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Study: SE Asia will be hit hard by climate change
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Southeast Asia will be hit particularly hard by climate change, causing the region's agriculture-dependent economies to contract by as much as 6.7 percent annually by the end of the century, according ...
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FDA announces three lab grants
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Three lab grants designed to enhance food-screening capabilities and spot radioactive materials in food were awarded by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
More Chinese wheat gluten is recalled
Apr 04, 2007 |
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A U.S. pharmaceutical and nutritional chemicals company has recalled all possibly contaminated wheat gluten it has imported from a Chinese supplier.
Japan sends first cargo spacecraft to ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2009 |
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Japan early Friday launched its first cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station, aiming for a share of space transport after the retirement of the US space shuttle fleet next year.
Supermarkets' power desertifies our diets
Apr 18, 2008 |
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Urban food deserts – areas where people have low or no access to food shops – exist in major cities, according to research published in the open access publication International Journal of Health Geographics, with import ...
Japan cargo spacecraft docks at ISS
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Japan's first cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday after astronauts aboard the station grabbed and docked it using a robotic arm.
Far flung food: Europe's distant diets
Dec 10, 2007 |
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Across the European Union, food is travelling more, and not always in ways that make sense. Consider the chocolate covered waffle: Last year, Britain both imported 14,000 tonnes, and exported 15,000 tonnes. And it is not ...
Climate change poses a huge threat to human health
Jan 25, 2008 |
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Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ today.
Flight dispatched with supplies for North Pole team
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2009 |
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A plane set off Wednesday during a break in bad weather to re-supply three stranded British researchers, who are trapped and fighting to survive in the North Pole, organizers of the aid effort said.
Rocket with new module for space station blasts off
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.
Resupplied North Pole explorers resume trek
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Three British explorers fighting to survive a gruelling trek to the North Pole finally resumed their journey Friday after receiving vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment, organizers said.
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