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Eight killed in Indian pesticide factory blast
Jun 03, 2020 (AFP)
Almost 5,000 people living in two villages near the plant in the Bharuch district of Gujarat state were evacuated as a precaution after a storage tank exploded,...
Ancient burial site in Belize reveals when people started eating maize
Jun 03, 2020 (UPI)
Reconstructing the diets of early human populations in tropical regions like Central America has proven quite difficult, but scientists recently discovered a bu...
Taking microgreens beyond the garnish
May 29, 2020 (SPX)
"You've probably heard of sprouts and baby greens," said lead researcher and registered dietitian nutritionist Sarah Ardanuy Johnson, an assistant professor and...
Herding wild buffalo and cattle from space
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Satellite GPS-tracking tags will be attached to the animals' ears and deliver real-time, geographically-accurate insights into herd density, accessibility, and ...
Pesticides harm honeybee nursing behavior, larval development, video shows
May 26, 2020 (UPI)
When exposed to neonicotinoids, one of the most common classes of insecticides, nurse bees fed larva less often and larval development took 10 hours longer. Whe...
'It's kind of glum': US farmers worry as crop prices dip
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
Striving to get a massive yield out of his crops in rural Maryland is how Burrier hopes to make it through yet another uncertain year, beset by market disruptio...
Japan insect enthusiast puts cricket ramen on the menu
May 25, 2020 (AFP)
"In this pan, we have 10,000 crickets, making stock for 100 bowls," Shinohara explained, as he stirred a large silver pot. The bowls of ramen produced by Shinoh...
Lockdown gives Albanian beekeepers a 'golden year'
May 22, 2020 (AFP)
"It's a golden year for bees," says 68-year-old Gezim Skermo, dressed in a protective suit as he inspects his rows of wooden hives, lined up along the verdant b...
Danone to give itself a mission
May 20, 2020 (AFP)
Countries have been adopting legal frameworks for companies to add public benefits to their corporate goals amid a growing movement for businesses to better ali...
Game-changing technologies can transform our food systems
May 20, 2020 (SPX)
Research to date on the future of our food systems has largely focused on incremental changes possible with existing technologies. But even that research finds ...
Australia 'disappointed' by China barley tariffs
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
But officials played down fears Canberra was headed for a trade war with its biggest export market, saying there would be no "tit-for-tat" response to the Chine...
China offers farmers cash to give up wildlife trade
May 19, 2020 (AFP)
Authorities have for the first time pledged to buy out breeders in an attempt to curb the practice, animal rights activists say. China has in recent months bann...
Global cooling event 4,200 years ago spurred rice's evolution, spread across Asia
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
Their study, published in Nature Plants and led by the NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, uses a multidisciplinary approach to reconstruct the history...
Climate change makes repeat 'Dust Bowl' twice as likely
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
Nearly a decade of heatwaves and massive dust storms across the US Great Plains in the 1930s ruined agricultural land and drove tens of thousands of farming fam...
India's 'superfood' jackfruit goes global
May 18, 2020 (AFP)
Part of South Asia's diet for centuries, jackfruit was so abundant that tonnes of it went to waste every year. But now India, the world's biggest producer of ja...
Oyster farming has a limited impact on vulnerable shorebirds
May 14, 2020 (UPI)
Every summer, red knots fly thousands of miles from Chile to their breeding grounds in the Arctic. Along the way, the birds stop on the Delaware coastline to fe...
Rising temperatures to accelerate growth of damaging plant pathogen
May 12, 2020 (UPI)
Australian researchers analyzed soil samples from 235 collection sites, comprising a variety of ecosystems on several continents. The data revealed a link betwe...
China cuts Australian beef imports after warning against virus probe
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
Analysts said the move raised concerns of a possible standoff between Australia and its most important trading partner that could spill over into other crucial ...
Uber eyes deal for Grubhub to bolster food delivery: reports
May 12, 2020 (AFP)
Grubhub shares rose more than 20 percent on the reports in The Wall Street Journal and other media. The reports said Uber had made a specific offer for Grubhub ...
Hunter-gatherers in Africa were dairying as early as first millennium AD
May 11, 2020 (UPI)
Previous archaeological surveys have revealed the presence of domestic animal bones at hunter-gatherer sites in Lesotho's Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains. The find...
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