As April comes to a close, edie and our innovation partner Springwise highlight six of this month’s exciting environmental ...

With the global population rapidly increasing and resources becoming ever more limited, the world faces unprecedented ...

Australian researchers have developed electrolysis systems that use urea sourced from urine and wastewater to generate hydrogen at “significantly lower” energy costs than traditional water-splitting ...

The invention of the cotton gin in the late 18th century revolutionized agriculture, economics, and society in ways that ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and ...

As China comes to terms with its fast-aging society, agricultural companies are turning to smart farming technologies to facilitate a transition away from conventional, labor-intensive farming ... for ...

It uses a standard process that is repeated so every ... It should be noted that mass production is capital intensive. Mass production has revolutionized many industries, including automotive ...

While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ... Whether or not it’s ethical to continue large-scale, water-intensive agriculture in these areas is another ...

In the process, native varieties ... But much of this fertiliser use is unnecessary, experts say. Intensive farming practices for high-yielding rice is sapping the soil of nutrients Monoculture ...

The first is that the vertical farming process is complex and leaves very ... In addition, vertical farming requires multiple energy-intensive systems to continuously operate, which can present ...

While attention in India has been focused on the decline in megafauna such as rhinos and elephants, the deleterious impact of pesticide-intensive agriculture in India ... back and have engendered a ...

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focuses on “precipitation recycling” — a process in which the moisture ... were able to determine that the region’s ...