HOUSTON — Spoons could one day replace needles as a way to administer vaccines to protect children against diarrheal diseases that kill millions each year in developing nations, researchers say. Scientists at Texas A&M University’s Institute for Biosciences and Technology (IBT) in Houston and Tulane University in New Orleans say laboratory animals fed genetically engineered…
COLLEGE STATION — Current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates for feedyard dust are too high, and that could cost the Texas feedyard industry thousands of dollars in pollution fees that it doesn’t deserve, according to a preliminary study recently conducted at Texas A&M University. Annual dust emissions from feedyards studied by Texas A&M scientists accounted…
COLLEGE STATION — More than $6 million has been spent since 1988 battling deadly oak wilt disease in Texas, but foresters estimate that $60 million worth of trees have been saved. The Oak Wilt Suppression Project, handled by the Texas Forest Service, pits seven foresters full-time against googols of fungus spores that stick to the…
LUBBOCK — Aphids coming to feast on cotton plants on the High Plains this season may find the humidity in this normally dry climate truly unbearable. Scientists are hoping that a fine mist from a sprinkler system will help fend off damaging early season insects at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at Halfway. If all…
COLLEGE STATION — A controversial method for using water to help avoid grain elevator explosions should not be banned by the federal government, a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher says. Dr. Calvin Parnell, an experiment station researcher and professor in the Texas A&M University agricultural engineering department, testified before Congress in October that using water…
COLLEGE STATION — A collection of environmental news articles, videos, radio features and educational publications produced by the Texas A&M University department of agricultural communications has been selected as the Best Total Public Relations Program by Keep Texas Beautiful, Inc. The materials, produced June 1992-September 1993, were honored during the Environmental Expo, sponsored by Keep…
