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Hardly a day goes by without another piece praising the potential for gene editing to help solve climate change. Nevertheless, the possible contributions of biology and biotechnology have been conspicuously underplayed in most of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) analyses. This is, perhaps, at least partly because it is no small thing to carry an idea from inception to delivery; to bridge the valley of death and deliver a functional solution to a specific problem. Bu...

An estimated 80 per cent of the world’s cargo is transported via ship-borne containers — a method that has soared in use in the decades after World War II. The

Tree-crop program launched

Nature-based solutions are an effective tool to combat climate change triggered by rising carbon emissions, whether it's by clearing the skies with bio-based aviation fuels or boosting natural carbon sinks

This past summer, a widespread drought across the United States lowered crop yields by as much as one-third as corn, wheat, barley and other plants suffered from too much heat and too little water. It’s a scenario that will likely become more common as climate change makes much of the world a hotter, drier place.

Story tips: Shuffling the load, a reveille for more biomass, designer molecules may help valuable minerals float, ‘T’ molecules huddle around rare earth ele

It’s an agricultural moonshot, but scientists hope to make plants like corn, wheat and barley as heat and drought resistant as cactus

Researchers have developed a GFP-like protein that makes plants glow bright green - opening up new research avenues.

2021 OCT 04-- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Investigators discuss new findings in Risk Management. According to news reporting out of Shanghai, People’ s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated,“ Safety performance functions are indispensable analytical tools that usually play a crucial role in estimating crash...

A research team led by ORNL's Xiaohan Yang used a gene from agave to engineer higher yield, improved stress tolerance and greater carbon sequestration in...