Soil quality key to increasing crop production and resilience to climate change
New research has found that high-quality cropland soils limit losses in response to warmer climates and support higher yields.
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 02, 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 01, 2022
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It is projected that by the year 2050, the global food supply will need to increase by 50-80% to keep up with the growing population. Researchers all over the world have been working to find ways to sustainably grow food ...
Molecular & Computational biology
May 27, 2022
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Rising competition for many of the world's important crops is sending increasing amounts toward uses other than directly feeding people. These competing uses include making biofuels; converting crops into processing ingredients, ...
Agriculture
May 13, 2022
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Modifying photosynthesis has increasingly been a research target to improve crop yields to feed a growing global population in the face of climate change and other environmental factors. In a recent study, published in the ...
Plants & Animals
May 10, 2022
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Chile, Argentina and the American West are in the midst of a decade-long, megadrought—the driest conditions those regions have seen in a century. And many areas in Western Canada and the United States are experiencing extreme ...
Environment
May 09, 2022
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Some vitally important European crops like vines and olives are being devastated by disease. Scientists are searching for biological replacements for chemical pesticides to improve crop and human health.
Biotechnology
May 02, 2022
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DNA is the blueprint of life. All the information that an organism needs to survive, reproduce, adapt to environments or survive a disease is in its DNA.
Ecology
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