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Afghan opium producers hit hard by drought in 2018
Nov 19, 2018 (AFP)
In sharp contrast to a bumper 2017, the value of opium -- a key source of funding for the Taliban -- as it left poppy-growing farms fell 56 percent to $604 mill...
US paves way to get 'lab meat' on plates
Nov 17, 2018 (AFP)
The Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration agreed to share regulation of cell-cultured food products, they said in a joint statement, fo...
Activists board ship off Spain in palm oil protest: Greenpeace
Nov 17, 2018 (AFP)
The activists, from countries including Indonesia, the scene of mass deforestation for palm oil plantations, were held by the captain of the ship after they boa...
Soil's history: A solution to soluble phosphorus?
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Much will be applied to soils that also received phosphorus fertilizers in past years. According to a new study, much of that could be unnecessary. "Previous ap...
Greenpeace Poland files legal complaint against minister over pesticide use
Nov 15, 2018 (AFP)
Greenpeace has filed a complaint with the prosecutor general's office alleging that minister Jan Ardanowski "violated" procedures by twice allowing the use of t...
The dawn of a new era for genebanks
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
An international research consortium led by the of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK Gatersleben) and supported by the iDiv r...
Scientists debunk potential link to crop cold tolerance
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
A new study from the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology refutes this theory but found these crops are far from reaching their ...
'Scaring' soybeans into defensive mode yields better plants a generation later
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
This epigenetic reprogramming of soybean plants, the culmination of a decade-long study, was accomplished not by introducing any new genes but by changing how e...
Wolves at the door, Alpine shepherd can't imagine any other life
Nov 14, 2018 (AFP)
"The fears of last year came back," says Gaetan Meme, after his third season of transhumance, the timeless tradition of guiding livestock up into the rich alpin...
Fruit, vegetable shapes controlled by newly discovered genetic mechanism
Nov 12, 2018 (UPI)
Scientists at the University of Georgia have discovered a new genetic mechanism that controls the shape of fruits and vegetables. Researchers at Georgia previou...
Tommorow's population will be larger, heavier and eat more
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
According to WWF, the world's greatest environmental problem is the destruction of wildlife and plant habitat. A large part of the devastation is due to the dem...
New tool to predict which plants will become invasive
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
New research from the University of Vermont provides insight to help predict which plants are likely to become invasive in a particular community. The results s...
In China's Himalayas, a wine 'flying above the clouds'
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
A stone's throw away from Tibet, Ao Yun's vineyards are located beneath the sacred Meili mountain at altitudes ranging up from 2,200 metres (7,218 feet) in the ...
'Potato gene' reveals how ancient Andeans adapted to starchy diet
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
Science Advances published the findings. DNA analyses show that ancient populations of the Peruvian highlands adapted to the introduction of agriculture and an ...
Exposure to pesticides makes bees less social, reduces colony size
Nov 09, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers published those findings in the journal Science. A team of researchers, led by Harvard University's James Crall, used a robotic bench that allowed t...
US votes good for farm animals, not wild salmon
Nov 07, 2018 (AFP)
States across the US consult the public on all manner of issues at election time -- from drug decriminalization to gun control and the death penalty -- and west...
Turning marginal farmlands into a win for farmers and ecosystems
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
In a project that's been underway since 2011, researchers at Argonne National Laboratory have been studying how shrub willow and switchgrass in sandier, easily ...
A real vintage: China unearths 2,000-year-old wine
Nov 06, 2018 (AFP)
About 3.5 litres (118 ounces) of the yellow liquid, which officials said smelled strongly of Chinese wine when they poured it out, was discovered in a bronze po...
Heineken seals $3 bn deal with China's top brewer
Nov 05, 2018 (AFP)
Under the deal the Dutch brewer said it will take a 40 percent stake in the holding company that controls China Resources Beer, merge its current operations in ...
One-third of threatened plant species unfit for seed bank
Nov 05, 2018 (UPI)
If scientists can't freeze the seeds, they can't bank the seeds, they said, which could lead to the extinction of some important plant varieties. The study -- c...
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