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Doing agriculture responsibly can protect wildlife
Thanks to an absence of pesticides Eastern sarus cranes are common again in an area from where they were driven extinct.
We should save insects ‘for our own sake’
The numbers of insects are plummeting worldwide and we should be pulling out all the stops to save them.
Keeping milk fresh longer could reduce food waste
A new technique may work much better at keeping milk fresh longer.
Nestlé vows to work against palm oil-linked deforestation
Come 2020, the world’s largest food and beverage corporation will have no more deforestation linked to its products.
A nontoxic form of pest control can protect wheat
Researchers have "silenced" harmful nematode genes by using biostimulants derived from soil bacteria.
Torched beehives highlight the costs of wanton destruction
"We're looking at 500,000 to 600,000 (bees) that have been destroyed out of that environment," says a local beekeeper.