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The trend towards increased veganism has long been touted as holding promise for increased macadamia nut consumption, but the question is, how big is the market and how much room is there for increasing the demand? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Three astrophysicists have an out-of-this-world solution for the climate crisis — mining dust from the moon and using it to build a shield around Earth that blocks the sun's rays.Researchers Benjamin Bromley, Sameer Khan, and Scott Kenyon say they've found that dust grains from the moon could be the right size to scatter sunlight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mountains are special places. They have distinctive climates that are generally cooler and wetter than surrounding lowlands, and they host plants, animals and landscapes that are uniquely found in these environments.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Most people don't think much about stethoscopes but the fact is that this tool, so commonly associated with doctors, is at a crossroads. Having been in use for nearly two centuries, the stethoscope is during a debate with respect to its utility in healthcare.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For animals, reproduction is a biological imperative, an instinct to pass their genetics onto the next generation.--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/johannpretorius/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 Natural habitats are facing mounting environmental challenges due to human activities such as land use changes, exploitation and climate change.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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While air quality has improved dramatically over the past 50 years thanks in part to the Clean Air Act, people of color at every income level in the United States are still exposed to higher-than-average levels of air pollution. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parasite spread has been implicated as a major driver of bee population decline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Regenerative agriculture is a conservation and rehabilitation approach to food and farming systems. It focuses on topsoil regeneration, increasing biodiversity, improving the water cycle, enhancing ecosystem services, supporting bio-sequestration, increasing resilience to climate change, and strengthening the health and vitality of farm soil. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The combustion of fossil fuels is often (rightly) regarded as the chief source of many negative environmental consequences, such as the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and climate change. However, recent computer models have suggested that even if all combustion of oil, coal and gas was to cease tomorrow, global warming would still exceed the 1.5°C threshold agreed upon at the Paris climate summit in 2015. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

While the electronic tongue bears little physical resemblance to its namesake, the strand-like sensory probes of the "e-tongue" still outperformed human senses when detecting contaminated wine in a recent study. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as milk protein, animal fats, collagen, honey, lobster, egg whites and more are receiving hundreds of millions of investor dollars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Lead is a toxic metal that negatively affects body systems of people and animals, with the nervous system being particularly sensitive. Although elevated levels of dietary lead are potentially damaging to animal health, lead shot can be legally used for hunting terrestrial gamebirds, like pheasants, in the UK. While most pheasants are eaten by people, some are used in petfood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

 A new study led by researchers from Sweden and Switzerland has found that the weight of farming machinery today is approaching that of the largest animals to have ever roamed the Earth – the sauropods. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mechanical devices are increasingly being considered as a potential way to help address plastic pollution found globally in marine environments. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Gerda le Roux gesels met Van Aarde Pretorius van Los Angeles in die VSA - Suid Afrikaner en die eienaar en Uitvinder van die FLEXBOX- 2024 - Volg dit op www.oneflexbox.com/. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

MycoLogic began as an academic research project at Kennesaw State University by co-founders Drs. Chris Cornelison and Kyle Gabriel. As applied microbiologists, with a focus in mycology, we began to look at specialty mushroom cultivation after discussing the general lack of mushroom diversity in local markets. Why could we only find 3 varieties? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lots of consumers say that they’re trying.1 Polling data from the UK suggests that nearly half (44%) of consumers try to buy less meat “All the time” or “Fairly often”. Visit the website above. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A new study led by the University of Liverpool has found that wandering albatrosses with older partners spend less time on foraging trips than those with sprightlier partners so that their mate has a shorter wait without food. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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An international team of scientists, including from the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, and the Natural History Museum, have discovered that a well-preserved fossilised worm dating from 518-million-years-ago resembles the ancestor of three major groups of living animals.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Despite efforts to pivot toward renewable sources of energy, oil remains the backbone of modern society. It provides fuels for heat and transportation, and chemicals for everything from plastics to pharmaceuticals. But all these uses require separating crude oil into its various components. That separation process—which traditionally relies on heat—takes a tremendous amount of energy and accounts for roughly 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Nuts, long known for their health benefits, have always been associated with holiday indulgence and the Spring Festival period in China generally sees explosive growth in sales.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Researchers from the Marine Ecology Group in UCC in Ireland collected feathers from Manx shearwaters, a seabird species thought to be at risk from oil pollution. The researchers examined the feathers to see how quickly water would pass through after exposure to increasing concentrations of oil. Feathers were also assessed under high-powered microscopes to examine structural changes after contamination. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agricultural rewilding" can also help to overcome concerns about the impact of rewilding on livelihoods and produce "win-win" environmental and human benefits, according to the researchers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Wood is the wonder fibre of the world. Multifunctional and renewable, when used sustainably, wood and its components are an indispensable part of the everyday life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Water security remains one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa, with the country’s supply facing many threats amid increasing demand and relatively low water availability. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wildlife is responding and adapting to climate change in various ways. Some adaptations are more obvious. Flowering plants, for example, are blooming sooner each year in parts of the northern hemisphere as climate change draws the onset of spring progressively earlier in the calendar. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On quiet nights across large swaths of the African bush, you may hear a series of whooping calls in the distance. This unique sound is the long-distance vocalisation used by spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) to communicate with each other.For hyenas, it’s advantageous to know who is calling before deciding to respond. They don’t treat every member of their group the same – and the caller could even be an intruder in their territory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Climate change has already increased global temperatures, greatly increasing extremes. This will continue unless greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to “net-zero”. The 1.5°C target of the Paris Agreement requires emissions reductions of around 50% in the next 10 years. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

During the northern hemisphere summer of 2022, yet another round of extreme heat waves roasted Eurasia, North America and northern Africa – a stark reminder that these conditions are becoming the new normal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves to promise increased trade barriers against African food and agriculture imports. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There is a growing global interest in producing high-quality protein products from simple flies or fly larvae, to be specific. And two Cape Town companies are making food while the sun shines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More than half of federal funding for “climate-smart” agriculture in the US goes to farming practices that are unlikely to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and in some cases, would even increase them, according to a new report by the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Agricultural producers face dual challenges of increasing output for a growing world population while reducing negative effects on the environment. Digital technologies and artificial intelligence can facilitate sustainable production, but farmers must weigh opportunities and risks when deciding whether to embrace such tools. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.