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New Zealand PM to make milk scare apology in China
Aug 13, 2013 (AFP)
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said Tuesday he will visit Beijing later this year to personally apologise to Chinese consumers over the Fonterra milk botul...
Boom in city beekeeping may not help, could hurt Brit honeybee decline
Aug 12, 2013 (UPI)
A boom in city beekeeping in Britain may not be the best thing to have happened to the country's honeybee population, exerts say. Dense bee populations in areas...
Sushi-go-round -- Japan tradition served with technology
Aug 12, 2013 (AFP)
With its masters required to hone their skills over decades, sushi in Japan is steeped in tradition. But it is also often a high-tech operation where robotic pr...
Big animals crucial for soil fertility: study
Aug 11, 2013 (AFP)
The mass extinction of large animals in the Pleistocene era caused today's dearth of soil nutrients, scientists said Sunday, and warned of further damage if mod...
Is sous vide cooking safe?
Aug 09, 2013 (SPX)
The Institute of Food Research (IFR) has been undertaking research for the Food Standards Agency to establish if the cooking technique sous vide is safe. Sous v...
Soil carbon 'blowing in the wind'
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Top soil is rich in nutrients and carbon but is increasingly being blown away by events such as the 'Red Dawn' in Sydney in 2009. When wind lifts carbon dust in...
Existing cropland could feed four billion more
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
The world's croplands could feed 4 billion more people than they do now just by shifting from producing animal feed and biofuels to producing exclusively food f...
Researchers re-evaluate swine nutrition
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
For a new study in the Journal of Animal Science, researchers evaluated how different concentrations of lipids affect growth performance in weaned pigs. The res...
Rubber slat mats could improve animal well-being
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
New research shows that rubber slat mats could improve swine health. In a new study in the Journal of Animal Science, researchers in Europe studied how differen...
Chronic harvesting threatens tropical tree
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Chronic harvesting of a tropical tree that many local communities in Western Africa depend on can alter the tree's reproduction and drastically curtail fruit an...
Dartmouth-led team discovers how plants avoid sunburn
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
A Dartmouth-led team has discovered a group of stress-related proteins that explains how plants avoid sunburn in intense light, a finding that one day could hel...
Geoscientists gradually decipher nature's playbook
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Sugars are widely known as important sources of energy for all organisms. Now, Virginia Tech researchers have discovered that certain types of sugars, known as ...
Temperature alters population dynamics of common plant pests
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Temperature-driven changes alter outbreak patterns of tea tortrix -- an insect pest -- and may shed light on how temperature influences whether insects emerge a...
France predicts bumper champagne production this year
Aug 08, 2013 (AFP)
Champagne lovers were in for a treat as official statistics released Thursday predicted that France's production of bubbly would take a 56 percent leap this yea...
Citizen scientists rival experts in analyzing land-cover data
Aug 08, 2013 (SPX)
Over the past 5 years, IIASA researchers on the Geo-Wiki project have been leading a team of citizen scientists who examine satellite data to categorize land co...
Pressures and marketing push China formula use: experts
Aug 07, 2013 (AFP)
China's latest milk powder scare will do nothing to increase one of the world's lowest breastfeeding rates, experts say, in the face of misconceptions, economic...
New Zealand takes charge of Fonterra milk scare response
Aug 06, 2013 (AFP)
New Zealand seized control of Fonterra's response to a milk contamination scare Tuesday after criticising the dairy giant's handling of a crisis which has trigg...
Team develops more accurate model of climate change impact on soil
Aug 06, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists from UC Irvine and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have developed a new computer model to measure global warming's effect on soil worldw...
World's first test-tube burger tasted in London
Aug 05, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists unveiled the world's first lab-grown beef burger in London on Monday, frying it in a little oil and butter and serving it to volunteers in what they ...
New Zealand's 'clean' green' image hurt by milk scare
Aug 05, 2013 (AFP)
New Zealand has long marketed itself as "100 percent pure", but experts say that image is under threat amid fears of botulism contamination in its baby formula ...
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