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Polson Distinguished Speaker confronts racial injustice through geography
The Polson Institute for Global Development welcomed urban geographer Nik Heynen as its inaugural Distinguished Speaker in the Fall 2023 semester. A Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Scientists convene in Kenya for intensive wheat disease training

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
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New plot-labeling program supports plant breeders in Global South

  • Global Development Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
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Adding crushed rock to farmland pulls carbon out of the air
Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field study, scientists at the University of California, Davis, and Cornell University found the technology stored carbon in the soil even during an extreme drought in California. The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Communications.
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture