Food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy: The demand for agricultural raw materials is rising.
Expansion of Agricultural Land Threatens Climate and Biodiversity
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Protecting Surf Breaks Mitigates Climate Change, Helps Coastal Communities, Analysis Finds
Safeguarding places to hang ten and shoot the curl is an opportunity to simultaneously mitigate climate change, fuel tourism and help surrounding ecosystems, new research has shown.
Mizzou Scientists Achieve More than 98% Efficiency Removing Nanoplastics from Water
University of Missouri scientists are battling against an emerging enemy of human health: nanoplastics. Much smaller in size than the diameter of an average human hair, nanoplastics are invisible to the naked eye.
In Montana’s Northern Plains, Swift Foxes Are Back from the Brink
The swift fox — known as Nóouhàh-Toka’na to the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes — once roamed the Western plains from Texas to Canada, eating small rodents and insects. But their numbers swooned with the arrival of settlers, who plowed their grasslands and set poison baits for canine predators.
Climate Change More Than Tripled Odds of Severe Wildfires in Canada Last Year
Warming loaded the dice for fire weather — hot, dry conditions that leave forests ripe for burning — in Canada and in part of the Amazon last year, according to a new report.
Newly Discovered Ability of Comammox Bacteria Could Help Reduce Nitrous Oxide Emissions in Agriculture
An international research team led by the Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CeMESS) at the University of Vienna has discovered that comammox bacteria, first identified by them in 2015, can grow using guanidine, a nitrogen-rich organic compound, as their sole energy and nitrogen source.
