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Mexican sunflower origin is determined
Tallahassee, Fla., April 29, 2008 U.S. and Mexican scientists have determined ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived. Florida State University scientist Mary Pohl and David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati said their evidence confirms farmers began growing sunflowers in Mexico by 2600 B.C. That contradicts the belief of some scientists that sunflowers we ... read more *New* Comments: 0 A Giant Among Minnows: Giant Danio Can Keep Growing 
Milwaukee WI (SPX) Dec 05, 2006Two fish that share much in common genetically appear to have markedly different abilities to grow, a finding that could provide a new way to research such disparate areas as muscle wasting disease and fish farming, a new study shows. The study in the November issue of the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, finds that the giant danio, unlike ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Butterfly Farming to Help Save Rain Forest 
Warwick UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2006Researchers at the University of Warwick's plant research arm Warwick HRI have received a 295,000 pound Darwin initiative grant to develop a butterfly farming industry in Guyana that will help support 5000 people in 16 rainforest communities and help save the rainforest itself. The University of Warwick team will work with the Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation in G ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Marauding monkeys wreak havoc on Zanzibar isle 
Zanzibar, Tanzania (AFP) May 31, 2006 Thousands of rampaging monkeys are wreaking havoc on an island in Tanzania's Zanzibar archipelago where locals have appealed for help to exterminate the simians, officials said Wednesday. Increasingly brazen colobus monkeys are destroying farmers' crops, stealing food from inside houses and menacing young children on the islet of Tumbatu just north of Zanzibar's main island of Unguja in the ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Farmers And Animals Join Protest Against Bears In France 
Bagneres-De-Bigorre, France, (AFP) May 13, 2006 Accompanied by donkeys, cows and sheep, some 5,000 people marched in this southwestern French town Saturday in protest against the release of brown bears into the nearby Pyrenees mountains. Livestock farmers came from the surrounding Pyrenees region and Catalonia and Broto in Spain to take part in the peaceful protest, which was followed by flocks of sheep and tractors amid the sound of bells ... read more *New* Comments: 0 |
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