Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate, warns a new study. This publicly available forty-year global quantitative inventory seeks to inform policy regarding the environmental impact of human-induced climate change. It also detected previously ‘overlooked’ events.
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“Two weeks into 2025, and already the prices of Spanish greenhouse vegetables are heating up,” says Kees Havenaar of Frutas Luna from Almeria. “We have several theories and explanations for this, but which one is the right one?” “Starting with peppers, this is where everything converges—what I call my…
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I have a 5 year-old Pineapple Quince in my orchard. All indications point to it being a healthy tree. During the growing season it receives about 10-12 gallons of drip irrigation at the drip line. Last growing season was the second year that it has borne fruit. But something strange happened last year. Mid-season, when the fruit were about the size of a golfball, they all started to drop; not one fruit made it to harvest. Our other quince, an Aromatnaya Quince, which we care for in the same manner, delivered us a bounty.
I’ve asked around and scoured the internet for a possible explanation. Does anyone have any ideas about why the Pineapple Quince did this? Thanks in advance.
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Hoping to record various weather parameters at a site without reliable cellular service. Any advice on where to start looking for an appropriate device? I imagine being able to load recordings and analyze back home. Thanks!
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Hi all,
I’m currently preparing my backyard to start what I hope will be an edible garden and food forest. I’ve been trying to dig up some of the lawn along the perimeter, with the intention of sheet mulching and then layering with homemade compost and soil. The dirt under our lawn is a compacted red clay. Here are my questions:
1) What do you recommend I do with the compacted red clay I’m digging up? In a perfect world, yes, I’d mix it with stuff and turn it into good soil, but that’s probably not going to happen with this stuff (plus I’m pretty sure the previous owners treated the backyard with roundup). Do I just have someone come and haul it away?
2) In the interim between laying down soil and planting, should I cover the soil with mulch or anything? I know a lot of permaculturists on TikTok say never to have open soil (theirs is covered with chop and drop mulch), but I don’t have anything on hand to use––should I purchase and cover with wood mulch?
I’d appreciate any advice! Thank you!
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In this new blog post, Marion Boisseaux, a postdoc at California State University, presents her work ‘Shifting trait coordination along a soil-moisture-nutrient gradient in tropical forests’. She discusses the knowledge gaps in functional traits studies, presents the importance of looking at multiple components to understand plants responses, and shares her wish to transmit the relevance of ecophysiology to everyone. A French translation of this blog …
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À propos de l’article Dans le cadre de la théorie de la niche écologique, l’environnement agit comme un filtre et sélectionne les espèces d’une communauté locale. Le concept de filtrage environnemental explique que tous les organismes ne peuvent pas s’établir et persister dans tous les environnements. Les études qui examinent les relations entre les traits fonctionnels et l’environnement soutiennent souvent l’idée que les gradients environnementaux …
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Three Russian companies founded by Alexander Lyskovsky, including LLC “Gorodskie Teplytsy,” LLC “Gorodskie Teplytsy Moskva,” and LLC “Vertikalnye Fermy,” have announced plans to file for bankruptcy. According to investor Mikhail Taver, Lyskovsky failed to fulfill his duties as CEO and refused to follow…
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The planned deregulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in the EU would shift safety testing and liability risks for plants produced with NGTs, and the products derived from them, from biotech companies to the food industry. These consequences, up until now unnoticed, of the EU Commission’s plans to…
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Hi, I am 14 and will start planting a food forest on two and a half acre in Austria, middle Europe next year. I want many old and native varieties.
(Like Rowan tree, Mulberry, Apple, pear, plump, (German: Speierling), rowanberry, quince, medlar(German: Mispel), etc.)
I do not have any prior experience on planting a food forest, I just wanted to ask if there are any varieties I just can not miss Out on? I would appreciate help on which varieties to plant and what pattern might be the best. Thanks!
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