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Nano-Pesticides: Solution or Threat for a Cleaner and Greener Agriculture?
June 20, 2012 — Research is urgently needed to evaluate the risks and benefits of nano-pesticides to human and environmental health. Scientists recently performed an extensive analysis of this emerging field of ... > full story -
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Sorghum Should Be in the Biofuel Crop Mix, Experts Say
June 20, 2012 — Sweet and biomass sorghum would meet the need for next-generation biofuels to be environmentally sustainable, easily adopted by producers and take advantage of existing agricultural ... > full story -
Why the Vibrant City of Palmyra Was Located in the Middle of What Is Now the Syrian Desert
June 20, 2012 — Norwegian archaeologists have solved one of the great puzzles of the Roman Empire: Why was the vibrant city of Palmyra located in the middle of the Syrian ... > full story -
Eat Less Meat and Farm Efficiently to Tackle Climate Change, Scientists Say
June 19, 2012 — We need to eat less meat and recycle our waste to re-balance the global carbon cycle and reduce our risk of dangerous levels of climate change, according to scientists. New research shows that if ... > full story -
Changing Pigs' Diets Alters the Gut Microbiota
June 19, 2012 — Including chicory in cereal-based diets of pigs results in profound changes in gut micro-environment, morphology, and microbial population of pigs, according to a new ... > full story -
New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity
June 19, 2012 — NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The ... > full story -
Schooling Fish: Wild Zebrafish Assess Risk Through Social Learning
June 19, 2012 — Scientists have investigated whether zebrafish use social learning to assess risk. They found that wild zebrafish, which are more timid than their domesticated counterparts, became emboldened after ... > full story -
Link Between Vitamin C and Twin Seedlings Can Increase Seed Production in Crops
June 18, 2012 — Biochemists have found that increasing the level of dehydroascorbate reductase, a naturally occurring enzyme that recycles vitamin C in plants and animals, increases the vitamin's level and results ... > full story -
Expansion of Forests in the European Arctic Could Result in the Release of Carbon Dioxide
June 17, 2012 — Carbon stored in Arctic tundra could be released into the atmosphere by new trees growing in the warmer region, exacerbating climate change, scientists have ... > full story -
Bugs Have Key Role in Farming Approach to Storing CO2 Emissions
June 15, 2012 — Tiny microbes are at the heart of a novel agricultural technique to manage harmful greenhouse gas ... > full story
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