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Chinese quadriplegic runs farm with just one finger
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
Li, who suffers from a genetic degenerative condition that progressively weakens muscles, relies on a ventilator permanently connected to his windpipe to breath...
Cabio Biotech: Chinese firm under fire in infant formula recall
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
Here's what you need to know: - Why is it under fire? - In recent weeks, major firms including France's Danone and Switzerland's Nestle have recalled batches of...
'Pesticide cocktails' pollute apples across Europe; 'Forever chemicals' could cost Europe up to 1.7 tn euros by 2050
Jan 29, 2026 (AFP)
PAN Europe, a coalition of NGOs campaigning against pesticide use, had around 60 apples randomly purchased in 13 European countries -- including France, Spain, ...
'Our children are next' fear Kenyans as drought wipes out livestock
Jan 27, 2026 (AFP)
Mandera county along Kenya's borders with Ethiopia and Somalia has seen no rain since May and is now on the point of a full-blown water emergency. "I have lost ...
How the EU and Mercosur agro-powerhouse Brazil differ on pesticides
Jan 15, 2026 (AFP)
AFP compared Brussels rules with those in Brazil to illustrate the differences in pesticide standards between the two blocs, which traded more than EUR15 billio...
Warming trend to intensify crop droughts across Europe and beyond
Jan 14, 2026 (SPX)
The research team focused on soil moisture during the main growing seasons rather than on annual average rainfall or soil moisture, which can conceal critical s...
Ticking time bomb: Some farmers report as many as 70 tick encounters over a 6-month period
Jan 06, 2026 (SPX)
New research led by Mandy Roome, associate director of the Tick-borne Disease Center at Binghamton University, State University of New York, reveals that farmer...
Black carbon from straw burning limits antibiotic resistance in plastic mulched fields
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health concern, and soils are now recognized as major environmental reservoirs of resistance genes. In modern cropping...
Australia 'disappointed' with China's beef tariffs
Jan 01, 2026 (AFP)
China announced it would impose additional 55 percent tariffs on some beef imports from countries including Brazil, Australia and the United States that exceed ...
Drone phenomics sharpen genetic signals and automate field trait extraction in maize and peanut breeding
Jan 01, 2026 (SPX)
In maize, scientists working with field trials of common rust used an unmanned aerial vehicle platform equipped with multispectral and thermal sensors to monito...
China says to impose extra 55% tariffs on some beef imports
Dec 31, 2025 (AFP)
The price of beef in China has trended downwards in recent years, with analysts blaming oversupply and a lack of demand as the world's second-largest economy ha...
Meat-loving Argentines shun beef as inflation bites
Dec 19, 2025 (AFP)
From farms to court, climate-hit communities take on big polluters
Dec 19, 2025 (AFP)
From Pakistan to Belgium and Peru, ordinary people bearing the brunt of failed harvests, rising seas and destructive storms are demanding compensation from the ...
EU proposes indefinite approval for some pesticides
Dec 16, 2025 (AFP)
The European Commission said it wants to remove the need to periodically renew the authorisation of some pesticides under plans to simplify food and animal feed...
Women sommeliers are cracking male-dominated wine world open
Dec 13, 2025 (AFP)
Now an established figure as resident wine advisor at Chambers restaurant in New York, Pascaline Lepeltier told AFP that when she first started out "a certain m...
Kennedy's health movement turns on Trump administration over pesticides
Dec 11, 2025 (AFP)
The clash pits President Donald Trump's pro-industry instincts against the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement -- a diverse coalition of holistic-health ...
Robotic model boosts success rate for tomato picking
Dec 09, 2025 (SPX)
Assistant Professor Takuya Fujinaga of Osaka Metropolitan University has developed a method that lets a robot assess how easily it can harvest each tomato befor...
Ghostwriters, polo shirts, and the fall of a landmark pesticide study
Dec 05, 2025 (AFP)
Published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology in 2000, the paper ranks in the top 0.1 percent of citations among studies on glyphosate -- the key ingredie...
EU reaches accord on new generation of genetically modified crops
Dec 04, 2025 (AFP)
NGT plants are created when a small part of their DNA is added, removed or altered using genetic editing tools, as opposed to older GMO techniques, which involv...
Denmark targets farm nitrogen emissions to boost water quality
Dec 03, 2025 (AFP)
The Scandinavian country prides itself on being a leader in tackling global warming but waste from farming has stifled marine ecosystems. The deal aims to reduc...
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