All Articles Tagged As: agriculture

One large organic shade-grown coffee, please - with extra bats (4/6/2008)

Bats and birds work night and day to control insect pests that might otherwise munch the crop ...> Full Article

Arctic seed vault opens doors for 100 million seeds (2/28/2008)

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault opened today on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. With the deposits ranging from unique varieties of major African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato, the first deposits into the seed vault represent the most comprehensive and diverse collection of food crop seeds being held anywhere in the world. ...> Full Article

Ants and avalanches: Insects on coffee plants follow widespread natural tendency (1/28/2008)

Ever since a forward-thinking trio of physicists identified the phenomenon known as self-organized criticality-a mechanism by which complexity arises in nature-scientists have been applying its concepts to everything from economics to avalanches. ...> Full Article