Cattle farming expansion and unchecked climate change would expose more than 1 billion cows to heat stress
More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon ...
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A US-led study shows that the estuaries in the Bay of Cádiz are a treasure trove for ecological fish farming
The study, published in the prestigious journal Marine Environmental Research and led by José Manuel Guerra García, professor at the ...
Wildfires and farming activities may be top sources of air pollution linked to increased risk, cases of dementia
No amount of air pollution is good for the brain, but wildfires and the emissions resulting from agriculture and farming ...
UCF, MIT designing technology to fight bacterial infections, improve aquaculture farming
UCF, MIT Designing Technology To Fight Bacterial Infections, Improve Aquaculture Farming BY SUHTLING WONG | AUGUST 3, 2023 11:11 ...
Bats struggle during organic farming transition
Bat activity falls as farms make the transition to organic agriculture, new research shows. Credit: Penelope Fialas Bat activity falls ...
Specialization in sheep farming, a possible strategy for Neolithic communities in the Adriatic to expand throughout the Mediterranean
The specialization in sheep in the early Neolithic populations of Dalmatia, Croatia, may have been related to the rapid expansion ...
Smart farming platform improves crop yields, minimizes pollution
A new farming system developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin aims to solve one of the ...
A growing number of producers and industries interested in precision livestock farming
Some of the world’s best minds that are focused on profitable and sustainable livestock production attended and presented at the ...
Seaweed farming may help tackle global food insecurity
To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could shift from land to sea, suggests ...
Mapping the conflict between farming and biodiversity
Food is one of society’s great moral quandaries. Its production pushes many species to the brink of extinction and the ...
Danish innovation to convert nutrients and CO2 from shrimp and fish farming into seaweed
Together with Aarhus University and a range of companies, researchers from the University of Copenhagen will develop the sustainable co-production ...
Is this the future of farming?
On November 15, 2022, the 8 billionth person on the planet was born. With concerns about food security on the ...
New animal welfare scoring system could enable better-informed food and farming choices
Cambridge University scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types ...
How do we make farming better for the planet? Ask women
When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there’s only one winner. And in the ...
A sowing, pruning, and harvesting robot for SynecocultureTM farming
Synecoculture is a new agricultural method advocated by Dr. Masatoshi Funabashi, senior researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony ...
Upcoming precision livestock farming conference to focus on field implementation
Livestock producers are encouraged to learn first hand about advances in precision livestock farming (PLF) by attending the second U.S. ...
Farming more seaweed to be food, feed and fuel
A University of Queensland-led study has shown that expanding global seaweed farming could go a long way to addressing the ...
*Free* Insect farming for livestock feed and human consumption
In two Perspectives, Arup Kumar Hazarika and Unmilan Kalita, and Arnold van Huis and Laura Gasco, discuss the potential of ...
Air pollution threatens natural pest control methods in sustainable farming
When fields of oilseed rape are exposed to diesel exhaust and/or ozone – both found in emissions from diesel burning ...
Lack of public appreciation contributes to loneliness in farming, study shows
Many farmers interviewed in study by University of Exeter and The Farming Community Network felt disconnected from wider public Some ...
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Meteorites likely source of nitrogen for early Earth
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New implants linked to less infection and better recovery from orthopedic surgery
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New theory unites Einstein’s gravity with quantum mechanics
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‘Doughnut’ beams help physicists see incredibly small objects
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Why have so many new diseases developed in the bagged salads sector?
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‘Shocking’ discovery: Electricity from electric eels may transfer genetic material to nearby animals