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A tsunami devastated apartment building in Ishinomaki, March 9, 2012.

Plant-derived products are proving to be an effective way of dealing with the ever increasing demand for more food, feed and raw materials, and to this end many scientists believe that more knowledge about plant phenotyping is essential. Step up a new EU-funded project that aims to investigate this emerging science that links genomics with plant ecophysiology and agronomy.

Global production of wheat this year will be the second highest on record at 690 million tons, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizations (FAO) announced today.

As result of the February tornado, Individual Assistance Preliminary Damage Assessments are being conducted door to door in storm affected areas of Saline County by local, state, and federal teams as represented here by Harrisburg Fire Chief Bill Summers, Kate Mackz, State Emergency Management Agency Representative, and Larry Duke, FEMA Individual Assistance Specialist.This Assessment is required before FEMA can recommend issuance of a Presidential Disaster Declaration.

In the event of a major US earthquake, gasoline resupply may be dependent on petroleum barges like this one.

The construction of one of the hydroelectric dam at Poubara‏, which the government is financing. It is one of many dams under construction to meet the energy demands of anticipated investment companies.

Domestic coal fires in so-called "informal dwellings" are one of the major contributors to high rates of air pollution and respiratory disease in and around the city of Johannesburg. But this situation may change, thanks to a new fire-building method invented by a South African grandmother.

The world has met the MDG target of halving the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water.

Authorities in the midwestern U.S. state of Indiana say they have found a baby girl alive in a field near her home, following Friday's massive tornadoes there.