A senior government adviser claimed that the quality of China’s soil needs to be guarded to prevent the country from experiencing food shortage due to the migration of people from the provinces to the city in the next three decades.
Han Jun, a specialist on rural policy from the Development Research Centre, said that keeping food [...]

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Scientists discovered that grizzly bears have moved into an area previously known as a habitat for polar bears.
This finding was obtained by biologists affiliated with the City College of the City University of New York, and the American Museum of Natural History. According to their data featured in Canadian Field Naturalist, the Ursus arctos horribilis—or [...]

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Research has revealed that monitoring climate patterns in the Indian Ocean could help improve existing early-warning systems for El Nino, saving lives as well as billions of dollars in the process.
According to the study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists in France and Japan have announced that their latest forecast model is capable of predicting an [...]

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The future of carbon emissions in Europe had no clear direction on Tuesday as business groups sought word of how fast and how many of the newly released carbon permits would be available in the market.
EU Allowances scheduled for delivery in December went up two cents or roughly 0.16 percent to €12.80 ($17.50) per tonne [...]

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The coffee output in Uganda this season will be boosted by heavy rains in major parts of the country, a senior officer of a farmers’ organisation said Tuesday.
Uganda is considered one of the leading coffee producers in Africa and primarily cultivates the variety known as robusta. Torrential rains have been pouring in major areas of [...]

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