- Alien invasive species may play a key role in 60% of global plant and animal extinctions. The report released by Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) estimates that the annual costs now exceed $423 billion and have quadrupled every decade since 1970.
- Air pollution is preventing pollinators from finding flowers because it degrades the floral odours.
- Researchers at the University of South Australia have designed a solar-driven system that evaporates seawater and recycles it into freshwater which can be used to grow crops in a floating sea farm.
- Is the love of nature inherited or learned? It’s both, suggest researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.