Biologists at Newcastle University UK have been exploring the potential of harmless plant volatiles as an alternative to pesticides in greenhouses.
when they are bombarded with lots of distracting information--the team pumped a mixture of plant smells into a greenhouse growing tomato plants.
Trialeurodes vaporariorum--or whitefly--is a major worldwide pest of greenhouse crops and is controlled traditionally using chemical pesticides or biological methods such as parasites.
The aim of this latest research funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) was to artificially create this mixed environment for a single crop greenhouse.
Despite our efforts global greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase and the climate will change.
and water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions while freeing up large areas of farmland for other purposes such as food export or bioenergy.
and dairy consumption this would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 25 to 40%and nitrogen emissions by 40%.
and soil pollution greenhouse gas emissions simultaneously reducing threats to human health biodiversity and food security.
#New technology for greenhouses developedagricultural and fruit producers could acquire high-tech greenhouses at a considerably less cost thanks to experts from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas (UAZ) in the North of Mexico developing computer systems to control
nchez researcher in the Department of Electrical engineering some factors that may increase the cost of acquiring the import greenhouses are the level of sophistication of its technologies for automation its size
i e. only 10 percent of the maximum purchase price of an imported greenhouse. Solã s Sá
and radiation as well as elements that enable wireless connectivity between the greenhouse and mobile devices like cell phones.
The progressive implementation of this greenhouses for different areas of the country entail multiple benefits for domestic producers.
A second phase for this technologies is the development of neural networks to give some artificial intelligence to the greenhouses.
and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.
and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Corn stover--the stalks leaves and cobs in cornfields after harvest--has been considered a ready resource for cellulosic ethanol production.
--which is 7 percent greater than gasoline emissions and 62 grams above the 60 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions as required by the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act.
Most greenhouse gases come from burning fossil fuels to produce energy although deforestation industrial processes and some agricultural practices also emit gases into the atmosphere according to the Environmental protection agency.
Greenhouse gases act like a blanket around Earth trapping energy in the atmosphere and causing it to warm.
However a buildup of greenhouse gases can change Earth's climate. Agriculture globally contributes about 10 to 12 percent to greenhouse gas emissions Rice said.
If you add in forestry it moves it up to around 25 percent. Agriculture is significant but not the major contributor and has declined slightly percentage-wise
Our chapter addresses agriculture's role in the future of the emission of greenhouse gases. This is the fifth assessment report said Rice who also served on the fourth report
and can mitigate greenhouse gas emissions Rice said. They conducted literature reviews and summarized key points of the science that's occurred since the last report in 2007.
but added As far as greenhouse gas emissions and concentrations in the atmosphere I don't think there's any controversy.
what's the impact of those greenhouse gases? It is certainly clear by 97 percent of those climate scientists that the increases in greenhouse gases such as CO2 nitrous oxide
and methane have resulted in about a 1. 5 Degree fahrenheit increase in global temperatures. That's an important point that it's global he said.
and residue those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials
Cement is a major emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2) greenhouse gas so the authors suggested that wood products
but the authors determined that changing human diets away from food animal products could help in mitigating greenhouse gasses.
Because livestock production is a contributor to greenhouse gases he said it had to be put on the table.
if agriculture implemented all of those mitigation practices around the world it would come close to mitigating all of agriculture's contributions to greenhouse gasses
Those individuals will come up with policies for countries to implement aimed at reducing greenhouse gases.
#Deforestation could intensify climate change in Congo Basin by halfby 2050 deforestation could cause temperatures in the Congo Basin to increase by 0. 7 °C. The increase would intensify warming caused by greenhouse gases
Central africa of 2050 will be an average of 1. 4 °C hotter than today as a result of global greenhouse gas emissions.
in addition to the warming caused by greenhouse gases. Such drastic temperature increases will drive off plant and animal species and may even threaten some with extinction warn the researchers.
and other greenhouse gases to arrive at their calculations. Their deforestation scenario is far from extreme.
Research suggests cooling action will clean airever-rising greenhouse gas emissions and the potential need to deploy untested and expensive climate engineering technologies are just two of the many bits of bad news in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's new report on Mitigation
One of the main causes of greenhouse gas emissions is coal power Hertwich says. Coal-fired power plants produce a lot of pollution so any measures that will reduce our combustion of coal will also help us to fight air pollution.
what humankind is doing to the climate by burning fossil fuels and releasing greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
nevertheless quick to point out that the past decade has seen an unprecedented rate of increase in greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere as a result of a global rise in emissions.
If we continue to emit greenhouse gases at current rates we risk overshooting the carbon budget with dire consequences.
If humankind does not control the growth in greenhouse gas emissions in the next decade it increases the likelihood that we will need negative-emissions technologies such as bioenergy with CO2 capture
Their contribution to this global greenhouse gas is considerable. So far the assumption had been that camels with similar digestion produce the same amount of the climate-damaging gas.
The no-till and reduced chemical regimes also mitigated greenhouse warming by taking up greenhouse gases from the atmosphere in contrast to standard management
which produces significant greenhouse warming by emitting nitrous oxide. The zero-chemical regime mitigated greenhouse warming enough to compensate for the emissions produced under standard management.
All three regimes also led to more fertile soil compared with conventional management. The environmentally improved farming practices that Robertson and his colleagues studied are more complex than conventional ones.
a smaller number were willing to pay for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Robertson and his colleagues argue that in coming decades human population
On the other there is a growing global movement among gardeners farmers and others to use another form of black carbon--biochar--to both boost crop yields and to counter greenhouse emissions by locking
and increased emissions of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide he said. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of California-Davis. Note:
#A balanced carbon footprint for the Amazon Riverconsidered until now a source of greenhouse gas emissions capturing the CO2 fixed by the tropical forest through the soils of the watershed to release it into the atmosphere the Amazon river actually has balanced a carbon footprint.
and is managed by NASA's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena Calif. Carbon dioxide is both one of the best measured greenhouse gases
but that number will still yield 100 to 200 times as many measurements as the currently observing Japanese Greenhouse gases Observing SATELLITE (GOSAT) mission.
Methane fuels life in pristine chalk riversscientists from Queen Mary University of London have found that naturally high concentrations of the greenhouse gas methane contributes to energy production in chalk rivers in a new study
which contributes to more than a third of greenhouse gas emissions. For example fine sediments washed into rivers from farmland used to grow crops are known to be sources of methane gas.
The research team will compare new greenhouse gas simulations to previous simulations. Our research informs large river ecology globally
and lamb will account for half of all agricultural greenhouse gas emissions while only contributing 3 percent of human calorie intake.
Greenhouse tests can provide some more. But how can plant scientists get a true picture of a plant's growth and traits under a wide variety of controlled environmental conditions?
His idea is a greenhouse on a chip--an instrument that incorporates miniature greenhouses microfluidic technologies that precisely control growing conditions
Dong and his team will build miniature greenhouses that precisely control light intensity humidity temperature carbon dioxide chemicals and even pathogens.
Plant scientists will fill the miniature greenhouses with clear vertical and disposable chips containing seeds that will grow into seedlings.
Hundreds of the chips-in-mini-greenhouses can grow thousands of plants at the same time each greenhouse providing different environmental conditions.
#Bioenergy from sustainable forestry does not meet EU emission reduction criteriathe levels of forest residue bioenergy considered to be sustainable from a forestry perspective may provide considerable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in European countries.
The EU is planning to extend its specific sustainability criteria based on greenhouse gas emissions for biofuels to renewable energy produced from solid biomass.
These criteria are foreseen to require a 60%reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to an alternative fossil fuel.
and water vapor is the Earth's most important greenhouse gas Russell said. As you start varying the hydrological cycle of Indonesia you almost have to vary the Earth's water vapor concentration.
Earlier studies have found that climate change is projected to reduce maize yields globally by the end of the century under a business as usual scenario for future emissions of greenhouse gases;
and dead trees put the greenhouse gas back into the air as they decompose. The new study published in Nature Communications on March 18 is the first to measure tree deaths caused by natural processes throughout the Amazon forest even in remote areas where no data have been collected at ground level.
Her team which included undergraduate students and greenhouse staff at UCSC as well as USFWS biologists propagated cuttings from the last remaining wild population studied the plant's tolerance for different soil conditions in greenhouse experiments
Arenaria cuttings root easily making it relatively straightforward to propagate large numbers of plants in the UCSC greenhouses.
Greenhouses director Jim Velzy will continue to maintain the collection of Arenaria plants to preserve the genetic diversity of the original population
With help from other undergraduates in Parker's lab they prepared the plots planted out marsh sandwort cuttings propagated in the UCSC greenhouses
Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions urgently neededone conclusion of CH2014-Impacts is that with or without climate protection Switzerland will not be able to do without adaptation.
A reduction of greenhouse gas emissions still remains an urgent priority. In other words: adaptation and climate protection must go hand in hand.
and sequester carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas. The project is part of the Gates Foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge an effort to develop a next-generation toilet that can be used to disinfect liquid and solid waste
when greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere. Woodland salamanders facilitate the capture of this carbon before it is released by feeding on invertebrates (beetles earthworms snails ants etc.
The ORNL technology offers a new pathway to biomass-derived renewable fuels that can lower greenhouse gas emissions and decrease U s. reliance on foreign sources of oil.
and widely license breakthrough technologies that substantially expand the use of sustainable transportation fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Also with some supplements animals can produce more milk and meat for proportionally less greenhouse gas.
Despite ruminant livestock's poor image as major greenhouse gas emitters sustainably managed grazing can increase biodiversity maintain ecosystem services
In the study the researchers set up large cages in a greenhouse. Each cage contained Bt broccoli and refuges of non-Bt broccoli.
In the Central Hardwoods the effects of a changing climate are expected to include rising temperatures due to a rise in greenhouse gas concentrations leading to longer growing seasons.
For now the carbon footprint of cutting down forests to make way for palm plantations dwarfs the greenhouse gases coming from the wastewater lagoons.
which are used to calibrate the instruments that measure greenhouse gasses around the world. A new improved measurement technique--cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS)--has resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of atmospheric measurements taken.
The methods used can be replicated leading to widespread availability of standards for globally monitoring these two high impact greenhouse gasses.
Euan G. Nisbet Foundation Professor of Earth sciences at Royal Holloway maintains an Atlantic network of greenhouse gas measurements.
Standards are a critical problem in greenhouse gas measurement. Developing high accuracy reference standards of carbon dioxide and methane with international comparability and traceability to the SI will greatly contribute to our work
and to improving our understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the atmosphere. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by National Physical Laboratory.
and basil that the operations manager of Michigan Technological University's Sustainable Futures Institute grew in his greenhouse.
Chappell and colleagues at the University of Georgia's Department of Horticulture reported on the implementation and use of these WSNS at three commercial nursery and greenhouse operations in Georgia. The report focused on the use of capacitance-based
Sensor-based irrigation systems show potential to increase greenhouse profitabilitywireless sensor-based irrigation systems can offer significant benefits to greenhouse operators.
Advances in sensor technology and increased understanding of plant physiology have made it possible for greenhouse growers to use water content sensors to accurately determine irrigation timing and application rates in soilless substrates.
The authors of a report published in Horttechnology said that the use of sensor-based irrigation technology can also accelerate container and greenhouse plant production time.
#Rapeseed-based animal feed cuts greenhouse gases by up to 13 per centthe use of rapeseed cake in the production of livestock feed cuts methane
The project seeks to take advantage of rapeseed crops to improve agricultural productivity and at the same time to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
A waste product in this process is used at the same time to produce animal feed with the resulting cost-cutting for farmers and greater efficiency in the emission of greenhouse gases.
improve food securitylivestock production is responsible for 12%of human-related greenhouse gas emissions primarily coming from land use change
But our results show that targeting the production side of agriculture is a much more efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Such diets are efficient not only from the perspective of greenhouse gas reduction but also from farm profit maximization and food production.
and greenhouse gas emissions of different livestock production systems. The new study adds to this by examining the economic potential for a transition to more efficient systems as a mitigation measure and
which policies would be the most effective for cutting greenhouse gas emissions while also maintaining food availability.
but also food insecurity in developing countries because it ignores the social cost of policies that focus just on greenhouse gas abatement..
as a result of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Changing livestock production systems remains a challenge. The researchers say that policies to provide education
and commercialized by Sensoil Innovations Ltd. to compare the water quality across the entire unsaturated zone under organic and conventional greenhouses in Israel.
The study funded by the Israel Water Authority was conducted in commercial greenhouses on the Southern part of the coastal aquifer in Israel.
and supported by strict reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The new study published today 18 february in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters has highlighted the risks of large
This rate of increase caused by the build up of background greenhouse gas emissions would be well beyond the bounds experienced in the last century
Furthermore the researchers used a simple climate model to study a variety of plausible greenhouse gas scenarios and SRM termination years over the 21st century.
The primary control over the magnitude of the large temperature increases after an SRM shutoff is the background greenhouse gas concentrations.
Thus the greater the future emissions of greenhouse gases the larger the temperature increases would be
and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with corn production in Ontario. Their findings are published today in the Agricultural Institute of Canada's (AIC) Canadian Journal of Soil science.
The article Energy and Greenhouse Gas Intensity of Corn (Zea mays L.)in Ontario: A regional assessment by Susantha Jayasundara Claudia Wagner-Riddle Goretty Dias and Kumudinie Kariyapperuma is available Open Access in the Canadian Journal of Soil science.
Methane is the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas. This innovative work demonstrates the importance of a new global regulatory system in methanogens said William Whitman a professor of microbiology at the University of Georgia who is familiar with the study
These are critical precursors for organic aerosols and ozone a potent greenhouse gas. Wildfires meanwhile are a major source of black carbon and primary organic carbon.
A first greenhouse trial indicated that the plants grew much better in soil samples from the areas in northern Sweden where the lodgepole pine has been introduced compared with the soil samples from its original habitat in Canadian British columbia.
#Greenhouse time machine sheds light on corn domesticationby simulating the environment when corn was exploited first by people
#Nitrogen management studied in greenhouse pepper productionas consumer demand for year-round fresh produce increases vegetable
A study published in Hortscience contains strategies for increasing NUE in greenhouse bell peppers and demonstrates how the environmental impact of intensive agriculture can be minimized without harming fruit yield or quality.
and North africa where the crop is grown from fall to spring in greenhouses and net houses the authors explained.
and drip-irrigated the greenhouse plants with solutions containing four different nitrogen concentrations. They then measured fruit yield quality and nutritional value of all plants.
methanerice University scientists have created a highly sensitive portable sensor to test the air for the most damaging greenhouse gases.
Methane and nitrous oxide are both significant greenhouse gases emitted from human activities Tittel said. Methane is emitted by natural sources such as wetlands and human activities such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock.
The warming impact of methane and nitrous oxide is more than 20 and 300 times respectively greater compared to the most prevalent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide over a 100-year period.
It also constituted an overall reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 200 tons per year. In the first year of the Shorepower Project staff will work with the partner towns of Cambridge Easton Salisbury and Snow Hill.
and vendors to inventory each municipality's energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions develop recommendations for achieving energy savings and reducing greenhouse gas emissions and build capacity for ongoing tracking and evaluation.
He reviewed ways Governor Martin O'Malley's administration through its Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 (starting with 2006 levels.
and beneficial insects birds and microbes that consume methane a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.
If high commodity prices continue to drive conversion of these marginal lands to annual crop production it will reduce the flexibility we have in the future to promote other critical services like pollination pest suppression and reduction of greenhouse gasses.
and selection processes to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. You may think that climate change is being caused by burning oil coal and gas.
Methane from cows--a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide--makes up 20%of greenhouse emissions from agriculture or about 1%of all anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
He is also one of the project scientists of an EU-funded research project called Ruminomics which is using cutting-edge science to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cattle.
It is therefore possible to imagine a dairy herd producing the same volume of milk for lower greenhouse gas emissions.
lead to a reduction in the region's role as a reservoir for greenhouse gas.
if the emission of greenhouse gases is to be reduced. Society the authorities and politicians will have to think about introducing incentives
#Suburban sprawl cancels carbon footprint savings of dense urban coresaccording to a new study by researchers at the University of California Berkeley population-dense cities contribute less greenhouse gas emissions
& Technology (ES&T) uses local census weather and other data--37 variables in total--to approximate greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the energy transportation food goods
A key finding of the UC Berkeley study is that suburbs account for half of all household greenhouse gas emissions
which actions have the highest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their communities explained Kammen.
A 10-fold increase in population density in central cities yields only a 25%reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
for 100 days) and greenhouse gas emission equivalent of 800,000 car trips from one end of the U s. to the other, Â according to the Natural resources Defense Council.
and accounts for about 64 percent of the greenhouse gasses produced by the city's government operations.
is to reduce New york city's greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2017. What will it take to see these predictions happen?
from compost-heated greenhouses to hydroponic (water only, no soil) and aeroponic (air only) growing systems designed to maximize productivity in cramped settings.
because as much as 30 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by agriculture. One of the main foci is an operation in the Sacramento Valley owned by the Muller brothers
Argentine greenhouse robot brings automation to the massesbuenos AIRES--The new Trakã Â r agricultural robot does not have the brains, firepower or complexity of one of the Transformers,
for its Spanish initials) to promote automation in Argentine greenhouse agro-business. Designed to apply pesticides in greenhouses,
the Trakã Â r is meant to increase production of vegetables and flowers while protecting farm workers--who in the past would apply pesticides by hand--from the toxicity of the chemicals.
When one applies these chemicals in a confined environment like a greenhouse, one â¢s likelihood of intoxication increases notably,
Greenhouse robots are generally small wheeled vehicles that carry a tank of pesticide, a sprayer to distribute the liquid,
and the amount of remaining chemical to a computer outside the greenhouse, where an operator directs the Trakã Â r virtually.
The spheres look like a greenhouse or conservatory (the Mitchell Park Horticulture Conservatory known as the Domes in Milwaukee come to mind).
A company called Lufa Farms makes rooftop urban greenhouses that it says could operate on a commercial scale.
New york-based Brightfarms engineered highly automated greenhouses that it believes could operate directly on top of supermarkets.
Sweden building major urban greenhouse for vertical gardensplantagon, a Stockholm-based firm developing urban agriculture systems,
broke ground earlier this month on a large urban greenhouse that is intended to produce food for the city of Linkã Â ping, a city in south-central Sweden.
Plantagon hopes the Linkã Â ping greenhouse will eventually serve as a showcase for urban agriculture, its calling card.
Linkã Â ping's mayor, Paul Lindvall, said at the groundbreaking ceremony that he's proud his city has been chosen as the site for the greenhouse and as a testbed for urban agriculture solutions for other cities, as well.
Rendering of greenhouse, Plantagon
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which uses it to heat their greenhouses in the winter. Humanely-raised animals; using nose-to-tail:
Josep G. Canadell, a scientist in Australia who runs a global program to monitor greenhouse gases,
scientists say that the fact that methane is so much more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas means that it will be likely be responsible for trapping as much heat as the carbon dioxide will.
Throughout the year. 8. Melbourne, Australia Visit the Royal Botanic Gardens for its 12,000-plus species of plants, trees and flowers, the romantic Treasury Gardens, the greenhouses of the Fitzroy Gardens
is number one tool the world can use to reduce greenhouse gases. Years after Foster influential project, architects
so some architects are working with synthetic biologist to create building materials that could be applied to the walls of existing buildings that could suck greenhouse gases from the air,
growing a shell that could eat greenhouse gas pollutants and strengthening buildings. The tools of synthetic biology are galvanizing the development of new forms of architecture that respond to environmental change by incorporating the dynamic properties of living systems, such as growth, repair, sensitivity and replication,
I can afford $35. 70 to balance my greenhouse gas emissions. My flight to Copenhagen will be green.
and hopefully reach a binding agreement on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create a sustainable low carbon, clean energy economy.
Deforestation accounts for up to 20 percent of all greenhouse gas pollution. Electric cars can save the economy
One big factor in my quest for Copenhagen is that my personal greenhouse emissions traveling there will be offset
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