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Flood-Resistant Rice Also 'Drought-Proof'
Seeded on Mon Mar 7, 2011 3:02 PM EST (BBC News - Japan hit by massive earthquake)
Researchers found that the gene, Sub1A, allowed to plants to survive by growing fresh shoots after a period of drought. Rice is the primary food for three billion people, and more than 25% the world's harvest is grown in areas that experience extreme weather conditions.
Amoebas Farm Crops of Bacteria
Seeded on Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:48 AM EST (The New York Times)
The crops that the amoebas farm are the bacteria that they prefer to eat. Only about one-third of the amoebas, known as farmers, exhibit agricultural tendencies and carry bacteria with them to seed. More Articles
Doc Says 'It's Not Cancer, There's a Pea Plant Growing in Your Lung
Seeded on Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:41 AM EDT (Telegraph)
A patient who feared he had cancer was told he had grown a pea plant which had sprouted leaves in his lung. More Articles
Exploring Algae as Fuel
Seeded on Mon Jul 26, 2010 11:04 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Algae are attracting attention because the strains can potentially produce 10 or more times more fuel per acre than the corn used to make ethanol or the soybeans used to make biodiesel.
The Case For Eating Insects
Seeded on Thu Jul 15, 2010 10:17 AM EDT (CNN)
In the next 40 years, the world is going to need a 70 percent increase in food production to feed a population that will be billions larger and considerably wealthier than it is today.
Birds Say No Thanks to Organic Feed
Seeded on Thu May 20, 2010 9:45 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Birds may prefer conventionally grown seed over organic seed, according to a new study in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture.
If we are what we eat, we are in trouble
Seeded on Mon Apr 12, 2010 2:14 PM EDT (FT.com)
Suppose that you and your partner go out for dinner tonight. You order steak and salad while your partner has chicken with rice. Now inspect your plates. Your cow spent almost all its life in a shed, burping methane that heats the planet.
Worse Than Peak Oil? We're Quickly Running Out of a Chemical Essential to Growing Food
Seeded on Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:53 AM EDT (AlterNet.org)
Unremarked and unregulated by the United Nations and other high-level assemblies, the world's supply of phosphate rock, the dominant source of phosphorus for fertilizer, is being rapidly — and wastefully — drawn down.
The Sound of Ice - Eric Larsen
Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:06 AM EDT
For a while I thought I was loosing my vision as everything was going so blurry, but then I realized it was only because my eye lashes were so coated with ice that it was obscuring my eye sight . Not that it mattered much, I didn't really want to see up ahead anyway.
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Aquaponics, a Gardening System Using Fish and Circulating Water
Seeded on Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:04 AM EST (The New York Times)
What feeds his winter crop of lettuce is recirculating water from the 150-gallon fish tank and the waste generated by his 20 jumbo goldfish. Wastewater is what fertilizes the 27 strawberry plants from last summer, too. They occupy little cubbies in a seven-foot-tall PVC pipe.
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