Category: Food

Biodome Fruit Trees: A Sustainable Food Source

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Biodome grown and nurtured fruit trees offer a sustainable food source. A series of biodome video teach viewers how to maximize growth potential and minimize maintenance by planting long-lived food-producing fruit trees. The video series feature Daley’s Fruit Tree Nursery.

Daley’s Fruit Tree Nursery is a family-run business that grows fruit year-round via their Biodome. The business was founded by Greg Daley 25 years ago. He wanted to start a fruit tree nursery that supplied subtropical fruit, nut and rainforest trees across Australia.

Over the years, the nursery has survived a number of droughts and economic downturns. Downturns have been viewed as challenges to improve business systems, such as the installation of water recycling and sand filtration system.

Video from Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery introducing their Biodome series.

The videos teach how to grow fruit all year round with extreme micro-climate change by creating a multi-layered perennial dwarf food forest ecosystem.

Ocean Deoxygenation: Will Affect Millions Of People

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Ocean deoxygenation refers to the loss of oxygen from the oceans due to climate change (Keeling et al. 2010). The new International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report “Ocean deoxygenation: everyone’s problem” estimates that the ocean as a whole is expected to lose 3–4% of its oxygen inventory by the year 2100. Oxygen loss in the oceans impacts species differently, depending on their oxygen dependencies. Nevertheless, it hurts our ocean food supply significantly.

Oceans are losing oxygen due to climate change, which will affect hundreds of millions of people, according to a new United Nations report. Scientists are calling this the “ultimate wake-up call” to humanity.

Scientists say rising sea temperature caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions is leading to oxygen-depleted zones to form on the sea bed. The report found that the loss of oxygen from the world’s ocean is increasingly threatening fish species such as tuna, marlin, and sharks.