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Plants & Animals Dec 29, 2023

Can golf courses help save the planet? Ask a herd of wild pigs

An Arizona golf course, so picture-perfect it was described as "the Imax of golf", was wantonly trashed by intruders in the autumn of 2023. But no, this was not Just Stop Oil back for another round, nor the result of a disgruntled ...

Plants & Animals Nov 13, 2023

Birds' nests express their unique style and past experiences, study finds

Walking through a town or city, you will encounter buildings with diverse shapes and sizes. These unique styles exist in part because the buildings were constructed by different architects, engineers and builders.

Ecology Oct 27, 2023

Buzzing insights: Tracking bees with robotic flowers and hive sensors

EU researchers are turning to the world's top pollinator in an attempt to reverse biodiversity loss and help fruit growers.

Plants & Animals Aug 25, 2023

Hacking animal communication with AI

Ever wonder what birds are talking about? Does eavesdropping on bees sound intriguing? Want to know what your cat really thinks of you?

Biotechnology Jul 18, 2023

Technology can boost farming in Africa, but it can also threaten biodiversity. How to balance the two

Cultivating one hectare of maize used to be an arduous task for Precious Banda, a farmer in Zambia. It would take her hundreds of hours to prepare her land before sowing and to keep it weed-free until harvest—equipped with ...

Plants & Animals Jul 3, 2023

Farmer ants and drama-prone wasps in spotlight for their climate adaptation

In the face of environmental challenges, one kind of ant gets better at growing food and an African wasp species may become more cooperative.

Plants & Animals Jun 29, 2023

Birds and honey badgers could be cooperating to steal from bees in parts of Africa

The honeyguide bird loves beeswax, but needs help breaking open bees' nests to get it. So it shows a honey badger the way to the nest, who rips it open and together they share the rewards. Or so the story goes.

Ecology Mar 20, 2023

Insecticide use against desert locust in the Horn of Africa 2019–2021 reveals a pressing need for change

In work published in Agronomy, the TMG Research gGmbH study team traced a highly destructive desert locust invasion in the Eastern Africa and Horn region between 2019-2021. Ethiopia and Kenya sprayed well over a million hectares ...

Ecology Mar 20, 2023

How do we make farming better for the planet? Ask women, says study

When a family of five-ton elephants stomps and chomps its way through your crops, there's only one winner. And in the central African nation of Gabon, farmers are getting fed up with the giant animals trampling their fields—and ...

Ecology Feb 15, 2023

DNA research finds low genetic diversity among US honeybees

U.S. agriculture owes many thanks to the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.), as it plays the crucial role of pollinator within the nation's food supply. Some of the nation's food industries rely solely on the honeybee, and it's ...

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