Organizations in the food and agriculture sector have been looking to nature for inspiration to improve soil health, maintain water quality and foster local food security in the places where they operate.
Ecology
Mar 11, 2024
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Due to clear-cutting, the area of undisturbed rainforests is decreasing. At the edges of deforested areas, temperatures rise, and there is more light. Trees are able to adapt to changes in their living conditions and environment, ...
Ecology
Dec 14, 2023
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Better alignment with the market is one of the goals pursued by the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in recent decades. One of the measures used to achieve this was to decouple direct payments from production. Agricultural ...
Economics & Business
Dec 4, 2023
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Research into the experiences of principals working in schools with poor indoor air quality remains scarce. Published in Environmental Hazards, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland now sheds light on the challenges ...
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2023
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Australia's national environment protection law ignores the big picture. Like a racehorse wearing blinkers, decision-makers focus on a single project in isolation. If they dropped the blinkers and considered the combined ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2023
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An NGO grouping said Wednesday it had filed claims in an Austrian court alleging that chemicals firm Bayer withheld data showing health risks from exposure to its herbicide glyphosate, which the EU has proposed to keep using ...
Agriculture
Oct 4, 2023
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Americans in the Northeast paid greater attention to air quality alerts this summer as wildfire smoke thickened skies with an orange-tinted haze. Smoke and other sources of air pollution contain tiny particles, called fine ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 16, 2023
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A new scientific article, carried out in collaboration between Finnish and international researchers, shows how the doughnut model, which examines the overall sustainability of societies, can be applied to transport.
Environment
Aug 3, 2023
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Large parts of the country, particularly in the South, have been experiencing extreme heat waves recently, with the heat index well into triple digits.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2023
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Incorporating animal welfare into policymaking may improve policy and practice, according to Rutgers research.
Political science
Jul 6, 2023
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