Earth Hour 2013
Earth Hour for 2013 is fast approaching and it’s time for you to decide whether you will accept the challenge. For those of you who don’t know, Earth Hour is…
Growing Plants without Gravity
Whilst flicking through the news pages of National Geographic’s website, I found this really interesting article about growing plants without gravity. In 2010 researchers sent Arabidopsis thaliana seeds to the…
Bees and Agriculture
Continuing on with the agricultural theme from my last post, today I would like to look at the article “Modern agriculture is stressing honeybees: let’s go native” written by Manu…
Native vegetation: a tool for pest management
Recent research has found that remnant native vegetation could be a useful tool against insect pests in grain crops. A nationally coordinated project supported by the Grains Research and Development…
Weeds: A lifetime of change
I recently visited the small town on the northern NSW coast where I grew up. It’s a magical natural paradise where one can easily forget all about work. Unless you…
