Category: Ecology - Page 5

From mushrooms, cheese, and bread to beer, wine, and sake, fungi play an important role in the foods we eat, whether we know it or not.…

Bees are important pollinators for plants not only in our home gardens, but in productive agricultural fields and natural environments…

Have you ever spent extra time at the store trying to decide which sunscreen to purchase? We try to protect ourselves from the Sun’s…

Imagine a kitchen in a busy household — dirty dishes piled in the sink, leftovers cold on the counter, and utensils strewn about.…

Researchers in Germany and Switzerland used next generation sequencing to study an active aquaponics system. They sampled a biofilm from the…

Organic farming and conventional farming each have their own strengths and weaknesses that depend on application.

Animals are unable to tell us why they do the things they do, and curious scientists often want to find out. They set up experiments to see…

Nitrogen pollution is a big problem in standing water such as lakes and ponds. The nitrogen comes from many sources, often agricultural…

Plants have five basic needs – food, water, air, light, and space. Outdoors, plants get everything they need from nature and some…

A group of agricultural researchers at West Virginia University wanted to find out if it was possible to grow lettuce year round using high…