24/7 Farm  News Coverage
November 21, 2016
ADVERTISEMENT





How NASA and John Deere Helped Tractors Drive Themselves

DNA study unravels the history of the world's most produced cereal

Answering a longstanding question: Why is the surface of ice wet?

Watching how plants make oxygen

Soybean plants with fewer leaves yield more

Rice farming used as 'summer crop' by early Indus civilization

Weather the storm: Improving Great Lakes modeling

Bolivia declares drought emergency

Fiji ants farm plants, study shows

Previous Issues Nov 18 Nov 17 Nov 16 Nov 15 Nov 14
ADVERTISEMENT



Ancient eggs serve as earliest evidence of turkey domestication

Precut salad promotes salmonella growth: Study

Cutting food waste saves money for French supermarkets

Africa looks to solar for communities off the grid

Crop yield gets big boost with modified genes in photosynthesis

Bacteria discovery offers possible new means of controlling crop pest



Mississippi River could leave farmland stranded

Study finds less gloomy outlook for subtropical rainfall

Another species of Varroa mite threatens European honeybees



NASA launches Advanced Geostationary Weather Satellite for NOAA

Researchers targeting mysteries of deep Earth

Who knew? Ammonia-rich bird poop cools the atmosphere

How lightning strikes can improve storm forecasts

Farewell to Sentinel-2B

How NASA and John Deere Helped Tractors Drive Themselves

Launch of new Galileo navigation quartet

Flying the fantastic four

Russian Space Agency May Launch Up to 4 Glonass Navigation Satellites Next Year

Australian continent shifts with the seasons

Remote Amazon tribe kills illegal gold miners: officials

Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems

Global boreal forests differ but not immune to climate change

Mangrove protection key to survival for Senegalese community

Morocco's oases fight back creeping desert sands

Investing in the 'bioeconomy' could create jobs and reduce carbon emissions

Argonne researchers study how reflectivity of biofuel crops impacts climate

UNIST researchers turn waste gas into road-ready diesel fuel

NextCoal to produce bio-coal for export to Japan, bio-oil for domestic use

New biofuel cell with energy storage



Sweden to scrap taxes on solar energy in 2017

Africa looks to solar for communities off the grid

Tesla shareholders approve merger with SolarCity

New Jersey's NEP Solar secures major funding agreement

Wind and solar energy projects could bring 5,000 new jobs to rural Minnesota

Owl-inspired wing design reduces wind turbine noise by 10 decibels

DONG Energy sets wind energy sights on Taiwan

Interior set to rule on future of BLM's Renewable Energy Program

Microsoft Corp. taps deeper into wind power

Alberta pushing hard on renewable energy pedal



Canada to phase out coal power by 2030: official

Toll in China mine blast rises to 33

China blast kills 15 miners, 18 missing: state media

U.S., Canada aim to cut emissions from coal

Climate: Catholic groups divest from fossil fuels

Eight dead in fighting in Myanmar town on China border

Dalai Lama visits Mongolia over China's objections

China's most-wanted corruption fugitive returns from US

Voting in an election 'with Chinese characteristics'

Anti-China lawmakers disqualified from Hong Kong parliament



Researchers create living bio-hybrid system

New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training

Researchers question if banning of 'killer robots' actually will stop robots from killing

Crowd workers help robot keep conversation fresh

Scientists come up with light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future

Canada pressed to make clean environment a constitutional right

Study demonstrates potential support for ban on microbeads in cosmetics

New toxicology test could improve USDA, EPA chemical screening

Heavy pollution shuts schools in Iran's capital

As mercury emissions drop, so do concentrations in tuna



NASA Sets Space Fire in Second Round of Fire Safety Experiments

Indonesian fires exposed 69 million to 'killer haze'

Wildfire management or fire suppression

Climate change doubles US forest-fire burn areas: study

Siberia forest fires engulf 2 mn hectares

Unraveling the mysterious source of methane gas in the ocean

Weather the storm: Improving Great Lakes modeling

Ocean acidification study offers warnings for marine life, habitats

Marine microalgae, a new sustainable food and fuel source

Answering a longstanding question: Why is the surface of ice wet?



Two dead as tornado strikes quake-hit Italy

Satellite to improve weather forecasts

Airbus weather satellite MetOp-A notches up 10 years

Wind patterns in lowest layers of supercell storms key to predicting tornadoes

Scientists pit modern roof shapes against high-speed winds

Obama defends free trade at Asia-Pacific summit rattled by Trump

China signs new trade deals with Peru

China doubles down on free trade as Trump leaves a void

Asia-Pacific leaders talk trade in a Trump world

JP Morgan Chase to pay $264 mn to settle China bribe scandal

Daily Newsletters - Space - Military - Environment - Energy

ESA expands space weather services

CU Boulder instrument suite will assess space weather

An easier way to observe the inner workings of the sun

How to read a STEREO image

Gaining a revolutionary view of the Sun in STEREO

Living fossil genome unveiled

X-rays capture unprecedented images of photosynthesis in action

Fiji ants farm plants, study shows

Kenya uses new technology to nab poachers at night: WWF

New model reveals adaptations of world's most abundant ocean microbe



Subscribe free to our newsletters via your



Buy Advertising Media Advertising Kit Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2016 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement All images and articles appearing on Space Media Network have been edited or digitally altered in some way. Any requests to remove copyright material will be acted upon in a timely and appropriate manner. Any attempt to extort money from Space Media Network will be ignored and reported to Australian Law Enforcement Agencies as a potential case of financial fraud involving the use of a telephonic carriage device or postal service.