Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms.
AI to Make Crop Production More Sustainable
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Turbid Waters Keep the Coast Healthy
To preserve the important intertidal areas and salt marshes off our coasts for the future, we need more turbid water.
DDT Pollutants Found in Deep Sea Fish off Los Angeles Coast
In the 1940s and 1950s, the ocean off the coast of Los Angeles was a dumping ground for the nation’s largest manufacturer of the pesticide DDT – a chemical now known to harm humans and wildlife.
Sierra Snowpack Springs Back
While spring was springing across much of the Northern Hemisphere, California’s Sierra Nevada still looked very much like winter in early May 2024.
The Clues for Cleaner Water
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Drexel University in Philadelphia, along with Brookhaven National Laboratory, are working to solve a multipart mystery to make water disinfection treatments more sustainable.
Venus has Almost No Water. A New Study May Reveal Why
Planetary scientists at CU Boulder have discovered how Venus, Earth’s scalding and uninhabitable neighbor, became so dry.
