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  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 the same time reducing farmers' costs and perhaps even enhancing their productivity. A classic win-win-win. A team of researchers at MIT and a spinoff company they launched has developed a system to do just that. Their technology adds a thin coating around droplets as they are being sprayed onto a fiel ... read more |
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Back in the pink: Senegal salt lake gets its colour backLake 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  
Venezuela cuts public sector work week due to droughtCaracas (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 
3D nanotech blankets offer new path to clean drinking waterColumbus 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 
Brought to eel: France busts elver-smuggling ringRennes, 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 |
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Canada canola farmers squeezed by trade wars on two frontsMontreal (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 |
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Water-rich Brazil becoming ever drier, report warnsRio 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 
US refuses water request for Mexico in new battlelineWashington (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 
Chinese tariffs on Canadian agricultural products kick inBeijing (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 
In poor areas of Peru's capital, running water is a dreamLima (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 |
 
Peruvian farmer demands 'climate justice' from German energy giantHamm, 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  Available on Amazon Books |
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EU countries back looser rules for gene-edited cropsBrussels, 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 
Dramatic increase in research funding needed to counter productivity slowdown in farmingIthica 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 
Planetary Water Limits Pose Challenge to Geological Resource ProductionTokyo, 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  
NASA-ISRO Satellite to Track Crops from Sowing to HarvestLos 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 |
Spain to face increasingly 'severe' droughts: reportMadrid (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 
On the Mongolian steppe, climate change pushes herders to the brinkKharkhorin, 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 
Lake Geneva's fish threatened by warming waters: expertsThonon-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 
FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water ManagementLos 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 |
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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 
Creditors appeal 3 bn lifeline for UK's top water supplierLondon (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 
Attack on Iran nuclear plant would leave Gulf without water, Qatar PM warnsDubai (AFP) Mar 8, 2025 Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani has warned that an attack on Iran's Gulf coast nuclear facilities would leave countries across the region without water. ... more
China says to slap fresh tariffs on Canadian farm, food productsBeijing (AFP) Mar 8, 2025 China said Saturday it would slap tariffs on Canadian products including rapeseed oil and pork, after a Beijing probe into levies imposed by Ottawa on Chinese goods last year. ... more |
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Peru farmer confident ahead of German court battle with energy giantLima (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 A Peruvian farmer suing a German energy giant in a "David and Goliath" battle over climate change damage, says he has "full confidence" in the legal process in Germany. ... more |
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In El Salvador, a river without fish feeds fear of miningSanta Rosa De Lima, El Salvador (AFP) Mar 6, 2025 El Salvador's San Sebastian river has no fish. The runoff from a gold mine upstream, already shuttered two decades ago, has long killed them all. ... more  
Amazon tree loss may worsen both floods and droughts: studyParis (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Deforestation in the Amazon causes more rain in the wet season and less rain in the dry season, according to new research published Wednesday underscoring the rainforest's "pivotal" role in regulating local and global climate. ... more
Indonesia seeds clouds to stem rainfall after capital floodsJakarta (AFP) Mar 5, 2025 Indonesian authorities have started to seed clouds to stem heavy rainfall that caused flooding around capital Jakarta, officials said, after one person died and thousands more were displaced. ... more 
China says to impose fresh tariffs on US agricultural importsBeijing (AFP) Mar 4, 2025 China said Tuesday it would slap fresh tariffs on a range of agricultural imports from the United States as of next week, in retaliation against a hike in levies by Washington. ... more |
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