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A better way to predict the environmental impacts of agricultural production
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
A team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Minnesota, in a partnership called the Natural Capital Project, along with researchers from...
New data unearths pesticide peril in beehives
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers used 120 pristine honeybee colonies that were placed near 30 apple orchards around New York state. After allowing the bees to forage for several day...
'Eating with the eyes' is hard-wired in the brain
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
"In vertebrate animals, feeding behavior is regulated by a brain area called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamic feeding center integrates information about bodi...
Sunflower seeds traced as source of toxic mold, potent liver carcinogen
Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)
In the current issue of PLoS ONE, the team of scientists documented frequent occurrence of aflatoxin - a toxin produced by Aspergillus molds that commonly infec...
Syngenta sales slip as ChemChina takeover looms
Apr 24, 2017 (AFP)
During the first three months of the year, Syngenta rang up sales worth $3.7 billion (3.4 billion euros) -- down one percent from the same period last year, it ...
World Bank, Amundi launch $2 bn green bond fund
Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)
In the wake of the Paris climate deal there is greater interest in finding new ways to direct financing towards environmental projects, such as renewable energy...
Cold snap threatens French vines
Apr 21, 2017 (AFP)
"It's really tricky because the frost hit when the grapes were just forming," FNSEA spokesman Jerome Despey told AFP, saying the fruit could wither on the vine....
Researchers quantify grasslands' carbon storage value
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
And the ability to measure the economic value of biodiversity for enhancing carbon storage could help in making decisions about land management, the paper publi...
Nearly two billion people depend on imported food
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
'Although this has been a topic of global discussion for a long time, previous research has not been able to demonstrate a clear connection between resource sca...
A better way to manage phosphorus?
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Runoff from agricultural sites can be an important source of phosphorus pollution. To help evaluate and reduce this risk, the USDA first proposed a phosphorus i...
Busy harvest time in China's bamboo forests
Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)
Lin'an is in an area of eastern Zhejiang province whose rich forests are estimated to supply up to two-thirds of China's bamboo shoots, plus a range of other pr...
Sat nav for bread wheat uncovers hidden genes
Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)
Now, harnessing advanced sequencing technology and computational approaches, scientists from the Earlham Institute, with colleagues at the John Innes Centre, ha...
Cover crops may be used to mitigate and adapt to climate change
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
Climate-change mitigation and adaptation may be additional, important ecosystem services provided by cover crops, said Jason Kaye, professor of soil biogeochemi...
Ag scientists using electronics to control plant growth
Apr 19, 2017 (SPX)
In the spring of 2015, researchers from the Laboratory of Organic Electronics at Linkoping University presented a microfabricated ion pump with the ability to p...
People's tribunal accuses Monsanto of possible 'ecocide'
Apr 18, 2017 (AFP)
Monsanto, which produces genetically-modified seeds as well as controversial pesticides, however said the event was "staged by a select group of anti-agricultur...
Termite gut holds a secret to breaking down plant biomass
Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)
According to a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, when poplar wood undergoes a short, 3.5-hour transit th...
Organic cover crop methods examined for weed control
Apr 17, 2017 (SPX)
University of Missouri soil scientist Kerry Clark and a team including researchers from the USDA Agricultural Research Service are working to get the best of bo...
Researchers find mushrooms may hold clues to effect of CO2 on lawns
Apr 17, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers focused on American lawns because they knew that grass can play a key role in the global carbon cycle because it pulls carbon out of the atmosph...
Can Prosecco help Italy unlock China wine market?
Apr 16, 2017 (AFP)
Yet Italy, the world's biggest wine producer, is lagging in the fight for sales in China, tipped to become the world's second biggest importer of wine by 2020. ...
Italy producers in Asia rice row
Apr 13, 2017 (AFP)
Italian farmers' association Coldiretti said imports of rice from Asia was driving the price of the home-grown staple into the ground, while lax labelling laws ...
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