... numbers of wind farms needing to be built on lowland areas, the cumulative impacts on farmland bird species has the potential to be a significant constraint to development."
The results are important ...
... believe energy plantations could be a major source of biomass fuels. But could northern Michigan farmers earn a profit converting idle farmland to tree plantations as biomass energy crops?
... about four times the fresh water of homes and businesses-researchers at UC San Diego's Jacobs School are using sensor technologies to devise new strategies for irrigating farmland more efficiently.
... conditions, coupled with shifting rainfall patterns, could make anywhere from 500,000 to one million square kilometers of marginal African farmland no longer able to support even a subsistence level o
Cherry Hill, once a desolate farmland and now a bustling Philadelphia suburb of 70,000, is one of the latest examples of a nationwide movement of local governments committing to make environmental ...
... agricultural collapse. The researcher say the study raises concern that current pressures on farmland from population growth and climate change could worsen current food crises by leading to similar ...
... is high yielding and resistant to drought. As a result, small farming families are realizing harvests on farmlands once considered too poor to cultivate, to the country´s social and economic benefit.
Fallow agricultural land and steppe-formation processes are evidently capable of having a much greater effect on global air quality than was previously assumed. This is the conclusion drawn by ...
... absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. Professor Downing found that constructed ponds and lakes on farmland in the United States bury carbon at a much higher rate than expected; as much as 20-50 ...
... mammals. Jaguar, however, rarely moved outside the protected park into the more deforested surrounding farmland, as they require the healthy ecosystems of conserved environments. According to Vynne, ...
... in other areas.
For example, a drought in the 1930s increased soil erosion across the farmlands of the U.S. Midwest, leading to intense dust storms. Large amounts of wind-swept dust traveled across ...
High prices are making farming lucrative again. But in the U.S., there's not much productive land that hasn't already been pressed into service. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.
... by early 2009. Should the pilot program prove successful, there is plenty of adjacent farmland to upscale.
Another promising biofuel is hydrogen. Already many car manufacturers are producing ...
... farm.
As part of the Woodland Recovery Initiative, the University aims to:
reclaim the farmland at Glenthorne and reconstruct a suitable habitat that encourages the return of native species; ...
... Hartwell, said: "There is a lot of concern over food shortage at the moment, with more farmland being commandeered for bio-fuels. As a result of changes in our climate the Intergovernmental Panel on ...
