Our cities are complex places of work, industry and residential activities. This often makes it hard to pin down the spread of different contaminants throughout them.
Ecology
Aug 25, 2023
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The whitefly is a major problem for open field tomato cultivation throughout the world. Scientists of Wageningen UR together with a number of partners have discovered genes for resistance to the whitefly in a wild relative ...
Biotechnology
Sep 11, 2012
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The world can only meet its future food needs through innovation, including the use of agricultural biotechnology, a Harvard development specialist said today.
Biotechnology
Jun 3, 2013
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Curry, baked beans and jam are just three of the creature comforts we will lose if bees become extinct, according to bee expert and University of Sussex Professor Dave Goulson.
Ecology
Sep 30, 2021
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High up in the Bolivian cloud forest, a woman tends to her bees, smoker in hand, working from hive to hive under a canopy of leaves to delicately gather panels of honeycomb. It's a bucolic scene that experts say won't last, ...
Ecology
Jan 4, 2019
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Hoverflies use a combination of the sun and their body clock to navigate when they fly south for the winter, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Sep 21, 2021
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About three million metric tons of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is known about where or in which environments these chemicals end up after their initial application.
Environment
Jul 13, 2023
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Pesticides are not new and are definitely not a human invention. Plants and other microorganisms have used chemicals to defend themselves from other organisms for hundred thousands of years.
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2019
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What do dancing plants sound like?
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2020
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The German government is set to unveil legislation on Wednesday to halt a dramatic decline in insect populations, but farmers are up in arms over measures they say threaten their livelihoods.
Ecology
Feb 10, 2021
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