Using a combination of drones and machine learning techniques, researchers from The Ohio State University have recently developed a novel method for determining crop health and used it to create a new tool that may aid future ...
Agriculture
Jun 7, 2022
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After 12 years of research, a parasitic wasp that controls a highly destructive fruit fly will be released by Oregon State University agricultural scientists in June.
Ecology
Jun 7, 2022
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Indonesia is home to the world's third-largest tropical forest area and since 2009 has operated a forest-based climate action project developed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Environment
May 19, 2022
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Reducing tariffs on imported goods is meant to remove trade barriers, but it doesn't seem to be helping the seafood industry, which has experienced the same—if not more—import rejections and notifications at borders, ...
Economics & Business
Apr 6, 2022
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Researchers from the Department of Analytical Chemistry and the Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV) of the University of Valencia (UV) have developed a method for the detection in water of PFRs (organophosphate flame retardants), ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jun 9, 2021
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The agricultural industry relies heavily on chemical fungicides to protect crops. Many of these products have a detrimental effect on human and animal health. As a result, some of the most effective fungicides are considered ...
Biochemistry
Nov 16, 2020
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Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is one of the most destructive diseases of soybean, with losses of nearly 1.7 million metric tons in 2014. The disease is especially severe in the Midwest and North-Central regions, where conditions ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 2, 2020
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Overallocation of surface water for growing food crops is shifting agriculture and other industry to use groundwater—which is much more difficult to measure and monitor.
Earth Sciences
Aug 17, 2020
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Early one morning in Cairo, volunteers paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation but now faces multiple threats.
Environment
Mar 20, 2020
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Honey bee pollination contributes roughly $15 billion to the U.S. agricultural industry each year, but diseases like deformed wing virus (DWV) can devastate bee health.
Plants & Animals
Mar 3, 2020
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