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November 14, 2024 | Nature Communications | Introduction: Cover crops offer multiple agroecosystem benefits including higher yields, soil carbon storage, and erosion control, but their net value is co

May 8, 2024 | PLOS ONE | Introduction: Assessments of cover crop climate value typically quantify carbon sequestration and N₂O emissions, but omit land-use effects, specifically the carbon savings tha

February 25, 2019 | Journal of Pest Science |  Introduction: Climate change is intensifying crop pest threats globally, disrupting species distribution, outbreak timing, and pest–natural enemy dynamic

April 8, 2025 | Nature Reviews Earth & Environment  Introduction: This review led by researchers at Hebei University and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) explains how global change

March 18, 2024 | Communications Biology | Introduction: Despite the availability of environmentally friendly pest control options, uptake of green Integrated Pest Management (IPM) remains slow. A mult

February, 2022 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | Introduction: Poultry housing may account for up to 50% of total non-renewable energy use and 20-35% of the life cycle impacts of poultry pr

November 20, 2020 | Journal of Cleaner Production | Introduction: Greenhouses account for the largest share of final energy consumption in agriculture, with heating alone consuming 65-85% of total ene

August 06, 2021 | Communications Earth & Environment |  Introduction: Rice paddies are widely discussed for methane emissions, but their role as carbon stores is less consistently quantified. Led by C

August 26, 2023 | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment |  Introduction: Lowland rice systems present a well-known climate trade-off, as management practices that increase soil organic carbon (SOC)

January 20, 2026 | Nature Communications |  Introduction: This study, led by the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania (Australia) with participation from industry and resea

June 23, 2022 | Science |  Introduction: Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement will not be met. In this review, researchers led by the University

May 22, 2020 | Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems |  Introduction: Global pathways consistent with the Paris Agreement rely on substantial reductions in agricultural methane (CH4) and N2O alongside