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Common crop pesticides kill honeybee larvae in the hive
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Four pesticides commonly used on crops to kill insects and fungi also kill honeybee larvae within their hives, according to Penn State and University of Florida...
Controversial scientist claims pesticide toxicity 'proof'
Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)
A controversial French biologist, whose 2012 paper on the alleged dangers of pesticides was withdrawn, has published new claims that the chemicals were many tim...
Chinese outdrink French in red wine: study
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
China has become the world's biggest consumer of red wine, outdrinking the wine-loving French for the first time in 2013, according to a study published this we...
BIOCOMES: new biological control products for farmers and foresters
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
The new EU project BIOCOMES offers farmers and foresters the prospect of having at least eleven new biological control products at their disposal. The biologica...
Fertilizer nutrient imbalance to limit food production in Africa
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
Underuse of phosphorus-based fertilizers in Africa currently contributes to a growing yield gap-the difference between how much crops could produce in ideal cir...
Dutch find horse in 690 tonnes of abattoir meat
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
The Dutch health watchdog said Wednesday it had halted distribution of 690 tonnes of meat from an abattoir after a probe found traces of horse in products marke...
Chicken off menu as Hong Kong culls 20,000 birds in H7N9 scare
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong culled around 20,000 chickens on Tuesday after finding the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus in poultry imported from mainland China, days before the Lunar N...
Plant scientists unravel a molecular switch to stimulate leaf growth
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
Mechanisms that determine the size of plants have fascinated plant scientists of all times, however they are far from understood. An international research team...
Hong Kong to cull 20,000 chickens after H7N9 found
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong will cull approximately 20,000 chickens after discovering the H7N9 avian influenza virus in a batch of poultry imported from mainland China, authoriti...
Lal Teer and BGI jointly announce the complete sequence of water buffalo
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
China-Lal Teer Livestock Limited, an associate of LalTeer Seed, and BGI, have jointly announced that they have completed the genome sequencing of water buffalo ...
Halting crop destruction in India saves up to $309 million
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Virginia Tech researchers who first discovered a devastating pest in India and devised a natural way to combat it have now put an economic value on their counte...
British scientists bid for trial of GM fish oil plants
Jan 24, 2014 (AFP)
British scientists said Friday they have applied to the government for permission to carry out a field trial of genetically-modified plants that can produce fis...
Pathogenic plant virus jumps to honeybees
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
A viral pathogen that typically infects plants has been found in honeybees and could help explain their decline. Researchers working in the U.S. and Beijing, Ch...
No-till soybean fields give (even some rare) birds a foothold in Illinois
Jan 24, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers report in a new study that several bird species - some of them relatively rare - are making extensive use of soybean fields in Illinois. The team fo...
Acidification, predators pose double threat to oysters
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
The once-booming, now struggling Olympia oyster native to the West Coast could face a double threat from ocean acidification and invasive predators, according t...
Receptors that help plants manage environmental change, pests and wounds
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
ATP (adenosine triphosphate) is the main energy source inside a cell and is considered to be the high energy molecule that drives all life processes in animals ...
Soil production breaks geologic speed record
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Geologic time is shorthand for slow-paced. But new measurements from steep mountaintops in New Zealand show that rock can transform into soil more than twice as...
Soil Microbes Alter DNA in Response to Warming
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
As scientists forecast the impacts of climate change, one missing piece of the puzzle is what will happen to the carbon in the soil and the microbes that contro...
Meltwater from Tibetan glaciers floods pastures
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
The earth is warming up, the glaciers are shrinking. However, not all meltwater is causing sea-level rise as feared. In Tibet, as measurements taken by an inter...
Exposure to pesticides results in smaller worker bees
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Exposure to a widely used pesticide causes worker bumblebees to grow less and then hatch out at a smaller size, according to a new study by Royal Holloway Unive...
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