Scientific World

Research

Kelebonye Ramolekwa was recently recognised as one of 30 recipients of the prestigious 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talents Sub-Saharan Africa Award, which honours exceptional young scientists across…

Climate change

Scientists warn that the Amazon is nearing a tipping point which could transform rainforest into savannah. A recent study, using participatory systems-based methods in neighbouring areas of Bolivia, Brazil and Peru,…

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Agriculture

A global study has revealed the conditions under which non-native plants thrive in the world’s many dryland regions and the factors that limit their spread.

Fertilisation

A 60-year global study covering 205 countries and regions has uncovered the evolutionary patterns of nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency (NUE and PUE) in four major staple crops of rice, wheat, maize and soybean. Led…

Plant breeding

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños/Philippines and its global partners have introduced Green Nutritious Super Rice (GNSR), a new generation of rice varieties designed to address the twin…

Plant protection

What would happen if farmers around the globe were to switch over to sustainable pest management? A new study has analysed the global effects of such a transformation for the first time. The study is based on assessments…

Water

A research team from the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), in Leipzig/Germany has analysed the zooplankton communities in the White Nile and Blue Nile in Khartoum/Sudan. This is the…

Health

A new 2025 report from the EAT-Lancet Commission highlights that current food systems are harming planetary boundaries and human health, but a transformation to healthy, sustainable and just systems is possible. The…

Plant breeding

Wheat is one of the world’s staple crops, feeding billions of people every day. A research team in the USA have now detected a rare gene in wheat growing three ovaries per flower instead of one. The discovery might lead…

Plant breeding

Kazakhstan is releasing its first drought- and heat-tolerant variety of alfalfa, one of the world’s most important feed crops. Developed thanks to wild relatives seeds stored in local and global genebanks, the new…