Carbon cycling in wet soils
Credit: Courtesy of Adrian Mellage Under changing, increasingly dynamic climatic conditions, temperate soils are forecast to experience a high degree ...
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Effects from low-level concentrations of harmful chemicals preserved in three generations of fish
Credit: Nathan Burns CORVALLIS, Ore. - Fish exposed to very low levels of chemicals commonly found in waterways can pass ...
Undergrad-led study suggests light environment modifications could maximize productivity
Credit: WEST project/University of Illinois CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The crops we grow in the field often form dense canopies with ...
Invasive fire ants limiting spread of meat allergy — but pose their own dangers
Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Invasive fire ants common in the Gulf Coast and Texas likely are limiting a ...
Food-grade wheatgrass variety released for public use
Credit: Brett Heim Wheatgrass is packed with beneficial nutrients, which makes the crop a popular superfood. And now, more farmers ...
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captures 63 mile smoke trail from bush fire
Credit: NASA Worldview NOAA/NASA's Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bush Fire on June 22, 2020 showing clouds ...
Agricultural conservation schemes not enough to protect Britain’s rarest butterflies
Credit: Katie Threadgill Conservation management around the margins of agriculture fail to protect butterfly species at greatest risk from the ...
Better prepared for forest fires
Cross-institute project to understand the dynamics of forest fires and mitigate the riskCredit: Photo: Gabi Zachmann, KIT Long-lasting drought increases ...
Research in land plants shows nanoplastics accumulating in tissues
UMass Amherst, Shandong University offer one of the first nanoplastics studies in land plantsCredit: UMass Amherst/Xing lab Shandong University/Yuan and ...
Helping honey bees make it through winter with early cold storage
New website availableCredit: ARS-USDA TUCSON, ARIZONA, June 22, 2020--Putting honey bees into early indoor cold storage in October rather than ...
Not so robust: robusta coffee more sensitive to warming than previously thought
Widely considered to better prepared for climate change than arabica coffee, a new study from Southeast Asia shows robusta coffee ...
Protecting natural forest in oil palm plantations crucial for conservation
Forest conservation areas in oil palm plantations play a vital role in storing carbon and boosting rainforest biodiversity, a new ...
Human activity on rivers outpaces, compounds effects of climate change
Credit: Photo courtesy Jim Best CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- The livelihoods of millions of people living along the world's biggest river ...
Fungal pathogen disables plant defense mechanism
The white mold fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum detoxifies the mustard oil bomb in plants of the cabbage familyCredit: Anna Schroll Cabbage ...
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