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NASA grant aids geography professor's climate research on dryland regions

Sep 09, 2021 (SPX)

Continued climate change could have a negative impact on food and water availability and global livestock production in dryland regions. MacBean, an assistant p...

Donkey milk soap soaking up fans in Jordan

Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)

Atan Donkey Milk Soaps produces 100 percent natural soaps from its farm in Madaba, 35 kilometres (21 miles) southwest of Amman, where it keeps 12 donkeys, and a...

California winemakers take wildfire-fighting into their own hands

Sep 05, 2021 (AFP)

A historic drought driven by man-made global warming has left large tracts of the western United States parched and highly vulnerable to fires. That includes th...

Two atypical cases of mad cow disease detected in Brazil

Sep 04, 2021 (AFP)

That temporary step was taken under an existing bilateral protocol between the two countries although the ministry stressed that there was "no risk to human or ...

Floating Dutch cow farm aims to curb climate impact

Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)

In the low-lying Netherlands where land is scarce and climate change is a daily threat, the three-storey glass and steel platform aims to show the "future of br...

Uphill battle: Spain's wine growers adapt to climate change

Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)

Now their Torre del Veguer winery also has vineyards at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains -- at an altitude of nearly 1,200 metres (3,900 feet) -- where temper...

Improving food security through capacity building

Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt food systems and supply chains on a global scale, but the heart of the problem - and the solutions to it - are far mo...

Climate change and its environmental impacts on crop growth

Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)

NASA, along with partner agencies and organizations, monitors all of these environmental changes happening today. In addition, NASA uses advanced computer model...

Tunisia plants seeds of hope against climate change

Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)

Traditional seeds come from a genetic heritage best suited to the environment, said Maher Medini, from Tunisia's National Gene Bank, which promotes the developm...

The first farmers of Europe

Sep 01, 2021 (SPX)

Remains of under-water sites are a stroke of luck for pre-historic archeology. The wooden piles from which their foundations were built have been preserved exce...

WTO panel to examine China compliance with grain import tariff ruling

Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)

The decision by the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) to establish an expert panel to determine whether China complied with a 2019 ruling marks the latest twi...

UN issues urgent appeal to help drought-hit Afghan farmers

Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)

Covid-19 has further squeezed agricultural workers in the country, which is now controlled by the Taliban after they toppled the US-backed government this month...

Ancient vicuna wool shearing tradition lives on in Peruvian Andes

Aug 28, 2021 (AFP)

One week each year, the peasants of Totoroma, a village 50 kilometers (30 kilometers) to the southwest of Lake Titicaca, join forces for a process of herding an...

Smell emitted by ladybugs may provide alternative to harmful pesticides

Aug 25, 2021 (UPI)

Herbivorous insects present a major threat to plants and crops but the predator insects that feed on these bugs emit odors that pests can sense, the researchers...

Antibiotic use in medicine, agriculture led to increasing resistance in animals

Aug 25, 2021 (UPI)

However, there was a downward trend in antibiotic resistance following the implementation of national policies designed to limit use of the medications, the res...

New imaging, machine-learning methods speed effort to reduce crops' need for water

Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)

The findings are described in a series of four research papers led by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign graduate students Jiayang (Kevin) Xie and Parthiba...

First 3D-bioprinted structured Wagyu beef-like meat unveiled

Aug 25, 2021 (SPX)

Wagyu can be literally translated into "Japanese cow," and is famous around the globe for its high content of intramuscular fat, known as marbling or sashi. Thi...

How satellite maps help prevent another 'great grain robbery'

Aug 23, 2021 (SPX)

"Usually we have a beautiful, green landscape right now," said Dr. Jon Meyer, a research climatologist with the Utah Climate Center. "It's one of my favorite ti...

Some plant-based burgers smell more like real beef than others, study shows

Aug 23, 2021 (UPI)

However, like all meatless options, their odor differed significantly from their beef counterparts, the data showed. "The problem with plant-based burgers is th...

NASA watches water to help grow our groceries

Aug 20, 2021 (SPX)

Mason supervises fertilizer and irrigation for the farm's 5,000 acres along California's Central Coast, which is nicknamed "America's Salad Bowl" and is one of ...