Agriculture

Climate change action in Connecticut: linking energy, the environment and the economy.
UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy; 12/22/2009; 5568 words; ...ramifications associated with a dramatically altered climate. While state action is prefaced in terms of protecting coastlines, agriculture, infrastructure and local habitat and biodiversity, we also understand that climate change brings serious threats to our...

California's climate change program: lessons for the nation.
UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy; 12/22/2009; 11849 words; ...combustion of fossil fuels is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but by no means the only one. Sources as diverse as agriculture, forestry and industrial processes also contribute to climate change. Cutting emissions from these sources will require...

Scientists of the UGR obtain a bioinsecticide to control the Mediterranean fruit fly.
NewsRx Health; 11/22/2009; 762 words; ...plague which represents one of the most serious problems for agriculture. However, the control methods currently present in the...for the agricultural industry. Keywords: Agricultural, Agriculture, Conservation, Ecology, Environment, Biotechnology...

Cucumber genome published.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 990 words; ...University of California - Davis, Agricultural, Agricultural Science, Agriculture, Asia, China, South Korea, AT&T, Agricultural, Agricultural Science, Agriculture, Asia, China, South Korea, Telecommunications, University of California...

New study warns that climate change could create agricultural winners and losers in East Africa.
NewsRx Health & Science; 11/22/2009; 1725 words; ...Center (CIMMYT) and International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). Meanwhile, new heat-tolerant varieties of productive...Robin Buruchara of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). In areas that face drastic reductions in maize...