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MRSA contamination found in supermarket sausages and minced pork
In February, a team of researchers funded primarily by the Medical Research Council bought and analysed a total of 103 (52 pork and 51 chicken) pre-packaged fresh meat products, labelled as being of UK...
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What limpets can tell us about life on Mesolithic Oronsay
Scroll to the end of the article to listen to the podcast.For well over 100 years, archaeologists have been working in the windswept environment of the Isle of Oronsay on the west coast of Scotland to...
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Paying farmers to help the environment works, but ‘perverse’ subsidies must...
New research suggests that offering financial incentives for farming industries to mitigate the impact agriculture has on the environment, by reducing fertiliser use and ‘sparing’ land for...
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Q is for Queen Bumblebee
Each autumn, colonies of bumblebees die. All, that is, apart from the gravid (egg-carrying) queens who survive the winter in tiny burrows in the ground. Early in the spring, the queen emerges to start...
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S is for Sheep
The artist Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) depicted sheep in numerous paintings and drawings. Most famously perhaps, six sheep feature in one of Palmer’s best known works, The Magic Apple Tree, an exquisite...
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Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened forest and...
A new study shows that if the European Union lifted the pigswill ban imposed following 2001’s foot-and-mouth disease epidemic, and harnessed technologies developed in East Asian countries for...
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Millet: the missing piece in the puzzle of prehistoric humans’ transition...
The domestication of the small-seeded cereal millet in North China around 10,000 years ago created the perfect crop to bridge the gap between nomadic hunter-gathering and organised agriculture in...
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Boosting farm yields to restore habitats could create greenhouse gas ‘sink’
New research into the potential for sparing land from food production to balance greenhouse gas emissions has shown that emissions from the UK farming industry could be largely offset by 2050. This...
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Let’s go wild: how ancient communities resisted new farming practices
A box of seemingly unremarkable stones sits in the corner of Dr Giulio Lucarini’s office at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research where it competes for space with piles of academic...
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How 'more food per field' could help save our wild spaces
Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions. However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of...
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Latest archaeological finds at Must Farm provide a vivid picture of everyday...
Archaeologists have made remarkable discoveries about everyday life in the Bronze Age during their ten-month excavation of 3,000-year-old circular wooden houses at Must Farm in Cambridgeshire, a site...
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Lessons from the past
Until around 2,500 years ago, river valleys on Peru’s south coast were filled with dry forests. But as they cleared trees for agriculture the ancient Nasca inadvertently exposed this landscape to a...
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Casting light on the dark ages: Anglo-Saxon fenland is re-imagined
The East Anglian fens with their flat expanses and wide skies, a tract of some of the UK’s richest farmland, are invariably described as bleak – or worse. Turn the clock back 1,000 years to a time when...
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Massive projected increase in use of antimicrobials in animals could lead to...
The researchers, from ETH Zürich, Princeton, and the University of Cambridge, conducted the first global assessment of different intervention policies that could help limit the projected increase of...
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Changing the face of Indian farming
The rains are less reliable. Sudden heat waves create challenging conditions for crops. Poor harvests result not only in debt, but also in malnutrition for smallholder farmers. Farming in India is not...
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Cambridge and Indian partners launch collaboration to transform India’s...
The adoption of modern methods and new technologies in agriculture that propelled India to self-sufficiency in grain production in the second half of the 20th century is known as the country’s “Green...
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Cost and scale of field trials for bovine TB vaccine may make them unfeasible
Instead, the researchers suggest that the scale and cost of estimating the effect of a vaccine on transmission could be dramatically reduced by using smaller, less expensive experiments in controlled...
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Boosting farm yields to restore habitats could create greenhouse gas ‘sink’
New research into the potential for sparing land from food production to balance greenhouse gas emissions has shown that emissions from the UK farming industry could be largely offset by 2050. This...
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Let’s go wild: how ancient communities resisted new farming practices
A box of seemingly unremarkable stones sits in the corner of Dr Giulio Lucarini’s office at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research where it competes for space with piles of academic...
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How 'more food per field' could help save our wild spaces
Agricultural expansion is a leading cause of wild species loss and greenhouse gas emissions. However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of...
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