# agriculture

Stories tagged: agriculture

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🇨🇳 China

Giant wheat-rye hybrids are being grown in China's western deserts

Chinese scientists are growing giant wheat-rye hybrids in the Gobi Desert, and the plants are nearly twice the size of normal wheat. The new crop, called a “wheat-rye hybrid,” is being tested on sandy, salty soil that...

Wild Discoveries South China Morning Post 1w ago

Countries covering agriculture

🇧🇷 Brazil 1 🇨🇳 China 1 🇮🇩 Indonesia 1 🇿🇦 South Africa 1 🇬🇧 United Kingdom 1 🇺🇸 United States 1

Saltwater creeping into coastal groundwater worldwide, study finds

Nearly every coastal region on Earth faces a hidden threat beneath the surface. A new global study has found t

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 1w ago

🇮🇩 Indonesia

Farming drives most tropical peatland loss in Indonesia, Peru and DRC

Farming, not logging or mining, is now the single biggest reason tropical peatlands are disappearing in Indone

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 3w ago

🇿🇦 South Africa

South African Scientists Edit Grapevine DNA to Fight Disease

Scientists in South Africa have successfully edited the DNA of a grapevine, marking the first time such a prec

Wild Discoveries Phys.org 6w ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

UK's Ammonia Hotspots Trace Directly to Factory Farms

The worst ammonia pollution in the United Kingdom is concentrated in precisely the same areas that house the n

Wild Discoveries The Guardian World 7w ago

🇧🇷 Brazil

Brazil's Cerrado Vanishes Four Times Faster Than Forests

The world's most intense conversion of natural landscapes to farmland is not happening in the Amazon rainfores

Wild Discoveries Mongabay 9w ago