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Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
When a team of researchers looked at more than 20 years of recent land use changes for Europe and combined that with a climate model to provide information on t...
Kenya bans controversial donkey slaughter trade
Feb 27, 2020 (AFP)
Agriculture Minister Peter Munya told AFP that the ban, imposed earlier this week, came after "people petitioned my office to ban the slaughtering of donkeys be...
Arctic 'doomsday vault' stocks up on 60,000 more food seeds
Feb 25, 2020 (AFP)
Mounting concern over climate change and species loss is driving groups worldwide to add their seeds to the collection inside a mountain near Longyearbyen on Sp...
China considers 'complete ban' on wildlife trade
Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)
The official Xinhua news agency said the proposal was submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC). "It aims to completely ban th...
Chinese restaurants starved for cash as virus hits industry
Feb 23, 2020 (AFP)
Restaurants are taking a huge hit as many people across the country of 1.4 billion have been either under some form of quarantine or are reluctant to venture ou...
Struggling Morocco oasis risks becoming mirage
Feb 21, 2020 (AFP)
"I grew up in this oasis and I have seen it shrink," says 53-year-old Mohamed El Houkari, who lives in Skoura, a rural oasis area of around 40 square kilometres...
New artificial intelligence algorithm better predicts corn yield
Feb 21, 2020 (SPX)
"We're trying to change how people run agronomic research. Instead of establishing a small field plot, running statistics, and publishing the means, what we're ...
Sweden creates $1 mn prizes for sustainable food solutions
Feb 20, 2020 (AFP)
"We need a food system revolution or risk destabilising our planet. The new Food Planet Prize is designed to contribute to this goal," Johan Rockstrom, director...
China craving for Senegal peanuts rattles local business
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
Peanuts are an important export in the West African state of Senegal, with the area around the central city of Kaolack a hive of production. Groundnuts are a "p...
Uganda army fights voracious desert locusts
Feb 19, 2020 (AFP)
From the tops of shea trees, fields of pea plants and tall grass savanna, the insects rise in a hypnotic murmuration, disappearing quickly to wreak devastation ...
Veggie-loving monkeyface prickleback may be future sustainable protein
Feb 19, 2020 (UPI)
There are more than 30,000 fish species living on planet Earth, but just 5 percent of them are known to eat only plants. One of the few vegetarian species is th...
Drought slashes Australian crop output to record low
Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)
The country's agriculture department said it expects production of crops like sorghum, cotton and rice to fall 66 percent -- the lowest levels since records beg...
Locust swarms arrive in South Sudan, threatening more misery
Feb 18, 2020 (AFP)
Billions of desert locusts, some in swarms the size of Moscow, have already chomped their way through Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sud...
US peach farmer wins $265 mln damages over Bayer, BASF herbicide
Feb 17, 2020 (AFP)
Jurors in federal court in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, made the ruling on Saturday after peach farmer Bill Bader claimed the companies encouraged farmers to use t...
Climate change to create farmland in the north, but at environmental costs, study reveals
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
In a warming world, Canada's north may become our breadbasket of the future - but this new "farming frontier" also poses environmental threats from increased ca...
Trans-Eurasian crop exchange began 3,000 years earlier than thought
Feb 14, 2020 (UPI)
A cave excavation by Chinese scientists in the eastern Altai Mountains -- which border China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Russia -- yielded cereal grains radiocarb...
Survey: Most Americans say diet affects global warming 'a little'
Feb 13, 2020 (UPI)
The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Earth Day Network released the survey data in a report titled "Climate Change and the American Diet." "...
Bat for sale at Indonesia's wildlife market despite virus warning
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
Vendors at the Tomohon Extreme Meat market on Sulawesi island say business is booming and curious tourists keep arriving to check out exotic fare that enrages a...
Silica can help crops survive drought
Feb 12, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists at the University of Bayreuth and the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research in Germany have found a way to boost water availability for ...
Hunger stalks southern Africa as climate crisis deepens
Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)
The torrential rain came from Cyclone Idai, one of the worst storms ever to hit Africa and the fiercest on record to strike Buhera, a district in the usually ar...
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