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Food - when, where, and how we grow, create, breed, catch, process, and enrich it; and what this means for our planet, culture, health, and palate.
Recipes and restaurants are not the focus here, but can be adjuncts to, end-points of, or a strand in this production.
Recipes and restaurants are not the focus here, but can be adjuncts to, end-points of, or a strand in this production.
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Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology TransferAgricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists have found that using alternative types of fertilizers can cut back on greenhouse gas emissions, at least in one part of the country. They are currently examining whether the alternatives offer similar benefits nationwide. Nitrogen fertilizers are ...
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Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsThe pure white snow atop the Andes Mountains may not be so pure after all. Scientists have found traces of toxic pollutants called PCBs in snow samples taken from Aconcagua Mountain, the highest peak in the Americas. While the overall PCB levels were quite low, the results show that these ...
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Just look at this awesome EU banana curvature regulation. Boing BoingCommission Regulation (EC) No 2257/94 of 16 September 1994 laying down quality standards for bananas (as amended)
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New science estimates carbon storage potential of US landsThe first phase of a groundbreaking national assessment estimates that U.S. forests and soils could remove additional quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere as a means to mitigate climate change. The lower 48 states in the U.S. hypothetically have the potential to store an ...
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Governments turn to cloud seeding to fight droughtIn this photo taken Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, Pacific Gas and Electric Meteorological Technician Steve Tissot, climbs a ladder to inspect a cloud- seeding machine near Lake Almanor, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009. Faced with crippling droughts, governments and utilities throughout the western ...
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1Snow at Highest Elevations No Longer Pure - Yahoo! NewsSop much for "the [snow fed] water from pure mountain streams". How convenient for the corporate water barons.JDP added 2 weeks ago
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1Killer Petunias and Murderous Potatoes Revealed - Yahoo! NewsOh my ... so much for the "gentle kingdom". Turns out plants not only engage in intraspecies and interspecies warfare amoung themselves, but many more of them than originally thought prey on some members of the animal kingdom as well.JDP added 2 weeks ago
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1China executes two over tainted milk scandal - Yahoo! NewsNow there's something one might think about outsourcing to China - appropriate punishments for corporate criminals. Considering how much China lost on the global bankers' gambling, one might wonder if any of those "paragons of finance" will be visiting the Great Wall anytime soon.JDP added 4 weeks ago
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1Shun beef to stop climate change, says India - Yahoo! NewsDUH! India by far and away has the largest number of methane producing cattle at 281,700,000, followed by Brazil (100 million LESS), China, and only then the USA. SO, if reducing the number of cattle will help, India is on the front lines. So what will it be - eat some of those cows? ...JDP added 5 weeks ago
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1Rapacious Rasberry ants march northMaybe Mother Nature is telling certainTexans something?JDP added 6 weeks ago
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