Salt beef, sea biscuits and the occasional weevil; the food endured by sailors during the Napoleonic wars is seldom imagined to be appealing. Now a new chemical analysis technique has allowed archaeologists to find out just ...
Archaeology
Mar 23, 2012
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Research by an Indiana University environmental scientist and colleagues at universities in Iowa and Washington finds that potentially harmful growth-promoting hormones used in beef production are expected to persist in the ...
Environment
May 8, 2015
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A fuller picture is emerging of the environmental footprint of beef in the United States.
Environment
Mar 12, 2019
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A team of researchers at the University of Zurich has found that domestication of cows has led to reduction in cow brain size. In their paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes comparing ...
Assessing the risk posed to aquatic organisms by the discharge of certain steroids and pharmaceutical products into waterways is often based on a belief that as the compounds degrade, the ecological risks naturally decline.
Environment
Sep 26, 2013
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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 said, prompting online and scientific concerns Tuesday.
Biotechnology
Nov 24, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Beef produced in feedlots has a smaller carbon footprint than meat raised exclusively on pastures, according to the surprise results of a new study.
Environment
Feb 3, 2010
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As two important greenhouse gases, about 20% and 62% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions originate from the soil, especially agricultural and forest soils. Therefore, it is necessary to explore ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2022
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According to a new study co-authored by a Tulane University researcher and published in the journal Nature Food, making simple substitutions like switching from beef to chicken or drinking plant-based milk instead of cow's ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2023
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Gradually replacing 20 percent of global beef and lamb consumption with meat-textured proteins grown in stainless steel vats could cut agriculture-related CO2 emissions and deforestation in half by 2050, researchers reported ...
Environment
May 7, 2022
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