Cameras monitor and analyse their every movement. Wearable sensors track their vital signs. Genetic testing informs a bespoke nutritional regime to optimise performance. This may sound like the backrooms of
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A team of researchers from Surrey University, UK, celebrate their success after winning funding to develop a “library of greening.” This new database will enable towns and cities around the
About one-fifth of species of plants and animals in Europe face the risk of extinction, according to a study published in the scientific journal PLOS. The authors believe agricultural land
Twenty years of excavations in Portugal show that Neanderthals were just as intelligent as Homo sapiens, according to a study published in the scientific journal PLOS One. Neanderthals knew how
A researcher from Göttingen University, Germany, discusses the difficulties faced by mining communities in transition, according to a comment article published in Nature Energy. Mining changes communities drastically, including landscapes,
Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seeds accelerates their recovery, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances. Arranged by a team of researchers from the University
A subtype of the avian flu virus (which is endemic in poultry farms in China) is going through mutations that could increase the risk of the disease being passed to
It is common today, in all the discourses on degrowth or on sobriety, to blame agriculture, without fully understanding what this means and what the consequences could be for society
Adding a species of red algae — called red sea plume — decreases methane production from cow faeces, according to a study published in the scientific journal Frontiers in Sustainable
A team of researchers from multiple universities in Europe discovered a new mechanism that plants use to sense temperatures, according to a study published in PNAS. The authors believe these