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Farmers in India’s potato belt are heading towards a financial crisis. They had loaded the vegetable in cold storages hoping to get export orders from the CIS countries. But with no business in sight, the glut has pushed down prices by . 2-3 per kg over the last week. Traders and farmers are holding huge [...]
Decisions by farmers to plant on productive land with little snow enhances the potential for reforestation to counteract global warming, concludes new research from Carnegie’s Julia Pongratz and Ken Caldeira. Previous research has led scientists and politicians to believe that regrowing forests on Northern lands that were cleared in order to grow crops would not [...]
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tiny fourth moon orbiting the distant icy dwarf planet Pluto, NASA said on Wednesday. The space telescope was searching for rings around the planetary oddball at the edge of our solar system when it came across P4, the temporary name for the newly discovered moon. With an estimated [...]
Mount Everest as seen from above Everest Base camp, Nepal. Katmandu – Nepal’s government has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine exactly how high the world’s highest mountain is, an official said on Wednesday. Nepal has continued to recognize the decades-old measurement of 29,028 feet (8,448 meters). However, there have been other [...]
It’s not easy being at the top. In the savannah baboon world, it seems that alpha males – those who have the highest status – are also stressed out, according to a new study in the journal Science. And, stress can lead to negative health outcomes in primates, including humans, prior research has shown. Among [...]
Farmers and other astute observers of nature have long known that crops like corn and sorghum grow taller at night. But the biochemical mechanisms that control this nightly stem elongation, common to most plants, have been something of a mystery to biologists—until now. In this week\’s early online publication of the journal Nature, biologists at [...]
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