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Warming Trends: Farming for City Dwellers, an Upbeat Climate Podcast and Soil Bacteria That May Outsmart Warming
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May 8, 2021
The inside of the Greenery S uses red and blue LED lights that are set to the most efficient wavelength to promote plant growth. Photo Courtesy of Freight Farms
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Farm in a Box
For those who want to start a farm but live in a city, a desert or perpetually cold region, this company will help you grow produce inside a shipping container.
The Greenery S is the latest generation of Freight Farms’ hydroponic farm, inside a 320-square-foot shipping container. It can grow several acres worth of food year-round, in a largely automated and highly efficient system, for $139,000. The vertical farms, which can grow food like spinach, basil and radishes, currently operate in 350 locations around the world.
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While evolution is normally thought of as occurring over millions of years, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered that bacteria can evolve in response to climate change in 18 months. In a study published in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, biologists from UCI found that evolution is one way that soil microbes might deal with global warming.
Soil microbiomes - the collection of bacteria and other microbes in soil - are a critical engine of the global carbon cycle; microbes decompose the dead plant material to recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem and release carbon back into the atmosphere. Multiple environmental factors influence the composition and functioning of soil microbiomes, but these responses are usually studied from an ecological perspective, asking which microbial species increase or decrease in abundance as environmental conditions change. In the current study, the UCI team investigated if bacterial specie