It may not have been love as we know it, but around 385 million years ago, our very distant ancestors—armoured fish called placoderms—developed the art of intercourse.
Plants & Animals
Oct 19, 2014
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Thousands of voracious white maggots wiggle frenetically while tearing through trayfuls of leftover meat, vegetables and fruits in an unusual farm in southwestern China.
Environment
May 29, 2017
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Recycling in Morocco may be in its infancy, but the North African kingdom is making steady progress, helped by a Swiss firm that specialises in processing organic waste.
Environment
Dec 19, 2021
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Sri Lanka on Tuesday backed down from ambitious plans to become the world's first completely organic farming nation, reversing a ban on imports of chemical fertiliser.
Environment
Oct 19, 2021
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Great civilisations have fallen because they failed to prevent the degradation of the soils on which they were founded. The modern world could suffer the same fate.
Environment
Nov 4, 2013
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Phosphorus is a precious element, with all life depending on it. It is an essential nutrient for plant growth and an important constituent of fertiliser used in agriculture.
Environment
May 9, 2013
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Nutrients contained in wastewater, such as phosphorous and nitrogen, can be put to good use as fertilizers. Municipal wastewater treatment plants are now planning to recover more of these valuable resources, which are becoming ...
Environment
Feb 3, 2021
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For the first time, the capacity of soya plants to absorb nitrogen from the air has been precisely determined in dry areas of Eastern Austria. The primary aim of this project, backed by the FWF Austrian Science Fund, is to ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2009
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Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have discovered that maize crops emit chemical signals which attract growth-promoting microbes to live amongst their roots. This is the ...
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2012
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The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2009
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