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'Hundreds of thousands' of cattle feared dead after Australia floods
Feb 08, 2019 (AFP)
Incessant rains over an almost two-week period have flooded swathes of Queensland state, with the full scale of the devastation on drought-hit cattle stations b...
Prehistoric food globalization spanned three millennia
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
Now, an international team of scientists, led by Xinyi Liu of Washington University in St. Louis, has consolidated findings from hundreds of these studies to pl...
Gypsum as an agricultural product
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
"Gypsum is a good source of both calcium and sulfur, which crops need for good yields," says Dick. "We also found that it improves many other soil characteristi...
How landscape plants have an impact on the carbon footprint
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
Dewayne Ingram, Charles Hall, and Joshua Knight present the science underlying the determination of carbon footprint and the degree to which it is important in ...
Four crops alone comprise close to 50 per cent of all crops grown globally
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
The study, done by an international team of researchers led by U of T assistant professor Adam Martin, used data from the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organizat...
Drought-stricken Aussie farmers now battered by floods
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
Australia's military has been called in to drop fodder to cattle stranded by floodwaters in Queensland state to stop them from starving, Agriculture Minister Da...
Chinese hunger for 'world's smelliest fruit' threatens Malaysian forests
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
Grown across tropical Southeast Asia, the durian is hailed as the "king of fruits" by fans, who liken its creamy texture and intense aroma to blue cheese. But d...
Meat consumption is pushing 150 large animal species toward extinction
Feb 06, 2019 (UPI)
According to a new study published this week in the journal Conservation Letters, meat-eating is to blame for the shrinking populations of at least 200 large an...
Campaigners to Pope: $1m to charity if you go vegan for Lent
Feb 06, 2019 (AFP)
"Your Holiness, we must act," Genesis Butler, already a veteran activist when she gave her first TedX talk at the age of 10, said in an open letter supported by...
Insecticides blamed for honeybee deaths in California almond groves
Feb 05, 2019 (UPI)
Experiments showed a mixture of insecticide and fungicides, harmless in isolation, combined to form a deadly chemical cocktail. "Fungicides, often needed for cr...
Weather at key growth stages predicts Midwest corn yield and grain quality
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
The study, published in Agronomy, uses a newly developed algorithm to predict both end-of-season yield and grain composition - the proportion of starch, oil, an...
Cattle urine's planet-warming power can be curtailed with land restoration
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
For the study, researchers collected urine from cattle at research sites in five countries across Latin America and the Caribbean. They spilled these 500 mL sam...
Mites, not a virus, are the main threat to bees, study finds
Jan 30, 2019 (UPI)
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists in Australia argue mites pose the greater threat to honey bee health. The virus, ...
'Radical rethink' needed to tackle obesity, hunger, climate: report
Jan 28, 2019 (AFP)
But this will not happen unless ordinary citizens demand a "radical rethink" of the relationship between policymakers and business, nearly four dozen experts fr...
Plants can smell, now researchers know how
Jan 24, 2019 (SPX)
The discovery is the first to reveal the molecular basis of odor detection in plants and was more than 18 years in the making. "We started this project in 2000....
Farm manure boosts greenhouse gas emissions even in winter
Jan 23, 2019 (SPX)
That's a key takeaway from a new University of Vermont study that shows, for the first time, that the impacts of farmers' manure use decisions extend beyond the...
Scientists discover new 'architecture' in corn
Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)
"Our economy relies on ethanol, so it's fascinating that we haven't had a full and more precise understanding of the molecular structure of corn until now," sai...
Ecological benefits of part-night lighting revealed
Jan 22, 2019 (SPX)
A study, led by experts from Newcastle and York universities, has shown that turning off the lights even for just part of the night is effective at restoring th...
Police bust Australia-China baby formula crime ring
Jan 21, 2019 (AFP)
Four members of one family and two other men have been arrested and charged over the "organised criminal group" that New South Wales Police believe has operated...
Brazil agriculture minister defends pro-business stance on indigenous lands
Jan 18, 2019 (AFP)
Tereza Cristina da Costa told invited foreign journalists in Brasilia that she was "favorable" to opening up indigenous land to business interests, "but the law...
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