13+ hour, 8+ min ago   (783+ words) Fluorinated waste streams have long been among the most stubborn environmental problems of the industrial age, and few sources illustrate the challenge better than aqueous film-forming foam, the firefighting agent that has contaminated soil and groundwater around airports, military bases…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (69+ words) Transgenic technology has quietly reshaped agriculture across the world since the mid-1990s, moving desirable genes into crop plants across the barriers of sexual compatibility and, in doing so, accelerating the development of new cultivars beyond what conventional breeding alone can achieve....

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (718+ words) Slaughterhouses are among the most difficult facilities to keep environmentally clean. Every carcass processed leaves behind a wastewater stream loaded with blood proteins, fats, oils and grease, suspended solids, and an enormous chemical oxygen demand that can overwhelm conventional treatment…...

15+ hour, 16+ min ago   (548+ words) On Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, the cashew tree has long been more than a crop; it is a livelihood anchor for tens of thousands of rural households. Yet the nut that once sustained Kilifi County’s farm economy is in trouble....

15+ hour, 37+ min ago   (569+ words) In the intensively irrigated farmland of Egypt’s Nile Delta, knowing exactly when crops begin to suffer from water stress can mean the difference between a viable harvest and devastating losses....

15+ hour, 54+ min ago   (88+ words) The history of human industry is, in many ways, a history of how we connect materials. From the earliest metallurgical bonds forged by ancient smiths to the complex multi-material assemblies of the modern era, the ability to join advanced or…...

16+ hour ago   (716+ words) India’s rice research establishment has added a new name to its catalogue of hybrid varieties, with the formal notification of Pusa Jawahar Rice Hybrid 56 in the Indian Journal of Genetics and Plant Breeding....

17+ hour, 36+ min ago   (80+ words) Despite a decade of breathless headlines about artificial intelligence, agricultural robots, and fully autonomous farms, the berries, avocados, oranges, and tomatoes stacked in market stalls around the world are still harvested, in the overwhelming majority of cases, by human hands....

18+ hour, 21+ min ago   (725+ words) A new high-yielding, aromatic rice hybrid developed by scientists at the ICAR–Indian Agricultural Research Institute (ICAR-IARI) in New Delhi has been formally identified for release in the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, offering farmers in the…...

18+ hour, 46+ min ago   (55+ words) Every year, farms and food-processing plants generate staggering volumes of straw, husks, stalks, manure, and processing residues, much of which rots away or is burned. These materials are rich in energy, but for the microbes that convert organic matter into…...