South Carolina forests benefit from carbon offset trading
In South Carolina, the South Carolina Natural Resources Conservation Service held a workshop for forest landowners focused on carbon emission offsets trading. Marzieh Motallebi,...
Good News for Drones and Marine Mammals – They Can Live in Harmony
In Australia, researchers were concerned about noise pollution and how it can impact marine mammals like whales and dolphins that rely on soundwaves for...
The rural poor in mid-Victorian Britain had better health and lived longer
In the United Kingdom, a new study examined the impact of regional diets on the health of the poor during mid-19th century Britain and...
New foodborne toxin test is 100 percent accurate and faster, too
In California, Agricultural Research Service scientists developed a new test that's faster, more sensitive and less expensive than current tests in detecting one of...
New plant protein discovery leads improved photosynthetic efficiency
In Illinois, researchers have discovered a key protein in the photorespiration process to improve crop yield by improving photosynthetic efficiency. The newly discovered role...
Smart reforestation tool considers future climate conditions for replanting decisions
In Oregon, reforestation scientists at the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Oregon State University and the Conservation Biology Institute developed the Seedlot...
Sunlight-splitting greenhouse film increases photosynthetically efficient light
In Colorado, engineers working at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light...
First probiotic sour beer contains live strains of good bacteria
In Singapore, a novel probiotic sour beer created by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore incorporates the probiotic strain Lactobacillus...
Researchers map 94 percent of the wheat genome
In the United Kingdom, a major international research collaboration of more than 200 scientists from 73 research institutes in 20 countries over 13 years...
EXPLO goes underwater to explore the birth of agriculture
In Switzerland, an international team of researchers led by the University of Bern created EXPLO (Exploring the dynamics and causes of prehistoric land use...