Some but not all US metro areas could grow all needed food locally, estimates study
Researchers estimate potential for locally sourced food based on land needs for different dietsCredit: Tufts University BOSTON (Sept. 14. 2020, ...
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Winds of change move western smoke into the Pacific
Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured these series of images (made into an animated GIF) showing the winds ...
How plants ensure regular seed spacing
Plant research: publication in Current BiologyCredit: HHU / Nozomi Kawamoto If you open up a pea pod, you will find ...
First assessment of naturalized, invasive and potentially invasive plan
The research suggests that a range of invasive alien plants pose a series risk to the County - home to ...
Massive-scale genomic study reveals wheat diversity for crop improvement
A team of scientists has completed one of the largest genetic analysis ever done of any agricultural crop to find ...
Uncovering the science of Indigenous fermentation
Credit: University of Adelaide AWRI Australian wine scientists are shedding scientific light on the processes underlying traditional practices of Australian ...
Dietary changes could produce big offsets to carbon emissions
Credit: Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - Eating less meat and dairy products in favor of plant-based proteins like those ...
NASA’s Terra highlights aerosols from western fires in danger zone
Credit: NASA Worldview The year 2020 will be remembered for being a very trying year and western wildfires have just ...
Bumblebees benefit from faba bean cultivation
Research team led by the University of Göttingen investigates influence of 'greening measures' on pollinatorsCredit: Nicole Beyer About one third ...
University of Illinois awarded $4.5 million to develop commercial carbon credit tools
Credit: University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - The University of Illinois has been awarded $4.5 million from the U.S. Department ...
Bacteria are in key role for successful recirculating aquaculture farming
Credit: University of Jyvaskyla Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors globally. Due to continuous growth, ecologically, ...
New process boosts lignin bio-oil as a next-generation fuel
Credit: John Toon, Georgia Tech A new low-temperature multi-phase process for upgrading lignin bio-oil to hydrocarbons could help expand use ...
Wild cousins may help crops battle climate change
Wild relatives of our domestic crops already cope with harsh conditions and resist disease; can we use them to help ...
California’s creek fire creates its own pyrocumulonimbus cloud
Credit: NASA Worldview On Friday September 4, 2020 at about 6:44 PM PDT the Creek Fire began in the Big ...
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