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=====Loss of bees causes shortage of key food crops, study finds===== | |||
embed> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/29/bees-food-crops-shortage-study </embed> the Guardian Oliver Milman Wed 29 Jul 2020 00.01 EDTLast modified on Wed 29 Jul 2020 12.35 EDT | |||
Of seven studied crops grown in 13 states across America, five showed evidence that a lack of bees is hampering the amount of food that can be grown, including apples, blueberries and cherries. A total of 131 crop fields were surveyed for bee activity and crop abundance by a coalition of scientists from the US, Canada and Sweden. | |||
“The crops that got more bees got significantly more crop production,” said Rachael Winfree, an ecologist and pollination expert at Rutgers University who was a senior author of the paper, published by the Royal Society. “I was surprised, I didn’t expect they would be limited to this extent.” | |||
====='Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists===== | ====='Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists===== | ||
<embed> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/landscape-of-fear-what-the-rotting-carcasses-of-reindeer-taught-scientists-aoe </embed> | <embed> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/landscape-of-fear-what-the-rotting-carcasses-of-reindeer-taught-scientists-aoe </embed> | ||
