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Mechanical devices to clear the ocean of plastics
April 15, 2024 10:01 - 4 minutes - 3.69 MBMechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines Weekend 2 of April 2024
April 12, 2024 06:58 - 5 minutes - 5.02 MBHeadlines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Van Aarde Pretorius ONE FLEXBOX -Onderhoud
April 10, 2024 11:50 - 8 minutes - 7.35 MBGerda le Roux gesels met Van Aarde Pretorius van Los Angeles in die VSA - Suid Afrikaner en die eienaar en Uitvinder van die FLEXBOX- 2024 - Volg dit op www.oneflexbox.com/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What is the origin story of MycoLogic
April 10, 2024 09:19 - 3 minutes - 3.56 MBMycoLogic began as an academic research project at Kennesaw State University by co-founders Drs. Chris Cornelison and Kyle Gabriel. As applied microbiologists, with a focus in mycology, we began to look at specialty mushroom cultivation after discussing the general lack of mushroom diversity in local markets. Why could we only find 3 varieties? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Are meat substitutes really better for the environment than meat?
April 09, 2024 03:50 - 4 minutes - 4.27 MBLots of consumers say that they’re trying.1 Polling data from the UK suggests that nearly half (44%) of consumers try to buy less meat “All the time” or “Fairly often”. Visit the website above. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
World's longest-winged birds go easy on older partners
April 08, 2024 09:15 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MBA new study led by the University of Liverpool has found that wandering albatrosses with older partners spend less time on foraging trips than those with sprightlier partners so that their mate has a shorter wait without food. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines Weekend 1 of April 2024
April 05, 2024 08:36 - 6 minutes - 5.58 MBHeadlines of the week Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Armoured worm reveals the ancestry
April 04, 2024 14:29 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MBAn international team of scientists, including from the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and the Natural History Museum, have discovered that a well-preserved fossilised worm dating from 518-million-years-ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Oil remains the backbone of modern society
April 02, 2024 05:55 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBDespite efforts to pivot toward renewable sources of energy, oil remains the backbone of modern society. It provides fuels for heat and transportation, and chemicals for everything from plastics to pharmaceuticals. But all these uses require separating crude oil into its various components. That separation process—which traditionally relies on heat—takes a tremendous amount of energy and accounts for roughly 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri...
How Food and Farming Will Determine the Fate of Planet Earth
April 01, 2024 07:35 - 6 minutes - 5.49 MBAgriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines Weekend 4 of March 2024
March 29, 2024 07:50 - 6 minutes - 6.03 MBNews Headlines Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why Macadamia Nuts Belong on Your List of Nutritious Snack Foods
March 28, 2024 06:50 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MBNuts, long known for their health benefits, have always been associated with holiday indulgence and the Spring Festival period in China generally sees explosive growth in sales. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Just a tiny amount of oil damages seabirds' feathers
March 26, 2024 09:29 - 3 minutes - 2.76 MBResearchers from the Marine Ecology Group in UCC in Ireland collected feathers from Manx shearwaters, a seabird species thought to be at risk from oil pollution. The researchers examined the feathers to see how quickly water would pass through after exposure to increasing concentrations of oil. Feathers were also assessed under high-powered microscopes to examine structural changes after contamination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Agricultural rewilding can help restore the environment
March 25, 2024 05:32 - 3 minutes - 3.08 MBAgricultural rewilding" can also help to overcome concerns about the impact of rewilding on livelihoods and produce "win-win" environmental and human benefits, according to the researchers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Seven things you didn’t know have their roots in wood
March 21, 2024 07:55 - 4 minutes - 4.32 MBWood is the wonder fibre of the world. Multifunctional and renewable, when used sustainably, wood and its components are an indispensable part of the everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Water security remains one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa,
March 19, 2024 11:38 - 9 minutes - 8.57 MBWater security remains one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, with the country’s supply facing many threats amid increasing demand and relatively low water availability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Climate change is causing endangered African wild dogs to give birth later
March 18, 2024 06:15 - 4 minutes - 4.45 MBWildlife is responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of the northern hemisphere as climate change draws the onset of spring progressively earlier in the calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines Weekend 3 of March 2024
March 15, 2024 06:53 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MBHeadlines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Spotted hyenas all sound different when they call
March 14, 2024 06:24 - 4 minutes - 3.83 MBOn quiet nights across large swaths of the African bush, you may hear a series of whooping calls in the distance. This unique sound is the long-distance vocalisation used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) to communicate with each other. For hyenas, it’s advantageous to know who is calling before deciding to respond. They don’t treat every member of their group the same – and the caller could even be an intruder in their territory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informat...
Climate change will cause more African children to die
March 12, 2024 08:33 - 5 minutes - 6.34 MBClimate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Birds evolve different body temperatures in different climates
March 11, 2024 06:32 - 6 minutes - 6.06 MBDuring the northern hemisphere summer of 2022, yet another round of extreme heat waves roasted Eurasia, North America and northern Africa – a stark reminder that these conditions are becoming the new normal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines Weekend 2 of March 2024
March 09, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes - 5.43 MBHeadline news of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Europe creating agricultural sinkhole for Africa
March 07, 2024 07:36 - 5 minutes - 5.02 MBAs farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Capitalising on insects as high-quality protein
March 06, 2024 06:47 - 1 minute - 2.13 MBThere is a growing global interest in producing high-quality protein products from simple flies or fly larvae, to be specific. And two Cape Town companies are making food while the sun shines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More than 50% of US funds for ‘climate-smart’ farming do not help crisis
March 05, 2024 06:51 - 3 minutes - 3.22 MBMore than half of federal funding for “climate-smart” agriculture in the US goes to farming practices that are unlikely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and in some cases, would even increase them, according to a new report by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Digital tools can transform agriculture to be more environmentally sustainable
March 04, 2024 07:44 - 5 minutes - 4.87 MBAgricultural producers face dual challenges of increasing output for a growing world population while reducing negative effects on the environment. Digital technologies and artificial intelligence can facilitate sustainable production, but farmers must weigh opportunities and risks when deciding whether to embrace such tools. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines 2nd March 2024
March 02, 2024 08:15 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MBHeadlines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Intercropping plant covers between olive grove alleys increases carbon sequestration,
March 01, 2024 02:44 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBCompared to conventional practices and bare soil, plant covers generated by intercropping between the alleys of olive groves increase carbon sequestration and reduce soil losses due to erosion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You and your food
February 29, 2024 06:11 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MBThe solution to both these problems is simple. Its carbon, the fact that it is in the atmosphere rather than in the soil. The Green Revolution and industrialisation of agriculture have been everything but green. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Why does Africa continue to underperform?
February 27, 2024 09:57 - 8 minutes - 7.83 MBScars remain from nearly all of Africa having been aggressively colonised. Greed mixed with racism to crush long-standing social structures while looting resource wealth. However, many of today’s most dynamic economies are former colonies. Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated. Perhaps colonialism should be categorised as a particularly ugly phase among a long series of highly disruptive industrial-era advances. Hosted on...
Africa’s raptors on the brink
February 26, 2024 08:22 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBImagine a world where iconic African raptor species like the secretarybird, Wahlberg’s eagle, African harrier-hawk and brown snake eagle, amongst others, are no longer around – vanished from the landscape. While this may sound like a doomsday prediction, without intervention, this might one day be a reality – especially in the west of the African continent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines of the Week 24 February 2024
February 24, 2024 12:13 - 5 minutes - 5.26 MBNews Headlines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Having more friends may help female giraffes live longer
February 22, 2024 05:25 - 4 minutes - 1.44 MBGrown-up giraffes just aren’t huggy, cuddling, demonstrative animals. So it took identity-recognition software grinding through five years of data to reveal that female social life matters to survival.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Farming and fertilisers
February 20, 2024 07:43 - 7 minutes - 6.67 MBAgriculture involves a difficult balance between food production and environmental impact. For example, fertilisers can help to achieve good crop yields, but over-using them produces greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐩 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬
February 19, 2024 07:00 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MBCrop micronutrients refer to essential elements that plants require in small quantities for proper growth, development, and overall health. While plants need these nutrients in smaller amounts compared to macronutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, they are nonetheless critical for various physiological processes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines of the Week 17th February 2024
February 16, 2024 08:11 - 5 minutes - 5.4 MBFarming and Agriculture Head lines of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Flip Side of Solar Farms
February 15, 2024 06:21 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBAt the COP28 climate conference in Dubai in 2023, a commitment was made to phase out fossil fuels by the middle of this century. To meet the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement— keeping global warming below 2°C and preferably 1.5°C—renewable energy capacity needs to triple by 2030. Solar energy is one of the major sources that must be expanded. But while its benefits are undeniable, all human activities have environmental impacts that need to be studied and minimised, including solar power. H...
Digitalization of Agriculture
February 13, 2024 06:16 - 6 minutes - 6.16 MB“The revolution is not an apple that falls when it ripens; you have to make it fall”. Therefore, the best answer to the above question is revolutionizing the system like what we did during the 1960s and 1990s. The First Agricultural Revolution in South Africa, which exponentially increased the yield of food crops and saved millions of lives, came in form of the Green Revolution in the 1960s. The second revolution came in form of the Biotechnological Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...
The Booming Legal Cannabis Market Has Plenty of Upside
February 12, 2024 08:20 - 6 minutes - 5.75 MBThe U.S. marijuana industry is booming as states all across the country continue to legalize medical and recreational cannabis. U.S. marijuana sales are reportedly set to jump over 20% to $33 billion in 2022, which is up from just $9 billion five years ago and $3 billion in 2015. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Revolutionizing Farming: Cutting-Edge Imaging Technology Unveils the Future of Precision Agriculture
February 08, 2024 07:58 - 5 minutes - 5.39 MBThe global market for imaging technology for precision agriculture held a market value of US$ 955.4 Mn for the base year 2022. The market size is estimated to increase to the market value of US$ 1,042.3 Mn in 2023 and is estimated to reach US$ 2,889.3 Mn by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 10.7%. as per report published by Persistence Market Research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The myth of US energy independence
February 06, 2024 09:37 - 7 minutes - 6.91 MBThe Russia–Ukraine crisis has exposed vulnerabilities in US energy security. The US may import only a small amount of Russian oil, but it is tied to Russian energy via its participation in highly globalized supply chains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Farmers across Europe are up in arms
February 05, 2024 04:27 - 3 minutes - 3.42 MBAcross Europe, tens of thousands of farmers have been coming out in force to air their grievances, ranging from the cost-of-living crisis to the EU’s sustainability policies, and the fallout from the Russia-Ukraine war. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
AGRI NEWS RUSH - News Headlines of the Week 2nd February 2024
February 02, 2024 06:22 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBNews head line news of the week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Farming Revolution
January 30, 2024 07:38 - 3 minutes - 3.61 MBTaking root around 12,000 years ago, agriculture triggered such a change in society and the way in which people lived that its development has been dubbed the “Neolithic Revolution.” Traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyles, followed by humans since their evolution, were swept aside in favour of permanent settlements and a reliable food supply. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Honeybees use a 'mental number line
January 29, 2024 06:17 - 2 minutes - 2.49 MBA small team of researchers with members from the University of Toulouse, the University of Lausanne, and the University of Padova has found evidence that honeybees have a mental number line in their tiny brains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Agriculture accounts for more than 70% of all water usage
January 25, 2024 06:08 - 6 minutes - 5.59 MBAgriculture accounts for more than 70% of all water usage in the state, the vast majority of which is held by billionaire megafarmers with a chokehold on California's "bewilderingly complex" water rights. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The most damaging farm products are not regenerative beef and lamb
January 24, 2024 06:40 - 3 minutes - 4.09 MBThis statement alone reveals a misunderstanding of global ecology, and an ignorance of how essential livestock is to 1.3 billion people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Converting carbon dioxide to solid minerals underground
January 23, 2024 08:23 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MBA new scientific review article in Nature Reviews Chemistry discusses how carbon dioxide (CO2) converts from a gas to a solid in ultrathin films of water on underground rock surfaces. These solid minerals, known as carbonates, are both stable and common. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys
January 22, 2024 08:38 - 4 minutes - 4.04 MBA bay-breasted warbler weighs about the same as four pennies, but twice a year makes an extraordinary journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The effects of extreme heat on health in Africa
January 19, 2024 06:12 - 4 minutes - 3.69 MBScientists are sounding the alarm about the extreme increases in the Earth’s temperature. A new report by UNICEF warns that 2022 could be the “coldest year of the rest of our lives”. Heatwaves are becoming stronger and lasting longer. These increases are threatening the limits of human survival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.