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Tracking poultry litter phosphorus: Threat of accumulation?

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The Delmarva Peninsula, flanking the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, is home to some 600 million chickens. The resulting poultry manure and some of the chicken house bedding material is usually composted and then spread ...





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Bird flu worries increase in South Korea

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created May 01, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean agriculture officials boosted the country's bird flu risk level to 'orange' this week after recent outbreaks on poultry farms.


Bird flu worries increase in South Korea

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created Apr 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean agriculture officials boosted the country's bird flu risk level to 'orange' this week after recent outbreaks on poultry farms.


Poultry in Britain must be registered

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created Jan 08, 2006 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Poultry owners in Britain have less than two months to register their flocks on the national Poultry Register, government officials said.


Trees kill odors and other emissions from poultry farms

Trees kill odors and other emissions from poultry farms

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created Aug 20, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Planting just three rows of trees around poultry farms can cut nuisance emissions of dust, ammonia, and odors from poultry houses and aid in reducing neighbor complaints, according to scientists from the University ...


Ruling allows poultry pollution evidence

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created Mar 24, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A judge in Oklahoma has ruled that state officials may collect evidence for a lawsuit in which they allege poultry farms are polluting state watersheds.


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Bird flu found in Tibet: state media

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created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Chinese officials had confirmed the outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu among poultry in the Tibetan capital Lhasa, state media reported Sunday, quoting the ministry of agriculture.


Hong Kong bird tests positive for H5N1

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created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hong Kong authorities said Friday that a dead chicken found in the southern Chinese territory had tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus.


Fowl play as scientists make power from chicken droppings

Technology / Energy

created Oct 31, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 1

Researchers at The University of Manchester have started work on a project to produce power from chicken droppings.


Japanese scientists track bird flu strains

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created Jul 11, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The Japanese government will destroy 8,500 chickens at a poultry farm in Bando, Ibaraki prefecture, after scientists found genes of the avian flu virus.


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Germany paves way to offshore wind farms

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created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The German government on Wednesday agreed a plan to set aside special zones off its northern coast for a host of wind farms that could provide energy for more than eight million homes.



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