Agriculture

Ancient DNA reveals that hunter-gatherers in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands survived until 2500 BC, when other European countries were already practicing agriculture.

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A scientist in a protective suit handling samples in a laboratory for ancient DNA analysis

For thousands of years after agriculture spread to Europe, hunter-gatherers quietly endured in the lowlands of what is now the Netherlands and Belgium. A new ancient DNA study reveals that in these wet, cross-river areas, about 50% of hunter-gatherer villages survived until about 2500 BCE. They did so when most of the continent had already … Read more

Plant Genetic Engineering Drives Next Era of Crop Innovation | Newswise

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Plant Genetic Engineering Drives Next Era of Crop Innovation | Newswise

Newswise – Review covers biological and non-biological modification techniques that enable efficient introduction of beneficial genes into plants. It also describes recent advances that improve the efficiency of transformation and expand the range of transgenic crops, providing new tools for developing high-yield, climate-resistant, and disease-resistant crops to support global food security. Genetic modification of plants … Read more

Video: A ‘powerful storm’ of snow geese begins heading for the Arctic

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Europe's aging grid puts clean energy projects at risk of 'waste'

Bird watchers gather to share in one of nature’s most spectacular spectacles: a “blizzard” of snow geese flying over a Pennsylvania lake. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING It is as if they are gathered in the darkness of the morning, waiting for the time when thousands of migrating birds stop chirping and chirping. They are rewarded with a … Read more