Next generation of greenhouses may be fully solar powered
Credit: Brendan O'Connor, NC State University Many greenhouses could become energy neutral by using see-through solar panels to harvest energy ...
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Alaska’s national forests contribute 48 million salmon a year to state’s fishing industry
Value of these 'forest fishes' from Tongass, Chugach National Forests exceeds $80 millionCredit: Ali Freibott, US Forest Service Alaska's Tongass ...
AOCS Research Awards go to five UMass Amherst food science Ph.D. students
Student researchers work in lab of renowned food scientist Julian McClementsCredit: UMass Amherst Five food science Ph.D. students at the ...
Humanity’s greatest risk: Cascading impacts of climate, biodiversity, food, water crises: scientists
Survey reveals common concern of global scientists: interlinkages between crises; Part of Our Future on Earth, 2020, a 50-page synthesis ...
An invasive flatworm from Argentina, Obama nungara, found across France and Europe
Citizen science reveals the presence of the flatworms in gardens in three quarters of metropolitan FranceCredit: Photo by Pierre Gros ...
Conflict between ranchers and wildlife intensifies as climate change worsens in Chile
Credit: copyright Solange Vargas Scientists from the University of La Serena, Newcastle University, UK, and the Pontifical Catholic University of ...
A 3D study of a tiny beetle that attacks the fruits of coffee reveals details of its anatomy and secret life that can help fight this pest
Scientists from the University of Granada, thanks to microtomography techniques, reveal secret, and until now unknown, aspects of tunnel construction ...
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Credit: Jennifer Knoepp Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation ...
Portable device lights the way to better foodborne illness detection
Credit: Euiwon Bae/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Foodborne illness hits about one in six people in the United States ...
All things considered, wooden pallets are more eco-friendly than plastic pallets
Credit: Penn State Weighing in on a debate that has raged for decades, Penn State researchers, after conducting a series ...
Southern Illinois’ Len Small levee likely to fail even if repaired, study says
Credit: Ken Olson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Alexander County sits near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio ...
Australia’s orroral valley fire consumes over 155,000 acres in a week
Credit: NASA NASA's Terra satellite saw yet another fire, known as the Orroral Valley Fire, break out in the Canberra ...
Bacteria engineered to protect bees from pests and pathogens
Credit: Alex Wild/University of Texas at Austin Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin report in the journal Science ...
Hemp ‘goes hot’ due to genetics, not growing conditions
Credit: Justin James Muir/Cornell University ITHACA, N.Y. - As the hemp industry grows, producers face the risk of cultivating a ...
Solving the riddle of strigolactone biosynthesis in plants
The discovery of orobanchol synthaseCredit: Kobe University Strigolactones (SLs) are a class of chemical compounds found in plants that have ...
Biological diversity as a factor of production
Relationship between the economic value of our ecosystems and biodiversityCredit: K. Baumeister / TUM The main question addressed by the ...
Microscopic partners could help plants survive stressful environments
Credit: Photo by Ashley Finnestad, T.E. Cheeke Lab, WSU. Tiny, symbiotic fungi play an outsized role in helping plants survive ...
Speedy recovery: New corn performs better in cold
BTI researchers develop a strain of corn that recovers much more quickly after a cold snap, which could enable farmers ...
Can chickpea genes save mustard seeds from blight disease?
Credit: Urooj Fatima, Priyadarshini Bhorali, and Muthappa Senthil-Kumar During visits to fields in Assam, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, plant ...
Tougher start could help captive-bred game birds
Credit: Martin Clay Tougher early lives could help captive-bred game birds develop survival skills for adulthood in the wild, new ...
