When people use freshwater beyond a physically sustainable rate, it sets off a cascade of impacts on ecosystems, people and the planet. These impacts include groundwater wells running dry, fish populations becoming stranded ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 3, 2022
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In the Midwest, climate change has battered states with flooding, drought and erosion. Extreme weather events have made for unpredictable crop yields.
Agriculture
Nov 2, 2022
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Digger bees lose large amounts of water during flight, which compromises their activity period and survival in the desert heat. Researchers from Arizona State University will present their work this week at the American Physiological ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 31, 2022
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As climate change accelerates, many countries around the world are increasingly facing the risk of drought. Water scarcity has become one of the major constraints of food production in the 21st century, and a major threat ...
Ecology
Oct 25, 2022
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Months without rain have left farmers across the vast US Midwest, part of the country's essential "breadbasket," seeing crop yields in freefall, with some fields too damaged to harvest.
Agriculture
Oct 23, 2022
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The international community must prepare for "climate change refugees"—displaced either within their home countries or across borders—experts from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy argue in a new report.
Environment
Oct 20, 2022
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You don't need a Ph.D. in agriculture to know that water is critical to crop production. But for years, people like Jonathan Proctor, who has a Ph.D. in Agriculture and Resource Economics from the University of California ...
Agriculture
Sep 19, 2022
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The shortages of water resources and unsustainable water resource management are more prominent in arid and semi-arid areas. The mismatch between water supply schemes and the characteristics of root water uptake leads to ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2022
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Ethanol can help plants survive in times of drought says a new study conducted at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science in Japan. Led by Motoaki Seki, researchers show that adding ethanol to soil allows plants, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 25, 2022
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Winter grazing is part of what is called an integrated crop-livestock system. It is a process where livestock, such as cattle or goats, are allowed to graze a crop field during the winter. It is more common in climates with ...
Agriculture
Aug 16, 2022
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