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Uganda: The Monsanto Menace
2014-01-06 09:44:29| Chemicals - Topix.net
In the early years, the St. Louis biotech giant helped pioneer such leading chemicals as DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange.
Colorado floodwaters menace state's $41 billion agriculture sector
2013-09-20 12:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Colorado farmers and ranchers are bracing for widespread damage to the agriculture industry, one of the state's leading economic engines, from deadly floodwaters that already have caused property losses estimated at nearly $2 billion. The main concern is for the state's No. 1 cash crop, corn, which yields between 140 million and 180 million bushels annually, most of it for cattle feed, according to the growers' trade association, Colorado Corn. Cornfields along the flooded South Platte River...
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Boxelder: Fast-Growing Menace
2013-08-07 23:49:00| Transmission & Distribution World
DuPont Crop Protection Boxelder (Acer negundo), also known as ashleaf maple, is native to the central and eastern United States. Commonly found in bottomlands and stream corridors, it has adapted to drier areas and a wide range of soil pH levels. Boxelder grows quickly and is a prolific producer of winged seeds that are carried through the air or consumed and spread by wildlife, making it very invasive. Mechanical control is not effective for long, since boxelder tends to resprout after cutting, which makes control difficult along utility rights of way. read more
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Colorado wildfire destroys more than 500 homes, new blazes menace West
2013-06-19 02:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighborhoods, and other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the West. Authorities said the so-called Black Forest Fire, which has burned in the rolling hills outside Colorado Springs for the past week and killed at least two people, was 85 percent contained by Tuesday. The most destructive fire in Colorado's history has charred...
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An all-out effort to slow a green menace
2013-02-17 04:12:11| IT Services - Topix.net
Mitch Richmond, who played at K-State in the late '80s and then in the NBA, is one of 12 finalists for induction this year into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Forget how chilly you’ve been, and warm up with us as we visit workers whose jobs are so sweaty they don’t have to wait until spring to feel the heat.
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