Southern Weed Science Society honors Steckel
UTIA professor receives Outstanding Educator AwardCredit: Video by C. Denney, courtesy UTIA. JACKSON, Tenn. - The Southern Weed Science Society ...
Tag: Fertilizers/Pest Management
SETAC Europe 29th Annual Meeting
Scientists present latest research on environmental toxicology and chemistry in Helsinki Brussels -- The Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry ...
Back to nature: Palm oil plantations are being turned back into protected rainforest
This creates a corridor for Borneo's endangered wildlifeCredit: Robert Risch, Rhino and Forest Fund e.V. (RFF) The foundation for this ...
Breakthrough in fight against plant diseases
Credit: La Trobe University A global research team including scientists from La Trobe University have identified specific locations within plants' ...
When it comes to monarchs, fall migration matters
Credit: MSU EAST LANSING, Mich. - Scientists studying monarch butterflies have traditionally focused on two sources for their decline - ...
Excessive phosphate fertilizer use can reduce microbial functions critical to crop health
Credit: ©The American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, MN (March 2019)--Phosphorus is crucial for plant growth--with it, plants can acquire, transfer, ...
Back to the drawing board for conservationists battling against infectious parrot disease
A study into the effectiveness of disinfecting birds' nests, carried out by the University of Kent, has led to a ...
Buying and selling cattle can link individual farms to thousands of others per purchase
Understanding the complex networks of "contact chains" between British farms, could help identify potential routes for spread of infections and ...
Researchers: Pesticides influence ground-nesting bee development and longevity
Study explores little-understood effects of soil exposure on subterranean coloniesCredit: Jesse Wallace, College of LAS at the University of Illinois ...
Researchers show how coffee growers can optimize profits, sustainably
Mixture of conventional and shade-grown methods recommendedCredit: Guillermo Santos Coffee has huge importance to many smallholder farmers around the world. ...
A lawn is better than fertilizer for growing healthy blueberries
Intercropping with grasses is an effective and sustainable alternative to chemical treatments for maximizing blueberry yield and antioxidant content in ...
Two conferences to focus on citrus research and diseases that threaten citrus industry
More than 500 citrus researchers, regulators, and growers will gather at the convention center in downtown Riverside, Calif., March 10-15 ...
David versus Goliath: the fight against environmental crimes
The world of ecological trialsCredit: Ernest Prat i Rieradevall "What? The river looks like milk?" is the hard-hitting sentence that ...
Ecological vineyards help protecting bird population in the environment
Benefits of ecological cropsCredit: Conservation Biology Group - University of Barcelona Ecological farmlands help protecting bird populations and reducing the ...