Agribusiness
Ugly Fruit and Vegetables: Why a Third of Europe's Food Is Thrown Away
A University of Edinburgh study finds that a third of Europe's crops are wasted because supermarkets and shoppers want perfect-looking produce.
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Environment
Insects Will Drive Crop Losses in the Tropics
A US study suggests that as the climate warms, insects will destroy 10 to 25 per cent more wheat, rice and maize for each degree of temperature rise.
Crops
How Drones Could Help Increase Crop Production
In South Africa's Western Cape, drones are monitoring a lemon orchard from the air, spotting problems such as dry patches and broken fences and feeding data to the farm.
Environment
What Would Happen If All the World's Insects Died?
Insects are declining fast around the world, and scientists warn that without them birds, bats, frogs and even people could not survive.
Environment
Trees a Thousand Years Old: Unlocking the Secret of a Long Life
Scientists have recently learned why the ginkgo can live for more than a thousand years, and other trees are among the oldest living things on Earth.
Bangladesh
Winter: Why Is There So Much Fog in Bangladesh?
Along with bone-chilling cold, dense fog has cut visibility in Bangladesh to as little as 100 metres this winter, the Meteorological Department says.
Environment
Lava Begins Spewing From Philippines' Taal Volcano, 'Hazardous Eruption' Feared
Lava began spewing from the Taal volcano south of Manila, and authorities warned a hazardous eruption could follow within hours or days.
Environment
How Would Bangladesh Benefit If Air Pollution Were Reduced?
Villagers in Rajbari say brick kilns have made their air heavier, as a report finds more than 90 per cent of South Asians live with polluted air.
World
Seven New Names on UNESCO's World Heritage List
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, at its 43rd session in Baku, added new natural and cultural sites to its list.
Environment
How Animals Are Adapting to City Life
From crows that use cars as nutcrackers in Japan, scientists are learning how city life is changing animal behaviour far faster than evolution usually does.
Environment
Animals Lost in the Last Century That We Will Never See Again, and One That Came Back
Extinction is far from rare, with an estimated 10,000 species lost each year, and some familiar animals have disappeared within living memory.
Environment
Modern Humans Came From a Lake Region in Botswana, Study Says
A study places the homeland of all humans alive today at a vanished lake in northern Botswana, though other researchers are sceptical.
Environment
Rats Are Halting the Spread of Toxic Toads
Australian water rats called rakali have learned to eat toxic cane toads safely by precisely removing their non-toxic organs.