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Former pesticide factory goes under the dome

An inflatable cover the size of three football fields 
is designed to keep odour under wraps

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A Chinese company in the eastern city of Hangzhou, China has constructed a massive inflatable dome over the site of a closed-down pesticide factory, state media reported May 14. While it covers an area the size of roughly three football fields, the 20,000-square-metre polyester dome still covers less than half the contaminated zone, according to
Keeling curve graph showing rising CO2 levels.
Weather

CO2 levels highest in over three million years

Temperatures may keep rising for decades after this level is hopefully stabilized

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Atmospheric CO2 (carbon dioxide) levels on top of Hawaii’s Mauna Loa hit a record high of 401 parts per million earlier this month, and as we are still a month or so away from peak CO2 levels, this record will likely be broken. Just what does this mean? Let’s start off be looking at the
Man sitting on a leather couch.
News

Global warming turned anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas into a promoter

Environmentalist and author spoke at CropConnect

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Mark Lynas, the British author who made headlines a year ago by reversing his opposition to genetically modified crops says it was the compelling science on climate change that made him do it. “You can’t take a position saying, ‘I am defending climate change on the basis of the scientific consensus, but I’m opposing GMOs
Tractor in a field.
Crops

U.S. to launch ‘climate hubs’ to help farmers face climate change

Climate hubs will act as information centres to help farmers handle risks

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President Barack Obama’s administration is setting up seven “climate hubs” to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said. The hubs will act as information centres and aim to help farmers and ranchers handle risks, including fires, pests, floods and droughts, that
Crops

Drought forces California farmers to idle cropland

The price of California farm goods, including fresh fruits and vegetables is likely to rise

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Drought-stricken California farmers facing drastic cutbacks in irrigation water are expected to idle some 500,000 acres (200,000 hectares) of cropland this year in a record production loss that could cause billions of dollars in economic damage, industry officials said. Large-scale crop losses in California, the No. 1 U.S. farm state producing half the nation’s fruits
Dennis Stephens, secretary of the International Grain Trade Coalition, says grain trading is at risk so long as importers don’t have a policy allowing a low-level presence of unapproved GM crop traits.  photo: allan dawson
Crops, Oilseeds

Canada leads efforts to convince importers to dump zero tolerance

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Canada is leading efforts to get an international agreement that would see countries accept small amounts of unapproved genetically modified (GM) crops in their imports, says Dennis Stephens. And the Oakbank-based secretary of the International Grain Trade Coalition credits Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz for leading the charge. Ritz, along with Canada’s flax industry, experienced first
Crops

After Washington GMO label battle, both sides eye national fight

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Both sides of the costly and high-stakes GMO labelling battle in Washington state say they see an even bigger national fight ahead despite the apparent defeat of the mandatory labelling measure by Washington state voters this week. The measure died 47.05 per cent to 52.95 per cent, according to results updated Nov. 7 night by
George Siamandas is the Winnipeg filmmaker and photographer who is writing the script for a four-part documentary on Canadian Prairie agriculture inspired by last year’s bicentennial celebrations of the Selkirk settlers’ arrival and establishment of the Red River settlement in 1812.  
Country Crossroads, Local news

Prairie farming coming to a (TV) screen near you

The four-part documentary was inspired by last summer’s bicentenary of the Red River settlement

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Work is well underway on a four-part documentary on the story of agriculture in Manitoba and the Canadian Prairies. The film, inspired by last year’s 200th anniversary of the arrival of the Selkirk settlers, will follow the story of farming on the Prairies from the first sowing of a bushel and a half of wheat
two men in a storm-damage crop
News

Weather damage hints at new normal under climate change

After western Manitoba has been battered by storm 
after storm, residents say they’re convinced

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Kendon Campbell was only half a mile from home when the storm hit his Reston-area farm, but he and wife Shirley were stranded as torrents of water flooded their road and drowned four of their cows. It was the third flash flood the Campbells have experienced this year. “I’ve lived here my whole life, and
Oilseeds, Opinion

One tool for a complex problem

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History is full of examples of heated, ideological and rhetorical public debates that somehow miss the point. The controversy over genetically modified crops is such a case. The debate has generally fallen into two camps — the “Frankenfood” phenomenon, the question of whether we should be meddling with nature’s processes for genetic evolution and “feeding

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