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Pesticides, poor nutrition deadly one-two combo for honey bees
Dec 20, 2017 (UPI)
For the first time, scientists quantified the effects of the one-two punch on bee mortality. They published their findings this week in the journal Proceedings ...
Heat patterns help bees pick which flowers to pollinate
Dec 19, 2017 (UPI)
When scientists at the University of Bristol analyzed the dispersion of heat across the petals of common garden flowers, like poppies and daisies, they found he...
How much soil goes get washed down the drain
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
Soil is an essential resource for satisfying human needs, such as food and feed production, fibre, clean air and water. Soil is not an infinite resource though....
Shining a light on plant growth and development
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
That's made possible by proteins called photoreceptors that absorb light and convert it into a signal that turns genes on or off. Until now, scientists haven't ...
Uncovering varied pathways to agriculture
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
The hunter-gatherers of the Natufian culture were spread over modern-day Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria around 14,500 - 11,500 years ago. They were some of t...
Archaeologist says fire, not corn, key to prehistoric survival in arid Southwest
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
But University of Cincinnati archaeology professor Alan Sullivan is challenging that long-standing idea, arguing instead that people routinely burned the unders...
Meadows beat out shrubs when it comes to storing carbon
Dec 12, 2017 (SPX)
One of the most popular approaches to carbon storage is protecting tropical rainforests. If a rainforest is cut down, the carbon stored in the trunks and leaves...
In food waste fight, Brits turn bread into beer
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Add water, hops and yeast, and out comes the unmistakable golden beverage popular the world over. "We're essentially substituting part of the malt for bread," s...
Soil researchers quantify an underappreciated factor in carbon release to the atmosphere
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
Further, current models used to predict the release of climate-active CO2 from soils fail to account for these microscopic, oxygen-free zones present in many up...
NASA, University of Maryland Join Forces on Food Security
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The Earth Observations for Food Security and Agriculture Consortium (EOFSAC) will combine the expertise of more than 40 partners to advance the use of Earth obs...
Drought-resistant plant genes could accelerate evolution of water-use efficient crops
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
Plants thrive in drylands by keeping their stomata, or pores, shut during the day to conserve water and open at night to collect carbon dioxide. This form of ph...
What makes soil, soil? Researchers find hidden clues in DNA
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and The University of Manchester, UK, are using DNA sequencing to unlock the secrets of the worl...
Light green plants save nitrogen without sacrificing photosynthetic efficiency
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
"Leaves up at the top of the canopy are really greedy--they absorb a lot of light and don't let much down to their brothers and sisters below them," said Berkle...
Perk up, Shanghai: Crowds throng world's biggest Starbucks
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
The opening of the sprawling, two-storey outlet in a busy central shopping district was thronged by hundreds of customers, some waiting more than an hour in lon...
Robotic device tracks plant growth at the cellular level
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Plant cell growth is limited by the mechanical properties of the surrounding cell wall. Cell walls in the growing parts of a plant are thought to be much more e...
Tokyo 2020 to feed IOC food from disaster-hit regions
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
"Restoration of the disaster-hit area is an important pillar of our Games," a spokeswoman for the Tokyo 2020 organising committee told AFP. "By offering food fr...
Genome of wheat ancestor sequenced
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Now, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has come a step closer to solving the puzzle by sequencing t...
Getting a better handle on methane emissions from livestock
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the livestock industry is the second-biggest methane emitter in the U.S. The gas comes from the microbial...
UN dishes up prickly pear cactus in answer to food security
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
"While most cacti are inedible, the Opuntia species has much to offer, especially if treated like a crop rather than a weed run wild," the FAO said in a stateme...
Istanbul anglers keep up tradition despite stocks alarm
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
Wearing a black woolly hat, Fuat is one of hundreds of amateur anglers passing their spare time on the Galata Bridge on the European side of Istanbul, trying to...
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