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Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Posted by People Daily: None Given on February 2nd, 2011
People Daily: Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Indonesian farming ministry is preparing three kinds of rice seeds to secure the sustainability of rice deposit in the country in anticipating the impact of climate change issue, a minister said here on Wednesday.
Indonesian Farming Minister Siswono said that those three rice seeds are apparently adaptive to extreme natural conditions related to climate change phenomenon. Those three paddy seeds were code named Inpara,...
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Indonesia prepares rice seeds in anticipating climate change issue: minister
Posted by Xinhua News Agency: None Given on February 2nd, 2011
Xinhua News Agency: Indonesian farming ministry is preparing three kinds of rice seeds to secure the sustainability of rice deposit in the country in anticipating the impact of climate change issue, a minister said here on Wednesday.
Indonesian Farming Minister Siswono said that those three rice seeds are apparently adaptive to extreme natural conditions related to climate change phenomenon. Those three paddy seeds were code named Inpara, Inpago and Inpari 13. The Inpara seeds is able to grow in extreme wet condition,...
Floods in Brazil are a result of short-term planning
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Guardian: As I write, more than two weeks after the floods began in the mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, many communities remain isolated due to landslides on the main access roads.
More than 800 people died and thousands of people have been displaced in the state, according to official figures. One of the worst affected towns is Santa Rita. Dozens of families still depend on helicopters to deliver food, water, and emergency healthcare. In the town of Teresópolis, people are starting to clear...
Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
Ecologist: Asia Pulp and Paper: why activists are wrong over destructive logging allegations APP has been accused of illegal logging; now the company claims it is leading the way in sustainable practices
Matthew Hancock MP: slash costs and carbon with better property management Undercover police scandal: why we urgently need a judge-led inquiry Laura Sandys MP: why food security must be viewed as a strategic threat Emily Apple: 'I can't forgive Mark Kennedy's betrayal of activists' Financial problems could...
Malaysian Forest Ebbing at Rapid Rate, Report Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
New York Times: An oil palm plantation covers a swath of land where a forest once stood in Malaysia.
Malaysia is cutting down forests at more than triple the average rate of the rest of Asia, with the destruction concentrated in the highly biodiverse peatland forests on the island of Borneo, a new analysis of satellite data reveals.
Roughly 10 percent of forests in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo were cleared in just the past five years, according to the analysis, which was commissioned by Wetlands...
NASA satellite captures U.S. ‘Big Chill’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
ScienceDaily: The current winter storm system blasting much of the United States is depicted in this new NASA satellite image from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite.
The AIRS data create an accurate 3-D map of atmospheric temperature, water vapor and clouds, data that are useful to forecasters. The image shows the temperature of the storm's cloud tops or the surface of Earth in cloud-free regions. The coldest cloud-top temperatures appear in purple, indicating towering...
How humans are changing the world
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 2nd, 2011
ScienceDaily: Human influence on the landscape, global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and biodiversity are highlighted in a new set of studies led by University of Leicester researchers.
How this influence will be reflected in the distinctive geological record forms the basis of the studies published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.
Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams from the University of Leicester Department of Geology led the production of the studies into the Anthropocene...