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‘Unthinkable’: alarm bells for the climate as OPEC action paves the way for oil surpluses

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The International Energy Agency forecast this month that global oil capacity could exceed demand by 2030, leading to a bearish trend for oil prices. OPEC has not specified a timeline for production increases, but has said its actions will depend on market conditions. Oil prices, which are influenced by many factors other than supply and … Read more

The discovery by Chinese scientists paves the way for the mechanical production of hybrid rice seeds

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“For hybrid seed of the next generation productionthe use of male sterile lines with small grains to mechanically separate small hybrid seeds from the mixed crop is promising,” they said. The challenge was to find a gene that can cause a rice line to have a small grain size without reducing the number of seeds … Read more