Agriculture consumes more than 70 percent of the world's annual water usage. With small farms producing nearly 80 percent of food for the developing world, ensuring the quality and safety of our water supply is critical. ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 5, 2018
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Add just enough fertilizer, and crops thrive. Add too much, and you may end up with contaminated surface and groundwater.
Environment
Jul 25, 2018
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When the warmer weather strikes, our gardens and outdoor spaces become a perfect oasis for rest and relaxation. But as nice as the hot weather might be, extreme conditions and record-breaking temperatures can wreak havoc ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 4, 2018
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A team of Japanese scientists led by Masahiro Kayama of Tohoku University's Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, has discovered a mineral known as moganite in a lunar meteorite found in a hot desert ...
Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2018
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We must reduce the environmental and health risks of pesticides. However, rather than banning them completely, Robert Finger advocates an intelligent approach to crop protection.
Ecology
Jun 12, 2018
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Beavers could help clean up polluted rivers and stem the loss of valuable soils from farms, new research shows.
Environment
May 9, 2018
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During the longest drought in California's modern history, a pair of UO researchers headed into the woods of the Sierra Nevada to investigate how forest composition affects water supply and what changes may come as climate ...
Environment
May 8, 2018
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A new experiment designed to detect amino acids on Mars, in spite of the reactive perchlorate in the Martian soil that typically breaks organic compounds down, could fly on a future mission to Mars to help in the search for ...
Space Exploration
May 4, 2018
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The amount of sulphate, nutrients and aluminium have decreased in the water present in Europe's forest soils, due to reductions in sulphur emissions to the atmosphere.
Environment
May 3, 2018
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Globally, remaining tropical forests are being rapidly cleared, particularly in countries like the Solomon Islands where commercial logging accounts for about 18 percent of government revenue, and at least 60 percent of exports ...
Environment
Apr 16, 2018
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