Depleting Soil Health: The Price of Growing Water-Guzzling Crops
States primarily growing water-intensive crops have more depleted soil, with lower levels of macro and micronutrients like ...
Earth's drylands expand, affecting billions as climate warms
As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three ...
Envirotech Online15d
How salinity could become the most important environmental parameter
While environmental monitoring professionals are keeping track of aerosols, greenhouse gases, nutrients, PFAS and ...
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Editorial: Enhancing salinity tolerance in crop plants through agronomic, genetic, molecular, and physiological approaches
Soil salinity is increasing worldwide, posing a serious threat to crop production and food security. The rate of increase in salinity is estimated at 1.5 million hectares per year, which is a major ...
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World food prices rose in February on back of sugar rush, UN's FAO says
ROME, March 7 (Reuters) - Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations ...
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Deciphering salt tolerance mechanisms in synthetic hexaploid and bread wheat under humic acid application: physiological and genetic perspectives
While present study demonstrated the beneficial effects of HA in mitigating the salt stress under control conditions, there is a dire need for field level validation under varying climatic and soil ...
Morocco World News28d
From Marginal to Farmland: Biosaline Agriculture’s Promise in Water-Scarce Lands
“Salinity is irreversible. Once soil becomes saline, it never goes back to its original state,” the professor warned, citing data from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). According to ...