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Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly

Life

Bumblebees solve the travelling salesman problem on the fly

While buzzing between flowers, bees can solve the maths dilemma called the travelling salesman problem by finding the shortest route that visits every blossom

News

Variegated green crop circles covering what was once shortgrass prairie in southwestern Kansas

Earth

If we only ate organic it would be an environmental disaster

Analysis

Field of wheat being sprayed

Earth

Ban on weedkiller glyphosate won't save anyone from cancer

Analysis

Alexandre Aebi inspecting one of his hives in his apiary in Switzerland

Life

Neonicotinoid pesticides found in honey from every continent

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A beach on Hainan

Earth

Early farmers may have polluted the sea 4000 years ago

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Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change

Earth

Grass-fed beef is bad for the planet and causes climate change

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discarded tractors

Earth

Back to the wild: How nature is reclaiming farmland

Features

wolf and sheep

Earth

Farmland is in retreat. We should make the most of that

Leader

It took 2000 years to make seed for America's famous 'corn belt'

Life

It took 2000 years to make seed for America's famous 'corn belt'

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workers tilling the soil

Earth

Bringing our soil back to life with the latest in earth science

David Montgomery's Growing a Revolution says farming can save the soil and even address climate change – can his optimism be justified?

Culture

Life

Restoring Estonian alvar grasslands to save unique species

News

Life

Sunflowers work together to avoid overcrowding and soak up rays

News

Life

Magpies recruited to safeguard vineyards from grape-eating birds

News

Life

Strongest evidence yet that neonicotinoids are killing bees

News