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ARS explores ways to keep carbon in the soil
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Soil organic carbon plays a major role in how well a cultivated field holds moisture, provides nutrients and remains productive. That can be a problem in eastern Oregon because the soils are relatively low in organic carbon. Wheat farmers there traditionally plant winter wheat one year and leave the field fallow for a season, using traditional methods to plow ... |
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FAO launches new climate change mitigation programme
Finland is the first country to contribute to a $60 million FAO programme to support climate change mitigation in agriculture in developing countries.
The multi-donor programme aims to promote sustainable low-emission agriculture in developing countries over the coming five years, in partnership with countries and other relevant organizations.
Finland will provide an initial support of around $3.9 million for the period of 2010-2011, FAO announced in the context of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. FAO will approach other donors for further funding.
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Emulsified Vegetable Oil Patents
The US Patent Office has reaffirmed its unpatentability ruling even after argument by the patent owner to the contrary, of nine claims of the Solutions IES reissue patent RE 40,448 reading on emulsions in general as well as what the inventors called “microemulsions”. The European Patent Office has revoked the equivalent European patent (1,315,675) on the basis of prior art thereby also rendering any national patents based on the European patent unenforceable. It remains to be seen if the patent holder intends to appeal these rulings, which we feel are fully justified. We now hope that bioremediation practitioners will now be able to choose the best emulsion products at the best price without any concerns of being hassled by questionable intellectual property claims.
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- Sitelab measures TPH in soil for US EPA verification report
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- Resilience, sustainability in agriculture
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- State agencies and universities to receive US$7m in stimulus funding to improve volcano monitoring
The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, has allocated $7 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds ...
- Rapid response to bridge flood misery
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- Using Sitelab to map plumes of subsurface oil
Are you managing petroleum sites with subsurface plumes of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL) at an oil refinery, fuel storage site, military base or Brownfield ...
- Drilling mud and fluid testing for reuse or disposal
Oil-based drilling fluids are using in the oil industry during oil exploration as a lubricant. The disposing of mud overboard on offshore oil platforms ...
- Sitelab customer performs bioremediation and TPH analysis at African mine
Equinox Minerals operates the biggest copper mine in Africa located at Lumwana in the northwest province, Zambia. Open-pit mining methods are used to ...
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