Australian seaweed farm tackles burps to help climate
Triabunna (AFP) - It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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Australian seaweed farm tackles burps to help climate
Triabunna (AFP) - It is barely visible, and needs no irrigation or fertilisers: lying off the coast of Australia is ...
Trump unveils ‘breakthrough’ US-UK trade deal
Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump unveiled a "breakthrough" trade agreement with Britain on Thursday, celebrating the first deal ...
Backyard barnyard: rising egg prices prompt hen hires in US
La Crescenta (United States) (AFP) - Stung by the rocketing price of eggs -- and US supermarkets rationing a basic ...
Austria trials DNA testing to uncover honey fraud
Voels (Austria) (AFP) - At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples ...
Chinese tea hub branches into coffee as tastes change
Pu’er (China) (AFP) - At a mountainside cafe in southwestern China, Liao Shihao brews handfuls of locally grown beans into ...
Bayer says legal woes could force it to pull weedkiller
Berlin (AFP) - German pharmaceuticals and agrichemicals firm Bayer said Friday it could be forced to pull its Roundup weedkiller from ...
Japan to sell more rice reserves as prices soar
Tokyo (AFP) - Japan will sell more rice from its emergency stockpile through July in an attempt to stabilise soaring ...
EU plan to end Russian fertiliser imports unsettles farmers
Brussels (Belgium) (AFP) - The EU's plans to impose tariffs on fertiliser imports from Russia in a bid to increase ...
‘Anxious’: US farmers see tariffs threaten earnings
Washington (AFP) - As President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs took effect this weekend, US farmers hoping for a profit ...
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