Intensified research effort yields climate-resilient agriculture to blunt impact of global warming
...d introducing new and better methods for rainwater harvesting and storage, shifting to less thirsty crops and perfecting drip irrigation to deliver precise amounts of water when and where it is most needed. Conservation farming techniques refined by CGIAR researchers, such as low- or zero-tilling in which farm...A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species
..., market price will cover (and exceed) the cost of harvesting the last giant parrot, tegu lizard, or lady's slipper orchid on Earth. The authors describe multiple human activities that could precipitate the anthropogenic Allee effect. Hobby collections of the sort Watson allegedly gave his life for top their ...End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources
...USA gained growing stock during 1990 to 2005 while harvesting much round wood and some fuel. China did likewise....donesia and Brazil lost much growing stock without harvesting as much timber as either the USA or China." The authors also predict the share of industrial wo...ESSP launches new Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study
..., such as in southwest China, very late rains made harvesting of crops impossible, while the Chinese province of Sichuan experienced its worst drought in 50 years and Chongqing its worst in around a century. According to a recent study by China Agriculture University, water shortages are considered a growing co...Bacteria in small sea life yield new way to make potential cancer drugs
...of these chemicals have anticancer properties, but harvesting them in quantities for large-scale testing and production has been impractical. The new method uses genetic pathways in the bacteria to produce the small chemicals and to manipulate them to invent new potential drugs. The ability to make these che...Governments should act now to save threatened turtles
...o decline from the mid-1600s onwards, when massive harvesting of nesting turtles began. Only a few dozen individuals survive today. New research, led by the University of Exeter's School of Biosciences and the Cayman Islands Department of Environment, reveals the astonishing distances these animals travel and...Harvesting machine driving mesquite-to-ethanol potential
...hammers on it to knock down the brush. The new harvesting machine is not self-powered and is pulled throught...000 pounds or 15 tons per acre. The concept of harvesting mesquite as a biofuel has been around sincethe 1970s, Ansley said. There have been unsuccessful atte...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- September 27, 2006
... was their inspiration to propose a new method for harvesting sunlight to produce electricity. Andrei P. Somme...t block others. Applications of the effect include harvesting sunlight for photovoltaic cells. "The light-collector mechanism in dentin could serve as a model f...Research aims for more efficiency in harvest and handling
...vin Shinners wants farmers to put less energy into harvesting and handling biofuel crops - less fuel, less time ..., Shinners has worked to improve the efficiency of harvesting forage for animals. Harvesting biomass crops poses similar challenges, he says. "The biggest probl...Loss of just one species makes big difference in freshwater ecosystem, study finds
... Their abundance makes them attractive targets for harvesting by people. So when we took them away, not only was the impact astounding, it also revealed how their loss could change carbon flow, an important measure of ecosystem function," says Taylor. During a six-year period, Taylor and his team discovered a...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 9, 2006
...lications of the new findings, they cite potential harvesting of electricity from mechanical movement energy (such as body movement, muscle stretching and blood pressure), vibration energy (sound waves) and hydraulic energy (blood flow or contraction of blood vessels). The technology might be used in wireless s...Discovery of metabolic pathway for parasite could lead to new controls for diseases
...humans have to do with a structure associated with harvesting sunlight? It turns out that the chloroplasts have additional functions, and it is these functions that the parasites require. Striepen and his team discovered that a special chloroplast fatty acid synthesis (FAS) pathway in T. gondii is essential f...Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade
...eographical spread. The combination of destructive harvesting methods and over-harvesting of large, predatory fish reef fish have devastating effects. Being able to choose a huge fish to eat from a tank is a big pull in luxury seafood restaurants. Fish such as the Napoleon wrasse, a giant reef fish that commo...Thieves promote stable coexistence among desert rodents
...omotes stable coexistence if one species excels at harvesting while to other excels at stealing. "We can't conserve biodiversity if we don't understand the processes that maintain it," Price says. "There are far more ecological interactions to understand than there are ecologists, but fortunately, we can ofte...West develops taste for primates
...pport local people. "But that is very different to harvesting large mammals such as great apes and elephants," he says. "It would be very hard for that to be sustainable." Davies says that central governments in Africa need to be made aware of the millions of dollars being spent on the parallel economy of the...Food-crop yields in future greenhouse-gas conditions lower than expected
...carbon-dioxide levels projected for the future are harvesting dramatically less bounty than those raised in earlier greenhouse and other enclosed test conditions and scientists warn that global food supplies could be at risk without changes in production strategies. The new findings are based on on-going open-...Creating a window on 'oceans in motion'
...marine and we have much to learn by electronically harvesting information about their movements," says Prof. Ron... million in such areas as ship time, tagging, data harvesting and interpretation. "Contrary to 19th-century views that the oceans were essentially infinite, the 2...From campfire to gas tank, Mesquite energy may be harvested for ethanol
...th rates, as well as develop a mechanizedsystem of harvesting mesquite. Working with private cooperators, Ansley has helped design a harvesterthat is in the patent-pending stages. He hopes to have it ready fordemonstration at an Oct. 5 field day at the Vernon station. "We've run some trials with it and ...Most extensive survey ever of world's tropical forests shows upward trend in sustainable management
...tected areas. Under sustainable production, timber harvesting and other revenue-generating activities (such as collecting fruits, nuts and medicinal plants) are allowed, but must not destroy the forests. Those forests maintained as protected areas are those where landowners will endeavor to maintain the forest'...