Environment

We could use bees’ honey to track environmental lead pollution

Bees’ honey is a surprisingly effective tool for monitoring lead in the environment and could be used to track pollution in areas where more established methods of sampling are hard to organise.

We could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane

Cows could be selectively bred to cut their significant contribution to global warming in half, researchers have proposed.

Elephants help forests store more carbon by destroying smaller plants

Elephants do a lot of damage to plants as they stomp around the jungle, but, counterintuitively, this activity increases the biomass of the forest, letting it store more carbon.

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Wildlife summit to consider global ban on saiga antelope trade

The US and Mongolia are backing a ban on the trade of a critically endangered species of antelope that has seen its numbers in the central Asian steppes devastated by hunting and disease.

Birds and insect species are heading north in the UK as climate warms

More than 50 species – including the purple heron, the southern emerald damselfly and the green-jawed tube web spider – have been on the move in the UK over the past decade as climate change takes hold.

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