Sounds like home: Murrelets choose breeding locations by eavesdropping on other murrelets
Credit: Brett Lovelace, Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University researchers broadcast marbled murrelet calls in mature forests ...
Tag: Agriculture
Gender discrimination threatens crop yield among smallholder farmers in Africa, researchers say
Studies conducted in Tanzania and drawing on case studies across East Africa show that policies giving women better access to ...
64% of global agricultural land at risk of pesticide pollution?
Asia and Europe revealed as having regions at high-risk of pesticide pollutionCredit: Associate Professor Federico Maggi, Dr Fiona Tang, University ...
New oil palm map to inform policy and landscape-level planning
Credit: Image produced using QGIS IIASA researchers have used Sentinel 1 satellite imagery from the European Space Agency to produce ...
Paying to clear-cut the rain forests
Credit: Hoang and Kanemoto In the last few years, as climate changes continues to become more severe, there has been ...
Researchers notice pattern on surface of leaves, uncover new clue about plant evolution
Uncommon group of aquatic and terrestrial species key to discovery of how plants breatheCredit: Hiroyuki Koga, CC BY 4.0 A ...
Mapping policy for how the EU can reduce its impact on tropical deforestation
Credit: Anna Lena Lundqvist / Chalmers University of Technology EU imports of products including palm oil, soybeans, and beef contribute ...
UMD reports six novel variants for CRISPR-Cas12a in plants, expanding genome engineering
New publication in Nature Communications offers patentable tools to improve the efficiency of food productionCredit: National Institutes of Health, public ...
Clearing of woody weeds in Baringo County, Kenya, may yield major livelihood benefits
A new study suggests that clearing the invasive woody weed Prosopis julifora and grassland restoration in Baringo County, Kenya, may ...
Shrub willow as a bioenergy crop
Credit: Armen Kemanian Renewable energy demand and consumption is at an all-time high in the United States. Shrub willow - ...
Dogs (not) gone wild: DNA tests show most ‘wild dogs’ in Australia are pure dingoes
It's time to take dingoes out of the doghouseCredit: Chontelle Burns / Nouveau Rise Photography. Almost all wild canines in ...
Study exposes global ripple effects of regional water scarcity
Computer model shows how human economic activity can transmit and magnify climate change impactCredit: Drought.gov Water scarcity is often understood ...
What is killing bald eagles in the U.S.?
Credit: Susan Wilde Bald eagles, as well as other wildlife, have been succumbing to a mysterious neurodegenerative disease in the ...
Palm oil production can grow without converting rainforests and peatland
Nebraska agronomist: 'Potential impact is huge'Credit: Hendra Sugianto/University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., March 25, 2021 -- Palm oil, the most ...
Urban agriculture can help, but not solve, city food security problems
Credit: Christine Costello/Penn State While urban agriculture can play a role in supporting food supply chains for many major American ...
Plant gene found in insect, shields it from leaf toxins
Credit: Jixing Xia and Zhaojiang Guo Millions of years ago, aphid-like insects called whiteflies incorporated a portion of DNA from ...
Ancient megafaunal mutualisms and extinctions as factors in plant domestication
Of the vast diversity of plants on Earth, only a few evolved to become prominent agricultural crops. Scholars now suggest ...
Planting trees to save the planet: The Chinese experience
Credit: Yangyong Ye A coordinated global effort to reduce the production of greenhouse gas emissions from industry and other sectors ...
Size of grass blades offers better understanding of their vulnerability to climate change
Walt Whitman would be pleased, says UCLA plant biologist Lawren SackCredit: Alec Baird/UCLA One-third of the Earth's surface is covered ...
New insights into close encounters between albatross and fishing vessels
Credit: Robert Suryan. CORVALLIS, Ore. - A novel analysis of encounters between albatross and commercial fishing vessels across the North ...