Study finds natural fires help native bees, improve food security
Native bees that boost food crops are in decline but changing fire management policies could help them.
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How kudzu became the 'bad seed' of the plant world
Under different circumstances, kudzu might be heralded for its utility—its leaves ideal for grazing cattle, its root a treatment for stomach upset. Instead, the climbing and coiling perennial vine is almost universally ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 23, 2020
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The conservation conundrum: How to choose which species to protect?
Not all species are created equal. Some are more important than others. So how do we choose what to protect?
Plants & Animals
Aug 1, 2022
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Are all alien encounters bad?
The pages of ecological history are filled with woeful tales of destruction from non-native species -- organisms that originated elsewhere.
Ecology
Aug 30, 2011
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Supreme Court rejects emergency carp measures
(AP) -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to order emergency measures that might prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, despite a warning that the exotic fish pose a "dire threat" to the region's environment ...
Environment
Feb 27, 2012
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In Southern California, everything is blooming everywhere all at once
There is always something growing inside the gated courtyard of the L.A. Catholic Worker Hospitality Kitchen, the Skid Row food distribution center better known as the "Hippie Kitchen."
Plants & Animals
May 12, 2023
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Native milkweed cultivars planted by the public can support monarch butterflies and bees
Plant cultivars are natural variants of native plants that have been deliberately collected, selected, cross-bred or hybridized for desirable traits that can be maintained through propagation. Although experts generally discourage ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2020
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Bees? Please. These plants are putting ants to work
In a world first, ECU researchers have discovered a plant that has successfully evolved to use ants—as well as native bees—as pollinating agents by overcoming their antimicrobial defenses.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2020
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Megadrought caused mega biodiversity loss
Researchers at CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, have painstakingly reconstructed the nation's 'once in a century drought' in the early 1900s, revealing that it caused mass ecosystem collapse and dramatic declines ...
Environment
Jul 16, 2019
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Invasive species risk a biodiversity disaster—but there is still time to stop it
Earth's habitats are facing a big increase in the number of alien species they have to deal with.
Plants & Animals
Sep 6, 2023
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