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As Climate, Disease Links Become Clearer, Study Highlights Need to Forecast Future Shifts
Climate change is affecting
the spread of infectious
diseases worldwide,
according to an
international team of
... > full story
Existing Cropland Could Feed Four Billion More by Dropping Biofuels and Animal Feed
The world's croplands could
feed 4 billion more people
than they do now just by
shifting from producing
animal feed and biofuels to
... > full story
Could Planting Trees in the Desert Mitigate Climate Change?
As the world starts feeling
the effects of increasing
atmospheric carbon dioxide
and consequent global
temperature rise,
researchers are looking for
... > full story
Social Amoebae Travel With a Posse: Tiny Single-Celled Organisms Have Amazingly Complicated Social Lives
Some social amoebae farm the
bacteria they eat. Now
scientists have taken a
closer look at one lineage,
or clone, of D. discoideum
... > full story
- As Climate, Disease Links Become Clearer, Study Highlights Need to Forecast Future Shifts
- Existing Cropland Could Feed Four Billion More by Dropping Biofuels and Animal Feed
- Could Planting Trees in the Desert Mitigate Climate Change?
- Social Amoebae Travel With a Posse: Tiny Single-Celled Organisms Have Amazingly Complicated Social Lives
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New Apple Varieties: Ladies and Gentlemen, Get Ready to Taste SnapDragon and RubyFrost
August 1, 2013 — After years of development and consumer testing researchers have given the hottest new apples in the Empire State names worthy of their unique assets: SnapDragon and ... > full story -
Of Bears and Berries: Return of Wolves Aids Grizzly Bears in Yellowstone
July 29, 2013 — A new study suggests that the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park is beginning to bring back a key part of the diet of grizzly bears that has been missing for much of the past century -- ... > full story -
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Virus to Control Potato Moth
July 29, 2013 — New biological insecticides have emerged in recent years which make use of so-called "entomopathogenic" viruses that are harmful to insects, in particular the baculovirus. To identify the virus in ... > full story -
Pesticides Contaminate Frogs from Californian National Parks
July 26, 2013 — Pesticides commonly used in California’s Central Valley, one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, have been found in remote frog species miles from farmland. Researchers ... > full story -
Secret of Plant Geometry Revealed: How Plants Set the Angles of Their Branches
July 25, 2013 — Researchers have discovered how plants set the angles of their branches relative to gravity. While the other principle features governing the architecture of plants such as the control of the number ... > full story -
World-Changing Technology Enables Crops to Take Nitrogen from the Air
July 25, 2013 — A major new technology enables all of the world's crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilizers. Nitrogen fixation, the process by which nitrogen ... > full story -
Honey Bee Gene Targeting Offers System to Understand Food-Related Behavior
July 25, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new technique that will help scientists better understand the genes that govern food-related behavior in honey ... > full story -
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Common Agricultural Chemicals Shown to Impair Honey Bees' Health
July 24, 2013 — Honey bees used to pollinate crops are exposed to many agricultural chemicals, including common fungicides which impair their ability to fight off a potentially lethal parasite, according to a new ... > full story -
Populations of Grassland Butterflies Decline Almost 50 Percent Over Two Decades: European Report
July 23, 2013 — Grassland butterflies have declined dramatically between 1990 and 2011. This has been caused by intensifying agriculture and a failure to properly manage grassland ecosystems, according to a new ... > full story -
Bees 'Betray' Their Flowers When Pollinator Species Decline
July 22, 2013 — Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: their floral "sweethearts" produce significantly fewer seeds. The results show how reduced competition among ... > full story
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