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Mapping the Earth's crops![]() ![]() 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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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 |
![]() 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 ![]() ![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 |
![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 |
![]() ![]() Available on Amazon Books ![]() ![]() 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 |
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![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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 ![]() ![]() 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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