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Fall-applied anhydrous ammonia may not fulfill as much of corn's nitrogen needs as previously assumed. According to a new study from the University of Illinois, the effectiveness of the practice depends on the soil.

Chilly temperatures and wet weather have given potato farmers across the United States and Canada a serious setback. Many farmers have been unable to harvest large portions of the potato crops they were counting on to round out the year.

Mainly below average rains last week in most of Ivory Coast's cocoa regions had farmers worried about the rising heat, despite a good soil moisture content, farmers said on Monday.

Alberto Fernandez takes over as Argentinas president Tuesday with hopes of bolstering exports to spur growth and pay debts. But no sooner than the wheels start turning on his four-year term, he faces a speed bump from the crop industry, which accounts for more than a third of shipments.

Trespass grows, which feed the marijuana black market, do great damage to the planet.

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Panic is setting in about a potential french fry shortage in the near future, due to a poor potato harvest in the United States and Canada.

Researchers at Florida International University have found coating seeds with a fungus and a bacterium could help valuable crops block the one-two punch of saltier groundwater and soil.

By monitoring crops through machine learning and satellite data, Stanford scientists have found farms that till the soil less can increase yields of corn and soybeans and improve the health of the soil -- a win-win for meeting growing food needs worldwide.

China boosted its soybean production by 13% in 2019 amid a trade war with No. 2 supplier the United States, official data showed on Friday, helping it record a slight rise in total food crop output.

/PRNewswire/ -- Providing a crucial benefit for dairy producers in a challenging economy, Enogen Feed corn silage delivers significantly higher feed...

MADRID (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With children and young people increasingly at risk from extreme weather and out in the streets demanding faster action on global warming, efforts to respect and promote their rights in climate policy need to step up, U.N officials said on Monday.

Life in southern California, once as mild and predictable as the weather, is being transformed as the climate grows hotter, drier and in some regions windier, fueling more intense wildfires, deadly mudslides and prolonged extreme drought.

Young activists including Greta Thunberg put pressure on negotiators to break deadlock

The president of the Latin-American Catholic Bishops Conference said it is time for Europeans to start battling climate change effectively.

Political affiliations, the presence of local environmental organizations and prior local media coverage of climate change play a role in how a community reacts to an extreme weather event,

The shift to a green economy can spur innovation and prosperity if we change the quality of growth

British model and actress Lily Cole on Monday visited two elderly climate change activists from the Extinction Rebellion group who have been on hunger strike outside Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party headquarters for 22 days.

2020 election crucial for US to catch up on climate action

Not all carbon footprints are created equally.

The global fashion industry is drawing on its own "social and cultural weight" to lead the world into tackling climate change.

Greenhouse gas emissions directly from the movement of volcanic rocks can create massive global warming effects -- more than previously believed

We don't need the U.N. Climate pact to help us with our environment -- there's no benefit to us but huge costs.

Without care, reforestation projects can damage ecosystems and be useless as carbon stores. Here's how to go about it the right way.

New research led by scientists from Florida Institute of Technology found that the strong and long-lasting droughts known as megadroughts parched the usually moist Peruvian cloud forests, spurring farmers to colonize new cropland.

The rapid expansion of cities around the world is having an enormous impact on biodiversity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill's Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.

/PRNewswire/ -- Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation, the leading mass timber manufacturer in North America, announced today it will expand its operations into...

If, as the strategy states, there is a substantial surplus of wood, its time to have an honest conversation about how to share the forest.

Intensively managed estates have created treeless landscapes with few animals and plants

Jair Bolsonaro has voiced an aggressive, nationalistic view of the Amazon, describing the rainforest as a resource to be exploited rather than a safeguard against climate change.

At the Trinchera Blanca Ranch in Colorado, a massive tree-eating machine called the feller buncher is used to thin out trees

Mothers of different species share nests in the rainforest

Letter: Marion Shoard says new parks could act as testbeds for much-needed ways of combining farming and forestry systems to enhance conservation, wildlife, landscape and recreation

Heres what our partners are doing to tackle the climate crisis and how your donations will help

Stingless insects also improve livelihoods of rainforests people, say environmentalists

In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase the chance of co-occurring heatwaves in major food-producing regions of Northern America, Western Europe, and Asia. Their research finds that the

Scientists have identified systematic meanders in the globe-circling northern jet stream that have caused simultaneous crop-damaging heat waves in widely separated breadbasket regions-a previously unquantified threat to global food production that, they say, could worsen with global warming.

Researchers at Oxford University, together with and international colleagues, have discovered jet stream patterns that could affect up to a quarter of global food production.

Guest geological perspective by David Middleton There have been at least three recent peer-reviewed papers asserting an anthropogenic acceleration in the rate of sea level rise (SLR): Church &

The Week That Was: 2019-12-07 (December 7, 2019) Brought to You by SEPP (www.SEPP.org) The Science and Environmental Policy Project Quote of the Week: The real problem in speech is not precise lan

From AAAS Review ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The polar regions in a 2C warmer world Science Advances 04 Dec 2019: Vol. 5, no. 12, eaaw9883 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaw9883 Abstract Over the past decade, th

Scientists working on the next frontier of weather forecasting are hoping that weather conditions 3-to-4 weeks out will soon be as readily available as seven-day forecasts. Having this type of weather informationcalled subseasonal forecastsin the hands of the public and emergency managers can provide the critical lead time necessary to prepare for natural hazards like heat waves or the next polar vortex.

Four trillion satellite measurements, taken over four decades from 1981 to 2018, have been merged to create a continuous global record that will help to understand the science behind Earth's climate.

Guest “how can he write this with straight face?” by David Middleton Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warmingBy Warren Cornwall Dec. 4, 2019Climate change doub

A spectacular cirrus arc, which stretched from Nebraska to northern Minnesota and Canada, foreshadowed the recent winter storms in the Midwest and New England.

Warm-sector heavy rainfall (WSHR) events often cause severe flooding, huge economic losses, and many casualties, but the operational prediction of these events is difficult and often inaccurate. A study summarizes existing researches and propose challenges presented by WSHR.

It serves to rebut conservative opponents of proposals aimed at cutting emissions.

Farming and habitat destruction have caused the species to disappear from large areas of Europe.

It's time again for the Audubon Societys annual Christmas Bird Count. This is the project's 120th year! Learn how to join the count here.

Almost 40 years of data reveal that, thanks to climate change, North Americas migratory birds are shrinking whilst their wings are growing longer effects that may be occurring all around the world

Author Chris Earley focuses on the science of feeding birds and answers challenging questions.

New York City lawmakers are poised to adopt legislation requiring 'bird-friendly' glass in an effort to cut down on bird deaths.

New York City lawmakers are poised to adopt legislation requiring bird-friendly glass on all new construction in an effort to cut down on the tens of

News Release 4-Dec-2019 Migratory birds shrinking as climate warms, new analysis of four-decade record shows University of Michigan ANN ARBOR–North American migratory birds have been getting

Governments job is to keep its citizens safe. So why does it prioritise a rail extension over flood defences?

Israeli fish farmers give peckish pelicans free lunch

New York City lawmakers are poised to adopt legislation requiring "bird-friendly" glass on all new construction in an effort to cut down on the tens of thousands of birds who die flying into the city's buildings every year.

New York City lawmakers are poised to adopt legislation requiring bird-friendly glass on all new construction in an effort to cut down on the tens of thousands of birds who die flying into the city's buildings every year

NEW YORK (AP) New York City lawmakers are poised to adopt legislation requiring bird-friendly glass on all new construction in an effort to cut down on the tens of...

Colder weather provides some unique challenges for indoor plants; here's how to how to help them get through it.

The expanded version of the 2003 classic is a celebration of beauty, design, color and texture in a garden with naturalistic plantings, which the authors made famous.

Brenda Dziedzic's butterfly passion and expertise come alive on every page.

The tenacious flowers still face off against Decembers cold days, so its time to plan for next years long campaign of colour

The landscape architect Arnaud Casaus is creating green spaces wilder and warmer than those found at street level.

Substitutes for classic European holly, long associated with winter holidays, that will grow in the Midwest.

Gardeners who are new to Southern Nevada might want to check out resource books written for the Las Vegas climate or secondly Tucson, Arizona, and lastly the desert Southwest.

A garden journal can help you keep track of when things happen in the garden and which plants you like best, and plan for longer-term projects.

Sorbus are easy to grow and their gorgeous berries provide a visual winter feast

10 finds to gift to your most stressed-out friends and family members or to keep for yourself to make it through the holiday season.

Mushrooming horticultural know-how, expanding options and loosening rules are making this our sweet spot in time, write Mark and Ben Cullen

Euphorbias are starting to amaze in cool-season plantings whether they be in containers, or as the perfect pansy partner in the landscape. More than likely