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Fresno State’s Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology will receive $18.75 million in one-time funding from the state in its 2022-23 budget to provide infrastructure needed to build programs

Plastic pollution can be removed from lakes by naturally-occurring bacteria, new research reveals.

Could this solve the problem of plastic pollution in lakes?

Some naturally produced lake bacteria grow quicker and more effectively on the remnants of plastic bags than on natural matter such as leaves and twigs, according to a study of 29 European lakes.

The bacteria break down the carbon compounds in plastic to use as food for their growth. The scientists say that enriching waters with particular species of

Starting with his alma mater and using little more than charm, Robert Hicks conned the college fundraising industry out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. His name is mud at A&M.

A unique fungus survives by 'bewitching' male flies into mating with dead female flies. The longer a female fly carcass has lain and rotted, the greater the male’s lust. This, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Copenhagen.  

Farmers were provided training at a one-day awareness cum training programme on ‘Catalysing Rural Empowerment through Cultivation, Processing, Value Addition and Marketing of Aromatic Plants’ organised by a farmers’ society ‘Forever Mapithel Society (FMS)’.

A common pathogenic fungus called Entomophthora muscae lives by infecting common houseflies with lethal spores.

NDSU Extension Specialists Receive Promotion