good points about the complexity of environmentally conscious decisions https://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1455074854017933316?s=20
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Wrapping broccoli in a material that slows down its respiratory rate doubles it shelf life. Going for the unwrapped version not only potentially doubles food waste (probably the greatest environmental threat to humanity), it can cause a nutrient decline of…
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Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity | Phys•org
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Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity
As forests age, differences in species functional traits become more important and reliable in predicting forest productivity, according to an international study led by Prof. Ma Keping at the Institute ...
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Literally every year this website posts an article about that
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And the one I posted earlier is from today
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And that's just for phys.org.
There's more information about this available and it's not as if it was an issue that wasn't discussed often in the scientific community and outside of it as well.
There's more information about this available and it's not as if it was an issue that wasn't discussed often in the scientific community and outside of it as well.
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How many times will environmental scientists have to repeat that monocultures and poor biodiversity are harmful to our ecosystems until governments do something about it
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It's never too late to acknowledge the reality that urban highways are a fixable mistake
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A 150-Year-Old Note From Darwin Is Changing How We Plant Forests
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A 150-Year-Old Note From Darwin Is Changing How We Plant Forests
More than 150 years ago Victorian biologist Charles Darwin made a powerful observation: that a mixture of species planted together often grow more strongly than species planted individually.