Scientists and Farmers Race to Save the World ’s Banana Supply
Roughly 99% of the world’s bananas are threatened by a fungus. To save them, scientists are turning to genetic modification. For 40 years, farmers, scientists and major producers in the industry have watched with growing anxiety as the fungus García-Bastidas saw, Fusarium odoratissimum, or…#fusarium #southeastasia #jordan #africa #subscribe #bloombergoriginals #bloombergquicktake #breakingnewson (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 3, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Pickles, halloumi and camel milk: What we ’ll be eating in 2024
Get ready to eat more buckwheat, pickles, caramelized bananas, cinnamon sugar, dressed-up ramen, grilled halloumi cheese and Korean cuisine in 2024 — and to wash it down with a tall, cool glass of camel milk. Why it matters: It's the time of year when everyone in the food business predicts what…#cinnamonsugar #korean #tiktok #reese #caramelbigcups #nerdsgummyclusters #mintel #genxers #datassential #claussen (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fortnite just had its biggest day ever, 5.5 years after it launched, with 44.7 million players in one day
Break out the Slurp juice and keep an eye out for firearm-toting bananas. Fortnite is setting new records. The popular battle royale game, which was originally released just shy of five-and-a-half years ago, had the highest number of players in its history Saturday, with over 44.7 million people…#slurp #fortnite #chapter1season5 #epic #google #googleplaystore #sundarpichai #apple #supremecourt #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
CEO Morning Routines Are Bananas. So I Tried a Few
Earlier this month, I decided to take on the challenge of a lifetime: Try a CEO’s morning routine for one day. On Tuesday, I was JPMorgan ’s Jamie Dimon and up before dawn reading five newspapers, research reports and getting in a workout. On Wednesday, call me Nasdaq Chief Executive Adena…#jpmorgan #jamiedimon #adenafriedman #hollywood #nathanbrowns (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How AI can help the shipping industry cut carbon emissions
Your car. Your smartphone. That bunch of bananas on your counter. Chances are all of these items made their way to you via ship. Roughly 90% of the world’s goods are transported by sea, according to the World Economic Forum. And while there’s been a sustained push to cut the carbon emissions of…#worldeconomicforum #unitednations #dylankeil #bearingai #learn #andrewng #aifund #fortunecom (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Internet in shock as cat " obsessed " with bananas wakes up to peeling noise
Cats are a law unto themselves and often develop interesting and hilarious personality quirks. One has gone viral on TikTok with more than 289,000 views on the platform because of his unusual obsession with bananas. "OK, my cat is asleep right now, but he is obsessed with bananas and every time I…#tiktok #petnutrition #bananas #tuftsuniversity #hill #obese (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
September Heat Sets ‘ Mind-Blowing ’ Global Temperature Record
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After a summer of record-smashing heat, warming somehow got even worse in September as Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures were, the European climate agency reported Thursday.
Last month’s average temperature was 0.93 degrees Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 average for September. That’s the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buon...
Source: TIME: Science - October 5, 2023 Category: Science Authors: SETH BORENSTEIN / AP Tags: Uncategorized climate change healthscienceclimate wire Source Type: news
Savannah Bananas Break The Rules, Go Mainstream
Savannah Bananas owner Jesse Cole has spent much of his career intentionally turning away from baseball’s established culture, but he couldn’t help but appreciate being in the cradle of the sport — Cooperstown, New York — to end the team’s 2023 so-called “World Tour.” “I remember coming here as a…#savannahbananas #jessecole #cooperstown #worldtour #halloffame #cole #frontofficesports #bananas #harlemglobetrotters #baseballhalloffame (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Ancient Amazonians created mysterious ‘dark earth’ on purpose
Mysterious patches of fertile black soil pepper the verdant Amazon rainforest. They sit in stark contrast with the reddish, eroded soil that dominates the basin. Researchers have long thought this Amazonian dark earth—or
terra preta
—was created by pre-Hispanic Indigenous civilizations, which have inhabited the region for millennia, but it wasn’t clear how. Now, a multidisciplinary team of scientists and Indigenous partners suggests the ancient Amazonians intentionally created the rich soil thousands of years ago to better foster their crops, and that their modern-day descendants are still making new
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Source: ScienceNOW - September 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
More than a fifth of UK shoppers ’ favourite grocery items at climate breakdown risk
More than a fifth of UK shoppers’ favourite grocery items are at risk from climate breakdown, a new report has found. Consumers could also face shortages of bananas, grapes, avocados, cashews, cocoa, peas, canned tuna and tea in the coming years, as the countries they come from are hit by changing…#christianaid #brazil #southafrica #vietnam #peru #colombia #ivorycoast #kenya #spain #morocco (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Not All Fruits Play Well Together in Your Morning Smoothie
Mixing fruits like bananas -- which brown quickly -- with things like berries may limit the nutritional benefit of those berries. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Security in Ecuador has come undone as drug cartels exploit the banana industry to ship cocaine
Ecuador's location is increasingly putting it at the confluence of two global trades: bananas and cocaine.#ecuador (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 4, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
AMC Goes Bananas Before the APE Conversion
AMC Entertainment Holdings stock was going bananas on Thursday as investors braced for the conversion of APE equity units to common stock on Friday. The good news: AMC shares just got an upgrade from analysts at Wedbush.#ape #amc #wedbush (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Unregulated Agrochemicals Harm Health of Rural Residents in Central America
Medardo Pérez, 60, sprays paraquat, a potent herbicide, to kill the weeds growing in his corn crop in the San Isidro canton of the municipality of Santa María Ostuma, in central El Salvador. Most small farmers in Central America use this and other agrochemicals on their crops, just as agribusiness does on monocultures such as bananas, pineapples, coffee and sugar cane. CREDIT: Edgardo Ayala / IPSBy Edgardo AyalaSANTA MARÍA OSTUMA, El Salvador , Aug 21 2023 (IPS) In his green cornfield, Salvadoran farmer Medardo Pérez set about filling the hand-held spray pump that hangs on his back, with the right mixture of water and ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 21, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Edgardo Ayala Tags: Conservation Development & Aid Editors' Choice Environment Featured Food and Agriculture Headlines Health Latin America & the Caribbean Regional Categories Agrochemicals Costa Rica El Salvador Glyphosate Guatemala Pesticides Source Type: news
False claim bananas are'fake' because they don't have seeds
The claim: Bananas in grocery stores are 'fake,' lack nutrients because they don’t produce seeds A July 25 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows a series of animated bananas, scientists and men wearing sunglasses along with text that suggests something is wrong with seedless bananas in…#bananas #jonathancrane #universityofflorida #cavendish #oxfordscientist #usatoday #noneoxfordscientist (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
