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Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
"Even though plants can, in many cases, benefit from increased levels of carbon dioxide that are predicted for the future atmosphere, the impact of severe droug...
Coated seeds may enable agriculture on marginal lands
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
A team of engineers has coated seeds with silk that has been treated with a kind of bacteria that naturally produce a nitrogen fertilizer, to help the germinati...
Forest farms could create market for ginseng, other herbs
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
"In this case, 'sustainability' doesn't refer just to conservation, although it very much applies to the preservation of these valuable forest medicinal plants ...
Amnesty says Brazil must combat illegal Amazon cattle ranching
Nov 26, 2019 (AFP)
The organization and a group of indigenous people from the Amazon delivered a petition that had gathered 160,000 signatures to Bolsonaro's offices. "Illegal cat...
Denmark seeking to reduce nitrogen emissions in farming
Nov 25, 2019 (AFP)
New rules targeting nitrogen aim "to guarantee a reduction of 3,500 tonnes in 2020," a year earlier than promised by the previous government, the environment an...
Researchers map food sustainability across the planet
Nov 25, 2019 (UPI)
To build the new map, published Monday in the journal Scientific Data, scientists surveyed the last 20 years of scientific literature on global food systems. Re...
Using controlled environment food production to solve food shortages
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
Before land and labor shortages prompted by the Industrial Revolution forced food production to move away from cities, agriculture was central to urban environm...
Monsanto pleads guilty to using banned pesticide on research crop
Nov 22, 2019 (AFP)
The company admitted in court documents filed in US District Court in Honolulu that it sprayed the pesticide known as Penncap-M on corn seed and other crops at ...
Japan grapples with serving Fukushima food at Olympics
Nov 20, 2019 (AFP)
It's a thorny subject for the authorities. They pitched the Games in part as a chance to showcase the recovery of areas affected by the 2011 tsunami and nuclear...
Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food security demands
Nov 15, 2019 (SPX)
The study, led by the University of Sheffield and published in the journal Nature, reveals the structure of cytochrome b6f - the protein complex that significan...
Mass pig slaughter stains SKorean river red; Indonesia buries 1000s of cholera-hit pigs
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
South Korea has culled around 380,000 pigs since the first case of the haemorrhagic disease -- which is not harmful to humans but is highly infectious in swine ...
Under-pressure West African dairy farmers swap ideas in France
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
They nurture scrawny cows on the edge of the Sahara, scratching a living in the shadow of jihadist threats and of crushing competition from European imports. Th...
Burger King eyes big bite of Europe market with 'veggie Whopper'
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
The vegetarian version of its prime "Whopper" hamburger is being added to the menu in 25 countries and 2,500 restaurants after testing in the United States and ...
Finding common ground for scientists and policymakers on soil carbon and climate change
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
The ambitious initiative has increased visibility, but also led to disagreements among scientists over how much carbon can realistically be stored in soil. In a...
Researchers find nature's backup plan for converting nitrogen into plant nutrients
Nov 12, 2019 (SPX)
Atmospheric nitrogen is not directly usable by most living things. In nature, specialized microbes in soils and bodies of water convert nitrogen into ammonia - ...
How to live off the land... in a major US city
Nov 08, 2019 (AFP)
Ride sharing is one of the many ways in which he tries to reduce his carbon footprint -- but the other is more extreme. For the past year, he hasn't spent a cen...
Australia launches billion dollar drought plan
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a package of low-cost loans worth around one billion Australian dollars (US$690 million), designed to help farmers strugg...
Scores of Indian farmers arrested over polluting fires
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
Each winter the post-harvest burning of crop stubble covers swaths of the region in toxic smog, which combines with car and factory emissions to turn Delhi into...
Brazil cancels ban on sugarcane farming in Amazon
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
The ban on the crop, which Brazil uses to make ethanol, had been put in place under a 2009 decree, which Bolsonaro and his economic and agriculture ministers ov...
Goat farmers at climate change frontline in Argentina's wine belt
Nov 06, 2019 (AFP)
From a third generation of goat breeders, 68-year-old Sazo has seen his herd decimated by drought in recent years. But he isn't giving up the ghost just yet. "I...
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