Unlocking Secrets of the Honeybee Dance Language
In one of the most complicated examples of nonhuman communication, honeybees use a “waggle dance” to tell each other where to find food, water, or nest sites.
Insects are Vanishing Worldwide. Now it’s Making it Harder to Grow Food.
We are so used to considering insects as pests that it is tempting to think that, in a world with fewer of them, agriculture might prosper as never before. A new study reveals why that is not the case.
Can Interactive Mapping Tools Guide Shellfish Restoration?
Researchers in North Carolina have developed software that determines the best sites to reestablish oyster reefs, which create new marine habitats and prevent coastal erosion.
The Infinite Christmas Tree: How to Cut Your Tree So it Will Grow Again
Coppicing, or stump-culturing Christmas trees, offers potential benefits to farmers and consumers.
Zimbabwe’s Farmers and Beekeepers Clash Over Invasive Bee Plant
In Zimbabwe, farmers and beekeepers are divided over how to handle an invasive plant choking out farmland and livestock pastures.
Meet the Modern Farmer Using New Zealand Pigs to Restore a Former Tobacco Farm
Kunekune pigs are the secret to one North Carolina farmer’s success
Is There Such Thing as Good Meat?
In her new book, journalist Chloe Sorvino exposes the monopolies, environmental destruction and human cost woven into the meat industry today and asks: Is there a better way?
Is Agroforestry the Key to Hardier Row Crops?
The practice includes methods of interplanting crops with trees and shrubs to help the soil and provide buffers from extreme weather. Proponents say it’s a traditional technique to which we should return.
Where Has All the Mustard Gone?
Environmental instability, global politics and increased costs are contributing to mustard’s disappearance from store shelves.
