Soil and nutrient loss and runoff from agricultural fields are major problems environmentally and economically in the U.S. and globally. After heavy spring…
A Japanese research team have applied a method used in human genetic analysis to rice and rapidly discovered four new genes that are potentially significant…
To project how much food can be produced in the future, researchers use agricultural models that estimate crop yield, or how much of a crop can be produced in…
Artemisinin is produced in low yields by a herb called Artemisia annua (A. annua), otherwise known as sweet wormwood. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute…
Algae may hold the key to feeding the world's burgeoning population. Don't worry; no one is going to make you eat them. But because they are more efficient…
Controlled environment agriculture is rapidly becoming an important part of the global food system. For example, there has been much interest in the potential…
Most people are aware of open-source computer programs. These free programs, accessible by anyone, spread technology to distant corners of the world….
“Ecosystem services are the benefits that ecosystems provide to humans. In a natural ecosystem, these are things like natural medicinal products or carbon…
Now gardeners, golf-course owners, and growers who have been battling masked chafers for decades have a new resource. An article in the Journal of Integrated…
What impact do agricultural systems have on job satisfaction among farmers? This is the question that Agroscope researchers have been investigating with…
Forest on-line: European researchers enable trees to report real-time on how the changing climate is affecting them. Now vaporisation, water flows through the…
“This research is vital to everyone concerned about sustaining diverse, healthy, productive forests and the associated ecosystem services, commodities, and…
The research was conducted by Ray Grizzle, research professor of zoology at the UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering; Krystin Ward, research…
University of Illinois's Daniel Miller, who studies international environmental politics, and two other researchers examined data from 2000 to 2013 on the…
Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new study.
It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University…
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