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Researchers discover potential solutions to New England roadside erosion

Erosion is a significant problem on highway embankments in New England. To mitigate erosion on the regions' highways, slopes are seeded with a grass–legume mixture that usually including red fescue, a ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mayan village in Mexico impacted by climate change

(AP) -- The first time Araceli Bastida Be heard the phrase "climate change" was on TV two years ago. Then she began to understand why strange things had been happening in her village.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 05, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (13) | comments 1

Soil nutrient management for organic production

Organic producers are faced with somewhat different challenges in maintaining their soil nutrient levels than are conventional producers. The new Montana State University Extension bulletin Soil Nutrient Management on Organic ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Urging evolutionary biologists into the fray

A Harvard botanist is citing climate change lessons learned at Walden Pond and urging evolutionary biologists into the global warming fray, where their knowledge of species’ genetic relationships can ...

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Biofuel study looks at cost to wildlife and environmental diversity

Whether we can grow bio-energy crops such as switchgrass and forage sorghum isn't the question, said a Texas AgriLife Research scientist.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UF releases ornamental peanut plants for use as lawn, groundcover

Homeowners tired of watering, fertilizing and mowing grass have a new low-maintenance lawn option -- peanuts.

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Keeping nitrogen in the soil and out of the water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nitrogen is important for optimal crop production, but can be lost to leaching as nitrate. High amounts of nitrate in drinking water can be harmful to people, especially infants and pregnant women. While ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Organic Cover Crops, More Seeds Means Fewer Weeds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Farmers cultivating organic produce often use winter cover crops to add soil organic matter, improve nutrient cycling and suppress weeds. Now these producers can optimize cover crop use by ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Fungus-on-Fungus Fight Could Benefit Chickpeas

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fungus Ascochyta rabiei threatens chickpea crops the world over. But now this blight-causing pathogen could meet its match in Aureobasidium pullulans, a rival fungus that Agricultural ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New Peas Unfazed by Viral Bully

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four advanced dry pea breeding lines that tolerate the pea enation mosaic virus (PEMV) -- a “scourge” of Pacific West pea crops -- have been identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) ...

Biology / Other

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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