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| November 20, 2013 |
 China's farmers await revolution in land reform Gangzhong, China (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - China's promise to allow 600 million farmers to trade land could enable vast numbers to find a better life, but Lu Jinliang's experience shows the challenges of implementing reform, including entrenched local government interests. Two years ago, he rented out a small patch of fallow land to a neighbour in Gangzhong village to raise pigs, with the 480 yuan ($79) annual income supplementing hi ... more |  |
 Philippines counts the cost of Typhoon Haiyan Manila (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - Super Typhoon Haiyan's devastating assault on the central Philippines exerted a catastrophic human cost, but analysts say its impact on one of Asia's fastest growing economies will be less traumatic. The national economy has been on an upswing for the past five years and expanded 7.6 percent in the first half of 2013 - a remarkable turnaround for a country once seen as an irredeemable non- ... more |  |
 Grisly race to identify the Philippines' typhoon dead Tacloban, Philippines (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - Clouds of flies rise as forensic pathologist Cecilia Lim opens body bags one-by-one, in a grim but crucial search for the identities of unknown typhoon victims in the Philippines. "Some of these remains, their faces are gone. We're trying to do it as fast as we can before we lose everything," says Lim, as a truck unloads 80 more dead at her workspace - the edge of a mass grave outside the s ... more |  |
China sends rescuers to Philippines after criticism over aid Beijing (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - China was Wednesday sending an emergency response crew to the Philippines nearly two weeks after super typhoon Haiyan wreaked devastation, following staunch criticism over meagre assistance from the world's second largest economy. Foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a statement that the first batch of Chinese Red Cross relief workers will depart for the Philippines on Wednesday, and ... more |  |
 Report predicts wild weather for U.S. Southeast in coming decades Gainesville, Fla. (UPI) Nov 19, 2013 - Residents of the southeastern United States should begin to prepare for more drastically changing weather conditions due to climate change, researchers say. The warning is set out in a report released as part of the National Climate Assessment, a comprehensive national analysis mandated by Congress of the effects of climate change. "The Southeast already experiences extreme weath ... more |  |
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 Underwater 'tree rings' Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Almost 650 years of annual change in sea-ice cover can been seen in the calcite crust growth layers of seafloor algae, says a new study from the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). "This is the first time coralline algae have been used to track changes in Arctic sea ice," says Jochen Halfar, an associate professor in UTM's Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences. "We found the al ... more |  |
 Ancient, modern DNA tell story of first humans in the Americas Champaign IL (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - of Illinois anthropology professor Ripan Malhi looks to DNA to tell the story of how ancient humans first came to the Americas and what happened to them once they were here. He will share some of his findings at the meeting, "Ancient DNA: The First Three Decades," at The Royal Society in London. Malhi, an affiliate of the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois, will describe his collabo ... more |  |
 On-Demand Transfusions Could Yield Novel Therapeutics Delivery Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Red blood cells are the most transfused blood product in battlefield trauma care. Unfortunately, they are sometimes in limited supply in a battlefield environment. DARPA created its Blood Pharming program to potentially relieve this shortage by developing an automated culture and packaging system that would yield a fresh supply of transfusable red blood cells from readily available cell sources. ... more |  |
 Ocean acidification: Hard to digest Gothenburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Ocean acidification impairs digestion in marine organisms, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers from Sweden and Germany have studied the larval stage of green sea urchins Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis. The results show that the animals have problems digesting food in acidified water. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions do not only affect the c ... more |  |
 Landsat Data Yield Best View to Date of Global Forest Losses, Gains Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - The ravages of deforestation, wildfires, windstorms and insects on global forests during this century are revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study based on data from the NASA-U.S. Geological Survey Landsat 7 satellite. The maps resulting from the study are the first to document forest loss and gain using a consistent method around the globe, at high resolution. They allow scientists ... more |  |
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Respiratory disorder in the ocean Kiel, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - More than four months from November 2012 to March 2013 Kiel ocean scientists investigated on the German research vessel METEOR the oxygen-poor upwelling regions in the tropical Pacific off Peru. First results of the project carried out in the context of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 754 "Climate-biogeochemistry interactions in the tropical ocean" show, how eddies in the ocean inf ... more |  |
UEA research reveals how farmers could mitigate nitrous oxide emissions Norwich UK (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Farmers may be able to help reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) by incorporating copper into crop fertilisation processes - according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Global agricultural emissions of the gas have increased by 20 per cent in the last century as a result of widespread use of nitrogen-based synthetic fertilizers. But new researc ... more |  |
 Success of climate talks vital for 2 C target Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Achieving a global climate agreement soon could be crucial for the objective to keep global mean temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius. The challenges of meeting the long-term target will otherwise increase drastically both in terms of the required emissions reductions and economic impacts. This is shown by the first comprehensive multi-model-based assessment of so-called Durban Platfor ... more |  |
Paths out of uncertainty Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 20, 2013 - Long-term and average changes are in the focus of the discussion on climate change: globally, as the different scientific climate models all predict, it will be warmer on Earth at the end of the century. For decision-makers and people affected by climate change, however, information on the frequency and intensity of extreme events such as heat and cold extremes, heavy rainfall or dry spell ... more |  |
Fishermen adrift after typhoon takes livelihood Baybay, Philippines (AFP) Nov 20, 2013 - A crucifix crudely fashioned from broken twigs marks a shallow grave on the beach in Baybay, a once-lively Philippines fishing village where generations saw the sea as a source of bounty until it cruelly turned against them. "I have never been afraid of the sea but the day Yolanda came, I cried," said Cesar Magdua. Driven ashore by Super Typhoon Haiyan - known locally as Yolanda - the ocea ... more |  |
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 Four dead as NE China hit by massive snowstorm Beijing (AFP) Nov 19, 2013 - Northeastern China's biggest city of Harbin has been pummelled by its worst snowstorm for 50 years, state media said Tuesday. More than 50,000 people were mobilised to clear snow in the city, the capital of Heilongjiang province, the official news agency Xinhua reported. It cited city authorities as saying the snow was the worst since they first began recording daily weather conditions i ... more |  |
Search for victims as Sardinia floods leave 18 dead Olbia, Italy (AFP) Nov 19, 2013 - Italian emergency workers searched house by house on the island of Sardinia on Tuesday after a Mediterranean cyclone triggered flash floods, leaving 18 people dead and forcing thousands to seek emergency shelter. Rivers broke their banks at the height of the storm on Monday, sweeping away bridges, bringing down power lines and flooding hundreds of homes - some of them in low-lying rural are ... more |  |
DNA of early hominid found to include 'mystery' early genes London (UPI) Nov 19, 2013 - The genome of the Denisovans, an extinct early hominid species, includes DNA that seems to have come from yet another unknown group, a U.S. scientist says. Snippets of the mystery DNA were found in the genome of a Denisovan, an extinct hominid known to exist from a finger bone and two teeth found in a Siberian cave. While a lack of any other fossils means nobody knows what Deniso ... more |  |
Typhoon wiped out third of Philippines' rice crop: UN Rome (AFP) Nov 19, 2013 - Typhoon Haiyan wiped out one-third of the Philippines' rice-growing areas, the UN food agency said Tuesday, calling for "urgent assistance" to farmers who need to sow new seeds. "Regions most severely affected by the typhoon account for one-third of the total rice production in the country," the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said in a statement. "Hundreds of thousands of farmers i ... more |  |
Aqua-Spark fund dives into fish farming future San Francisco (AFP) Nov 19, 2013 - Investment fund Aqua-Spark is setting course to make money while promoting healthier oceans and feeding the world. A fund devoted to technology, techniques and businesses focused on farming seafood instead of hunting it got underway with $1.5 million poured in by investors courted during a visit to San Francisco. "Aquaculture is one of the few sectors where you can make an old-fashioned ... more |  |
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