ARC, Varian, Inc. team up to improve water use in pulp and paper mills
...nufacturing processes in the oil & gas, cosmetics, agriculture and food processing industries. Varian, Inc. is a major supplier of scientific instruments, vacuum technologies, and specialized contract electronics manufacturing services. These businesses serve a broad range of life science and industrial customer...Too little attention is paid to the side effects of emission-limiting measures
...onomist Brink, combined with figures from European agriculture demonstrates that the policy aimed at reducing ammonia emission can lead to an increased emission of nitrous oxide or methane. For example, ammonia-limiting measures such as the introduction of low-emission stables and the low-emission application of...Ant agriculture: 50 million years of success
Fungus-growing ants practice agriculture and have been doing so for the past 50 million yea...ngi, and weeds have all been co-evolving since ant agriculture first got started -- that's around 50 million years of symbiosis," said Dr. Ted Schultz, research en...Is remote sensing the answer to today's agriculture problems?
...ng - a relatively new technology to today's modern agriculture that uses aerial photography and satellite imagery. In this 2000-2001 study, scientists used remote sensing in the form of infrared aerial photographs to determine when early nitrogen fertilizer applications were required. By relating the infrared re...Wolf Prize shared by Texas A&M, Missouri researchers
... Dr. Fuller W. Bazer, associate vice chancellor of agriculture and life sciences for the Texas A&M University Sys...ntists exemplify how devotion to basic research in agriculture can lead to practical outcomes that impact both animal production and human health and well-being," ...URI biological oceanographers test shallow marine systems' response to increased nutrients
...are now facing increasing nutrient enrichment from agriculture and suburban housing development with associated on-site sewage disposal systems and ground water nitrogen enrichment. A team of scientists at the URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) have focused their research on these very shallow lagoon typ...Wetlands clean selenium from agricultural runoff
...ecome a major wastewater remediation tool for both agriculture and industry. "The upshot is that wetlands are a very efficient and affordable solution to ridding polluted water of a toxic chemical," said Terry. "Plants grow year after year, and while a constructed wetland system would need to be monitored, it w...Science's top ten: Discovery of genes' 'control switches' named top advance of 2002
...ed genome sequence drafts for organisms with major agriculture and public health relevance for the developing world. The sequences of the indica rice subspecies and the short grain japonica subspecies may help efforts to improve rice's nutritional quality and crop yield, and to make cultivation methods more sust...Shifts in rice farming practices in China reduce greenhouse gas methane
...increase by 70 percent over the next 30 years, and agriculture currently accounts for about 86 percent of total water consumption in Asia, according to a recent report from the International Rice Research Institute. Changes to management practices like this will be more important and likely in the future as the ...'Small RNA' research cited as breakthrough of the year
...form the basis for important advances in medicine, agriculture and other fields. During the year, a major research program at OSU that is being supported by a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation contributed two important publications outlining new findings about these extraordinarily small r...Agricultural science helping farmers reduce greenhouse gas
...st. Unlike other industries which emit mostly CO2, agriculture emits N20 and methane. "Methane accounts for about...Dr. Henry Janzen, AAFC soil biochemist, noted that agriculture will be asked to help reduce these emissions and science can provide farmers with the tools to do it...Stung by success: Intensive farming may suppress pollinating bees
... because current high-density, pesticide-dependent agriculture cannot support native bees. "This is a valuable service that we may actually be destroying through our own land management practices," said Princeton ecologist Claire Kremen, who co-wrote the study with Neal Williams, a postdoctoral researcher, and R...Global analysis finds nearly half the Earth is still wilderness
...ingly threatened by population growth, encroaching agriculture and resource extraction activities. Barely 7 percent of the areas currently enjoy some form of protection. Nineteen of the wilderness areas have remarkably low population densities an average of less than one person per square kilometer. Excluding...Scientists find insects can alter plant chemistry to help them find mates
...bitats, which in Illinois have dwindled because of agriculture and urban growth to less than 1 percent of the acreage they once covered. "Prairies hold unique plants and insects that are not thoroughly understood," Hanks said. "This study is important because it shows that insects can influence plants for their...Agriculture presents common ground for rural, urban people
...t documents is something that many associated with agriculture understand intuitively. "Agricultural science imp...plants and forestry production, the report defines agriculture as including major components that range from food safety technologies to natural resource programs ...Health of American Indians on decline before Columbus arrived in new world
...researchers say. The rise of agriculture is partly to blame, said Rich... story that follows from the rise of settled agriculture and urbanization, Steckel said. There are other variables responsible ...When Media, Science and Public Policy Collide: The Case of Food and Biotechnology
..., policymakers and advocacy groups on the topic of agriculture biotechnology and food and human health....Tiny plant may yield big environment, energy payoffs
... have been useful to science for a century in both agriculture and energy research. In nature, the organisms are widely present in fresh and brackish water, all kinds of soils, underwater thermal vents and even under the Antarctic ice shelf. One species of Chlamydomonas sports a red pigment -- as protection from...Report examines use of antibiotics in agriculture
...iseases with great success and have been a part of agriculture for many years. Agricultural uses of antibiotics i... on the impact of antibiotic resistant bacteria in agriculture and provide a critical assessment of that impact. The document discusses best approaches to understa......ent American biologist working to develop low-tech agriculture in one of the driest places on earth is one of five individuals to be named winners of the 10th series of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise for their groundbreaking projects in the areas of science, the environment, exploration and cultural heritage. E...