In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows. In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say ...

If you have lived in a home with a trampoline in the backyard, you may have observed the unreasonably tall grass growing under it. This is because many crops, including these grasses, actually grow ...

New research from France shows that PV panel height critically influences airflow and evapotranspiration in agrivoltaic systems, with panel heights of less than 3 m affecting crops through altered ...

Solar panels are no longer just lining barn roofs and field edges, they are rising directly above rows of vegetables, orchards and vineyards, reshaping how food and power are produced on the same ...

Deploying solar panels and growing crops on the same land could be a solution to boost renewable electricity in Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, reaching the equivalent of 68% of today’s energy ...

Biomass pellets represent a pivotal component in the transition towards sustainable energy solutions. By transforming a range of lignocellulosic feedstocks through densification processes, fuel ...

Around the world, farmers are retooling their land to harvest the hottest new commodity: sunlight. As the price of renewable energy technology has plummeted and water has gotten more scarce, growers ...

Agrivoltaics – the practice of co-locating solar facilities with cropland – is increasingly being adopted throughout the world as a way to introduced distributed clean energy while not compromising ...

Plant owners with a so-called green thumb often seem to have a more finely tuned sense of what their plants need than the rest of us. A new "smart lighting" system for indoor vertical farms grants ...

In the fight to protect biodiversity and limit climate change, the world will reap what it sows, say researchers from the University of Surrey. Energy crops can be used for heat, electricity and even ...