Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological 'push notifications'

Podcast: Pollution makes you fat? India approves more GMOs; Biological ‘push notifications’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Air pollution harms our health in many ways; does it also encourage obesity? Farmers in India have access to two ...
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Could genetically engineered, nitrogen-fixing crops replace polluting synthetic fertilizers?

R. Ford Denison | 
Everyone has heard of the nutrient, nitrogen, but why is it important to plants? It's a key ingredient in proteins, ...
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Air pollution dramatically harms childhood brain development

Ian Le Guillou | 
Between 1981 and 1989, 26 outbreaks of asthma were reported in [Barcelona] with many cases centred around the harbour. Local ...
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Plant-based bottles could help slash 300 million tons of plastic pollution

Jillian Ambrose | 
Beer and soft drinks could soon be sipped from “all-plant” bottles under new plans to turn sustainably grown crops into ...
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Have regulators failed to address agriculture’s fertilizer pollution problem?

Joe Wertz | 
Everywhere Randy Souder looked, he saw mud. On his soggy fields. In the mechanized crannies of his planter. Along the ...
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We can sustainably feed 3.4 billion people. Study shows 4 eco-friendly farming practices will help produce food for 10 billion

Dieter Gerten | 
Global agriculture puts heavy pressure on planetary boundaries, posing the challenge to achieve future food security without compromising Earth system ...
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China cleaning up 25 million acres of polluted farmland to meet soaring food demand

David Stanway, Muyu Xu | 
China has shut more than 1,300 heavy metal enterprises since 2016 as part of a long-term plan to curb widespread ...
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Soot in the womb: Research suggests air pollution threatens developing babies

Aimee Cunningham | 
Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a pregnant woman’s lungs, all the way to the womb surrounding ...
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Does air pollution contribute to poor attention, memory problems for kids?

Jackie Rocheleau | 
Over the past decade or so, in both animals and humans, in the lab and in the real world, scientists ...
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Tumor ‘black box’ could pinpoint the cause of each patient’s cancer, researchers say

Sarah Knapton | 
The cause of cancer is written into the DNA of tumours, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough which could finally ...
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Pollution from corn farming linked to 4,300 premature deaths annually, study claims

Yessenia Funes | 
A study published [April 8] in Nature Sustainability shows how deadly [corn] can be. And eating it isn’t the killer; ...
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Crops engineered to consume less nitrogen fertilizer could protect vulnerable ecosystems

Daniel Ackerman | 
Rice, wheat and other grains that have been bred to produce larger harvests using less land have been critical to ...
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Does air pollution reach the womb, eventually leading to heart disease and shorter lives?

Ricki Lewis | 
New research gives expectant mothers reason to be more cautious with air pollution, which can cause damage to the critical ...
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