News tagged with shade coffee

Coffee cultivation good for diversity in agrarian settlements but not in forests

Coffee shrubs, both in themselves and because they are most often cultivated in the shade of large trees, can have a positive impact on plant and animal diversity in those parts of the landscape that are deforested and dominated ...

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO

Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal rules that would ...

Technology / Business

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

MIT lab working on wristband to allow for individual control of local building environment

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT Media Lab has announced that a team of researchers working in the Responsive Environments Group is hard at it trying to come up with just the right sort of wrist bracelet that could interface with a building ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Psychology researcher finds that second-guessing one's decisions leads to unhappiness

You're in search of a new coffee maker, and the simple quest becomes, well, an ordeal. After doing copious amounts of research and reading dozens of consumer reviews, you finally make a purchase, only to wonder: "Was this ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Stalemate over organic farming slows progress in effort to combat food insecurity in Central Africa

The polarized debate over the use of organic and inorganic practices to boost farm yields is slowing action and widespread farmer adoption of approaches that could radically transform Africa's food security situation, according ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists explore the role of aeroecology in bat conservation and ecosystem health

Golf courses and coffee plantations are some of the unlikely bat habitats that could be considered in conservation plans, say scientists presenting research at the Ecological Society of America's (ESA) 96th Annual Meeting ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Updating the Mary Poppins solution with a better bitter blocker

With millions of adults and children avoiding nutritious foods because of the bitter taste, and gagging or vomiting when forced to take bitter liquid medicines, scientists today reported an advance toward a high-tech version ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

On organic coffee farm, complex interactions keep pests under control

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proponents of organic farming often speak of nature's balance in ways that sound almost spiritual, prompting criticism that their views are unscientific and naďve. At the other end of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Shade-coffee farms support native bees that help maintain genetic diversity in remnant tropical forests

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shade-grown coffee farms support native bees that help maintain the health of some of the world's most biodiverse tropical regions, according to a study by a University of Michigan biologist ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jul 26, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solar panels go through extreme tests at San Jose lab

At a nondescript office park in San Jose, solar panels from manufacturers around the world are going through tests of extreme endurance to make sure they are safe to put on your roof.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Kew botanists discover more than 250 new plant species in 250th anniversary year

Giant rainforest trees, rare and beautiful orchids, spectacular palms, minute fungi, wild coffees and an ancient aquatic plant are among more than 250 new plant and fungi species discovered and described by botanists from ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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