SEED DAILY - Agriculture And Farming News

WOOD PILE Massive amounts of Saharan dust fertilize the Amazon rainforest

The Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest seem to inhabit separate worlds. The former is a vast expanse of sand and scrub stretching across the northern third of Africa, while the latter is a dense green mass of humid jungle covering northeast South America.... more

INTERNDAILY Environmentally friendly chemistry important for manufacturing pharmaceuticals

Limiting the quantity of catalysts - substances that trigger a chemical reaction - used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals is important, and research from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, has now demonstrated that small quantities of copper work well i... more

CLIMATE SCIENCE Farmers and scientists divided over climate change

Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows. Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795... more

BIO FUEL Pattern Celebrates First Anniversary of St. Joseph Wind

Pattern Energy Group LP (Pattern) has announced that its St. Joseph Wind project - the largest wind farm in Manitoba - has reached its first full year of operation. The 138 megawatt (MW) wind power project, located in the southern Manitoba community of St. Jos... more

ENERGY TECH Impossible breakthrough brings fusion energy device closer to realization

"The key thing was developing a piece of software that allows you to rapidly try out new design methods" said Elizabeth Paul, a Princeton University Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) ... more

WOOD PILE Reading the smoke signals

Laser-based measurements permit detailed analyses of the amounts of carbon dioxide released by the burning of tropical peatlands - and the data show that the answers depend on how many previous fires have raged in the same spot. In the autumn of 2015, dense cl... more

DISASTER MANAGEMENT NASA, Pacific Disaster Center increase landslide hazard awareness

Landslides cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damage every year. Developing countries often bear disproportionate losses due to lack of access to hazard early warning systems and other resources for effective risk reduction and recovery. Repo... more

ROCKET SCIENCE NASA, SpaceX present united front on human spaceflight

"This is a big deal for our country," Bridenstine said, standing next to Musk at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. "We can't get it wrong. In fact, we have to get it right." The joint appearance of NASA's top executive and the leader in commercial space... more