Aerospace has the potential to transform African agriculture, but the biggest challenge will be getting these technologies into the hands of farmers that need them. The white paper entitled The
Archive for October 2018
WWF report calls for ‘new global deal for nature and people’ to halt the steep decline in global wildlife populations
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The 2018 Living Planet Report released by the WWF on 29 October has found that global wildlife populations have fallen by a massive 60 per cent since 1970, according to
Recent EU ruling on gene-edited crops may deny Europe important opportunities in sustainable agriculture, say scientists
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Three months ago, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that gene-edited crops, including those created using the newer and more precise gene-editing technologies like CRISPR–Cas9, should be subject to
A new special issue on rewilding was published on October 22 in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited by Dr Liesbeth Bakker, an aquatic ecology researcher from the
A new paper presented on 22 October at the United European Gastroenterology Conference in Vienna has reported the initial findings of a pilot study with a small sample size, which
A new study published on 22 October in the journal Nature Medicine presents a computational model called Artificial Intelligence (AI) Clinician to assist with the individualized real-time treatment of sepsis
The idea of identifying a genetic basis for homosexuality has sparked debate for more than a quarter of a century and recent findings, cautiously presented by a team of geneticists
An updated version of the iconic report to the Club of Rome entitled “The Limits to Growth” was released on 17 October ― the 50th anniversary of the initial predictions
Should the agricultural industry adopt an approach similar to the auto industry’s fuel-emissions standards?
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A new study published on 15 October in Nature Sustainability finds that adopting benchmarks similar to the fuel-efficiency standards used by the automotive industry in the production of fertilizer could
A new paper published on 12 October in the journal Nature Advances presents a novel synthetic catalyst ― epsilon iron carbide ― a catalyst that can be successfully used in the coal-to-liquids (CTL) conversion