(Phys.org) —Earth watcher Proba-V is in good health following its launch last week. The Vegetation imager has been switched on and the first image has been captured over western France.

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

May 20, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org) —Hard-engineered sea walls have a limited life span. Could saltmarshes and mangroves offer a different approach to buffering against storm surges and coastal erosion?

Space & Earth - Environment

May 09, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 3

Agricultural Research Service researchers in Bushland, Texas, are helping farmers make the most of their water supplies in a region where they depend on the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive underground reservoir ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

New funding will help a Massey University researcher develop lighting technology that will assist crop growth.

Biology - Other

Apr 04, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Australia's summer heatwaves are lasting longer and have been increasing in number over the past 60 years, a UNSW study shows.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 02, 2013 4.2 / 5 (5) 0

For decades, farmers in Montana and the Dakotas have produced impressive yields of barley and wheat. But that bounty has come at a cost. Tilling the soil in the region's crop-fallow production systems has ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 29, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is giving guidance to growers in Montana and the Dakotas on how grazing sheep when fields are left fallow will affect soil quality.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 14, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Laboratory at the University of Illinois in collaboration with German scientists have been using bioinformatics techniques to probe the world of proteins for answers to questions ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Mar 11, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 3 |

Engineered to produce the bacterial toxin, Bt, "Bt corn" resists attack by corn rootworm, a pest that feeds on roots and can cause annual losses of up to $1 billion. But besides merely protecting against these losses, the ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 06, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Understanding what happens to a soybean root hair system infected by symbiotic, nitrogen-fixing soil bacteria, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, could go a long way toward using this symbiosis to redesign ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

Spores from Asian soybean rust (Phakopsora pachyrhizi) pose a serious threat to soybean production in the United States because they can be blown great distances by the wind. University of Illinois researchers have develo ...

Biology - Ecology

Dec 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org)—Scientists have discovered 100 million-year-old regions in the DNA of several plant species which could hold secrets about how specific genes are turned 'on' or 'off'.

Biology - Biotechnology

Dec 05, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

The authors of this paper propose a framework for a European-wide network for systematic GMO impact assessment. This network aims at improving the regulatory system by enhancing and harmonizing the environmental ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 17, 2012 not rated yet 0

Inserting rows of "fertilizer trees" into maize fields, known as agroforestry, can help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa cope with the impacts of drought and degraded soils, according to a 12-year-long study by researchers ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Oct 15, 2012 not rated yet 1

An article recently pub­lished in the journal Food and Chem­ical Tox­i­cology shows the results of a two-​​year study on the health effects of a corn species pro­duced by the agri­cul­tural giant ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Oct 03, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0