France on Monday began Europe's only vaccination campaign against bird flu in ducks, hoping to avoid mass culls of millions of birds that have dearly cost the industry in recent years.
Ecology
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Of all the recently emerging and potentially pandemic viruses, the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus H5N1 is one of the fiercest. First detected in Hong Kong in 1997, it spread to the rest of the world with a ...
Veterinary medicine
Sep 14, 2023
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Frogs are in trouble. While many of the world's animal species are now at risk from habitat loss, climate change and other human pressures, frogs are particularly at risk.
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2023
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On behalf of the Mesdag Zuivelfonds, researchers from the University of Amsterdam have measured within which radius around dairy farms the nitrogen emitted by the farm is deposited. By far the largest part of the emitted ...
Ecology
Sep 12, 2023
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Like it or not, there are lots of good arguments for eating insects—both in animal feeds and on human plates. You can farm them with much less land, water and feed than the likes of cows and sheep. Their greenhouse gas ...
Ecology
Sep 12, 2023
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Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica.
Ecology
Sep 10, 2023
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The Tibetan Empire was the world's highest elevation empire, sitting over 4,000m above sea level, and thrived during 618 to 877 CE. Home to an estimated 10 million people, it spanned approximately 4.6 million km2 across East ...
The discarded peels of aloe vera can be used as a natural pesticide, helping farmers protect staple food crops from harmful insects, research suggests.
Agriculture
Sep 2, 2023
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Dozens of European cities could reach net zero carbon emissions over the next 10 years by incorporating nature into their infrastructure, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Sep 1, 2023
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More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection is low, according to new research published today in Environmental ...
Ecology
Aug 24, 2023
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