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New Eco-Friendly Way to Make Ammonia Could be Boon for Agriculture, Hydrogen Economy

News - 20 Jan 2021

Ammonia has sustained humanity since the early 20th century, but its production leaves a huge carbon footprint. Now researchers have found a way to make it 100 per cent renewable. Chemical engineers...

New Eco-Friendly Hydrogel Developed for Agriculture

News - 1 Dec 2020

Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University, in cooperation with the Czech colleagues have developed a new hydrogel for agriculture. It is meant to retain moisture and fertilizers in soil. The...

$2 Million Project Will Support Organic Agriculture by Developing More Sustainable Practices

News - 9 Nov 2020

Organic field crop farmers in the Northeast and Upper Midwest are facing an increasing number of challenges related to more extreme weather events and pest and disease outbreaks. In New York state,...

Biologically Important Areas are Losing Ground to Agriculture and Urban Development

News - 30 Oct 2020

Between 1992 and 2015, the world's most biologically diverse places lost an area more than three times the size of Sweden when the land was converted to other uses, mainly agriculture, or gobbled...

New Data Set Could Help Study the Climate Impacts on Health, Agriculture

News - 14 Oct 2020

A seemingly small one-to-two degree change in the global climate can dramatically alter weather-related hazards. Given that such a small change can result in such big impacts, it is important to...

Rising Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Agriculture Increases Climate Threat

News - 8 Oct 2020

According to the authors of a new study published in Nature, rising nitrous oxide emissions are putting reaching climate goals and the objectives of the Paris Agreement in jeopardy. The growing use...

Scientists Urge to Redefine Drought for Agriculture

News - 30 Sep 2020

As the climate trends warmer and drier, global food security increasingly hinges on crops' ability to withstand drought. But are scientists and producers focusing on the right metric when...

Study Reports New York Agriculture Can Mitigate its Own Greenhouse Gas Emissions

News - 14 Aug 2020

In a state-funded report commissioned by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, two researchers from Cornell University state that New York agriculture has the potential to...

Agriculture Appears to Account for World's Greenhouse Gas Emissions

News - 8 Jul 2020

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claims that agriculture is one of the main sources of greenhouse gases, and is thus by many observers considered as a climate villain....

"Slash and Burn" Agriculture Produces Smoke that Degrades Air Quality

News - 1 Jul 2020

Fires have spread across the majority of the landscape in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in this NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging...