Exposing seedlings to ethylene in darkness increases size and vigor, in a finding with implications for agriculture. Farmers have worked to increase crop yields for millennia, and the quest remains urgent as the human population ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 19, 2023
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Arable soils are a valuable resource for our food and biodiversity—and are at risk from drought, storms and heavy rainfall. To help farmers better protect their fields from erosion, the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape ...
Agriculture
Jul 19, 2023
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With less than 5% of native vegetation remaining on private properties and roadsides on the Yorke Peninsula of South Australia, University of South Australia researchers are calling for dramatic changes to land management ...
Ecology
Jul 18, 2023
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An invasion of apple snail could be "disastrous" for rice production and food security in Kenya as well as other rice growing regions across Africa, according to a new CABI-led study published in the journal Pest Management ...
Ecology
Jul 17, 2023
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Guardian dogs do a great job of protecting Australian livestock from predators.
Veterinary medicine
Jul 7, 2023
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On Australia's desert plains in the west, Old Man Saltbush (Atriplex nummularia), a salt-loving, native shrub, thrives and is often the only vegetation in sight.
Plants & Animals
Jul 5, 2023
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Tom Curran, Teagasc Head of Advisory Services, has called on farmers to emphasize health and safety when consulting with advisors. He made his call at the Teagasc Moorepark Dairy Open Day, where the importance of farm health ...
Agriculture
Jul 5, 2023
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It's 3 am and pitch black when rice farmer Tran Thi Lan heads into water-logged fields on the outskirts of Hanoi to begin planting, desperate to finish before the day's brutal heat arrives.
Environment
Jul 3, 2023
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The specialization in sheep farming in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion of these communities and the spread of agriculture throughout the central and western ...
Archaeology
Jun 27, 2023
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With a cacophony of honks sounding like a hailstorm, tens of thousands of hungry geese blanket a lush green field in Finland with their black flocks.
Ecology
Jun 17, 2023
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