A 30-foot juvenile humpback whale washed up on the beach in Atlantic City on Saturday morning, the second time in 15 days a young whale has been swept ashore in the casino town.
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2023
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Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi. But there is a growing environmental and economic case for them, according to new research laying out radical ways of putting food ...
Environment
Jul 14, 2020
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Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in "sewage sludge" – the residual, semi-solid mix of excrement packed with microorganisms that is left behind within wastewater treatment plants. Every year the UK ...
Environment
Apr 29, 2019
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From the second half of the twentieth century onwards, there has been an exponential increase in the production of palm oil, which has proven to be very versatile; so much so that it has become a common ingredient in many ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2022
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New research finds that aquaculture, or fish farming, does not help conserve wild fisheries.
Ecology
Feb 11, 2019
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Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, or create a dystopia of mass unemployment and automated oppression. In the case of farming, ...
Environment
Sep 15, 2020
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Tigers could once be found across much of Asia, from eastern Turkey to Siberia and Indonesia. Today, they are reduced to living in just 6% of their former range. In many of these areas tigers are no longer even valued as ...
Ecology
Feb 25, 2021
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By the time the food we eat gets to our tables, it has traveled a long way—from production, processing and distribution to all of us consumers.
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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Croatia on Friday announced the discovery of a highly contagious strain of bird flu in poultry at a small family farm on the country's northern border with Hungary.
Ecology
Dec 30, 2016
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Pollinating insects could thrive if improvements are made to agri-environment schemes across Europe, according to a new collaborative study involving scientists from Trinity.
Ecology
Feb 18, 2020
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