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Trees and shrubs invading critical grasslands, diminish cattle production
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
Half of the Earth's land mass is made up of rangelands, which include grasslands and savannas, yet they are being transformed at an alarming rate. Woody plants,...
Activists urge EU to scrap science advisor job
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Nine major charities urged the European Commission on Tuesday to scrap a science advisor position it says puts too much power over sensitive policy into the han...
'Safer' pesticide could create toxic mercury: study
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
A compound in pesticides that replaced another banned for its harmful effects, may threaten humans and wildlife by reacting with mercury in natural water to for...
Make your mobile device live up to its true potential - as a data collection tool
Aug 19, 2014 (SPX)
Leaf measurements are often critical in plant physiological and ecological studies, but traditional methods have been time consuming and sometimes destructive t...
Japan to resume Fukushima rice exports
Aug 19, 2014 (AFP)
Japan is to restart exports of rice grown in Fukushima for the first time since foreign sales were halted due to fears of contamination by the nuclear disaster ...
Statistical model predicts performance of hybrid rice
Aug 18, 2014 (SPX)
Genomic prediction, a new field of quantitative genetics, is a statistical approach to predicting the value of an economically important trait in a plant, such ...
Shipwreck yields 200-year-old bottle of drinkable booze
Aug 18, 2014 (UPI)
Divers exploring a 200-year-old shipwreck -- the F53.31 shipwreck -- in the Baltic Sea's Gulf of Gdansk, off the coast of Poland, surfaced with a sealed stonewa...
Drought hits Central America's crops, cattle
Aug 07, 2014 (AFP)
The last raindrop fell three months ago, forcing Carlos Roman to take his cattle further and further away to find water and keep them alive in Nicaragua's north...
Ohio lawmakers hope fertilizer licensing helps curb algae growth
Aug 05, 2014 (UPI)
Only days after a toxic algae bloom in Lake Erie left some 400,000 residents of Northwest Ohio without safe tap water, policy makers and regulators are looking ...
China holds six from OSI unit in food scandal: company
Aug 05, 2014 (AFP)
Chinese police investigating an expired meat scandal have detained another official from a local unit of US food supplier OSI Group, bringing the total to six, ...
Dhaka's residents fight back over vanishing green spaces
Aug 04, 2014 (AFP)
When a private sports club in an upmarket Dhaka neighbourhood "grabbed" a children's park for development this year, it sparked a wave of enraged protests rarel...
Once Mexico's booze of 'drunks,' mezcal earns respect
Aug 02, 2014 (AFP)
Once derided as a drink for destitute drunkards, Mexico's smoky-flavored mezcal liquor has come out of the shadows to become a trendy booze in fashionable bars ...
Prehistoric dairy farming at the extremes
Aug 01, 2014 (SPX)
Finland's love of milk has been traced back to 2500 BC thanks to high-tech techniques to analyse residues preserved in fragments of ancient pots. The Finns are ...
Asia agribusiness giants tie up to boost China-Australia trade
Jul 31, 2014 (AFP)
Three of Asia's leading agribusinesses have joined iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest in what he described Thursday as an "unprecedented" 100-year partnership to p...
New hope for powdery mildew resistant barley
Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)
New research at the University of Adelaide has opened the way for the development of new lines of barley with resistance to powdery mildew. In Australia, annual...
McDonald's Japan unveils 'tofu nuggets' after China meat scandal
Jul 30, 2014 (AFP)
McDonald's restaurants in Japan are turning to time-honoured Asian soul food -- tofu -- as the chain scrambles to minimise the damage from an embarrassing taint...
Climate change and air pollution will combine to curb food supplies
Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)
Many studies have shown the potential for global climate change to cut food supplies. But these studies have, for the most part, ignored the interactions betwee...
Generating a Genome to Feed the World
Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of researchers led by the University of Arizona has sequenced the complete genome of African rice. The genetic information will enhance sc...
Climate experts estimate risk of rapid crop slowdown
Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)
The world faces a small but substantially increased risk over the next two decades of a major slowdown in the growth of global crop yields because of climate ch...
Why did the Peking Duck cross the country?
Jul 29, 2014 (AFP)
Where does Peking Duck come from? It is a trick question: the dish named for China's capital has its origins in Nanjing, hundreds of kilometres to the south. Th...
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