A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with one colleague from Spain and another from the U.S., has found evidence that suggests ants can be used as a natural pesticide for a wide variety ...
Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions is critical to avoiding a climate disaster, but current carbon removal methods are proving to be inadequate and costly. Now researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, ...
Environment
Apr 12, 2023
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Although about 20% of Illinois cropping systems are planted to continuous corn, it's nearly impossible to find fields planted this way for decades at a time. Yet long-term experiments like one at the University of Illinois, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 6, 2022
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Plants have the same variation in body clocks as that found in humans, according to new research that explores the genes governing circadian rhythms in plants.
Plants & Animals
Dec 19, 2020
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Invasive species introduced by human activity are costing African agriculture some $3.66 trillion every year—around 1.5 times the combined gross domestic product of all African countries—new research showed Thursday.
Ecology
May 20, 2021
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Earthworms could have the potential to replace some high-cost mineral/synthetic fertilizers, new research suggests.
Agriculture
Mar 1, 2022
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Potassium deficiency in agricultural soils is a largely unrecognized but potentially significant threat to global food security if left unaddressed, finds new research involving researchers at UCL, University of Edinburgh ...
Ecology
Feb 19, 2024
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An international team of scientists has released the updated and improved estimations of Potential Evapotranspiration and an Aridity Index for the entire world based upon a fully parameterized geospatial implementation of ...
Environment
Jul 26, 2022
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Nicknamed the "billion-dollar beetle" for its enormous economic costs to growers in the United States each year, the western corn rootworm is one of the most devastating pests farmers face.
Environment
Jul 20, 2020
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Grass may transfer genes from their neighbors in the same way genetically modified crops are made, a new study has revealed.
Evolution
Oct 5, 2023
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