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Agricultural research aims to improve harvests on warmer planet
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 20th, 2011
Voice of America: Climate change has brought dramatic droughts and floods around the world, ruining harvests of important cereal crops and reviving concerns about food security on a warmer planet. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are looking at cereal crops at risk and their wild, weedy relatives. The weeds are more resilient under extreme conditions, and seem to be benefiting from climate change, while regular crops suffer.
Plant physiologist Lewis Ziska has been comparing cultivated rice and...
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Comments Off on Agricultural research aims to improve harvests on warmer planetAmaila Falls Hydro Project… Controversy surrounds Sithe Global licence
Posted by Kaieteur News: None Given on May 20th, 2011
Kaieteur News: Controversy surrounds the licence Sithe Global says was handed to it by Synergy Holdings, the original developer of the US$700 million Amaila Falls Hydro Electricity Project.
Yesterday, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, said that it was a question of semantics whether Sithe Global has an altogether new licence or whether the licence which it now has is the old licence with some amendments.
James McGowan, Senior Vice President (Development) at Sithe Global said recently...
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