A new screening tool developed at the University of British Columbia is giving seafood companies the ability to pinpoint the highest risks of forced labour in their supply chain.
Ecology
Jul 26, 2018
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Drop that yogurt. Instead, try this one with less sugar, fat and fewer unpronounceable additives.
Software
Jun 28, 2018
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Can you imagine the entire population of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom and France going hungry?
Biotechnology
Jun 26, 2018
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Today's agricultural feed cultivation for cattle, pigs and chicken comes with tremendous impacts for the environment and climate, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss and nitrogen pollution. ...
Environment
Jun 20, 2018
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Freeways choked with traffic, supermarkets laden with fertilizer-grown stock from distance fields and virtually everything we touch derived from petroleum-based plastics. It's hard to imagine life beyond our fossil-fueled ...
Environment
May 25, 2018
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Your local supermarket and favourite restaurant could soon be growing their own food, thanks to an EU-funded project that has completely redesigned the food supply chain to develop the concept of in-store farming.
Environment
May 23, 2018
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Companies are facing potential shortages of raw materials, a fall in crop quality and challenges around security of supply because of an emerging pollination deficit, a new report funded by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative ...
Ecology
Apr 17, 2018
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7
Researchers at Tufts University have created a genetically modified yeast that can more efficiently consume a novel nutrient, xylose, enabling the yeast to grow faster and to higher cell densities, raising the prospect of ...
Biotechnology
Mar 26, 2018
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Juvenile fish must immediately learn to catch prey and to escape enemies. Additionally, at this stage of their lives, they are highly sensitive to environmental factors such as temperature, oxygen and the pH of the water. ...
Ecology
Mar 20, 2018
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38
A simple genetic modification can triple the grain number of sorghum, a drought-tolerant plant that is an important source of food, animal feed, and biofuel in many parts of the world. In new research reported today in Nature ...
Biotechnology
Feb 26, 2018
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