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MSU Researchers Find Rice Seed Treatments Effective, Worth Investment
One recent example is the development of seeds treated with insecticides to discourage early damage by crop pests. Researchers at Mississippi State University…
Polar perils
By Christina Benjaminsen and Åse DraglandOn a light June night in 1989 the Russian cruise ship Maxim Gorkiy glides peacefully along the coast of Svalbard….
New Analysis Shows Massive South American Ice Field Is Melting Faster
The researchers from Cornell’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences developed a new way of using digital topography maps obtained from a stereo camera…
Climate Scientist Warns of Possible Widespread Suffering Coming
One of the world’s foremost experts on climate change is warning that if humans don’t moderate their use of fossil fuels, there is a real possibility that we…
Deepest Core Drilled from Antarctic Peninsula: May Contain Glacial Stage Ice
The expedition in early winter to the Bruce Plateau, an ice field straddling a narrow ridge on the northernmost tongue of the southernmost continent, yielded a…
At UC Davis, South Americans learn to help health, environment and industry back home
University of California, Davis, scientists are helping rice farmers in Uruguay stop polluting their waterways — including drinking-water sources and a…