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Drones with high-tech sensors track disease in Italy's olive trees

Environment

Drones with high-tech sensors track disease in Italy's olive trees

A new high-tech strategy will help monitor crops for infection with Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that has devastated the olive industry in southern Italy

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The underwater sea farm that's like a space station

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The underwater sea farm that's like a space station

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Aerial View of Beijing

Environment

Ozone pollution causes $63 billion damage per year to East Asian crops

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Green young peas growing in a greenhouse - fresh healthy organic food, agriculture business concept.; Shutterstock ID 2019455228; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

Environment

Can electric fields help plants grow? New claims met with caution

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Beet armyworm / Small mottled willow (Spodoptera exigua) moth on Cotton (Gossypium sp) flower bud.

Life

Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene editing

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CX6R9A Green soy plant leaves in the cultivate field, against the sun

Life

The way that leaves flutter can reveal when plants need more water

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Impossible Foods CEO Pat Brown holds up an Impossible Burger 2.0, the new and improved version of the company's plant-based vegan burger that tastes like real beef, at a press event during CES 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 7, 2019. - The updated version can be cooked on a grill and has a better flavor and lowered cholesterol, fat and calories than the original.

Environment

Impossible Foods in talks with UK farmers to swap livestock for trees

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pigs

Environment

UK gene-edited food plans must not harm animal welfare, say ethicists

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Wild flowers growing on a field verge in Andalucia, Spain.

Environment

Wild Wild Life newsletter: How you can 'do your bit' for wildlife

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FEATURE ONLY The grow hall at Nordic Harvest close to Copenhagen, where a 14 storey high system grows salad leaves in water under UV lights.

Technology

Futuristic farm may use 250 times less water than normal

This vertical farm in Copenhagen uses robots to grow leafy vegetables under LED lights. The company behind it says this results in a reduction of water and energy use

Regulars

Environment

Cattle vaccine to be trialled in England in fight against bovine TB

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Environment

We can make food from air and electricity to save land for wildlife

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Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains

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Humans

Goats were first domesticated in western Iran 10,000 years ago

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