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agriculture

Birds flying over vineyard

Life

Magpies recruited to safeguard vineyards from grape-eating birds

A simple perch attracts magpies to vineyards, and their presence deters starlings and thrushes from munching on the fruit

News

Bee on yellow flowers

Life

Strongest evidence yet that neonicotinoids are killing bees

News

Goats in a tree

Life

Tree-climbing goats spit out and disperse valuable argan seeds

News

East Africa’s drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration

Life

East Africa’s drought threatens iconic wildebeest migration

News

Hundreds of newly-discovered plants may yield new crops or drugs

Earth

Hundreds of newly-discovered plants may yield new crops or drugs

News

Mouse

Life

Mice lived with us 15,000 years ago even before farming took off

News

Cows

Earth

7 foods you should avoid to help feed the world

Features

Infected maize

Life

Maize engineered to silence deadly toxins in poisonous mould

News

Maize in the sun

Life

Brighter sky helped boost US crop yields – but it may not last

News

Spraying fertiliser on wheat

Earth

A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2, mainly from fertiliser

Fertiliser use accounts for 40 per cent of greenhouse gases emitted to make bread, and bread production accounts for half a per cent of all UK emissions

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Technology

Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane

News

Earth

Emergency clause lets European countries beat bee pesticide ban

News

Health

Flies are spreading antibiotic resistance from farms to people

News

Life

Gene-silencing spray lets us modify plants without changing DNA

News

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