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Damaging impacts of warming moderated by migration of rainfed crops

Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)

New research using 40 years of global data, led by Colorado State University, has found that exposure to rising high temperatures has been substantially moderat...

Land-cover maps of Europe from the Cloud

Mar 23, 2020 (ESA)

Mapping land cover is not only essential for monitoring change, but it also underpins numerous practical applications. However, generating these maps entails ha...

Dutch destroy millions of flowers as coronavirus wilts sales

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Mountains of tulips, roses, chrysanthemums and other flowers destined for destruction have been waiting for the last week in the world's biggest flower market. ...

Beyond burgers: Asia puts twist on alternative meats

Mar 23, 2020 (AFP)

Meat and seafood consumption in Asia is projected to soar, fuelled by growing middle classes in booming economies, but green groups warn of the environmental da...

Impact of a second Dust Bowl would be felt worldwide

Mar 23, 2020 (SPX)

The Dust Bowl was an extreme event. But due to climate change, massive crop failures are more likely to happen again in the future. New research in Frontiers in...

Crop diversity can help fight climate change, new study shows

Mar 19, 2020 (UPI)

For the study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Stanford researchers looked at how farming practices impacted bird biodiversity in Costa Rica. "Farms ...

Comparisons of organic and conventional agriculture need to be better, say researchers

Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)

The most common method for assessing the environmental impacts of agriculture and food is Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Studies using this method sometimes claim...

Urban land could grow fruit and veg for 15 per cent of the population, research shows

Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)

In a study published in Nature Food, academics from the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield investigated the potential for urban horti...

'Green favela' fights to live sustainably in Brazil

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

But look closer, and the community garden, rainwater harvesting system and environmental education program are visible too: this "favela" is remarkably green. O...

Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team up

Mar 06, 2020 (SPX)

"Our ultimate goal is to provide useful information to farmers, especially at the field level or sub-field level. Previously, most available satellite data had ...

Cover crops can benefit hot, dry soils

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Enter cover crops. Usually grown during seasons when primary crops aren't cultivated, cover crops can include legumes such as pea and hairy vetch, or grassy cro...

Genome editing strategy could give rice, other crops nutritional boost

Mar 05, 2020 (UPI)

The novel CRISPR technology method, described this week in the journal Nature Communications, could help plant scientists engineer healthier, more robust crops....

Pakistan struggles to combat devastating locust plague

Mar 04, 2020 (AFP)

Heavy rains and cyclones sparked "unprecedented" breeding and the explosive growth of locust populations on the Arabian peninsula early last year, according to ...

Farming encouraged cooperation and violence among early humans

Mar 04, 2020 (UPI)

"We were interested in understanding why people would make the shift from hunting and gathering to farming," Elic Weitzel, doctoral student in anthropology at t...

With 30,000 surveys, researchers build the go-to dataset for smallholder farms

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

A team of CGIAR researchers began tackling the household survey interoperability problem in 2015. More than 13,000 standardized surveys and 21 countries later, ...

Scientists study pesticide link to diplomats' 'Havana syndrome'

Mar 03, 2020 (AFP)

Dozens of embassy officials and their families first reported in 2016 suffering from what became known as "Havana syndrome," with symptoms including dizziness, ...

5,000-year-old milk proteins show dairy pastoralism's effect on Eurasian steppe

Mar 02, 2020 (UPI)

The discovery of 5,000-year-old milk proteins -- described Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution -- suggests populations living on the Eurasian ste...

Germany's ice wine harvest fails because of mild winter

Mar 01, 2020 (AFP)

None of Germany's 13 winemaking regions saw the necessary temperatures of minus seven degrees Celsius (19.4 degrees fahrenheit) in 2019, one of the world's warm...

Big data helps farmers adapt to climate variability

Feb 28, 2020 (SPX)

The study, published in Scientific Reports, is the first to precisely quantify soil and landscape features and spatial and temporal yield variations in response...

Abandoned cropland helps make Europe cooler

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

When a team of researchers looked at more than 20 years of recent land use changes for Europe and combined that with a climate model to provide information on t...