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Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy Bees feeding in monoculture fields of single crops such as sunflowers crowd together and pass parasites to one another at high rates. Lauren Ponisio/University of Oregon, CC BY-ND Hamutahl Cohen, University of Florida It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on […]
2022-03-27 Urban evolution: How species adapt to survive in cities Plants and animals are evolving in cities around the world — offering ways to study longstanding scientific questions and clues to where climate change is taking us By Eric Bender Brown rats in New York City may be evolving smaller rows of teeth. Tiny […]
2022-03-03 How plants turned predator Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered. Molecular biology is helping botanists trace the origins of their predatory ways. By Stephanie Pain Toward the end of the 19th century, lurid tales of killer plants began popping up everywhere. Terrible, tentacle-waving trees snatched […]
Why Eco-Warriors Will Love or Hate You, Depending On Where Your Hair is Done NewsUSA Hint: It’s all about a new certification. 1.Right now, the beauty industry creates more than 877 pounds of waste every single minute in the U.S. and Canada.That’s over 421,000 pounds a day.And we’re not just talking hair (though there’s 63,000 […]
2022-02-23 Farmers are overusing insecticide-coated seeds, with mounting harmful effects on nature Planting corn near Dwight, Ill., April 23, 2020. Virtually all corn seeds planted in the U.S. are coated with neonicotinoid insecticides. Scott Olson/Getty Images John F. Tooker, Penn State Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. will begin as soon as March […]
2022-02-01 Tonnes of COVID-19 health care waste expose urgent need to improve waste management systems Geneva, 1 February 2022 – Tens of thousands of tonnes of extra medical waste from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put tremendous strain on health care waste management systems around the world, threatening human and environmental […]
Air Polution Overview Air pollution is contamination of the indoor or outdoor environment by any chemical, physical or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. Household combustion devices, motor vehicles, industrial facilities and forest fires are common sources of air pollution. Pollutants of major public health concern include particulate matter, […]
2022-01-19 These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works One ‘mechanical tree’ is about 1,000 times faster at removing carbon dioxide from air than a natural tree. The first is to start operating in Arizona in 2022. Illustration via Arizona State University Klaus Lackner, […]
Book Review: Coming to Grips With the Plastic Crisis By Anja Krieger The mahi-mahi the crew hauled in looked spectacular, its bright, shining body of yellow and green, dotted with radiant blue speckles and topped with a long dorsal fin from head to tail. Its fate was the ship’s oven, where the fish — common […]
E.O. Wilson’s lifelong passion for ants helped him teach humans about how to live sustainably with nature Edward O. Wilson in his office in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, in 2014. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Doug Tallamy, University of Delaware E. O. Wilson was an extraordinary scholar in every sense of […]