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| December 20, 2013 |
 Oregano Oil May Help Sunflower Seeds Keep Longer Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 20, 2013 - Sunflower seeds and sunflower oils have been shown to decrease risk of cardiovascular disease as well as have potential beneficial effects on obesity, bone health, and blood pressure. However their high protein and fat content mean they can have a short shelf-life. A study in the Journal of Food Science published by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) showed that the addition of oreg ... more |  |
 Drought and climate change: An uncertain future? London, UK (SPX) Dec 19, 2013 - Drought frequency may increase by more than 20% in some regions of the globe by the end of the 21st century, but it is difficult to be more precise as we don't know yet how changes in climate will impact on the world's rivers. The results come from a study, published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), which examined computer simulations from an ensemble of sta ... more |  |
Saving the Great Plains water supply East Lansing MI (SPX) Dec 17, 2013 - Significant portions of the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of water in the United States, are at risk of drying up if it continues to be drained at its current rate. In the current issue of Earth's Future, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, Michigan State University scientists are proposing alternatives that will halt and hopefully reverse the unsustainable use of water dr ... more |  |
Cat domestication traced to Chinese farmers 5,300 years ago St. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 17, 2013 - Five-thousand years before it was immortalized in a British nursery rhyme, the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt was doing just fine living alongside farmers in the ancient Chinese village of Quanhucun, a forthcoming study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed. "At least three different lines of scientific inquiry allow us to tell a story about cat do ... more |  |
Climate change puts 40 percent more people at risk of absolute water scarcity Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2013 - Water scarcity impacts people's lives in many countries already today. Future population growth will increase the demand for freshwater even further. Yet in addition to this, on the supply side, water resources will be affected by projected changes in rainfall and evaporation. Climate change due to unabated greenhouse-gas emissions within our century is likely to put 40 percent more people ... more |  |
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Diet and digestion in cows, chickens and pigs drives climate change 'hoofprint' Nairobi, Kenya (SPX) Dec 17, 2013 - The resources required to raise livestock and the impacts of farm animals on environments vary dramatically depending on the animal, the type of food it provides, the kind of feed it consumes and where it lives, according to a new study that offers the most detailed portrait to date of "livestock ecosystems" in different parts of the world. The study, published today in the Proceedings of ... more |  |
 UN supplies seeds for typhoon-hit Philippine farmers Rome (AFP) Dec 17, 2013 - The UN food agency on Tuesday said it had begun supplying farmers in the Philippines with emergency seed supplies after a devastating typhoon that struck just at the beginning of the planting season. The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said it was delivering rice and corn seed to rural communities in the Visayan island group that will allow farmers to collect a harvest in ... more |  |
Two insecticides a risk for human nervous system: EU Brussels (AFP) Dec 17, 2013 - The EU warned Tuesday that two widely used insecticides, one of which has been implicated in catastrophic bee population decline, may pose a risk to human health by harming brain development. The neonicotinoid insecticides acetamiprid and imidacloprid "may affect the developing human nervous system," the European Food Safety Authority said. This marked the first time such a link has been ... more |  |
 Ancient bones offer peek at history of cats in China Washington (AFP) Dec 17, 2013 - Five-thousand-year-old cat bones found in a Chinese farming village have raised new questions about man's complex rapport with domestic felines through history, said a study out Monday. Cats are widely thought to have been domesticated in ancient Egypt and the Middle East some 4,000 years ago, and the oldest evidence of a wild cat buried with a human on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus dat ... more |  |
Scientists help adapt Brazil farming to climate change Brasilia (AFP) Dec 16, 2013 - Hundreds of scientists are helping Brazil's giant agricultural sector prepare for the effects of climate change and anticipate pests that hit neighboring countries. Spearheading the effort is the Brazilian Agriculture Research Corporation (Embrapa), a state agency tasked with developing and extending technology to support sustainable farming. "We have 400 investigators currently focusing ... more |  |
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 Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES) acquires wild seaweed operation in Norway Trondheim, Norway (SPX) Dec 19, 2013 - Seaweed Energy Solutions (SES) has announced it has reached an agreement to buy all of Norway's Biotral AS in a deal that transforms SES' position as one of Europe's leading producers of seaweed. The combination of SES and Biotral, a leading harvester of wild seaweed, opens up new business opportunities by immediately increasing volumes to supplement SES' growing seaweed farming operations ... more |  |
Where water is limited, researchers determine how much water is enough Davis CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - A collaboration of scientists from the US Department of Agriculture and the University of California Davis, among others, has introduced a precision instrument that can determine the water loss, or surface renewal, of agricultural systems that are threatened by water scarcity and climate change. "These systems provide growers with real-time data needed to make irrigation decisions," said D ... more |  |
Upper Rio Grande Impact Reveals Growing Gap in Supply and Demand Albuquerque NM (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - Increasing temperatures and changes in the timing of snowmelt runoff could impact the amount of water available on the upper Rio Grande in the future. These are some of the results of the Upper Rio Grande Impact Assessment released by Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle. "This report uses the most current information and state of the art scienti ... more |  |
Harvard study shows sprawl threatens water quality, climate protection, and land conservation gains Boston MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - A groundbreaking study by Harvard University's Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian Institution reveals that, if left unchecked, recent trends in the loss of forests to development will undermine significant land conservation gains in Massachusetts, jeopardize water quality, and limit the natural landscape's ability to protect against climate change. The scientists researched and analyzed fo ... more |  |
Biodegradable or not? Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - In order to improve the evaluation process for the long-term consequences of pesticides, scientists have developed a new detection method and a model that can enable determinations regarding whether and how readily biodegradable the residues of pesticides are. The study, conducted by scientists at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), the Rhine-Westphalian Technical Univer ... more |  |
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Toxic Substances in Banana Plants Kill Root Pests Jena, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2013 - Bananas are a major food staple for about 400 million people in the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. However, banana yields worldwide are severely threatened by pests. Dirk Holscher from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and an international team of researchers have discovered that some banana varieties accumulate specific plant to ... more |  |
New GPM Video Dissects the Anatomy of a Raindrop Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 09, 2013 - When asked to picture the shape of raindrops, many of us will imagine water looking like tears that fall from our eyes, or the stretched out drip from a leaky faucet. This popular misconception is often reinforced in weather imagery associated with predictions and forecasts. Raindrops are actually shaped like the top of a hamburger bun, round on the top and ... more |  |
Scientists discover vast undersea freshwater reserves Sydney (AFP) Dec 13, 2013 - Australian researchers said Thursday they had established the existence of vast freshwater reserves trapped beneath the ocean floor which could sustain future generations as current sources dwindle. Lead author Vincent Post, from Australia's Flinders University, said that an estimated 500,000 cubic kilometres (120,000 cubic miles) of low-salinity water had been found buried beneath the seabe ... more |  |
New System for Assessing How Effective Species Are at Pollinating Crops Raleigh NC (SPX) Dec 12, 2013 - From tomatoes to pumpkins, most fruit and vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species - and the future of many of those species is uncertain. Now researchers from North Carolina State University are proposing a set of guidelines for assessing the performance of pollinator species in order to determine which species are most important and should be prioritized for protect ... more |  |
EU court annuls Commission approval of BASF's GM potato Brussels (AFP) Dec 13, 2013 - The EU's second highest court Friday annulled a European Commission decision to authorise a genetically modified potato developed by German giant BASF, saying it had not followed proper procedure. The Commission "departed from the rules of the authorisation procedures," the EU's General Court, which sits below the European Court of Justice, said in a statement. In 2010, the Commission cl ... more |  |
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