River of News
USDA Announces Food Safety Initiatives for School Lunch and Other Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs (February 4, 2010)
Categories: Agency Press Releases
Biomass Crop Assistance Program to Spur Production of Renewable Energy, Job Creation (February 3, 2010)
Categories: Agency Press Releases
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Proposed FY2011 Budget (February 1, 2010)
Categories: Agency Press Releases
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces $140 Million for 14 Community Facilities Projects in Rural Areas (January 26, 2010)
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USDA, Navy Sign Agreement to Encourage the Development and Use of Renewable Energy (Jan. 21, 2010)
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USDA Provides Web-Based Disaster Program Payment Calculator to Help Producers with Business Planning (Jan. 21, 2010)
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USDA Hosting Roundtables on Jobs and Economic Growth (January 20, 2010)
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Toyota recalls 437,000 Priuses, hybrids globally
AP - Toyota says it is recalling about 437,000 Prius and other hybrid vehicles worldwide to fix brake problems — the latest in a string of embarrassing safety lapses at the world's largest automaker.
Categories: Climate
Climate change will make world more 'fragrant.'
In response to the disruptions of climate change, plants will emit greater levels of fragrant chemicals called biogenic volatile organic compounds, a major scientific review finds. The problem is too complex to yet gauge many of the consequences.
Categories: Climate
Palin likens global warming studies to 'snake oil.'
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called studies supporting global climate change a "bunch of snake oil science" Monday during a rare appearance in California, a state that has been at the forefront of environmental regulations.
Categories: Climate
Campaign climate.
Sen. Blanche Lincoln's ascendancy to the Agriculture Committee chairmanship was a bad omen for passage of climate-change legislation in 2010 due to her close ties to agricultural producers and processors seen as major contributors of greenhouse gases.
Categories: Climate
Earlier springs could destroy delicate balance of UK wildlife, study shows.
Recent winters have been ending earlier than ever before, according to a new assessment of Britain's wildlife that reveals global warming could be disrupting the delicate balance of nature.
Categories: Climate
Studying storm surge risks.
Researchers funded by a $170,000 federal grant are focusing on Sarasota and its Gulf of Mexico shoreline to demonstrate how low-lying coastal communities grow more vulnerable to storm surge as sea levels rise. And they are rising, scientists say.
Categories: Climate
German minister sparks government row over nuclear power.
German Enivronment Minister Norbert Röttgen has caused a rift in Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government by suggesting that it drop plans to extend the lifetimes of the country's 17 nuclear power stations.
Categories: Climate
Using grass for electricity.
Energy experts are thinking through how to replace coal that's burned in American power stations. One alternative is to burn plants, because they can produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions. And in the Midwest, there's talk of growing millions of acres of grass for biomass.
Categories: Climate
Riding green wave, Philips says let there be LED.
Phillips has invested more than 4 billion euros ($5.47 billion) to ride the clean-tech wave. The company is betting on a shift in the lighting market, away from inefficient incandescent light bulbs and toward long-life energy-efficient light-emitting diodes, or LEDs.
Categories: Climate
Climate change impact of soil underestimated.
Finnish researchers called for a revision of climate change estimates Monday after their findings showed emissions from soil would contribute more to climate warming than previously thought.
Categories: Climate
Amazon rainforest will bear cost of biofuel policies in Brazil.
Business-as-usual agricultural expansion to meet biofuel production targets for 2020 will take a heavy toll on Brazil's Amazon rainforest in coming years, undermining the potential emissions savings of transitioning from fossil fuels to biofuels.
Categories: Climate
Legally binding? It's so 2009.
Washington's climate policy analysts from environmental groups are quietly abandoning – at least temporarily – the once sacrosanct notion that nations must agree to legally binding emission targets.
Categories: Climate
U.N. climate panel and chief face credibility siege.
Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri and the IPCC are now under intense scrutiny, facing accusations of scientific sloppiness and potential financial conflicts of interest from climate skeptics, right-leaning politicians and even some mainstream scientists.
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