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EU countries back looser rules for gene-edited crops
Mar 14, 2025 (AFP)
Representatives for the bloc's 27 nations endorsed, with a few changes, a European Commission proposal aiming at allowing broader use of plants obtained by so-c...
On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brink
Mar 13, 2025 (AFP)
The vast country is one of the most affected by climate change, by some counts warming three times faster than the global average. The link between rising tempe...
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Mar 11, 2025 (SPX)
"It's all about finding new ways to make satellite data easier to access and use for as many people as possible," said Forrest Melton, OpenET project scientist ...
China says to slap fresh tariffs on Canadian farm, food products
Mar 08, 2025 (AFP)
Beijing's commerce ministry said it would hit imported rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and peas from Canada with a 100 percent tariff. Aquatic products and pork will f...
Peru farmer confident ahead of German court battle with energy giant
Mar 06, 2025 (AFP)
Saul Luciano Lliuya, 44, argues that electricity producer RWE, as one of the world's top emitters of climate-altering carbon dioxide, must share in the cost of ...
China says to impose fresh tariffs on US agricultural imports
Mar 04, 2025 (AFP)
"Additional 15 percent tariffs will be imposed on chicken, wheat, corn and cotton," Beijing's finance ministry said in a statement. And "additional 10 percent t...
Plan B: Pakistan beekeepers widen pursuit of flowers
Mar 04, 2025 (AFP)
Together they will travel 500 kilometres (around 300 miles) in an increasingly desperate chase to find flowering plants, clean air and moderate temperatures for...
Vietnam drags feet over 'urgent' pollution problem
Mar 01, 2025 (AFP)
In the last three months the Vietnamese capital has regularly topped a list of the world's most polluted major cities, leaving its nine million residents strugg...
Cognac on the rocks: industry seeks French govt help from Chinese tariffs
Feb 21, 2025 (AFP)
Since October 11, European exports of brandy to China have been hit with duties after the EU imposed tariffs of up to 35.3 percent on Chinese electric vehicles ...
EU eyes stricter food import rules in agriculture policy review
Feb 19, 2025 (AFP)
The European Commission unveiled a new blueprint for a sector that despite gobbling up a third of the bloc's budget has long resented Brussels' liberal approach...
Bordeaux wine harvest drops to lowest level since 1991
Feb 14, 2025 (AFP)
Often called the world's most famous wine country, Bordeaux -- France's biggest wine region -- produces the iconic Medoc, Saint-Emilion, and Pomerol high-end wi...
Pesticides causing widespread harm to animals and plants: study
Feb 13, 2025 (AFP)
Species loss has reached a level not seen since an asteroid smashed into earth and wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, with scientists warning that hu...
Scientists warn of climate threat to chocolate
Feb 12, 2025 (AFP)
Farmers in the region -- which account for some 70 percent of global cacao production -- have struggled with heat, disease and unusual rainfall in recent years,...
Hong Kong scientists fight to save fragrant incense trees
Feb 07, 2025 (AFP)
A stone's throw from the city's urban centre are forests home to trees that produce fragrant -- and valuable -- agarwood, used in a number of high-end products ...
Drying and rewetting cycles amplify soil CO2 emissions
Feb 06, 2025 (SPX)
A research team led by Dr. Hirohiko Nagano and Ms. Yuri Suzuki from Niigata University, in collaboration with scientists from Kyushu University and the Japan At...
Study examines how African farmers are adapting to mountain climate change
Feb 04, 2025 (SPX)
"Mountains are the sentinels of climate change," said Julia Klein, a Colorado State University professor of ecosystem science and sustainability and co-author o...
French cognac exports to China slump as tariffs bite; Scottish whisky makers fear return of Trump tariffs
Feb 04, 2025 (AFP)
Brussels angered the Chinese government last year by imposing tariffs of up to 35.3 percent on Chinese electric vehicles over unfair competition claims. In resp...
Ancient agricultural strategies unveiled as pre-industrial societies adapted to climate shifts
Feb 03, 2025 (SPX)
This research provides valuable insights into historical farming practices and suggests potential applications for modern agriculture. As contemporary societies...
Revolutionary Irrigation System Unearthed in Amazon Linked to Neolithic Revolution
Jan 30, 2025 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature, details how the Casarabe people of Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos, who inhabited the area between 500 and 1400 A.D., engineered an in...
Bamboo farm gets chopping for US zoo's hungry new pandas
Jan 24, 2025 (AFP)
The team, bundled up for the cold, then stuffed up to 700 bamboo stalks into a pickup truck to be driven 70 miles (110 kilometres) to the Smithsonian's National...
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