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Scientists from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), in Australia, announce the creation of a new method for measuring the amounts of nitrous oxide (N2O) agriculture releases into the atmosphere. This gas is an extremely potent agent in sustaining and accelerating the greenhouse effect.
When analyzed over... |
5 March 2012
02:51 GMT |
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A new kind of photovoltaic solar system has been recently introduced, marking a collaboration between ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center, providing clean green power and favoring crops at the same time.The system exploits temperature oscillation and it is considered an ideal asset for every ... |
14 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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New green technologies are awaited to alleviate poverty and help the people who live in areas affected by natural disasters. In this case, large surfaces of land will be converted into eco-friendly robotic farms, to make them recover after the dramatic impact of the tsunami recorded in March 2011.
According to an o... |
13 January 2012
04:44 GMT |
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Since the surface of agricultural land available is not enough to respond to the demand of a growing population, people and businesses operating in the food industry are permanently looking for new solutions.
Urban farming is far from being a new concept since it has already been implemented in several parts of the... |
11 January 2012
03:10 GMT |
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In March, it will have been a year ever since the earthquake and tsunamis that struck a major blow to Japan, killing tens of thousands of people and inflicting immense destruction.
The nuclear meltdown that followed made everything even worse.
Still, even though the radiation from the power plant is a prime co... |
7 January 2012
05:16 GMT |
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Human manufacturers could take longer breaks in the near future, since their daily tasks could be successfully accomplished by hard-working mycelium, processing agricultural byproducts to offer a better alternative to conventional packaging products. The new eco-friendly items could be exploited on a much larger sc... |
6 January 2012
05:50 GMT |
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South Africa is the place where green technologies guarantee that farmers use just the right amount of water. One major vineyard is enrolled in the GrapeLook and its owner hopes to obtain a more than decent harvest due to satellite information combined with field measurements.
All in all, this method helps preserv... |
22 December 2011
09:37 GMT |
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Berlin entrepreneurs want to minimize the ecological footprint of our eating habits. Instead of relying on expensive food imported from different countries, traveling by plane or other large vehicles before it ends up in refrigerators, ingenious developers try to implement changes by welcoming an urban rooftop farm i... |
6 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Vulnerable creatures strongly depend on farming practices applied in developing countries. Even if human intervention has been seen as a threat factor for the balance of animal species, a new study issued by the University of East Anglia (UEA) gives a whole new perspective on this theory.
Experts from UEA agree upo... |
5 December 2011
07:00 GMT |
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The companies operating in the food industry are pressured to come up with healthier, more nutritious food. Pepsi Co wants to face this challenge, while helping Mexican farmers improve their farming techniques. A sustainable agricultural sector provides a win-win situation, both for the stakeholders behind this strat... |
28 November 2011
08:59 GMT |
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The global food demand could double by 2050, highlights a report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). This phenomenon can trigger various harmful consequences for human development, the environment and an entire list of creatures that might go extinct. As we speak, the agr... |
22 November 2011
06:38 GMT |
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A recent conference of the United Nations Institute for Social Development has highlighted that the green trend does not only refer to the global economy and the impact human development has upon the environment. It is also a hot topic that has to be applied to the entire food system.
Since bad eating habits have n... |
21 November 2011
04:57 GMT |
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In times when scientists struggle to overcome the limits of Mother Nature's water resources, a student from the Swinburne University in Australia found an effective way of irrigating even the most arid surfaces. His breakthrough has the ability to use air moisture in the irrigation system, providing a much-n... |
14 November 2011
02:28 GMT |
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According to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA), satellites operated by the vast organization may soon become capable of establishing whether or not crops are organic from Earth's orbit. The move is another step in plan to bring space technology to everyday life.
The benefits of organic agriculture... |
20 September 2011
08:45 GMT |
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A group of experts based at the Emory University, in the United States, argues that agriculture played a direct role in reshaping the stature and health of humans living thousands of years ago. The trend appears to be consistent around the world. In a new survey of existing studied, the researchers found a consistent... |
15 June 2011
10:18 GMT |
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Spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) are now heavily involved in helping people living in poor, underdeveloped areas of the world boost their agricultural production rates. This is done by indicating the most suitable way of dividing up the land from up above.ESA is working together with the Interna... |
22 April 2011
10:34 GMT |
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March 11, 2011 is a date that marked the beginning of a type of crisis that Japan hasn't experienced since World War II. The population living in the tsunami- or earthquake-affected areas is starting to experience the effects of food insecurity, most of them for the first time in their lives. This effect is larg... |
18 April 2011
03:36 GMT |
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The chief scientist of the UK government, Sir John Beddington, said recently that the third world and developing countries cannot afford blocking the cultivation of genetically-modified (GM) crops on ethical and moral grounds, given the state the world is in. While avoiding to acknowledge the validity of the argument... |
24 January 2011
08:54 GMT |
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A team of evolutionary biologists has recently demonstrated in a new scientific paper that slime molds are capable of practicing a primitive form of agriculture, that allows them to pack a launch every time they decide to travel to another location. The investigation was carried out on the long-studied social amoebae... |
20 January 2011
03:08 GMT |
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While carbon dioxide is undoubtedly the most renowned greenhouse gas, it's not by far the strongest. Nitrous oxide is a lot more efficient at heating up the atmosphere, and now experts determined that rivers produce three times more of the stuff than originally thought.According to the new investigation, the est... |
21 December 2010
04:10 GMT |
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One of the main avenues for research in space studies in recent times has been agriculture, which is viewed as a means to reducing the amount of payloads future spacecraft will carry, while at the same time keeping explorers healthy. Colonizing other worlds is a dream that mankind has been rummaging on for centuries,... |
26 November 2010
09:49 GMT |
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Renowned scientists speaking at the 2010 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, in De Moines, Iowa, have teamed up to promote a brand new solution to improve crops and store carbon dioxide at the same time.Our world today needs a radical transformation in the agricultural sector, so that it can deal with climate change, ... |
15 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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The global accumulation of nitrogen in the world's ecosystems is beginning to reach devastating levels, say experts who conduct work in trying to keep levels of this chemical in check. The substance is absolutely necessary for life, and is also the main component of our atmosphere. But, when it accumulates in th... |
8 October 2010
02:32 GMT |
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The debate between proponents of organic farming and those of modern agriculture appears to have been settled in favor of the former, a 10-year-long study on the issue reveals. For people doing it, organic farming represents the most vivid example of the balance of nature. They view the lands where crops grow as the ... |
26 August 2010
03:15 GMT |
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If you really stop to think about it, setting up a colony on Mars would suffer most from lack of food, as everything would have to be hauled there from Earth. But this obstacle would disappear if crops were to be grown on the Red Planet directly.The idea may seem farfetched at first, but it's really not. Natural... |
18 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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In a development that could see farmers making a change for the better in their farming practices, experts at the K. Kellogg Biological Station are currently working on producing a tool that could see workers and small land owners enter the carbon credit market as well. This is the place where greenhouse gases are be... |
9 August 2010
09:32 GMT |
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According to a new report, it would appear that the African continent is capable of accommodating large swaths of land containing bioenergy production-related plans. This can be achieved without diminishing, or otherwise affecting, the areas already planted with edible crops, or natural reserves. The conclusions belo... |
23 July 2010
11:07 GMT |
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Agriculture has for a long time been known to be one of the most important contributors to the global warming effect our planet is currently experiencing. Right next to the food industry, farming the lands produces a high percentage of the toxic chemicals that promote climate change, and endanger millions of people w... |
15 June 2010
09:56 GMT |
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A new report, released just days ago by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), provides nations and scientists with the first-ever global view of the planet's situation at this point. The document highlights the troubling fact that the harshest factors driving habitat loss, species extinction and polluti... |
9 June 2010
10:00 GMT |
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A long-forgotten South American civilization could hold the key to improve the agricultural practices of today. Between 700 and 1,000 years ago, this group produced a series of structures, and performed a number of landscape modifications that saw what were once considered to be barren wastelands turned into soils su... |
13 April 2010
05:06 GMT |
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If you think that the world's population today is large, try to add an additional 2.5 billion people to the list. Conservative estimates say that this is the extra number of individuals that will inhabit the planet by 2050, in addition to the over six billion that live today. The additional population will place... |
25 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Plant biologists and agricultural researchers will soon be able to benefit from the tremendous advantages brought forth by a new device, called AraNet. The machine is capable of characterizing yet-unknown plant genes, in a process that has unprecedented speed and accuracy. The computational model essentially predicts... |
1 February 2010
02:26 GMT |
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Researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) recently announced the publication of a new set of geospatial data maps. The satellite images cover most swaths of arable land in the country, and are meant as guidelines to inform on future crops.... |
29 January 2010
08:56 GMT |
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Over the past three years, millions upon millions of bees have perished all over the world, leaving naturalists, biologists and the bee industry astonished. Cataloged as one of the largest colony-collapse disorders in known history, the decline began in 2006, and experts immediately set out to discover the cause behi... |
11 January 2010
06:58 GMT |
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It is commonly believed that the onset and development of agriculture took place around 10,000 years ago, as our forefathers learned how to harvest and domesticate plants, and put them at work to support growing communities. This ability allowed for the appearance of larger cities, which in turn made science evolve, ... |
18 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that the earliest forms of agriculture may have had a significant impact on the overall climate and temperatures on a global scale, mostly on account of the fact that massive numbers of trees were burnt to give way to crop fields. As the trees burned, they also released ... |
17 August 2009
15:51 GMT |
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With the threat of global warming turning more into reality each single day, plant bioengineers everywhere are working around the clock on creating crop varieties able to withstand prolonged drought and still yield sufficient produce to sustain a booming human population. In a related line of research, Australian exp... |
8 July 2009
06:51 GMT |
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A new report released on June 25th shows that the calorie requirements of the human population as a whole will sore by about 40 percent until 2050, at a rate that is completely unsustainable by existing agricultural practices and food production capabilities. Planning and serious investment in agriculture is therefor... |
26 June 2009
18:41 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the most defining moment for us as humans was when some of our ancestors decided to start domesticating wild animals, and settling down on a certain land. They started cultivating a relatively small variety of plants, but arguably what allowed them to remain put and survive in the then-inhospitable lands... |
23 June 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Bay Area start-up FarmsReach is currently working on developing and implementing a new communication system between farmers and restaurants that will make it easier for the latter to contact and purchase foods directly from small, local farms, thus eliminating all the middlemen. The move, which addresses a state of a... |
23 May 2009
05:01 GMT |
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Until 10,000 years ago, when humankind invented agriculture, evolution took our ancestors on an uninterrupted journey from primates to two-legged creatures. Once people started cultivating the land, and the hunter-gatherer society disappeared, the natural course of evolution was disrupted, with yet-undetermined conse... |
13 March 2009
11:49 GMT |
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In an experiment devised to see if human hair has the potential to become the next best fertilizer for various types of crops, researchers at the Mississippi State University (MSU) compared the effects that four types of treatments had on four types of plants, including lettuce, wormwood, yellow poppy and feverfew. T... |
7 January 2009
08:31 GMT |
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The worsening state of the environment affects the African continent more than any other place, from a standpoint of how much humans are affected by droughts, flood, desertification, and other phenomena associated with global warming and climate change. Fortunately, government officials from many of these countries r... |
18 December 2008
03:16 GMT |
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Given the fact that the world is facing more and more water shortages, spraying industrial-sized crops with sufficient amounts of water may soon prove to be a very costly, if not impossible effort. That is why plant experts from around the world are currently working on a way to make crops of all kinds more efficient... |
16 December 2008
09:56 GMT |
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In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes that swept Cuba and left the country with just 70 percent of its regular food supplies, worries have increased among the population that the Communist government might now have no more resources to feed its people. However, a tactic that was set in place when the Sovie... |
16 December 2008
04:50 GMT |
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A recent report released by the Government Accountability Office shows that a large number of US farmers who currently benefit from federal subsidies for their crops do not meet the necessary conditions for receiving the money, as they already have incomes of over $1 million yearly. President-elect Barack Obama says ... |
26 November 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Students from the University of North Dakota have designed and built a special type of camera, called Agricultural Camera (also known as AgCam), which is currently carried by the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. The camera is meant to provide pictures of crop... |
15 November 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Though the decline in bee populations has been well-documented worldwide, a recent study in the prestigious journal Current Biology says that the food supply is not yet in any immediate danger. Modern agricultural practices have constantly increased yields since the 1960s, when the food production finally surpassed d... |
11 November 2008
11:00 GMT |
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A design for a wireless network of soil sensors has already been developed for some time by researchers at the University of Iowa. The sensors work in a grid, 80 to 160 feet (26 to 54 meters) apart from each other and use advanced technology to determine many environmental factors that could affect crops, including u... |
14 October 2008
03:30 GMT |
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