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The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Space

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Jessica Atkin knows more than anyone else about what it would take to supply food for a moon base. She reveals how to build a lunar farm and what astronauts can expect to dine on

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Environment

Are manure digesters a real solution to dairy farm emissions?

Analysis

Environment

Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2

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Environment

The toxic burden of pesticides is growing all around the world

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A Bollworm (Helicoverpa zea) larva

Environment

Hybrid megapests evolving in Brazil are a threat to crops worldwide

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Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

Humans

Did ancient humans start farming so they could drink more beer?

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Life

Grafting trick could let us gene-edit a huge variety of plants

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Environment

Gene-edited pigs resistant to swine fever could boost animal welfare

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Environment

Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected climate win

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2K6ERBY Flock of sheeps moving down the valley, French Alps, border with Switzerland

Environment

Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps

Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion

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Environment

These photos reveal the unique agricultural system of the Maya people

Regulars

Environment

Aged human urine is a pungent pesticide as well as a fertiliser

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Humans

The biggest coincidence in human evolution

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Environment

Rice variant slashes planet-warming methane emissions by 70 per cent

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