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Taking inspiration from water repellent surfaces in nature, KAUST researchers have pioneered a simple surface treatment for traditional jute storage bags that prevents moisture-induced damage to stored grains.

/PRNewswire/ -- Profile Products today announced the acquisition of Florikan, a leading manufacturer, blender, and distributor of controlled release...

The two-year-old company has created one of the most popular indoor, in-home garden products in the United States.

Farmers need more space to grow crops to meet mounting demand for food and renewable fuel at a time of slowing growth in yields, consultancy AgResource said on Tuesday. A renewable fuel push...

Bayer sees no impact on its full-year guidance from customers' changing planting habits or a five-week shutdown at its main glyphosate production site in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida, the German life science group said on Tuesday.

Research shows that plant-based, sustainable jet fuel could be a “game-changer” in replacing petroleum.

Agroforestry is soil friendly and could ultimately be more profitable for farmers.

Todd and Donna Skinner became world record holders after entering their giant green squash into the National Pumpkin Weigh-Off, which took place at Oakland Nurseries in Delaware, Ohio, recently.

In a greenhouse in Worcestershire, Shockingly Fresh grows towers of leafy veg for supermarket shelves

Fertiliser crisis shouldnt be wasted: Bring urea under nutrient-based subsidy and let farmers think beyond DAP and MOP.

Over the past few years, the idyllic lagoon has come under threat. Tons of dead fish have washed ashore as the once-crystalline waters became choked with algae.

The fibreglass replica, which cost 8,000 euros ($9,300) and sits by a main road at the entrance to the village of Xylophagou, has drawn widespread ribbing on social media.

The United States ought to be ashamed of letting a minority block legislation to redress its malfeasance over the centuries

Climate change is causing temperatures to rise and is also increasing the likelihood of storms, heavy rain, and floodingthe recent flood disaster in the Ahr valley in Germany is just one such example. What we need to ask ourselves in this connection is how quickly the climate can recover from the warming caused by an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

A new report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue has identified a dangerous new brand of climate disinformation.

Roadmap to end UK’s contribution to climate crisis is comprehensive but seriously underfunded

Humanity faces an extraordinary threat - why are so many of us not motivated into action?

Sorry, the suggestion that passing policy based on 50-year climate science forecasts is somehow supported by the success of weather forecast models is mis-guided at best.

Climate change may favor the GOP as a political issue right now, but the money is moving in the other direction.

Long-awaited plan aims to expand electric car use and windfarms and commits £120m to new nuclear plant

As Democrats in Congress face pressure to lower the price tag of their $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending package, economists are sounding the alarm over climate spending that might be scaled back.

The United Kingdom announced plans Tuesday to stop installing home heating that uses fossil fuels by 2035 as the government hosted a meeting aimed at attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment for green projects in Britain. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Global Investment Summit in London that private-sector investment and consumer pressure were key to slashing carbon emissions and controlling climate change.

University experts are well placed to equip students with holistic climate knowledge and help teachers cover a subject thats neglected by the Australian Curriculum.

Africas rare glaciers soon to disappear, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies, released ahead of the UN climate conference in Scotland

A female mountain lion caught in the western part of the Santa Monica Mountains has been outfitted with a GPS tracking collar and dubbed P-99.

No, no, Claudia, no. The hippo is not a pet.

"Tiger King" star Erik Cowie's cause and manner of death have been revealed. The zookeeper died in September at age 53 and on Monday the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirmed...

Cash Cab Producer Lion Television US has promoted Allison Corn and Stan Hsue to Co-Presidents of the UK-headquartered firm

Over the last several months, mountain lion sightings have been on the rise across the Bay Area.

The soldier died aged 22 during an anti-poaching patrol in Malawi in 2019

These threatened species include living fossils, scaly mammals, and the biggest rodent ever.

A handful of hippos brought to Colombia in the 1980s for Escobar’s private zoo has grown to a population of 80, prompting biologists to express concern over their environmental impact and thr

Erik Cowie, the zookeeper who was seen on 'Tiger King' caring for Joe Exotic's animals, was revealed to have died of chronic alcohol use.

Erik Cowie, who appeared on Netflix's "Tiger King" as the head keeper of Joe Exotic's now-defunct G.W. Zoo, died from acute and chronic alcohol use.

Erik Cowie, the zookeeper in the Netflix “Tiger King” series found dead in Brooklyn last month, died of acute and chronic alcohol use, the city Medical Examiner announced Monday. Cowie, 53, was discovered dead inside his apartment on E. 55th St. near Remsen Ave. in East Flatbush Sept. 7, only four months after moving to the borough. The native of Oklahoma had previously said he had a drinking ...

Panicle hydrangeas have skyrocketed in popularity, largely thanks to producers that have given us more varieties than we could have ever imagined.

From their winter hardiness to small carbon footprints, local plants stand leaf and stem above the imports, write Mark and Ben Cullen

I discovered the Watercolor Orchids, which look like they fell straight out of a Monet painting and into a pastel flower pot.

A spellbinding combination of 10 houseplants to celebrate Halloween with.

If you saved poinsettias last year, October's the time to start coaxing them back into color and bloom for December.

There are very few positive things I will ever say about a species of Euonymus. Burning bush (Euonymus alatus) is a good example. It's now considered an invasive weed in more than 20 states.

Naming a petunia Picasso gives clear indication this plant is something special. That is precisely what I thought the first time I saw Supertunia Picasso in Purple in plant trials.

Starting plants from seed isn't easy and requires patience. But it's inexpensive, and the work is rewarding.

Where to safely plant a wildflower seed mix? How to diagnose an ailing lilac? OSU Extension Service experts answer gardening questions.

Here’s all you need to know to make a nice job of it, says James Wong

There’s a special melancholy pleasure about this time of year, writes Allan Jenkins

Lemons usually don’t ripen until about December. Ripening means the sugar content increases as they reach maturity. December and January are the usual times we see citrus damaged by vermin.

The last three mountain glaciers in Africa will be completely gone by 2040 due to climate change, according to a new report.

These stunning patterns have an unlikely designer

VUB research team uses new drone technique to study glaciers in the Alps. For 20 years, a team from the VUB research group Ice and Climate Research, led by Professor Philippe Huybrechts, has been traveling to the Alps at the end of the summer to measure the mass balance of the Morteratsch and Per

Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected, and understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted.

WMO report warns 1.3 billion people remain extremely vulnerable as continent warms more and faster than world average.

Scientists are venturing inside otherworldly ice caves growing beneath Austria's doomed glaciers to study why they are melting even faster than expected, and understand the fate that will befall glaciers elsewhere if climate change is not halted. It is already too late to save the glaciers of the eastern Alps, which scientists now say are past the point of no return and will be gone completely in the next few decades.

Climate change threatens more than 100 mn people in Africa: UN

If temperatures keep rising, we are on course for devastating sea level rises

The roots of mermaid tales actually provide a warning about the dangers of rising seas.

From installations of ice to projected art generated from air quality readings, artists and designers offer powerful experiences where people become witnesses to whats happening and whats possible.

Large parts of Pacific country’s capital would be permanently flooded and islands would disappear, according to new projections

While searching for a medieval village near the childhood home of Princess Diana, archaeologists discovered Paleolithic artifacts instead.

The disc has a value of about $11 million and is thought by some to be one part of a pair, with the other part still out there, waiting to be discovered.

The rock impressions could be up to 226,000 years old and were found by a research team in Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau.

<strong>The long read:</strong> Archaeological discoveries are shattering scholars’ long-held beliefs about how the earliest humans organised their societies – and hint at possibilities for our own

Six million-year-old fossilized footprints on the island show the human foot had begun to develop. The oldest known footprints of pre-humans were found on the Mediterranean island of Crete and are at least six million years old, says an international team of researchers from Germany, Sweden, Gree

As shown in a recent investigation of 2,700-year-old excrement from an Iron Age European salt miner, employees at the period ate blue cheese and drink alcohol, implying that they had a far more refined taste than initially believed.

Scientists who were studying salt mines at a UNESCO World Heritage site in Austria discovered fossilized feces, that held vital clues about what prehistoric people ate.

Thousands of years ago, multiple types of hominins roamed the Earth and interbred with one another, much like J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.

Decades ago, Donald Johanson found fossils of an early hominin that would rewrite scientists' understanding of our species. This weekend, he'll watch Lucy, a spacecraft named for the discovery, blast off Earth.

Wives, volunteers, assistants: the vital contribution of women archaeologists has long been underplayed, if not erased. A new project uncovers trailblazers in the Pacific.

Although there has been evidence of our species living in rainforest regions in Southeast Asia from at least 70,000 years ago, the poor preservation of organic material in these regions limits how much we know about their diet and ecological adaptations to these habitats. An international team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has now applied a new method to investigate the diet of fossil humans: The

A 21-year-old TikToker is selling human bones -- including spines and fetus skulls.