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Climate Change Already Affecting U.S. Water, Land, And Biodiversity, Report Finds
May 28, 2008 — A new report finds that climate change is already affecting U.S. water resources, agriculture, land resources, and biodiversity, and will continue to do so. A list of 12 major results of global ... > full story -
Amazon Under Threat From Cleaner Air
May 7, 2008 — The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth's climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent climate scientists. The new study identifies a link between reducing sulphur ... > full story -
Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People
May 2, 2008 — Nitric oxide has emerged as an important signaling molecule in plants as in mammals, including people. In studies of a tropical medicinal herb as a model plant, researchers have found that nitric ... > full story -
Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty
May 2, 2008 — Beginning this crop season, farmers will be able to receive text messages on their cell phones from their plants saying whether they are thirsty or not. Accent Engineering, Inc., of Lubbock, Tex., ... > full story -
Did Dust Storms Make 1930s Dust Bowl Drought Worse?
April 30, 2008 — Climate scientists using computer models to simulate the 1930s Dust Bowl on the US Great Plains have found that dust raised by farmers probably amplified and spread a natural drop in rainfall, ... > full story -
Golden Wheat 'Greens' Kenya's Drylands
April 30, 2008 — Hot and barren, Kenya's dry lands have long been unfit for agriculture, at best merely a grazing area for wild animals and livestock. Today, the landscape is more picturesque and productive, lined ... > full story -
Nitric Oxide Regulates Plants As Well As People
April 27, 2008 — Nitric oxide has emerged as an important signaling molecule in plants -- as in mammals, including people. In studies of a tropical medicinal herb as a model plant, researchers have found that nitric ... > full story -
Precision Irrigation Built Into Sprinkler Booms Controls Water Usage, Optimizes Crop Growth
April 20, 2008 — A system that turns irrigation water on and off automatically based on leaf temperature is being developed by Agricultural Research Service soil scientists. They are developing time-temperature ... > full story -
Fungus Fight: Researchers Battle Against Dangerous Corn Toxin
April 8, 2008 — The spiraling use of corn for food and fuel is creating heightened concerns about contamination of this staple crop with deadly aflatoxin. Produced by certain fungi that grow on corn, this ... > full story -
Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Health Remains Poor, But Slightly Improved In 2007
April 3, 2008 — An independent scientific analysis gives the Chesapeake Bay (near Washington DC, US) a C-minus in 2007, indicating that Bay ecological conditions were slightly better than the previous year, but far ... > full story
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