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Cup Plant Is Potential New Biomass/carbon Storage Crop
March 22, 2010 — American researchers are exploring a native perennial called the cup plant as a potential new biomass crop that could also store carbon in its extensive root system and add biodiversity to biomass ... > full story -
Estimating Ethanol Yields from Conservation Reserve Program Croplands
March 19, 2010 — The scramble to find sufficient land for biofuel production has experts eyeing marginal croplands that have been placed in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). Now a new study indicates that plant ... > full story -
Healing Native Rangeland May Require Combination of Burning and Rotational Grazing
March 5, 2010 — The application of summer patch burning to heal native rangeland may be best accomplished using rotational grazing, according to a range ... > full story -
Woody Plant Encroachment Has Increased Stream Flow in Edwards Plateau, Texas
March 4, 2010 — A new study finds that contrary to widespread perceptions, springs in the Edwards Plateau of Texas, which provide much of the stream flows, have not been declining as a result of increased ... > full story -
Cows Like Leaves Their Tongues Can Wrap Around Easily
March 3, 2010 — Lots of leaves growing in easy reach of a cow's tongue means less time and less land needed to raise beef ... > full story -
Bringing Bison Back to North American Landscapes
March 2, 2010 — The next 10 to 20 years could be extremely significant for restoring wild populations of American bison to their original roaming grounds. But for this to happen, more land must be made available for ... > full story -
E. Coli as Sole Indicator of Water Pollution Questioned
February 26, 2010 — New research investigating pathogen survival in soils has found that E. coli can become integrated into the indigenous microbial community in soils and survive for more than nine years, considerably ... > full story -
Hares More Numerous in Irish Coursing Club Preserves Than Wider Countryside
February 24, 2010 — Irish hares are eighteen times more abundant in areas managed by the Irish Coursing Club than at similar sites in the wider countryside a recent ... > full story -
Thirty-Eight Percent of World's Surface in Danger of Desertification
February 9, 2010 — Researchers have measured the degradation of the planet's soil using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a scientific methodology that analyses the environmental impact of human activities, and which ... > full story -
Biologist Solves Mystery of Tropical Grasses' Origin
February 8, 2010 — Biologists have found that rainfall, not temperature, was the primary trigger for the evolutionary beginnings of C4 tropical ... > full story
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