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
Archive for 2018
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
The first two papers using the complete set of data from the huge UK biobank project — currently the largest human genome study — were published on 10 October, both
A new study published on 10 October in the journal Nature has found that sustainably feeding the world population, estimated to reach 10 billion by 2050, is achievable but only
California-based company Iron Ox has just launched its first fully autonomous farm, run entirely by robots and artificial intelligence (AI). The agritech startup seems to have taken precision farming to a
Latest IPCC climate report paints a dreary picture, but does it go far enough? Some climate experts say, no
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The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on 8 October paints a truly bleak picture of the detrimental impacts that could result from allowing the global mean
Ecology has reconnected the fundamental and sacred link that connects the environment to man. With this communion, it fills the void left by religions in an age of technological explosion.
Two separate studies published on 8 October in Nature Medicine have successfully used modified CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technologies to correct gene mutations associated two genetically inherited metabolic disorders, phenylketonuria and
Scientists in the US are working toward virus-infected insects that would be dispersed in fields to genetically engineer agricultural crops as part of an ongoing programme funded by the US Defense