According to a recent report on GMOs in South Africa, 86 percent of corn planted is GM as well as 90 percent of soybeans. These crops are said to have benefited the country by $933 million since 1998.
News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS Saudi Arabia has ordered 500 new bulk railcars from Freight Car America Inc. Each bulk car can carry 100 MT and has an estimated useful life of 30 years. They will be used to transport cereals, cement, limestone and rock. The total cost for the purchase will be $67 million with delivery over the next 12 months.Egypt's GASC has not confirmed the report that it has cancelled 60,000 MT of wheat booked from Romania due to a problem with the documents presented. It is also reported i...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
