U.S. farmers are expected to plant a record 214, 300 acres of chickpeas this year, up 3% from last year and a fivefold increase over a decade ago, the USDA said.

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They will record plant species, forest structure, ash cover, soil properties, river sediment and the overall topography of the burned area.

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The plant's record in producing juice is good.

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Goldcorp said there was lower production in July and August as sulphide-plant modifications and tests were completed, then normal operating conditions occurred in September, leading to record weekly and month plant throughout in excess of 100, 000 tons of ore per day.

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Mr Howells said the plant had a strong track record of supplying lamb all over the world, and had expertise in producing "a top quality product".

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Built at our record-breaking Sunderland plant for British drivers using British roads, we're looking forward to it becoming our next home-grown success story.

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The Fukushima Daiichi plant has a black mark on its record from earlier in the last decade, when a scandal involving falsified safety records led to parent company Tepco briefly shutting down its entire nuclear fleet in Japan.

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Department of Environmental Protection to record botanists' knowledge of every wild plant in the state, and their judgments as to their ecological quality.

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We also explored several pressing environmental issues as record levels of radiation were found in fish near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant and we delved into the Gates of Hell -- a burning gas crater in Turkmenistan that has been ablaze for 41 years.

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