Nuclear Science for Sustainable Agriculture: The IAEA-FAO Partnership
Interview with Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General for Climate and Natural Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO), and a speaker at the IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology, starting on 26 November.
Egypt and Senegal Receive Gamma Detectors to Help Combat Soil Erosion
Experts in Egypt and Senegal will be better able to fight soil erosion thanks to two gamma spectroscopy detectors which have just been delivered through the IAEA's technical cooperation programme.
Five Years On: Nuclear Science Enables Young Philippine Chemist to Study Long-term Impact of Typhoon Haiyan
When environmental chemist Wilfren Clutario wanted to understand the level of pollution caused by the world’s most severe typhoon, which claimed over 6000 lives and devastated two-thirds of Tacloban in 2013, he had a problem: there was no baseline data available.
The US Announces $800k Support to the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre
The United States’ Government this week announced a US$ 839,000 contribution to support the work of the IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC). The announcement, made at the 2018 Our Ocean?Conference in Bali, comes in addition to earlier US donations?to the Centre, including the most recent?one in 2017.
Using Cosmic Rays to Measure Moisture Levels in Soil
Neutrons?propelled to Earth by cosmic rays from space are helping scientists in more than 25 countries to measure water in soil and help farmers save water and adapt to climate change.