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Grow, mow, mulch: Finding lawn's value
Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)
Cranking up the lawn mower on a Saturday afternoon may be a child's most dreaded chore. But little does he or she know that it also affects how much carbon and ...
Persistent tropical foraging in the New Guinea highlands
Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)
The development of agriculture is frequently seen as one of the major economic, social, and demographic thresholds in human history. From the perspective of the...
Syngenta says profits down as ChemChina takeover looms
Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)
Swiss pesticide and seed giant Syngenta said Wednesday that restructuring costs hit 2016 earnings, even as its planned takeover by ChemChina looks set to be com...
Miracle crop: Can quinoa help feed the world?
Feb 08, 2017 (AFP)
Scientists on Wednesday unveiled the near-complete genome of quinoa, a grain cultivated centuries ago by Incas in the Andes that scientists say could help feed ...
Students brew beer using 5,000-year-old recipe from China
Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)
Many college students -- if desperate enough, or late enough -- aren't above settling for skunked beer, a can that sat out in the sun for too long, for example....
Spain's Balearic Islands hit by deadly olive tree bacteria
Feb 03, 2017 (AFP)
A deadly bacteria that infected thousands of olive trees in Italy has been detected in Spain's Balearic Islands where authorities are racing to contain it, a re...
Italy's military 'narcos' cook up cannabis cures
Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)
It's every stoner's nightmare: marijuana plants as far as the eye can see and not a spliff in sight. "No, I have never tried it, and I don't have any intention ...
Pigs and chocolate: Using math to solve problems in farming
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Improving cocoa yields for the chocolate industry, estimating the quality of meat in pigs and refining the design of a hydroponics system, were three farming ch...
Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research
Jan 27, 2017 (AFP)
A diet of corn is turning wild hamsters in northeastern France into deranged cannibals that devour their offspring, alarmed researchers have reported. "There's ...
Nanoparticle fertilizer could contribute to new 'green revolution'
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
The "Green Revolution" of the '60s and '70s has been credited with helping to feed billions around the world, with fertilizers being one of the key drivers spur...
Crop achilles' heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists assumed leaves at the top of a plant would be the best at turning higher levels of light into carbohydrates - through the process of photosynthesis -...
How do people choose what plants to use
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
There are about 400,000 species of plants in the world. Humans use approximately 10-15% of them to cover our basic needs, such as food, medicine and shelter, as...
Intense industrial fishing
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
China, the world's largest seafood producer, has done something extraordinary. For the past 20 years, despite minimal management and some of the most intense in...
Harvests in the US to suffer from climate change
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Some of the most important crops risk substantial damage from rising temperatures. To better assess how climate change caused by human greenhouse gas emissions ...
Wheat virus crosses over, harms native grasses
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
Once upon a time, it was thought that crop diseases affected only crops. New research shows, however, that a common wheat virus can spread and harm perennial na...
Common crop chemical leaves bees susceptible to deadly viruses
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
A chemical that is thought to be safe and is, therefore, widely used on crops - such as almonds, wine grapes and tree fruits - to boost the performance of pesti...
Pressures from grazers hastens ecosystem collapse from drought
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Extreme droughts, intensified by a warming climate, are increasingly causing ecosystem collapse in many regions worldwide. But models used by scientists to pred...
Can the 'greening' be greener?
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
The EU introduced the new "greening" instrument into the Common Agricultural Policy in 2015, with the intention to slow the rapid loss of biodiversity in agricu...
Grasslands hold potential for increased food production
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
About 40% of natural grasslands worldwide have potential to support increased livestock grazing, according to a new study published in the journal Global Change...
Tiny plants with huge potential
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Wolffia globosa, a tiny, rootless duckweed, or water lens, apparently has what it takes to achieve great things. Researchers at the University of Jena (Germany)...
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