Science news articles about 'farmland'

... as reversing dramatic declines in biodiversity on European farmland. Dr Mark Whittingham and colleagues from Newcastle ... to be built on lowland areas, the cumulative impacts on farmland bird species has the potential to be a significant constraint ...

... farmers earn a profit converting idle farmland to tree plantations as biomass energy crops ...

... Diego's Jacobs School are using sensor technologies to devise new strategies for irrigating farmland more efficiently ...

... to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to support even ...

... to reduce the dramatic negative effects of the use of pesticides on farmland. Nevertheless, a Europe wide study showed ...

A frog species thought to have been extinct for more than three decades has been sighted in farmland in Australia.

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Gulf nations hope science will turn desert areas into arable land to boost food security and avoid the risks inherent in buying farmland abroad, industry insiders said Monday.

Research from the Bee Part Of It campaign shows that farmlands provide a poorer diet than urban landscapes.

... implications for global warming, if we continue to expand our farmland into tropical forests at that rate," said Gibbs, a postdoctoral ... of land have been replaced by the immense area of new farmland developed across the tropical forest belt ...

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The world is losing 75 million acres of farmland a year due to environmental degradation, conversion to industrial use and urbanization, a U.N. report says.

... parents and less "brainy" are faring worse than other farmland bird species, a study at the University of Bristol ... in Europe, rather than large birds were found to suffer more in farmland, unlike studies of other animals in other habitats where ...

Phosphate levels in arable farmland have risen over the past thirty years, despite the restrictive policy ...

... evolution is characterized, taking the Murcia huerta (farmland) as an example. The researchers have identified a relentless process ...

... seize opportunities offered by government to lease farmland at knockdown ratesIt's the deal of the century: £150 ...

... , while Africa could lose up to 18 percent of its farmland. "Although the magnitudes of the projected changes vary ...