Field study shows why food quality will suffer with rising CO2
Davis CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2014 -
For the first time, a field test has demonstrated that elevated levels of carbon dioxide inhibit plants' assimilation of nitrate into proteins, indicating that the nutritional quality of food crops is at risk as climate change intensifies.
Findings from this wheat field-test study, led by a UC Davis plant scientist, will be reported online April 6 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
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China preps satellite to help detect quakes
Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2014 -
China's first test satellite for detecting electromagnetic anomalies from space will launch in 2016 in a move that is aimed at improving the country's earthquake monitoring network and moving its seismological science forward.
Yuan Shigeng, project manager for the satellite, said the polar-orbiting device will carry eight payloads, including a search-oil magnetometer, electric field detect ...
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DMCii help Dutch company eLEAF provide much needed crop information to African farmers
Guildford UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
eLEAF, a Netherlands-based high-tech company that supplies reliable, quantitative data on water and vegetation in order to support sustainable water use, increase food production, and protect environmental systems have recently called upon DMCii satellite imagery to provide satellite images of four pilot areas located in West- Noubaria (Egypt) Arata Chufa irrigation scheme, Oromiya (Ethiopia), t ...
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Like a giant elevator to the stratosphere
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2014 -
An international team of researchers headed by Potsdam scientist Dr. Markus Rex from the Alfred Wegener Institute has discovered a previously unknown atmospheric phenomenon over the South Seas. Over the tropical West Pacific there is a natural, invisible hole extending over several thousand kilometres in a layer that prevents transport of most of the natural and manmade substances into the strat ...
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Libyan oil terminals reopen after rebel deal
Tripoli, Libya (UPI) Apr 7, 2013 -
Another 200,000 barrels of oil exports could come back on stream through the opening of oil ports under rebel control in eastern Libya, an official said.
Authorities last week started negotiations to reopen ports blocked by political groups operating under the authority of Ibrahim al-Jathran, who is seeking more autonomy for the eastern region of Cyrenaica.
Libyan Justice Ministe ...
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Malaysia Airlines has 'work to do' fixing image: CEO
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) April 07, 2014 -
Malaysia Airlines, which was already haemorrhaging cash in the face of intense competition, has "got a lot of work to do" recovering from the disappearance of MH370, its CEO said Monday.
The flag-carrier airline has reported hefty losses for three years running, and MH370 now raises the spectre of a potential drop in bookings over safety concerns and possible huge payouts to passengers' fami ...
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US Navy 'game-changer': converting seawater into fuel
Washington (AFP) April 07, 2014 -
The US Navy believes it has finally worked out the solution to a problem that has intrigued scientists for decades: how to take seawater and use it as fuel.
The development of a liquid hydrocarbon fuel is being hailed as "a game-changer" because it would signficantly shorten the supply chain, a weak link that makes any force easier to attack.
The US has a fleet of 15 military oil tanke ...
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