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Lester Brown -- Climate change means less food, more hunger

As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...

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Drug misuse on Minnesota dairy cows prompts federal warning

Two state farms were reprimanded for unsafe levels of antibiotics in animals. Maybe Two Minnesota cows that could have ended up on a dinner plate were pulled from slaughter lines after federal inspectors discovered dangerously...

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Fishfinders On Review

waves that are sent out into the water. The farther the sound waves travel, the more they fan out into a cone shape and increase in diameter. Deeper water naturally causes the cone to fan out as it travels from it's origin....

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Flight to Ohio rescues 'puppy-mill' dogs

When a Philadelphia animal-welfare activist heard that nearly 400 Lancaster County dogs had been trucked to an auction in Ohio last month, he saw it as a chance to call attention to animal abuse in Pennsylvania.

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Organic turkeys see the sun again

Janice and Matthew Dick wasted no time reintroducing their turkeys to pasture after the Turkey Farmers of Ontario announced it would exempt organic turkeys from a rule requiring they be raised under a solid roof.

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PERU: Fighting Hunger with Native Crops

PAUCARÁ, Peru, Nov 21 (IPS) - As if he were showing off a treasure, Dionicio Sarmiento holds up his seed potatoes with a smile. "Look how nice they are, all ready to plant. It'll be a good harvest," says the peasant farmer from...

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Taiwan: Science park expansion dispute

Recently, the Executive Yuan in Taiwan has passed a bill in favor of Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) fourth stage expansion. Th...

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Sodden fields delay planting of cover crops to aid the bay

Maryland farmers encouraged to cut nutrient runoff into bay SUDLERSVILLE — - Schmidt and other Maryland farmers have been in a race with the weather lately - trying to get the last of their fall crops harvested and their fields...

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Waste Wood is an Untapped Energy Source in W.Va.

Updated Friday, November 20, 2009 ; 05:08 PM The Mountain State is the third-most forested state in the U.S. and some say it could be a prime source of energy. “That’s a big advantage we have in this state: We have a lot of...

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One less slice of pumpkin pie?

Pumpkin farmer John Ackerman walks through a neighbor's waterlogged pumpkin field in Washington Township, Ill., while discussing the difficulties of this year's harvest. Nestle - which sells nearly all the canned pumpkin in the...

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