Developing countries around the globe face a challenge that pits economic growth against environmental protection. As they expand their agricultural production, they often convert forest into cropland and pasture. But the ...
Agriculture
Oct 10, 2022
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Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers account for 2.1% of global greenhouse gas emissions, new research shows.
Environment
Sep 21, 2022
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You don't need a Ph.D. in agriculture to know that water is critical to crop production. But for years, people like Jonathan Proctor, who has a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California ...
Agriculture
Sep 19, 2022
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Innovative experiments using temperature-controlled field plots have helped to explain the link between early winter temperatures and yield in some of our most marketable arable crops.
Ecology
Sep 19, 2022
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Ethanol can help plants survive in times of drought says a new study conducted at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan. Led by Motoaki Seki, researchers show that adding ethanol to soil allows plants, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 25, 2022
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Plowing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2022
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New research has found that high-quality cropland soils limit losses in response to warmer climates and support higher yields.
Ecology
Jun 23, 2022
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A new Imperial analysis has found that biogas and biomethane, while more climate friendly, leak more than twice as much methane as previously thought.
Environment
Jun 17, 2022
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Warm, wet weather conditions and changing climate negatively influence the nectar intake and nutritional health of honey bees, but maintaining large tracts of grassy natural habitat with flowering plants around apiaries may ...
Ecology
Jun 2, 2022
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Usually, increasing agricultural productivity depends on adding something, such as fertilizer or water. A new Stanford University-led study reveals that removing one thing in particular—a common air pollutant—could lead ...
Ecology
Jun 1, 2022
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