News tagged with emergency seed aid
Study recommends changes to emergency seed aid
A major study of agriculture in Haiti after this year's earthquake has found that much of the emergency seed aid provided after the disaster was not targeted to emergency needs. The report concludes that seed aid, when poorly-designed, ...
Sep 02, 2010 |
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Crowdfunding science: Student raises cash online to follow a flying fox
The flying fox is an adorable doe-eyed bat with a dark side – it is the perfect vector for emerging infectious diseases from Asia. Susan Tsang, a PhD student in ecology and evolutionary biology at The City College of ...
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Research could lead to wearable sensors for the blind
Wearable sensors that allow the blind to "see" with their hands, bodies or faces could be on the horizon, thanks to a $2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to researchers at The City College of New York ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Landsat image maps aid fire recovery efforts
NASA satellite images regularly map active fires around the world. Once a fire is out, satellite data and maps are also used by scientists to measure and protect the scorched land, and have played an important ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Plant thought extinct is still hanging on
The Franciscan manzanita - described by some as San Francisco's unicorn - thrives in a kind of botanical witness protection program.
Aug 07, 2011 |
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Digging for past clues on climate change
Scientists are hoping samples of soil formed up to 20,000 years ago that they dug from the Meadowlands will provide clues to dramatic shifts in climate, geology and plant life that may have hit the region in the past.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2011 |
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From butterflies, some lessons about life -- and death
If you were to catch Loretta Downs loping through the shoulder-high milkweed along her alley fence come the end of June, you might not realize she was searching for something so sacred it leaves her speechless.
May 26, 2011 |
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Signs of recovery for online ad market in US
Online advertising revenue hit a record 6.3 billion dollars in the United States in the fourth quarter of the year, a bright spot in an otherwise dismal year, according to a report on Wednesday.
Apr 07, 2010 |
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Mobile giving is catching on
For most nonprofits, raising money means asking donors to write a check. But like music, maps and movies, charitable giving is also going mobile.
Jul 30, 2009 |
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Promising device snags young inventors coveted spot at IShow
The IShow is for young inventors what "American Idol" is for young performers, and a pair of local researchers has won a coveted spot in the IShow finale in Palm Desert, Calif., this weekend.
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Colonies in collapse: What's causing massive honeybee die-offs?
“To the bee, a flower is a fountain of life, and to the flower, a bee is a messenger of love,” wrote poet Kahlil Gibran. Whether or not love is involved in the exchange, the evolutionary dance between pollen-transporting ...
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Nov 12, 2008 |
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