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Modern farming: Coronavirus outbreak spurs high-tech greenhouse boom in China

13/06/2021 CEN_net 0

At Chongming Island just outside Shanghai, China’s most populous city, at a new commercial glass greenhouse harvested their first batch of produce at the site in May. The facility is one of dozens sprouting up on the outskirts of China’s megacities that utilise high-end technology to manage irrigation, temperature and lighting systems to grow vegetables within easy reach of a large and affluent consumer base. By far the world’s largest […]

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DNA tracks mysterious Denisovans to Chinese cave, just before modern humans arrived nearby

12/06/2021 CEN_net 0

In a 2020 scientific paper in Science, archaeologist Dongju Zhang’s research team, of Lanzhou University, reported the first discovery of Denisovan ancient DNA found outside the Denisova Cave.** Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) was gleaned not from fossils, but from the cave sediments themselves. Precise dates show the Denisovans took shelter in the cave 100,000 years and 60,000 years ago, and possibly as recently as 45,000 years ago, when modern humans were […]

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Marxism and the Origins of the Ecological Critique

08/06/2021 CEN_net 0

John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2020) shows the role played by biologists and other scientists with a non-mechanistic, materialist outlook, alongside various Marxists, in laying the foundations of ecology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. John Bellamy Foster’s book The Return of Nature picks up where the author left off 20 years ago in Marx’s Ecology, which, as the title indicates, addresses the […]

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WHO asks for re-checks of Italian research on possible new Covid-19 virus origin

04/06/2021 CEN_net 0

Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research as saying on Tuesday. While COVID-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, a […]

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Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”

01/06/2021 CEN_net 0

Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to a study by Sino-American scientists. published last year. The study, published last year, found that even patients with mild-to-no symptoms could spread the virus. In the light of the latest American “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy disinformation, it is worth re-reading. “The researchers used multiple sources to infer […]

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Did US have 4.7 million Covid-19 cases by December 2019?

29/05/2021 CEN_net 0

US owes the world an explanation on Fort Detrick lab secrets A full independent investigation into the massive US Fort Detrick bio-weapons program and its role in spreading Covid-19 world wide is urgently needed. Is the latest US “intelligence” claim that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan yet another smoke-screen to divert attention from secret US biological warfare operations ? Watch Nathan Rich’s video here: See also: Comments […]

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China remains world’s largest manufacturing country – as PC makers “green” computers

29/05/2021 CEN_net 0

China has maintained its position as the world’s largest manufacturing country for the 11th consecutive year with the industrial added value reaching 31.3 trillion yuan ($4.84 trillion), according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Monday. Meanwhile, top computer vendors including Acer and Lenovo are adopting sustainable strategies, with laptops made of recycled and environmentally-friendly materials and efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. It’s the latest trend in the […]

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Did US have 4.7 million Covid-19 cases by December 2019?

28/05/2021 CEN_net 0

US owes the world an explanation on Fort Detrick lab secrets A full independent investigation into the massive US Fort Detrick bio-weapons program and its role in spreading Covid-19 world wide is urgently needed. Is the latest US “intelligence” claim that the virus came from a laboratory in Wuhan yet another smoke-screen to divert attention from secret US biological warfare operations ? Watch Nathan Rich’s video here: See also: Comments […]