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...Last November, the Songhua River (in the northeast of the country) absorbed 100 metric tons of toxic benzene after an explosion at a chemical plant. The extent of the danger was made public only after household taps for 9 million people in the city of Harbin had been shut off, and just days before the slick crossed the border into Russia. The botched response led to the dismissal of China's top environmental official and to renewed calls for transparency and stricter enforcement of environmental standards. But little has changed. Recently Pan Yue, deputy director of China's State Environmental...
...Underpinning the changing diets in emerging markets is a redefined agricultural landscape. Farmers are increasingly taking advantage of improved seed and plant varieties, as well as fertilizers and pesticides. In the 25 years prior to 2001, the total worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn...
...contaminated spinach was ultimately traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC’s San Juan Bautista plant. The company, which packages spinach under 34 different brand names, has reported a 70 percent drop in sales of bagged salads since the FDA initiated its spinach ban, and they have cancelled earlier plans to buy a second processing plant...
While federal testers found traces of the deadly E. coli strain in cow manure near a California spinach farm earlier this month, it is still unclear how the bacterium made its way into the processing plant...
...hand out grants; he's investing in promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative fuels, and teaming up with Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson to build ethanol refineries. Instead of corn, their "cellulosic" ethanol will come from non-edible plant matter like grasses, algae, wood chips and rice hulls. Biofuels, an area Khosla is betting heavily on, is expected to be a $52 billion market by 2015, up from $15 billion today. In another project, Khosla and former President Bill Clinton are working to raise over $1 billion dollars...