Businesses urged to help combat the UK's food waste crisis

THE UK's fastest-growing commercial waste company is urging businesses to act now to combat the food waste crisis.

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Photos: U.S. Secretary of Agriculture meets with local farmers

Escambia and Santa Rosa County farmers met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue after they were hit hard by Hurricane Sally.

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A Kerala rice variety could be answer to troubles of cyclone-hit Bengal fields

The Super Cyclone Amphan had left a trail of destruction in South 24 Parganas district where it broke embankments causing saline water to seep into agricultural fields making irreversible changes to the soil texture. Enter the endemic Pokkali rice from Kerala famed for its remarkable resistance to saltwater.

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Agricultural Soil Management: Improved practices can generate environmental and economic benefits

What are the best ways to remove carbon from the atmosphere? Greenhouse gas emissions need to be slashed to net zero by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but there isn’t just one solution. Find out if soil management practices like cover cropping and optimising grazing patterns are the key increasing carbon uptake or do they have a limited contribution to global carbon removal efforts? Find out at https://carbonremoval.economist.com/agricultural-soil-management/.

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Climate scientists uncover 30-year-old temperature record

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has recognized a temperature of -69.6°C (-93.3°F) at an automatic weather station in Greenland on 22 December 1991 as the coldest ever recorded in the Northern ...

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Farmer knowledge is key to finding more resilient crops in climate crisis

A new paper in Frontiers in Plant Science reviews the 'Seeds for Needs' approach that combines farmers' knowledge of resilient crops with 'elite' varieties identified by scientists.

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The EU's mission to save our soils

Rebuilding the degraded soils of Europe is one of the EU's missions within the new Horizon Europe framework, about to be launched. Euronews' Claudio Rosmino for Futuris investigates how new practices are rolling back years of ecological damage. #Futuris

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Brazilian wetlands fires started by humans and worsened by drought

Cloud of soot from fire heads towards São Paulo as nearly fifth of Pantanal wetland destroyed by blaze

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New soil models may ease atmospheric CO2, climate change | Cornell Chronicle

In Nature Geoscience, Cornell’s Johannes Lehmann says that scientists should develop new models that accurately reflect soil carbon-storage processes to draw down atmospheric carbon dioxide.