At least three people have been killed in China’s eastern province after strong winds toppled a shipyard crane, reported Reuters, on Sunday (June 11) citing officials.

At least three killed after storms sweep through China, flood warnings issued

A recent study that was published in the journal, Frontiers, in Environmental Science suggests that since human waste products like urine and faeces contain essential nutrients like nitrogen, potassium, boron, zinc, iron, calcium, and magnesium, they may also be used to make products that could work well and safely as agricultural fertilisers.

IS IT SAFE? Can human faeces be used to produce fertilisers for food crops? Here's what a study reveals

Argentina is facing the worst drought in decades. Drought is threatening Wheat, Corn and Soy in Argentina as all key crops are ending up as animal feed.

Drought threatening Wheat, Corn & Soy in Argentina

Drought threatening Wheat, Corn & Soy in Argentina as all key crops end up as animal feed

Important hints about how to develop drought-resistant crops in a world plagued by climate change can be found in a common plant. In a report published on August 5 in the journal Science Advances, Yale scientists explain how Portulaca oleracea, commonly known as purslane, integrates two different metabolic pathways to produce a novel type of photosynthesis that enables the weed to withstand drought while remaining highly productive.

'Super plant' that holds key to developing drought-resistant crops discovered

We have an alarming problem! Not the ongoing coronavirus pandemic or the political upheavals across the globe, but the increasingly dying populations of bees. Due to the disappearing numbers of bees, crop yields for apples, cherries, and blueberries across the US has crumbled.

Bee populations are declining drastically: Find out how this phenomenon can wreak havoc globally

The branches on trees around Kenya's northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts. Numbers of locusts exploded in East Africa and the Red Sea region in late 2019, exacerbated by atypical weather patterns amplified by climate change.

Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya

Chickens in Pakistan have been feasting on captured locusts under an initiative to combat swarms of the insects that are threatening food supplies in the impoverished country.

Pakistan battles locusts by turning them into chicken feed

A central team will visit Odisha in a day or two to assess the extent of damage to agricultural and horticultural crops in areas badly affected by recent cyclone Fani, a senior government official said Friday.

Central team to soon visit Odisha to assess crop damage due to cyclone Fani

NASA in a report has said that its high-resolution satellites have shown that the world "is literally a greener place than it was 20 years ago" due to two emerging countries with the world’s biggest populations - China and India- leading in "greening on land".

China, India have helped in greening of Earth: NASA report

The farmers are demanding a waiver of their loans, the right price for their produce, and the implementation of the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission

Farmers begin 10-day nationwide strike, say will not sell produce in cities

One of the affected farmers in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district told ANI on Monday, that he suffered a loss of Rs 1 lakh

Thunderstorm: Farmers suffer loss of mango crop in northern India

Greenpeace called the declaration a publicity stunt, stressing that GMOs contaminate the environment

Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing genetically modified crops

Thousands of fires started to cheaply clear land for palm oil crops and for pulp and paper plantations disrupted flights and caused sickness

Land-clearing forest fires choking Southeast Asia in 2015 release record carbon

As they struggle to deal with more extreme weather, a range of food crops are generating more of chemical compounds that can cause?healthproblems for people and livestock who eat them, scientists have warned

Extreme weather increasing level of toxins in food, scientists warn

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