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Urbana IL (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
As agricultural research continues to become more entwined with technology, smart farming - a phrase that encompasses research computing tools that help farmers to better address issues like crop disease, drought and sustainability - has quickly become a ubiquitous term in Ag labs across the country. The availability of NCSA resources like Delta for researchers, both nationally and on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U. of I.) campus, has fostered a hotbed of cutting-edge research projects i ... read more

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New insights reveal how social dynamics drove the rise of agriculture
London, UK (SPX) Apr 01, 2025
A groundbreaking study featured in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reexamines the long-held belief that environmental changes solely sparked the dawn of agricultur ... more
WATER WORLD
3D nanotech blankets offer new path to clean drinking water
Columbus OH (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Researchers have developed a new material that, by harnessing the power of sunlight, can clear water of dangerous pollutants. Created through a combination of soft chemistry gels and electrosp ... more
FARM NEWS
Technology developed by MIT engineers makes pesticides stick to plant leaves
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 26, 2025
Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers - including fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides - could cut down the amount of polluting runoff that ends up in the environment while at ... more
WATER WORLD
Why has Mexico's water debt opened new battle line with US?
Mexico City (AFP) Mar 27, 2025
Mexico's water debt to the United States under a decades-old supply treaty has opened a new battlefront between the two countries, in addition to US President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. ... more
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Morocco 'water highway' averts crisis in big cities but doubts over sustainability
Kenitra, Morocco (AFP) Mar 30, 2025
Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther south but experts question the sustainability of the project in the face of climate change. ... more
FARM NEWS
EU unveils plans to help wine sector; France says China grants delay over cognac duties
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Mar 28, 2025
Facing challenges including climate warming and changing consumer habits, the EU on Friday unveiled a raft of measures to support Europe's troubled wine sector. ... more
FIRE STORM
South Korea's 'heartbreaking' wildfires expose super-aged society
Andong, South Korea (AFP) Mar 28, 2025
Walking with a cane, 84-year-old apple farmer Kim Mi-ja surveys the wreckage of her village, which was reduced to rubble and covered in ash by South Korea's worst wildfires. ... more
FARM NEWS
Hundreds of fungi species threatened with extinction: IUCN
Paris (AFP) Mar 27, 2025
Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday. ... more

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WATER WORLD
Back in the pink: Senegal salt lake gets its colour back
Lake Retba, Senegal (AFP) Mar 25, 2025
The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge - and businessfolk and tourists are thrilled. ... more
FARM NEWS
Brought to eel: France busts elver-smuggling ring
Rennes, France (AFP) Mar 21, 2025
Police broke up an operation smuggling critically endangered eels in western France, arresting seven people suspected of causing nearly half a million euros' worth of ecological damage, authorities said Friday. ... more
FARM NEWS
Canada files WTO trade action against Chinese agriculture, fishery duties
Geneva (AFP) Mar 24, 2025
Canada has launched a dispute against China at the World Trade Organization over additional duties on agricultural and fishery products, the international body said Monday. ... more
FARM NEWS
Parisians back 'garden roads' scheme in record low turnout
Paris (AFP) Mar 24, 2025
Residents of Paris have backed a scheme to pedestrianise and create green spaces on hundreds of roads in the French capital in a consultative vote marked by a record low turnout, according to results published on Monday. ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Venezuela cuts public sector work week due to drought
Caracas (AFP) Mar 24, 2025
Venezuela will cut the public sector work week to three half-days, the government said Sunday, after low water levels began to threaten hydroelectric power generation. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Unlikely wolf pair sparks row in rural France
Tulle, France (AFP) Mar 21, 2025
A rare discovery in France of a pair of wolves, each from a distinct genetic background, has excited animal lovers demanding their protection and objections from farmers eager to protect livestock. ... more
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Canada canola farmers squeezed by trade wars on two fronts
Montreal (AFP) Mar 20, 2025
To sow or not to sow? Canola farmers in Canada's vast western Prairies region have found themselves in the crossfire of trade wars with both the United States and China. ... more
WATER WORLD
Water-rich Brazil becoming ever drier, report warns
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Mar 21, 2025
Brazil is home to 12 percent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday. ... more
WATER WORLD
US refuses water request for Mexico in new battleline
Washington (AFP) Mar 20, 2025
The United States said Thursday it refused a request from Mexico for water due to shortfalls in sharing by its southern neighbor, as President Donald Trump ramps up a battle on another front. ... more
FARM NEWS
Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural products kick in
Beijing (AFP) Mar 20, 2025
Chinese tariffs on Canadian products including rapeseed oil and pork come into effect Thursday, with an industry lobby warning the new levies will have a "devastating impact" on farmers. ... more
WATER WORLD
In poor areas of Peru's capital, running water is a dream
Lima (AFP) Mar 20, 2025
In the bone-dry hills overlooking Lima, the luxury of running water is just a dream for thousands of Peruvians who get theirs delivered by tanker truck. ... more
ENERGY NEWS
Peruvian farmer demands 'climate justice' from German energy giant
Hamm, Germany (AFP) Mar 17, 2025
A Peruvian farmer taking a German energy giant to court said Monday he is battling for "climate justice" and wants the company to pay for the consequences of rising temperatures. ... more
FARM NEWS
Enhancing agrivoltaic synergies through optimized tracking strategies
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2025
Agrivoltaic systems, which merge agricultural cultivation with solar power generation, represent a strategic solution to the dual challenge of meeting increasing global energy demands and ensuring f ... more
FARM NEWS
EU countries back looser rules for gene-edited crops
Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Mar 14, 2025
EU countries agreed to push forward with plans to ease current restrictions on some gene-edited crops - a move backed by farmer groups but opposed by environmentalists. ... more
FARM NEWS
Dramatic increase in research funding needed to counter productivity slowdown in farming
Ithica NY (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
Climate change and flagging investment in research and development has U.S. agriculture facing its first productivity slowdown in decades. A new study estimates the public sector investment needed t ... more
WATER WORLD
Planetary Water Limits Pose Challenge to Geological Resource Production
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 14, 2025
The extraction and processing of geological resources, including critical metals and minerals essential for renewable energy and energy storage technologies, require substantial amounts of energy an ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA-ISRO Satellite to Track Crops from Sowing to Harvest
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2025
The NISAR satellite, a collaborative effort between NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), is set to revolutionize agricultural monitoring by providing high-resolution data on crop ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: report
Madrid (AFP) Mar 13, 2025
Spain, which is nearing the end of a years-long drought, can expect such dry spells to become increasingly "frequent and severe" due to global warming, according to a scientific report published Thursday. ... more
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On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brink
Kharkhorin, Mongolia (AFP) Mar 13, 2025
Over a year after a devastating winter wiped out virtually his entire sheep flock, herder Zandan Lkhamsuren is still reckoning with the damage wrought by Mongolia's increasingly erratic extreme weather. ... more
WATER WORLD
Lake Geneva's fish threatened by warming waters: experts
Thonon-Les-Bains, France (AFP) Mar 12, 2025
Fish in Lake Geneva - Western Europe's largest lake - are under threat as its waters warm and become increasingly stagnant. ... more
FARM NEWS
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2025
A collaborative effort supported by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is enhancing the ability of farmers and ranchers to manage their water resources effectively. The initiative, led by Op ... more
CLIMATE SCIENCE
Spain near end of four-year drought: weather agency
Madrid (AFP) Mar 11, 2025
A drought that has parched fields and prompted water restrictions in Spain since 2021 could be over soon thanks to recent abundant rainfall, national weather agency AEMET said on Tuesday. ... more
WATER WORLD
Creditors appeal 3 bn lifeline for UK's top water supplier
London (AFP) Mar 11, 2025
An emergency loan recently granted to indebted Thames Water, Britain's biggest supplier of the commodity, was appealed in court Tuesday by creditors displeased at the terms of the package. ... more
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