When it comes to global climate change, livestock grazing can be either a blessing or a curse, according to a new study, which offers clues on how to tell the difference.
Earth Sciences
Mar 15, 2024
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New research from Michigan State University shows how evaluating historical crop yields across distinct areas of agricultural fields can provide farmers with essential information on soil health characteristics and carbon ...
Ecology
Jan 25, 2024
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Flowering for some plants is a yearly occurrence; for others, it is a once-in-a-lifetime event. A widespread species of bamboo in Japan, Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis, takes this one-time flowering event and pushes it ...
Ecology
Sep 1, 2023
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The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years, and the rate of erosion, even following the U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidelines, is still 25 times ...
Agriculture
May 25, 2023
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With a view toward predicting the consequences of human-made climate change for Mediterranean ecosystems, Earth scientists from Heidelberg University have studied natural climate and vegetation fluctuations of the past 500,000 ...
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2023
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On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the rise, experts are asking: How will we feed everyone? Climate change, natural resource depletion, soil erosion, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 12, 2023
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Over the last decade, researchers have sounded the alarm on soil erosion being the biggest threat to global food security. As world governments moved to implement soil conservation practices, a new debate began: does agricultural ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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In the study of human impact on the environment, there are few negative or stabilizing feedbacks on climate change.
Earth Sciences
Feb 2, 2023
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In a discovery that has repercussions for everything from domestic agricultural policy to global food security and the plans to mitigate climate change, researchers at the University of Massachusetts recently announced that ...
Ecology
Dec 7, 2022
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Plowing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study published in Nature Food finds.
Ecology
Jul 5, 2022
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