1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (466+ words) The chronic disease schistosomiasis wreaks havoc on more than 220 million people around the world, with the vast majority of cases being in sub-Saharan Africa. New research published in Nature Sustainability by scientists from Notre Dame has explored how raising freshwater…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago  (447+ words) According to an inaugural report on the health of bees in Oregon, scientists at Oregon State University have found no incidences of pesticide-related bee deaths since 2021. This significant achievement underscores the capacity that everyday citizens have to protect pollinators if…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (521+ words) Among the rolling hills of Uganda’s Masaka region, robusta coffee plants are producing larger, tastier yields thanks to a pilot program utilizing regenerative agriculture to battle droughts or erratic rainfall. A catch-all term for a variety of growing techniques as…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (485+ words) From the halls of Westminster comes the news that English farmers may finally be covered under a national agriculture policy that extends beyond the next harvest. In what it described as “the most significant moment for English agriculture since the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (193+ words) British startup Bactery says its battery, powered by bacteria, uses nature’s microbes to generate an unending trickle of power—and by stringing the prototypes together they can generate a stream. Bactery founder and CEO Jakub Dziegielowski says the device complements…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (201+ words) A few months ago the largest wildfire in Nebraska history burned a thousand square-miles of ranch land. It burned every foot of grass on Mike and Kayla Wintz’s 11,000-acre ranch. But when they and their neighbors faced the threat of…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (371+ words) The farmer used an 18-ton digger to dredge a section of the River Lugg near Leominster, and stripped every tree from a mile-long stretch of one of Britain’s most important salmon rivers. He was jailed for 12 months in 2023 by a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (280+ words) After a record avocado harvest, over 1,000 growers in the Mexican state of Michoacan sat down to set another one: the largest bowl of guacamole in history. They succeeded, as Guinness World Record was on hand to verify, when their gargantuan…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (471+ words) For areas contaminated by lead and zinc mining across Europe, a class of plants known as “metallophytes” are helping enrich nature while diminishing pollution. The Guardian reported on this kind of ecological double speak, where wildflowers seemingly grow in healthy…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (708+ words) At roughly 5.5 million, a colony of ground-nesting bees that scientists discovered under a New York cemetery may be one of the largest bee aggregations ever documented. Subsequent research showed that the bees have likely lived there for more than 100 years,…...