Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:55:47 +0000
The clever folks at MIT have created robot bees that may one day be able to pollinate fruits and vegetables.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:30:54 +0000
Global climate change has had a significant impact on the way the world grows its food. Climate change introduces a suite of ominous factors, such as greenhouse gas emissions, elevated temperature, increased carbon dioxide concentrations, nitrous oxide and methane ozone depletion, and deforestation. All of these intensify environmental stresses on … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:15:08 +0000
Remember how nearly five years ago, Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic? Now bird flu is on the short and serious watch list for health organizations. This is a national situation in the US that could have been avoided, or at least reduced, if the federal government had required Big … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:17:32 +0000
Food consumption is on the minds of many individuals as the new year rolls on, with nearly half of US adults saying that they’re starting a new diet. Our contemporary food selections have been carefully cultivated for taste and convenience; exotic food luxuries in many of our childhoods are now … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000
The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 02:33:55 +0000
The hydrogen for transportation community is all abuzz about a late-year report from a working group of the UK’s Hydrogen Delivery Council and the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. The working group, made up almost entirely of professionals whose entire career, livelihood, and indeed the future of the … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 21:58:43 +0000
The state of biodiversity is at a critical crossroads as 2024 comes to an end. Nature in all its gifts provides the basic elements on which all life depends: clean air, temperature control, fertile soil, and clean water. Too few people, though, seem to grasp the centrality of protecting and … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 21:28:14 +0000
Two years ago, Massachusetts banned businesses that generate more than 1,000 pounds of food waste a week from tossing those scraps in the garbage. Restaurants, grocery stores, schools, and hotels all had to reconsider what it meant to dispose of scraps left over from food preparation and diners’ plates. And … [continued]
The post How Has One US State Cut Food Waste When Others Continue To Struggle? appeared first on CleanTechnica.
Read moreCredit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:51:02 +0000
Burps and farts. They’re the fodder of fun prepubescent comedy. When the burps and farts come from livestock, though, they generate significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas that is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming the planet. In fact, animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gas emissions … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 04:29:53 +0000
More research shows that agrivoltaics — the combination of solar and agriculture — can pay big dividends for communities and farmers.
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