• Safeguarding a global seed heritage from Syria to Svalbard ...

     · When the war broke out in Syria in March 2011, ICARDA had already safety duplied more than 100,000 accessions at Svalbard. Continuing their work during the warfare, the ICARDA genebank staff ...

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  • Cyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian power plant .

     · The divided Mediterranean island of Cyprus is braced for an approaching oil slick from a power plant in Syria that threatens a pristine coastal stretch of the breakaway north.. Environmental officials in Turkishoccupied northern Cyprus (TRNC) – internationally recognised only by Ankara – said that 20,000 tonnes of fuel oil had spilled from the Syrian plant.

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  • Cyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian ...

     · Cyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian power plant. Turkish Cypriot authorities have taken emergency action to stop an oil slick blamed on a faulty power plant in Syria from wreaking environmental havoc along some of the island's finest unspoilt coastline. Officials in the warpartitioned country's breakaway north erected ...

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  • The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the Israeli Air ...

     · The plant suffered material damage. The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems, since at the time of the Israeli attack, there were two civilian passenger aircraft in the zone of destruction of antiaircraft complexes. following .

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  • Oil spills from Syrian coastal power plants are expanding ...

     · The day before, the Syrian government said a maintenance team at the Baniyas thermal power plant had caused a fuel leak from one of the tanks under its control. Satellite images from Planet Labs Inc. on Wednesday showed what appeared to be a large 19km long oil spill from the Baniyas plant. No smooth signs were seen in the Monday image ...

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  • Wild Syrian Rue seeds, Peganum harmala, Esphand, 5 sizes

    Desert plant. Harmala (Peganum harmala) is a plant of the family Nitrariaceae, native from the eastern Mediterranean region near Syria east to India. It is also known as Wild Rue or Syrian Rue because of its resemblance to plants of the rue family, but it is really not a true rue, botanically.

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  • Wildlife of Syria

    Syria is loed in the Middle East at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west, Jordan to the south and Iraq to the east. The topography consists of a narrow coastal plain in the west which rises up to the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range which runs parallel with the coast. South of this is the Homs Gap, beyond which are Mount ...

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  • Dust Storm in Syria and Iraq

    Dust plumes blew through Syria and Iraq in early December 2011. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite captured this naturalcolor image on December 10, 2011.. The dust plumes arise from discrete points in Syria and northwestern Iraq, and blow toward the southeast.

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  • Syrian rue (Peganum Harmala), the "Ayahuasca" of North ...

     · Syrian rue (Peganum Harmala), the "Ayahuasca" of North Africa and Eurasia. Known as Syrian rue or wild rue in English, Peganum harmala is a powerful medicine plant that has a lot in common with the Amazonian shamanic vine ayahuasca. Wildly popular across Europe, Asia, and North Africa for thousands of years, Peganum harmala is a perennial ...

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  • Cyprus prepares for Mediterranean oil spill from Syrian ...

     · Turkish Cypriot authorities have taken emergency action to stop an oil slick blamed on a faulty power plant in Syria from wreaking environmental havoc along some of the island's finest unspoilt coastline.. Officials in the warpartitioned country's breakaway north erected what local media described as a 400 metre barrier off the Karpas peninsula to prevent the slick .

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  • Transfer of (40)K, (238)U, (210)Pb, and (210)Po from soil ...

    Author information: (1)Atomic Energy Commission of Syria, Damascus, Box 6091, Syria. scientific1 Transfer factors of (40)K, (238)U, (210)Pb, and (210)Po from soil to some agriculture crops in various loions in south of Syria (Dara'a and Assuwaydaa districts) have been determined.

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  • Wildlife of Syria

    Syria is loed in the Middle East at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is bordered by Turkey to the north, Lebanon and Israel to the west, Jordan to the south and Iraq to the east. The topography consists of a narrow coastal plain in the west which rises up to the Syrian Coastal Mountain Range which runs parallel with the coast. South of this is the Homs Gap, beyond .

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  • North Korea Built a Nuclear Reactor for Syria (And Israel ...

     · North Korea Built a Nuclear Reactor for Syria (And Israel Destroyed It) Under no circumstances should an enemy state be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. That is a fundamental doctrine of Israel ...

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  • The Russian Defense Ministry reported on the Israeli Air ...

     · The plant suffered material damage. The Syrian military leadership decided not to use air defense systems, since at the time of the Israeli attack, there were two civilian passenger aircraft in the zone of destruction of antiaircraft complexes. following the routes DubaiBeirut and BaghdadDamascus, "Kulit said.

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  • Shelling hits two natural gas plants in Syria's Homs

     · Feb 4, 2020. Shelling hit two natural gas plants in the Syrian city of Homs, one day after Turkey struck targets in northern Syria. Syrian state TV reported early on Tuesday that shelling hit a gas plant in the southcentral area of the city and the Ebla plant. Firefighters are still trying to put out a fire at the southcentral area gas plant ...

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  • Wild Syrian Rue seeds, Peganum harmala, Esphand, 5 sizes

    Desert plant. Harmala (Peganum harmala) is a plant of the family Nitrariaceae, native from the eastern Mediterranean region near Syria east to India. It is also known as Wild Rue or Syrian Rue because of its resemblance to plants of the rue family, but .

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  • Syria, in the south Isis has a new lethal and unknown ...

     · Syria, in the south Isis has a new lethal and unknown enemy: the Sand Hippos. In Syria there is a mysterious group, called the Sand Hippos, which attack both Isis and the Iranian militiamen at Homs and Deir Ezzor. The group is independent from the International Coalition and from the SDF, although sometimes they give them a hand.

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  • Lafarge loses ruling on ′crimes against humanity′ charges ...

     · The French cement company has been accused of paying millions of euros to militants, including the "Islamic State," to keep its plant in Syria running.

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  • Turkish Cyprus Geared Up For Mediterranean Oil Spill From ...

     · Environmental officials in Cyprus said that 20,000 tonnes of fuel oil were split from the Syrian plant. Cemaliye Özverel Ekinci, the head of the north's chamber of environmental engineers, told the local TAK news agency, "It is a complete disaster for the marine ecosystem. This problem is not just a problem that concerns Northern Cyprus.

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  • Syrian Rue seeds

    Syrian rue seeds are also used to make a textile dye called Turkish Red. In Iran, peganum harmala seeds have long been used for smudging as part of the incense they call "espaend". The plant and Syrian rue seeds have also been used medicinally and as a spice. In high doses, Syrian rue has been used to induce abortion.

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  • Putin's Line in the Sand: No Regime Change in Syria

     · Putin's Line in the Sand: No Regime Change in Syria. by Mike Whitney. "Obama administration officials, who have been negotiating with Turkey for months, said Thursday that they had reached an ...

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  • Sand art portrays suffering of Syrian refugees

    IDLIB, Syria. Using grains of sand, a Syrian artist depictures the suffering of the Syrians who had to take refuge in camps in Idlib province after being displaced from .

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  • Monbiot Still Burying his Head in Sands of Syria ...

     · The Syrian "nuclear plant", he noted, could not have been built using North Korean knowhow, as was claimed by the US. It lacked all the main features of a North Korean gascooled reactor. The photos produced by the Israelis showed a building that, among other things, covered too small an area and was not anywhere near high enough, it had none of the .

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  • Wildlife in Syria

    Below you can find a complete list of Syrian animals. We currently track 167 animals in Syria and are adding more every day! Syria is an ethnically and religiously diverse country that's situated between the eastern Mediterranean coast and the borders of thousands of years, the land fell under the sway of various empires, including Persia, the empire of Alexander, Rome, Byzantium ...

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