Nomads important to ecomonies, trade: Study
Nairobi, Feb 8: Nomadic herding is much more important to global trade and developing nations' economies than often thought and can be the best use of land in some of the poorest parts of the world, according to a study. From cashmere goat herders in China to cattle keepers in Ethiopia, pastoral communities are often the most effective users of dry lands, it said, compared with big ranches that worsened climate change by felling trees and clearing bushes. ''Pastoralism can be.....
Can fish farming save depleted cod?
LONDON, Feb 7: Cod, a mainstay food from Britain to Brazil, all but disappeared from Canadian waters in the 1990s after years of overfishing, and scientists say a similar fate awaits the shoals of the North Sea.
But fish farms are putting cod back in North Sea water, at least within enclosed sea pens, easing the strain on wild fisheries and, fish farmers say, protecting a species that would otherwise be fished into extinction.
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ENVIRONMENT-FISHFARMING-COD TWO LAST LONDON
TRULY SUSTAINABLE? For now, attracting more attention than production figures is Johnson's claim that it is raising the world's first organic, sustainable cod. One staunch opponent of the aquaculture industry is Bruce Sandison, chairman of the Salmon Farm Protest Group, based in Scotland. Barely pausing for breath, he reels off a list of problems: diseases have spread in crowded sea pens; farmed fish have escaped and damaged wild stocks; the farmed product is less healthful for consumers.
''The same thing is.....
For women, nothing's like the smell of men's sweat
WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) For women, apparently there's nothing like the smell of a man's sweat.
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley said women who sniffed a chemical found in male sweat experienced elevated levels of an important hormone, along with higher sexual arousal, faster heart rate and other effects.
They said the study, published this week in the Journal of Neuroscience, represents the first direct evidence that people secrete a scent that influences the hormones of the opposite.....
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