The Conversation: The world is at a crossroads, as humanity tries to mitigate climate change and halt biodiversity loss, while still securing a supply of food for everyone. A recent study in Nature Communications shows that global demands for commodities, especially…
Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo: Most people don’t think much about the food scraps they throw away; however, investigators from the Institute of Industrial Science at The University of Tokyo have developed a new method to reduce food waste by recycling discarded fruit and vegetable scraps into robust construction materials. Worldwide industrial and…
E&T Magazine: A solar-powered, fully automated device that can absorb air moisture at night and release it during the day for irrigation has been developed by a team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Dubbed SmartFarm, the device…
New York Times: Marty Odlin, who grew up and lives on the Maine coast, remembers what the ocean used to be like. But now, he said, “It’s like a desert and just within my lifetime.” In the last few years, he said,…
The Conversation: There are over 20,000 bee species and together they help pollinate more than 75% of the world’s leading food crops. Honeybees tend to hog the limelight, but few realise how important diversity is to this process. Having lots of…
