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Birds, Bats and Wind Industry Boondoggle

This past week and continuing across the Internet and mainstream media, the hazards to birds and bats at industrial wind farms are finally being recognized, questioned, studied and exposed.

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Wind Farms Must Think Of Birds And Bats

Wind farms get very popular since their work spares environment, but they can have bad impact on birds and bats. Ducks in Dakota, tanagers in Texas, grosbeaks in Mexico - all may be negativly affected by wind power.

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Practice of farming reaches back farther

Ancient people living in Panama were processing and eating domesticated species of plants like maize, manioc, and arrowroot at least as far back as 7,800 years ago - much earlier than previously thought - according to new research by a University of Calgary archaeologist.

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Genes behind animal growth discovered

An advance in genomics, the ID of growth genes in oysters has relevance for farming and aquaculture
How many genes influence a complex trait, like weight, height or body type?

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Kofi Annan says his next goal is improving Africa's agriculture

After 10 years as U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan has returned home to Ghana to cheering crowds and murmurs that he might run for president. But Annan told leaders in his homeland that he has a different focus in mind: farming.

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