The need to reduce food loss and waste urgently
Reading Time: 4 minutesAT the global event marking on Sept 29 the first International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and their partners urged everyone to do more to reduce food loss and waste or risk an even greater drop in food security and natural resources. Some […]
Nights warming faster than days across much of the planet
Reading Time: 2 minutesGLOBAL warming is affecting daytime and night-time temperatures differently – and greater night-time warming is more common than greater daytime warming worldwide – new research shows. University of Exeter scientists studied warming from 1983 to 2017 and found a difference in mean annual temperature of more than 0.25°C between daytime and night-time warming in over […]
Flu may increase the spread of Covid-19
Reading Time: 2 minutesSCIENTISTS at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin and the Institut Pasteur in Paris used a mathematical model to study the first months of the corona pandemic in Europe. They show that the decrease of Covid-19 cases in spring was not only related to countermeasures but also to the end of the […]
The Importance of food safety and traceability
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY DR CH’NG SOO EE AFTER the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, everyone’s order of life was disrupted. However, food is the most important thing for all man, and no matter how life is affected, they cannot do without the most basic need: food. When it comes to food safety, everyone may be particularly concerned […]
Many ventilation systems may increase risk of COVID-19 exposure, study suggests
Reading Time: 4 minutesMANY ventilation systems may increase risk of COVID-19 exposure, study suggests Ventilation systems in many modern office buildings, which are designed to keep temperatures comfortable and increase energy efficiency, may increase the risk of exposure to the coronavirus, particularly during the coming winter, according to research published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. A team from […]
Venus might be habitable today, if not for Jupiter
Reading Time: 3 minutesVenus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn’t altered its orbit around the sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter has a mass that is two-and-a-half times that of all other planets in our solar system — combined. Because it is comparatively gigantic, it has the ability to disturb other […]
The ancient Neanderthal hand in severe COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutesSINCE first appearing in late 2019, the novel virus, SARS-CoV-2, has had a range of impacts on those it infects. Some people become severely ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, and require hospitalization, whereas others have mild symptoms or are even asymptomatic. There are several factors that influence a person’s susceptibility to […]
Biodiversity is a bulwark for people, societies, economies and food security
Reading Time: 3 minutesBIODIVERSITY underpins most of the world’s economic activities, particularly in the agri-food sector, so the pace of its erosion must be contrasted with holistic, coherent and collective efforts, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said on Sept 30. “Its loss undermines global efforts to tackle poverty and hunger – no biodiversity, no food diversity,” he said in […]