Category: Plants & People
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Hyperactive Children Benefit From Playing In Green Space
The researchers also found that children who were high in hyperactivity (diagnosed with ADHD rather than ADD) tended to have milder symptoms if they regularly played in a green and open environment.
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Now It’s Serious: Climate Change Hurts Coffee Production
Global warming has increased the spread of pests in key farming regions with coffee exports facing the strain from the berry disease
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Scientists find lager beer’s missing link — on Patagonia trees
How did lager beer come to be? After pondering the question for decades, scientists have found that an elusive species of yeast isolated in the forests of Argentina was key to the invention of the crisp-tasting German beer 600 years ago.
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Farms Help Fragmented Wild Plant Populations
Not all landscapes can be classified as habitat or non-habitat, and some of the grey areas may perform specific functions. The trick is anticipating the unique services offered by a patch of open space. For example, when trying to bring pollinators to fragmented G. keule stands, a pine plantation would be more beneficial than a clear cut.
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Tree Crops That Could Alleviate Hunger In Africa
We know that trees can help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide from the earth‘s atmosphere. But what is less widely understood is how many of these trees can also help to bring an end to hunger and poverty.
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Those Disposable Chopsticks Harm Biodiversity
The rapid growth in demand for bamboo resources over the last two decades has caused excessive exploitation of forest resources in the province. This has resulted in serious disturbance and destruction of the biodiversity of ecosystems in natural bamboo forests.
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Black Pepper Curbs Dengue fever
A trap that uses an extract from black pepper to kill mosquito eggs and larvae has dramatically cut rates of dengue fever
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Vehicles Disperse Seeds; How Invasive Plants Travel
The final study found that up to 99 percent of seeds stayed attached to a truck after traveling 160 miles
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Organic Farms Are Better For Pollinators
Insect-flower interaction networks on organic farms were larger, and that there were more flowers on organic farms which attracted a higher number of bees, compared with non-organic and conventional counterparts.
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Endemic Fish Pay The Price For Farm Irrigation
This once highly diverse river has become, like most others in Madagascar, depauperate. We can only wonder if the years when the basins did not flow led to the demise of some species, and hope they will one day recolonize this stretch of river from refuges farther upstream.