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Global food system faces multiple threats from climate change
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Climate change is likely to have far-reaching impacts on food security throughout the world, especially for the poor and those living in tropical regions, accor...
First fossil peaches discovered in southwest China
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
The sweet, juicy peaches we love today might have been a popular snack long before modern humans arrived on the scene. Scientists have found eight well-preserve...
Pamela Anderson visits Kremlin to lobby for animal protection
Dec 07, 2015 (AFP)
Actress Pamela Anderson on Monday urged Russia to step up the fight to protect rare animals as she met President Vladimir Putin's powerful chief of staff at the...
Chemicals that make plants defend themselves could replace pesticides
Dec 07, 2015 (SPX)
Chemical triggers that make plants defend themselves against insects could replace pesticides, causing less damage to the environment. New research published in...
Peru's unpaid agrarian bonds: My family's quest
Dec 06, 2015 (UPI)
Tashta Ocharutunan, in the department of Ancash, about 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Lima, is the name of my family's expropriated farm. It had belonged t...
High concentration of CO2 protects sorghum against drought
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
The rising atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), chief among the greenhouse gases fueling global warming and climate change, is beneficial for the ...
Herbicide drift affects adjacent fields, delays flowering
Dec 03, 2015 (UPI)
In field tests, researchers at Pennsylvania State University found a class of herbicides called dicamba regularly drift onto plants in neighboring fields, affec...
Red clover genome to help restore sustainable farming
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in collaboration with IBERS, has sequenced and assembled the DNA of red clover to help breeders improve the beneficial traits ...
Central America tests drought-resistant 'miracle' beans
Dec 01, 2015 (AFP)
"These beans are miraculous because they beat droughts," crowed Manuel Ceren, a farmer in El Salvador trying out a hybrid, climate change-defying crop produced ...
Study suggests bees aren't the be all and end all for crop pollination
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
Farmers who used pesticides that spared bees but sacrificed killed other insects might be ignoring important sources of crop pollination, according to an Austra...
French chefs cook up a storm for climate
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
France pulled out its culinary big guns Monday for one of the greatest kitchen challenges ever: cooking lunch for the largest one-day gathering of world leaders...
To save the earth, better nitrogen use on a hungrier planet must be addressed
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
The global population is expected to increase by two to three billion people by 2050, a projection raising serious concerns about sustainable development, biodi...
Climate change threatens Tunisia olive farming
Nov 30, 2015 (AFP)
Tunisia's 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate cha...
Italy farmers call for Christmas blacklist of planet-polluting food
Nov 29, 2015 (AFP)
Italy's farmers on Sunday called for Alaskan salmon, Californian nuts and Peruvian asparagus to be banished from the nation's Christmas tables to support effort...
Trade may not help a warming planet fight its farming failures
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Warming temperatures will take a heavy toll on agricultural productivity, according to climate scientists. How will society adjust? One possibility might be inc...
South American origins and spread of the Irish potato famine pathogen
Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)
Using some ancient DNA detective work, a new study led by University of California Berkeley postdoctoral researcher Mike D. Martin and University of Copenhagen ...
World's biggest clone factory raises fears in China
Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)
The world's largest animal cloning factory is under construction in China, with plans to churn out dogs, horses and up to a million beef cattle a year, reports ...
Going native - for the soil
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Prairie gardens offer Midwestern suburban dwellers an alternative option to the traditional grass lawn. Their combination of native grasses, like tall and wispy...
High yield crops a step closer in light of photosynthesis discovery
Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)
Crops with improved yields could more easily become a reality, thanks to a development by scientists. Researchers studying a biological process that enables tin...
Australia blocks sale of huge cattle estate to foreigners
Nov 19, 2015 (AFP)
Australia on Thursday blocked the sale of one of the world's largest cattle estates to foreign entities, ruling it was not in the national interest with part of...
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