worse? New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, conducted in collaboration with scientists in the US, compared the environmental costs of various foods and came up with some surprisingly clear results.
The findings, which appear in the Proc ...
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New water balance calculation for the Dead Sea
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Jul 23, 2014 -
The drinking water resources on the eastern, Jordanian side of the Dead Sea could decline severe as a result of climate change than those on the western, Israeli and Palestinian side. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of researchers that calculated the water flows around the Dead Sea.
The natural replenishment rate of groundwater will reduce dramatically in the future ...
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