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Wood-Based Protein Could Help Address Global Food Challenge

At present, sawdust is treated as special waste by some sawmills, as it cannot be put to good use. In fact, increasing amounts of sawdust piles can even affect production.

12 Sep 2017

Solar Powered Water Harvester Can Draw Out Liters of Water from Desert Air

Researchers form UC Berkeley have demonstrated a water harvester device that is capable of pulling liters of water out of the air in desert like conditions. Whats better is that is powered directly from the sun.

14 Apr 2017

Scientists Ascertain Critical Impact of Climate Change on Specific Areas of Marine Biodiversity

An innovative study with the main focus of identifying oceanic areas that come under highest conservation priority in the world has discovered six “hot spots of marine biodiversity” critically affected due to fishing pressures as well as climate change.

23 Feb 2017

Plastic Packaging Preserves Food and May Help Prevent Food Waste

These days, grocery stores contain aisle after aisle of products encased in plastic packaging. This practice preserves food and might help prevent food waste, but does the environmental cost justify it? The cover story of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, looks into the matter.

20 Oct 2016

New Discovery Contradicts Widely Accepted Hypothesis About How Climate Change Will Affect Food Production

An eight-year study of soybeans grown outdoors in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere like that expected by 2050 has yielded a new and worrisome finding: Higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations will boost plant growth under ideal growing conditions, but drought – expected to worsen as the climate warms and rainfall patterns change – will outweigh those benefits and cause yield losses much sooner than anticipated.

6 Sep 2016

Exposure to Chemicals and Environment Inevitable

The well-known documentary "Plastic Planet" by Werner Boote starkly illustrates the dangers of plastic and synthetics for human beings and also shows how ubiquitous plastic is. Motivated by this multiple award-winning film, a family of five from Styria completely avoided plastics in their home environment for several months.

15 Jul 2016

Mimicking Ancient West African Farming Practices Could Help Develop Climate Smart Agricultural Systems

A farming technique practised for centuries by villagers in West Africa, which converts nutrient-poor rainforest soil into fertile farmland, could be the answer to mitigating climate change and revolutionising farming across Africa.

17 Jun 2016

Plasma Dose Improves Agricultural Crop Harvests

Research reported in the Applied Physics Express demonstrates that ‘non-thermal air plasma irradiation’ dramatically improves the harvest of the salad crop Arabidopsis thaliana.

16 May 2016

Researchers Study Impact of Freshwater Biodiversity on Inland Fishery Yields

A recent study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the University of Southampton reveals that inland freshwaters with a wide range of fish species contain higher-yielding and less variable fisheries.

25 Feb 2016

Improved Agricultural Water Management Could Reduce Global Food Gap by 2050

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields. For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation. They found the potential has previously been underestimated. Investing in crop water management could substantially reduce hunger while at the same time making up for population growth. However, putting the findings into practice would require specific local solutions, which remains a challenge.

16 Feb 2016