Browsing: Agriculture

Wheat is harvested from a strip lined with vertical solar panels at Next2Sun Solar Park in GermanyKnoblauch GmbH/Next2Sun With the price of solar panels falling rapidly,…

Human urine could be used to make fertilizerPhoto/Getty Images A more efficient way to extract fertilizer from human urine could make better use of wastewater in…

Fossil fuels currently support the shipping industrySven Hansche/Shutterstock Switching from burning fossil fuels to burning ammonia is a promising way for the shipping industry to reduce…

Italian ryegrass is a common weed in agricultural crops.John Cousins Weeds resistant to the herbicide glyphosate have been discovered for the first time in the UK.…

Most chocolate is made from cacao plants harvested from Central America to Ghana and the Ivory Coast.Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images wild chocolateRowan Jacobsen (Bloomsbury Publishing)…

Genus’ gene-edited pigs are resistant to the virus that causes PRRSGenus PIC Thirty years after the first genetically modified tomato was released, the promise that genetic…

Elsewhere, Mars is trying to get to the literal root of the problem by improving the resilience of its most important cocoa plants. The food giant…

Gene editing can make larger tomato varieties sweeterPaul Maguire/Shutterstock If you like sweet tomatoes, smaller cherry tomato varieties are the way to go right now. But…

Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common…

Sunrise over rice terraces in Bali, IndonesiaAliaksandr Mazurkevich / Alamy Zinc nanoparticles, a common sunscreen ingredient, could help protect rice from heat-related stress, an increasingly common…