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AgrotechAgrivoltaics, which puts solar panels above or between crops, is spreading in Spain and Italy with EU and state money, but researchers say its benefits depend on the site and farmers' unions warn it can serve investors more than growers.
EnvironmentThe 10 New Insights in Climate Science report, by more than 70 scientists, says past emissions have locked in more ocean warming and sea level rise, freshwater is vanishing across continents and food systems must change.
CropsA 0.6-hectare pilot between Amsterdam and The Hague, run with Wageningen and Leiden researchers, is testing about 30 rice cultivars on peat kept wet to stop it drying, sinking and releasing CO2.
EnvironmentThe EU's atmosphere monitoring service says 50% of Europeans faced poor or worse ground-level ozone from June to August, as heat and wildfires drove a pollutant that is also a greenhouse gas and harms crops.
HealthAn IARC study attributes 2.3 million new cases to viruses, bacteria and parasites, led by H. pylori and HPV, with low- and middle-income countries bearing about three-quarters.
HealthHousehold air pollution from cooking with wood, charcoal and kerosene causes an estimated 2.5 million premature deaths a year, and the IEA says Africa-wide clean cooking by 2030 needs only about $4 billion of investment annually.
FruitsHerdade das Servas in Portugal tested night picking in 2024 and made it standard last year; its winemaker expects more of the region's producers to follow.
CropsThe protected Greek crop is mislabelled at market stalls with potatoes from as far as Egypt, water now comes from desalination plants, and a leading grower warns there may be few Greek farmers left in a decade.
After his worst winter-wheat harvest since 2017, Bryce Black is weighing perennial grains whose deep roots reach water, hold soil and store carbon; Kernza, domesticated by The Land Institute since 2001, covered just 3,511 acres in the US last year and yields 20-40% of wheat, but cuts fertiliser, fue
