In certain Sub-Saharan African countries, a transition is underway that involves increased motorization and herbicide use. This study is the first to investigate whether these recent changes are trans...

Increased atmospheric evaporative demand in recent years has increased drought severity by an average of 40% globally across both dry and wet regions, and the trend is likely to continue under future ...

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La loi sur la recherche risque de favoriser les «meilleurs» laboratoires en créant des grosses structures. Or des études prouvent qu’il est plus efficace de diversifier les financements.

Crop models play a key role in understanding and improving the climate-change resilience of food systems. If appropriately used, machine learning can help tackle some of the critical challenges of agr...

In these days of political instability, geopolitical tensions, and social discontent around the world, there are continued threats to the principles, conduct, and findings of science. This assault on ...

Sustainable production of sufficient and healthy food requires efficient use of agricultural inputs. In many regions of the world with intensive agric…

Yield potential estimates from statistical models and process-based crop models are compared across diverse climates and soil conditions. The findings reveal limitations of statistical methods, unders...

The number of scientific publications related to biomass carbon or soil organic carbon under various land management practices has globally and dramatically increased during the last two decades, the ...

Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

Introducing “How the System Works,” a series on the hidden mechanisms that support modern life

What a first year with temperature 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial baseline implies for long-term temperature goals is unclear. Here the authors show that such a first year above the baseline is highl...

As described in a previous post, the energy flows of cropped fields and natural ecosystems differ greatly. In natural systems, most of the solar energy captured by plants stays within the ecosystem, c...

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