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Mar. 16, 2022 —Dry, hot regions are difficult places to grow plants because the soil dries out quickly. As a result, farmers in arid and semi-arid regions irrigate their fields with buried networks of irrigation ...
July 21, 2022 —Scientists don't know much about how vegetables and other crops take up and accumulate lead in real-world settings, but new research in Chicago backyard gardens shows tomatoes are likely safe to ...
July 12, 2022 —The results singled out growing-degree days as the most important climatic factor and water holding capacity as the most influential soil property for crop-yield ...
June 14, 2022 —Researchers conducted an eight-year experiment that found that climate warming played a predominant role in shaping microbial biodiversity, with significant negative ...
May 22, 2023 —A new study shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in ...
Aug. 18, 2020 —Researchers, in a recent study, were surprised to learn that they could take the exact same number of seeds from the same plants, put them in agricultural fields across the Mid-Atlantic region and ...
Aug. 13, 2021 —A new study suggests that crop insurance serves as a disincentive for farmers to adopt climate change mitigation measures on their ...
Oct. 25, 2021 —Air humidity is more important than soil moisture in influencing whether it rains in the United States Corn Belt, an agricultural area in the Midwest, stretching from Indiana to Nebraska and ...
Nov. 8, 2021 —Community ecologists investigated the interactive effects of rising temperatures and a common livestock antibiotic on soil microbes. The research team found that heat and antibiotics disrupt soil ...
June 17, 2022 —Researchers studied a practice known as silvopasture which intentionally preserves trees in pastures where livestock graze. They found that compared to a completely cleared, tree-less, open pasture, ...