A new study coordinated by CU Boulder makes clear the extraordinary speed and scale of increases in energy use, economic productivity and global population that…
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The first large-scale study of the risks that countries face from dependence on water, energy, and land resources has found that globalization may be decreasing,…
Researchers are fine-tuning the application of plasma to agriculture to speed up germination and help plants grow strong. Ever since scientists discovered that plasma treatment…
UBC Okanagan researchers say breadfruit is nutritionally sound and has the potential to improve worldwide food security issues. Credit: Jan Vozenilek, Copper Sky Productions, Kelowna…
New study deploys advanced tools to retrace 1,000 years of African pastoralist cattle breeding, identifying traits to help cattle survive blistering heat, drought, and advancing…
The world’s largest hornet, the Asian giant hornet has been encountered in the Pacific Northwest. New research at Washington State University predicts where the hornet…
Nevada farmer Denise Moyle will use OpenET to plan irrigation of her alfalfa fields. Credit: Photo courtesy of Glow by G Photography Building upon more…
One of the “surrogate sire” goats on the WSU Pullman campus. Credit: Washington State University For the first time, scientists have created pigs, goats and…
With backpack vacuums, the research team went looking for nonnative plant seeds on air-intake grilles of refrigerated shipping containers — and found thousands of them.…
Atta cephalotes (Leaf-cutter ants), Wilhelma Zoo, Stuttgart, Germany. Credit: Pjt56 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 Scientists at the Universities of Bath and Sussex have…
This artwork illustrates the main findings of the article, but does not intend to accurately represent its results. Credit: IIASA Plant and animal species across…
The African baobab tree has 168 chromosomes in total. USDA researchers used fluorescent probes to see the genetic components of individual chromosomes within the cells.…
PhenoChip- a microfluidic device for the single cell phenotyping of unicellular phototrophs such as microalgae and cyanobacteria. Credit: Lars Behrendt Novel technology for the selection…
There are multiple forms of sulfur inputs used in agricultural systems, including elemental sulfur and sulfate, among others. Credit: Illustration by K. M. Driscoll Historically,…
Microscopic image of Tuber luomae, a truffle species recently described by Oregon State University researchers. Credit: Oregon State University As a first-year graduate student studying…
Controlled-environment agriculture combines energy-efficient, transparent solar panels; low-energy desiccant cooling; salt-tolerant edible plants; and algal biotechnology. Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Ivan Gromicho Efficient greenhouse complexes…
A team of scientists from the University of Essex has boosted crop productivity by 27 percent by resolving two bottlenecks in photosynthesis–the process whereby plants…
NASA, ESA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) worked recently to create the COVID-19 Earth Observation Dashboard, a platform that combines a wealth of…
Hannah Valentino, left, and Pablo Sobrado, right, uncover a new step in the process that makes garlic potent. Credit: Virginia Tech For centuries, people around…
Mount Rainier in Washington is home to one of the hundreds of snow-monitoring stations positioned throughout the western U.S. Credit: Vladi Braun The new projects…