Tag Archive | "crops"
How Google Earth and Cell Phones Save Elephants
In the last two years alone, the Kenyan Wildlife Service has killed five African elephants from the Ol Pejeta Conservancy because they were trampling through human settlements and cropland. It’s a problem that will only get worse as humans encroach on elephant’s territory. To avoid the same fate happening to other elephants Save the Elephants has created an alternative solution.
Continue reading...Truffle Crops Crashing Under Alien Threat
Monday, May 19, 2008
Image by Flickr user Ulterior Epicure European soils that have long been sniffed out by pigs in search of a fantastically expensive fungus are starting to lie still as an invasive breed takes over the continent. This dangerous threat? The Chinese black truffle, which is chasing the delicacy [...]
Continue reading...Biofools
Monday, March 24, 2008
It would be great if biofuels provided a magic method for us to combat carbon emissions without changing our lifestyles, but sadly they don’t. Image via thoughts on global warming Impacts of adoption of biofuels on food prices are already well documented. Now scientists are
Continue reading...Drought Resistant Plants Could Fight Global Warming and World Hunger
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Genetically modified plants are extremely unpopular in certain circles. Peanut plants dying during a drought. Image from APS There are a variety of reasons for this, from fear of potential negative health effects to anger at the Monsanto corporation’s business policies with the patented seeds. But there are other [...]
Continue reading...Scientists Worry over GM Drug Crops
Monday, February 18, 2008
A group of scientists has expressed their fears for the environment as the next generation of genetically modified crops, altered to produce pharmaceutical products and chemicals, go to trial. Villagers in Africa check out an insect resistant maize crop. Image by Dave Hoissington The scientists fear that the consequences [...]
Continue reading...Will Shiny Plants Save Us From Global Warming?
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Worried about climate change? Well worry no longer because a University of California-Irvine team has come up with a solution: shiny crops. The idea is just one of many recent ideas proposed by geoengineering, the science of modifying Earth’s environment on a
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
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