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Decellularized spinach serves as an edible platform for laboratory-grown meat

Apr 01, 2021 (SPX)

Stripped of all but its veiny skeleton, the circulatory network of a spinach leaf successfully served as an edible substrate upon which the researchers grew bov...

Europe's heat and drought crop losses tripled in 50 years: study

Apr 01, 2021 (AFP)

Research published recently in the journal Environmental Research Letters, looked at agricultural production in 28 European countries -- the current European Un...

Canada rejects outright ban on bee-killing pesticides

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

Health Canada had proposed in 2018 prohibiting the use of clothianidin and thiamethoxam, two of three neonicotinoid pesticides widely applied to crops in this c...

Ixorigue: the solution for livestock management integrating Galileo and Copernicus

Mar 30, 2021 (SPX)

A solution for extensive livestock in high mountains Ixorigue is the result of an innovative project, jointly funded by the Government of Aragon (Spain) and Eur...

A third of global farmland at 'high' pesticide pollution risk

Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)

The use of pesticides has soared globally as agricultural production has expanded, prompting growing fears over environmental damage and calls to cut hazardous ...

Study: Meat, dairy companies lack strategy to fully address emissions

Mar 29, 2021 (UPI)

The four were Dairy Farmers of America in the United States, Nestle in Switzerland, Danish Crown in Denmark and Danone in France. Still, even those four commitm...

Beef-addicted Uruguay aiming to make farming greener

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

There are four cows for each person in Uruguay, the South American country of 3.4 million people where agriculture accounts for 75 percent of greenhouse gas emi...

Rodent rampage: Mouse plague sweeps Australia's east

Mar 19, 2021 (AFP)

Farmers in New South Wales have reported "a drastic increase" in the mouse population, with the creatures invading grain silos, barns and homes, according to th...

Insect diversity boosts longterm stability of crop pollination services

Mar 17, 2021 (UPI)

In a first-of-its-kind study, published Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, scientists measured insect diversity and pollination rates,...

Seaweed could reduce levels of methane cows belch into the atmosphere

Mar 17, 2021 (UPI)

According to a new study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, the addition of scant amounts of seaweed to the diet of beef cattle reduced methane emiss...

NOAA spring report says drought conditions will improve, thanks to recent floods, heavy snow

Mar 16, 2021 (UPI)

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration projects in its Spring Outlook that the most intense drought conditions across most of the United States wil...

Danone sacks chairman after investor onslaught

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

Activist investors took aim at Emmanuel Faber, who became Danone's boss in 2017, and his management team, demanding his departure and a revamp at the top as the...

Raccoons to snakes: Shanghai animal cafes expand to exotics

Mar 12, 2021 (AFP)

Forget dog or cat cafes, Shanghai's animal cafe scene has expanded to include a wider -- and more exotic -- kingdom. The fad in dining alongside all manner of s...

'Virtual' pollinator analysis shows importance of biodiversity to food trade

Mar 10, 2021 (UPI)

The new research, published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, showed the world's wealthiest economies are especially dependent on the importation of po...

Food drives a third of global emissions: report

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

Land clearing and deforestation, fertiliser use, livestock and waste all contribute to the emissions from the system to feed Earth's 7.7 billion people. While n...

NASA data powers new USDA Soil Moisture Portal

Mar 09, 2021 (SPX)

The tool, Crop Condition and Soil Moisture Analytics (Crop-CASMA), provides access to high-resolution data from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) missi...

Wild genes may help domesticated peaches adapt to climate change

Mar 09, 2021 (UPI)

For the study, scientists sequenced and analyzed the genomes of wild peaches and landraces -- varieties that have adapted over hundreds of years to specific cli...

Nearly a fifth of all food reaching consumers wasted: UN

Mar 04, 2021 (AFP)

"The scale of the problem is just huge," Richard Swannell, development director of the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), a non-profit that co-authore...

SMART develops analytical tools to enable next-generation agriculture

Mar 02, 2021 (SPX)

New work from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, and Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL)...

Conservationists aim to turn birders on to shade-grown coffee

Mar 02, 2021 (UPI)

According to a new paper published in the journal People and Nature, most birders don't know what bird-friendly coffee is and how it can help bird populations. ...