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With the climate crisis making many food crops more difficult to grow, some scientists and entrepreneurs are searching for solutions beyond our planet.

Abu Dhabi-based startup StarLab Oasis, a spin-off from Texan company Nanoracks, wants to grow seeds in outer space in order to develop plant varieties that can survive on a less hospitable Earth. In 2023, StarLab Oasis expects to send its first seeds into orbit. From soybeans to quinoa, seeds grow differently in space than on land. Without Earth’s gravitational pull, plants struggle to distinguish which way to grow, and they are also exposed to cosmic radiation.

It’s up to the clients to decide whether they will commercially breed and sell them, he adds. One non-profit it is currently working with is the Dubai-based International Center for Biosaline Agriculture, which is looking to increase the saline and drought tolerance of crops such as quinoa, explains Kiselchuk.

 

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What a load of crap.

OMFG why don't they just let the soil replenish itself naturally the way they know it can... oh right because then they couldn't sell chemicals. So now we know, capitalism is what killed us. JFC

Your new logo’s ugly

Let reduce pollution, swampy encroachment, forest conservation, plant natural trees, limit road construction, settlement area checked, reduce population growth

I'm suspected this plan can't supply food for people to 7,000,000,000.

The transportation cost of growing food in space will be crazy.

We do not buy it bro, you want us to worry, 3rd party entities always want %95 anxiety disorder for humans by manipulating our Matrix. There is nothing worse than death and sooner or later we will all will die, nothing to exaggerate.

Our Climate has been changing since the beginning of time and should be followed as a long term issue. However, the world's acute problem is the cost of fossil fuels that is doubling food/energy prices WW, starving millions. PS. Cold Winters kill more than warm summers.

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Maybe we need cheap fertilizer after all

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So dumb. Farming has increased over the last 20 years. Waste of taxes!

sounds like a really dumb idea

The climate isn’t making it harder to grow crops…climate regulations are making it harder on farmers

ClimateScam

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