CropsOhio's record-wet August helps soybeans but raises rot risk in corn at harvest
After the wettest August on record, Ohio's state climatologist and growers say soybeans may benefit from more moisture while standing corn faces stalk and ear rot.
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New toad species found on a Mizoram mountain top, already at risk
Duttaphrynus phawngpui lives in leaf litter above 2,000 metres in Phawngpui National Park and, like its relatives, depends on cool, humid sky-island habitat that is shrinking.
AgribusinessEurope's 2026 heatwave halved French corn and sent food makers rethinking supply
From corn and broccoli to cocoa and sugar, extreme weather is pushing manufacturers to change suppliers, specifications and stock levels, industry leaders told FoodNavigator.
EnvironmentIndia's monsoon ends 12% short, with Meghalaya down 60% and the south 24%
IMD data to 29 September show 758.5 mm against a normal 865 mm; the northeast and south were hardest hit, while Odisha and Uttar Pradesh had more rain than normal.
GalleryA day in Bangladesh: fishing on Kaptai Lake, cauliflower fields and lotus
On 30 September Prothom Alo's photographers found fishermen on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati, cauliflower fields and egrets in Shibganj, Bogura, lotus and a black-hooded oriole in Pabna and carambola blossom in Moulvibazar.
EnvironmentCasuarina found growing wild on tidal land at Mirsharai
Known in Bangladesh as a planted tree, the pabon jhau (Casuarina equisetifolia) has seeded itself into a wild stand at Ichhakhali in Mirsharai, nature writer Mokarram Hossain reports.
EnvironmentFlowering trees cut on Dhaka-Chattogram highway median to grow vegetables
On a 32 km stretch of the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Mirsarai, vegetables are now grown at 113 spots on the road median where hundreds of jarul, sonalu and oleander trees planted for shade and beauty were cut; the roads department says it will act.
EnvironmentUK must grow more trees and treat timber security like food security, forestry chief says
Forestry Commission chair Baroness Young told the APF Show that multi-purpose forestry is hard but the answer is more planting across timber, carbon and biodiversity.
EnvironmentMichigan puts nearly $2 million into research on PFAS in farm soil and water
The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is funding five studies on how PFAS gets into fields, which crops take it up and how farmers can test for it cheaply.
CropsPunjab plans a shared platform to put paddy straw machinery to better use
An ICAR workshop at Punjab Agricultural University proposed CRM CONNECT to coordinate extension, machinery and industry as the state moves from cutting straw burning to using the 20 million tonnes of straw it produces.
EnvironmentTwelve-foot python caught in fishing net in Tetulia, sent to Singra National Park
A python about 12 feet long and weighing 10 to 12 kg came up in fishermen's net on the Mahananda river in Tetulia, Panchagarh, near the Indian border; the forest department rescued it and sent it to Singra National Park in Dinajpur.
HealthAbout 240,000 plastic particles in a litre of bottled water, mostly nanoplastics
Columbia University scientists using a special laser technique found an average of about 240,000 plastic particles per litre of bottled water, most of them nanoplastics, against earlier estimates of around 5,000, Indian Express Bangla reports.
AgribusinessAustralian farmers ask carbon policy review to protect food-producing land
The National Farmers' Federation told the Safeguard Mechanism review that carbon offsets can take farmland out of production and that lower thresholds could pull grain and fertiliser sites into the scheme.