Kathmandu, May 1 A young couple from India's Punjab state was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a forest in northern Nepal, giving rise to initial fears that they could have entered into a suicide pact. They had told the hotel staff they would return the next day but when they failed to come back or contact the hotel, the authorities informed police Sunday. According to police reports, an empty pesticide bottle lay nearby along with a note that said no one was responsible for...

The tubers, engineered by BASF Plant Science, have been made resistant to late potato blight, a disease caused by a fungus-like organism called Phytophthora infestans. They will test the effectiveness of the potato s resistance against UK strains of the disease. This was achieved by introducing a gene from a wild potato into a commercial one. UK: Gene-modified potatoes get trial go-ahead The UK government has approved the growing of genetically modified potatoes in two field trials. The...

What does it mean for the likelihood of a BCW outbreak in key corn growing states like Iowa and Illinois this spring? "We can say when they arrived and whether they were earlier or later than last year, but outside of those relative comparisons, it's a crapshoot to know if there will be significant damage," says Kevin Steffey, Extension entomologist at the University of Illinois. With very cold temperatures in the Midwest finally relenting, black cutworm moth flights are increasing,...

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The defendants, who have been on trial since March 2006, were charged with planning to use homemade fertilizer bombs on targets including London nightclubs, trains, and the gas and power network. Some of the suspects had close links with two of the four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005, a fact that news organizations were barred by court order from reporting until today's verdicts. The trial was the first involving what prosecutors and police described as a...

Ospreys, the only raptors that dive fully into the water for fish, were nearly wiped out in New England by our postwar use of the pesticide DDT. What are they? We were on the top deck, pulling away from Martha s Vineyard, and he was doling out cold hot dogs to his kids while gesturing with his elbow toward a light at the end of the jetty. There, standing guard at the harbor s mouth, were two nearly eagle-sized birds, their stunning black masks and 6-foot wingspans drawing appreciative...