Ants discovered agriculture 66 million years ago
The same asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs may have led ants to farm fungus.
Tag: farming
This couple’s farm wasn’t generating any profits. Then, they turned it into a wildland
22 years ago, a couple switched from modern farming to wildland farming. Here is how this decision transformed the lives ...
Dubai unveils the world’s largest indoor farm that will produce 2 million pounds of leafy greens yearly
Growing food in the desert has never been more efficient.
Humans are no longer the only mammal on Earth to farm — pocket gophers do so too
Although their approach is slightly different from our own, the authors argue that what we are seeing is indeed farming ...
Farm vehicles have become so heavy they’re affecting the world’s soils
Massive tractors could be damaging the world's soils
Your favorite fruits may have come from radioactive plants. Meet the wonderous ‘gamma gardens’
The number of mutant plant varieties on the market is unknown.
Backyards could supply between 50% to 100% of your family’s protein needs
If you got it, work it.
Clean energy, high yields: greenhouse plants grow just fine with semi-transparent solar cells
Solar cells and greenhouses work better than researchers thought.
Intensive farming increases the risk of epidemics
According to a new study, irresponsible agricultural practices can increase the risk of disease spread.
Shifting away from monocultures would benefit both wildlife and people
If it benefits both us and the planet, I'm happy.
A new study looked at how early complex European cultures farmed and ate
They seemed to be doing alright for themselves.
Air pollution levels rise by 30% in India as farmers align to new groundwater depletion policy
On one hand, northwest India needs to tackle groundwater depletion. On the other hand, air pollution claimed the lives of ...
Farmers actually work more than hunter-gatherers, have less leisure time
Toil all day, very little pay.
Britain’s earliest farmers were immigrants from Greece and Spain
The farmers did not interbreed with local foragers.
The world’s farms are dominated by only four crops
This puts us at great risk.
Coffee farming “can be a win-win for birds and farmers”, paper finds
It will keep you civil on a Monday morning and keep some bird species happy -- it's coffee!
Europe’s first farmers mingled with the locals, slowly mixing the communities together
Until now, we didn't know if the two greeted with a handshake or a bloodbath.
Mixed legume and cereal crops don’t need fertilizer to yield a lot of food
Farm smart not hard.
Fiji ants were the first plant farmers some three million years ago
Most ants scavenge your picnic, but these ones don't need anything.
Farmer ants still struggle with undomesticated crops, study finds
Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.
Is the impact of climate change on agriculture underestimated?
A new paper suggests that we've been overlooking how two key human responses to climate -- the total area farmed ...
How climate change is driving Australian farmers mad
Everybody has to eat, but for all their efforts farmers can easily lose a year's worth of crops due to ...
How feeding pigs with leftovers can save the rainforest
In 2001 a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the United Kingdom was traced back to a farmer that illegally fed uncooked ...
Bacterial infections turns amoebae into the world’s tiniest farmers
In 2011 the Queller-Strassmann lab, then at Rice University, made a surprising announcement in Nature Letters. They had been collecting ...
And then I threw it on the ground: first signs of farming come from the middle east, some 23,000 years ago
Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand ...
Biggest indoor farm is 100 times more productive than conventional agriculture
An inspired entrepreneur, Shigeharu Shimamura, took an old semiconductor factory that was abandoned following the 2011 Japan disaster and turned ...
Headless chicken solution envisions Matrix-style farming
Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the ...
