Is it possible to live off foraged food alone? Fergus Drennan thinks so and aims to prove it. In the first of his monthly columns he explains why, from April 1 st, he will be eating nothing but wild food – for an entire year...
… Fergus Drennan | 1st April 2008 News Foraging Subsistence Awakening Philosophy Foraging Farming Local Food Production … nothing but wild food – for an entire year... Foraging – what’s all the fuss about? What …
The insecticide chlorpyrifos is not just highly toxic to developing human foetuses. A new study finds that it also damages the memory and learning ability of Forager bees even at very low doses, threatening the survival of this important pollinator.
… the behavioral ecology and communication of foraging bees, chlorpyrifos, even in sublethal … the behavioral ecology and communication of foraging bees, chlorpyrifos, even in sublethal …
Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees
Loss of forage biggest long-term threat to bees The Ecologist | 8th January 2010 News Honey Bees Bees Food And Farming Pesticides bees.jpg Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food …
Continuing high winter losses in bee colonies is prompting fears about future of hobby beekeeping
… on disease, bad weather and poor quality of foraging due to habitat loss Continuing high … disease, bad weather and poor quality of foraging due to habitat loss for the continued … a harsh winter and bad summer last year, poor foraging and the 'devastating' affect of the …
Researchers have found that fluoxetine, the main ingredient in Prozac, can disrupt the foraging behaviour of Gambusia holbrooki.
… main ingredient in Prozac, can disrupt the foraging behaviour of Gambusia holbrooki. … main ingredient in Prozac, can disrupt the foraging behaviour of mosquitofish (Gambusia … overall food consumption and altered their foraging behaviour. The team said its findings …
Four in 10 nests surveyed on the uninhabited Lady Isle in the Firth of Clyde contained plastic.
… brought there passively by marine currents." Foraging In the survey, carried out in May … than from debris that birds ingest while foraging in populated areas. Targeted It also …
A vicious cycle of climate change, cattle diet and rising methane has been revealed in a new scientific study: as temperatures rise, forage plants get tougher and harder to digest, and cause more methane to be produced in bovine stomachs. And with cattle numbers rising and methane 85 times more powerful a greenhouse gas over 20 years, that spells trouble.
Spiral of doom: hotter world increases cattle methane emissions Oliver Tickell | 27th March 2017 News Climate Change Farming Ecology cattle-india-cut.jpg A vicious cycle of climate change, cattle …
New research encouraging gardeners to increase bumblebee populations by planting flowers could be undermined by the use of weedkillers and pesticides, Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) warns
… open the plant’s closed flower. By analysing foraging patterns, the study found that plants …
Beekeepers in US blame weather and starvation for another winter of heavy colony losses, which is likely to lead to rises in the cost of pollination
Heavy bee colony losses in US could lead to price rise The Ecologist | 4th May 2010 News Natural World Food And Farming Bees CCD bees.jpg Observers say the current losses being suffered by honey bee …
Scientists have identified climate change as the direct cause of rising mortality among penguin chicks hatched in Argentina, as unseasonal storms hit a once arid coastal region.
… Storms, too, make it more difficult for foraging parents to gather enough food to feed … new problems for the birds and limits their foraging efficiency. Danger of extreme events …
The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that bison can roam outside the park boundaries for winter and early spring forage without being shot.
Yellowstone bison have 'right to roam' The Ecologist | 15th March 2014 News Natural World Hunting USA ystone-bison-sunset.png The Montana Supreme Court has ruled that bison can roam outside the park …
Urban foxes in the UK have a smaller brain size capacity than their rural counterparts with a different snout shape.
The evolution of the urban fox Douglas Barrie | 3rd June 2020 News Evolution Foxes urban-fox.jpg Urban foxes in the UK have a smaller brain size capacity than their rural counterparts with a …
Biofouling leads the turtles into an 'olfactory trap' - causing them to ingest deadly marine plastic pieces.
… food and ocean-soaked plastics by displaying foraging behaviour, which included repeatedly … and birds because the area smells like a good foraging ground. "Once these plastics are in …
A new study shows it's not just neonicotinoids that impair bees' ability to navigate to nectar and pollen sources, and to their nests: now the herbicide glyphosate has been found to have the same impact even at very low levels.
… within this range delays the return of the foraging honey bee to the hive. Flight … range used on crops delays the return of the foraging honey bee to the hive. Flight …
Nine new studies will look at the role of pesticides, habitat loss and disease in the decline of insect pollinators like the honeybee and bumblebee
Why are bees in decline? New research to provide the answers The Ecologist | 22nd June 2010 News Bees Pollination Food And Farming Honeybees Insects Biodiversity bumblebee.jpg Research will look at …
Climate change may be causing flowers to open before bees emerge from hibernation leading to declines in pollination, new research suggests
Bees stung by 'climate change-linked' early pollination The Ecologist | 7th September 2010 News Bees Pollination Natural World Wildlife Biodiversity beeflying.jpg The decline in pollinators has …
LONG READ: A critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity.
All things being equal Nancy Lindisfarne Jonathan Neale | 17th December 2021 | News Human History Anthropology Editor’s Picks david-graeber-speaks-wikipedia-img.jpg LONG READ: A critique of David …
Widespread use of insecticides affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologist
Controversial pesticides linked to 'total ecological collapse' of insects and birds Dearbhla Crosse Tom Levitt | 16th November 2010 News Pesticides Bees Birds Ecology Natural World Food And Farming …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
… dispossessing smallholdings and traditional foraging grounds for mining, clear-cut … permit easy movement between roosting and foraging sites. Bats aren't stupid. As the forest disappears they shift their foraging behavior to what food and shelter are …
Beekeepers' group ends commercial relationship with pesticide manufacturer whose product killed bees
British Beekeepers' Association to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides Alison Benjamin guardian society editor | 17th November 2010 News Bees Food And Farming Pesticides Chemicals beekeeper.jpg The …
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence
Renewed call for pesticide ban to protect bees The Ecologist | 14th September 2009 News Bees Pesticides Neonicotinoids Food And Farming Natural World beequeen,-nz,-dave-goulson.jpg Conservationists …
The Bering Sea is America's biggest fishery - but factory trawlers are ripping the guts out of the ecosystem, writes Jeffrey St.Clair, as they have already devastated fishing communities. Mix in nuclear bomb test fallout - an unlikely savior?
… few fur seals, indiscriminately snared while foraging for salmon, are also part of the …
Dangerous volumes of neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides are expressed in common wild flowers like buttercups and hawthorn blossom in countryside under arable cultivation, a new study has discovered. The discovery invalidates the UK government's 'pollinator strategy' based on creating 'safe havens' in arable areas - because the havens are in fact loaded with pesticides.
… "In summary, our study confirms that bees foraging in arable farmland are exposed to a …