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Saudi 'city of roses' offers fragrant reminder of desert's beauty
Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)
"I love roses and take care of them more than I care for my own children," the 80-year-old told AFP from his flower farm in western Saudi Arabia's Taif. Known a...
Indonesia food plan risks 'world's largest' deforestation
Apr 22, 2025 (AFP)
Keen to end its reliance on rice imports, Indonesia wants to plant vast tracts of the crop, along with sugar cane for biofuel, in the restive eastern region. Bu...
Heavy metals contaminate up to 17% of world's arable land: study
Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)
Published in the journal Science, their study is a first-of-its-kind global overview of heavy metal contamination in soils, based on a meta-analysis -- an appro...
Tragic promise drove world's first Michelin-starred woman sushi chef
Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)
The 54-year-old Japanese chef regained the Michelin star her late husband Shunei Kimura won three years ago for their Sushi Shunei restaurant in Paris. For Shun...
Dutch flower industry grasps thorny pesticide issue
Apr 16, 2025 (AFP)
Known globally for tulips, the Dutch are world leaders in the international flower sector, which is coming under increasing scrutiny for pesticides sprayed on t...
Engineered bacteria emit signals that can be spotted from a distance
Apr 15, 2025 (SPX)
"It's a new way of getting information out of the cell. If you're standing next to it, you can't see anything by eye, but from hundreds of meters away, using sp...
Crops under threat as surprise March heatwave hit Central Asia: study
Apr 04, 2025 (AFP)
Temperatures across the month were up to 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter in the region than the pre-industrial average, according to World Wea...
Mapping the Earth's crops
Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)
Yi-Chia Chang, a Ph.D. student at the U. of I., focuses his research on machine learning (ML) and remote sensing. His most recent research, published in arXiv a...
New insights reveal how social dynamics drove the rise of agriculture
Apr 01, 2025 (SPX)
For generations, theories about this pivotal transformation focused on external drivers such as climate shifts, the availability of fertile lands, or increased ...
EU unveils plans to help wine sector; France says China grants delay over cognac duties
Mar 28, 2025 (AFP)
The proposals come as winegrowers risk being among the early victims of a bitter trade war between the EU and the United States, after President Donald Trump th...
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
Mar 27, 2025 (AFP)
At least 411 fungi face extinction out of the 1,300 varieties whose conservation status is well understood, according to the latest update of the IUCN's authori...
Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
Mar 26, 2025 (SPX)
A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. Their technology adds a thin coating around droplets as...
Canada files WTO trade action against Chinese agriculture, fishery duties
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
"Canada has requested WTO dispute consultations with China concerning Chinese measures that impose additional import duties on certain agricultural and fishery ...
Parisians back 'garden roads' scheme in record low turnout
Mar 24, 2025 (AFP)
Some two-thirds of those who voted in the poll on Sunday backed the plan, dubbed the "garden roads" scheme, but only four percent of the Paris electorate turned...
Brought to eel: France busts elver-smuggling ring
Mar 21, 2025 (AFP)
European elvers -- the eel in their juvenile state -- are threatened with extinction, in part due to poachers hoping to make a killing by flogging them off to e...
Canada canola farmers squeezed by trade wars on two fronts
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
"We have two economic superpowers of the world having a trade war with us at the same time," Rick White, head of the Canadian Canola Growers Association, told A...
Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural products kick in
Mar 20, 2025 (AFP)
The tariffs -- announced this month -- follow a Beijing probe into levies imposed by Ottawa on Chinese goods last year. They hit rapeseed oil, oil cakes, and pe...
Peru farmer in German court battle with energy giant
Mar 17, 2025 (AFP)
Saul Luciano Lliuya, 44, argues that electricity producer RWE -- one of the world's top emitters of climate-altering carbon dioxide -- must share the cost of pr...
Enhancing agrivoltaic synergies through optimized tracking strategies
Mar 17, 2025 (SPX)
As their adoption expands, optimizing agrivoltaic systems through advanced tracking technologies becomes crucial. Horizontal single-axis tracker (HSAT) systems,...
Dramatic increase in research funding needed to counter productivity slowdown in farming
Mar 14, 2025 (SPX)
In the paper, published March 11 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers model both the dampening effects of climate change on U.S. ...
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