A survey of how farmers could protect themselves by growing a greater diversity of crops, published in the March issue of BioScience, has highlighted…
Critics suggested this assessment lacked scientific foundation, trying to challenge the credibility of the IPCC as a whole. But the IPCC finding has been…
Delicious tropical fruits and vegetables such as papaya, rambutan, longan, dragon fruit and purple-fleshed sweet potato are gaining popularity in the…
Biology researchers discover that bacteria living in mosses on tree branches twice as effective at ‘fixing’ nitrogen as those on the groundA new study by Dr….
Research in this work package aims at an advanced understanding of the properties of different manure types and their value as a fertilizer before and after…
A new study by Dr. Zoë Lindo, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at McGill University, and Jonathan Whiteley, a doctoral student in the same…
Ragweed pollen in some parts of the northern United States and Canada now lingers almost a month longer than it did in 1995, and these increases are correlated…
As the organic food trend continues to grow; more farmers are converting from conventional agriculture to organic production. One of the fastest growing…
An article in the February 2011 issue of Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (CRFSFS) discussed how orange sweet potatoes could help prevent…
Climate change is already having an effect on the safety of the world's food supplies and unless action is taken it's only going to get worse, a Michigan State…
At a time when the world is facing a growing global population and environmental change the project will be important to ensure the sustainability of wheat…
The caching of whitebark pine seeds by the Clark's nutcracker in late summer and early fall may not be enough to regenerate populations of the imperiled…
A team of researchers led by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, shows that between 600 and 900 million metric tons…
A troublesome trend is occurring at colleges and universities around the country: fewer students are graduating with degrees in natural resource related degree…
Trees growing on farms will be essential to future development. As the number of trees in forests is declining every year, the number of trees on farms is…
However, soils play such a vital role in the planet’s survival that life cannot exist without them. They provide the basis for food and fiber production;…
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