Farmers around the world are turning to nature to help them reduce pesticide use, environmental impact and, subsequently, and in some cases, increasing yields.
Nature Can Reduce Pesticide Use, Environment Impact
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Caught On Camera: Amazonian Crop Raiders
Papped snaffling in the jungle, a striking set of photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals.
Astronomers detect earliest evidence yet of hydrogen in the universe
In a study published today in the journal Nature, astronomers from MIT and Arizona State University report that a table-sized radio antenna in a remote region of western Australia has picked up faint signals of hydrogen gas from the primordial universe.
Researchers Create Tool to Manage Urban Cat Population Crisis
Accurate numbers are the cat’s pyjamas when it comes to solving the current cat population crisis. But measuring the feline population has been difficult, until now.
January was 5th warmest on record for the globe
Despite the cooling influence of La Nina this winter, the global temperature ranked among the five warmest on record in January. Earth’s polar regions continued to experience record-low ice conditions.
USGS and NASA Team Up to Help Scientists Study the Social Networks of Wildlife
In the future of wildlife tracking, sea otters have their own social network.
Whereas we might carry cell phones or tablets, each sea otter has a small, solar-powered tag clipped carefully to one of its flippers. When the sea otters gather to nap at the ocean’s surface, their tags boot up, and check in with one another. Who else did the sea otter interact with today, where, and when?
