Growing your own food and foraging can help tackle your ballooning grocery bill
Up to 3.7 million Australian households have been hit by food insecurity this year—many for the first time.
Up to 3.7 million Australian households have been hit by food insecurity this year—many for the first time.
Social Sciences
Oct 27, 2023
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If you're aged between 25 and 34, you're part of the age group least likely to take part in volunteering.
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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The important role of managing residential gardens and yards to promote biodiversity is the focus of a new study led by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and co-authored by an academic from Northumbria University.
Ecology
Oct 11, 2023
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Humanity is "staring down the barrel" of potentially losing up to half of its future medicines because so many plant species are facing extinction, scientists have warned.
Ecology
Oct 10, 2023
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When you hear about the abundance of life on Earth, what do you picture? For many people, it's animals—but awareness of plant diversity is growing rapidly.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2023
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Most species of the famously large Rafflesia flower, which has long captured the imagination with its enormous speckled red petals, are now at risk of extinction, new research warned Wednesday.
Ecology
Sep 24, 2023
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An international group of scientists, including botanists at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden, has issued an urgent call for coordinated action to save the iconic genus Rafflesia, which contains the world's largest ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2023
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Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted Street, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze.
Ecology
Sep 13, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and the Mathematical Institute have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines the type of prey they trap. The results have been ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2023
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Five botanical gardens in the United States dating to the early 1800s were high diversity horticultural microcosms representing nearly every continent, yet had few plants in common, according to Penn State researchers.
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2023
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