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How Boreal Trees Could Shift Earth’s Energy Ledger

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Each tree planted in Canada’s north is entered into an accounting system. Governments include it in their emissions calculations, banks...

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Wastewater DNA Reveals Community Diets in North Carolina

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Community wastewater is proving to be an unexpected source of nutritional information. Researchers have shown that they can estimate the...

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Northern Tarantula Returns to Restored Grassland in Læsten Bakker

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Scientists have verified that the rare burrowing spider called the northern tarantula is now living in restored grassland that was...

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Portugal and the North: European Funds for a New Europe

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Agriculture and Sea Minister José Manuel Fernandes closed the conference “The North 40 Years On: What Europe Do We Want...

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Canadian Wildfire Smoke Makes New York Birds Harder to Spot

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Smoke from Canadian wildfires has become an increasingly familiar issue in New York, prompting air-quality alerts and driving more people...

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How Biochar Feeding Could Turn Cattle Manure into a Carbon Sink

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Researchers have found that most biochar included in dairy cow feed travels through the animals’ digestive systems and is present...

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Ancient Sheep in Egypt Reveal Oldest Livestock Horn Deformation

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Ancient sheep interred in an elite Egyptian grave provide the earliest known evidence that people deliberately reshaped livestock horns. The...

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Tree Electrical Sparks Flicker Across Forest Canopies During Storms

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Lightning is the most spectacular electrical force in a thunderstorm, yet it may not be the only one reaching the...

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How Cyanobacteria Could Stabilise the Taklamakan Desert Sand

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Rather than vast reforestation schemes or kilometres of irrigation pipes, the starting point is an ultra-thin living layer on the...

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Spring & Mulberry chocolate recall expands after Salmonella contamination

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Routine testing has prompted an expanded nationwide recall after Salmonella contamination was detected in a batch of mint-flavoured chocolate bars...

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Wolves Could Return to Scotland and Restore Native Woodlands

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

For centuries, no wolf howl has echoed through the Scottish Highlands. Now, a research team argues that these long-vilified predators...

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How Banana Pseudostem Biomass Creates Sustainable Fashion and Biodegradable Packaging

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

The vast volume of biomass discarded on plantations can be turned into sustainable fashion and biodegradable packaging through today’s industrial...

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Old Canned Salmon Reveal Alaskan Marine Ecology Through Parasites

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Tins of salmon have become the unexpected stars of an accidental natural history collection at the back of a pantry,...

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AvAg Congress 2026 records highest number of Scientific Congress papers

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

The National Union of Agricultural Aviation Companies (Sindag) reports that this year’s Agricultural Aviation Scientific Congress has recorded its highest...

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Geometric Solution to Halt Sahara Desert Expansion

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

The Sahara Desert’s relentless expansion has challenged humanity for decades, with major setbacks along the way. Yet a geometric solution...

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#Safe2Eat: the European campaign for food safety

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

The #Safe2Eat campaign aims to help people make informed decisions about their food choices, while explaining the science that underpins...

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Adriatic dolphins increasingly follow trawlers for food

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the northern Adriatic Sea now spend a large share of their feeding time trailing trawlers....

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Ancient DNA reveals how women spread farming in Europe

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

For many years, it was widely assumed that agriculture rapidly swept across Europe, displacing hunting and gathering in nearly every...

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Reforestation: Why location determines whether forests cool or warm the Earth

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

New data indicates that location determines whether woodland cools the planet or warms it. Reforestation schemes are proliferating around the...

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Chicken Treat Ball: A Simple Winter Game for Active Chickens

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

When frost brings the run to a standstill, many chickens face a risky combination of boredom, stress and too little...

Young man planting saplings in desert with watering can and a map, wind turbines in the background.

China’s Great Green Wall: Holding Back the Gobi Desert

Gareth Whitfield • October 14, 2026

It arrives in sharp, dry gusts, stinging exposed skin and leaving bitterness on the tongue. At the horizon, the Gobi...