Donald Unger’s one-man experiment answered a family warning. Larger studies have since tested it properly, and the answer they found is more careful than “cracking is harmless.” ...

Texas multi-paddock ranches held 3.61 per cent soil organic matter, 2.4 under heavy continuous grazing. A 2026 review's best studies found no carbon gain.

Low tide on the Tidal Thames at Bugsby's Reach, Greenwich. Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Tidal Thames was declared biologically dead in 1957 with zero fish species, and over 115 species ...

California moved 338 beavers between 1923 and 1945 for fur and water storage. In October 2023 it made its first beaver ...

Does it pay to switch to regenerative farming? For a corn grower who sells at the elevator, the best evidence gives two different answers. The elevator is the local depot that buys grain by the ...

Hannah Herbst won the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge in October 2015, at the age of 15, with a propeller ...

Members of Wisconsin's high school class of 1957 who grew up with fluoridated drinking water scored no lower on IQ tests as teenagers than classmates who grew up without it, once family background was ...

Palmer Luckey was asked on a podcast what he’d work on if he was starting from zero today, and his answer was divorce. Specifically, he said he’d try to end “the tragedy of divorce” with “oxytocin ...

Plant a few thousand trees a year, forget where you put a fair share of them, and you have accidentally invented forestry. That is roughly the job description of the eastern grey squirrel, an animal ...

In Qingtian County in southeast Zhejiang, farmers put roughly forty grams of carp fry into a rice paddy about a week after transplanting the seedlings, and they’ve been doing it for at least twelve ...

Island fox. Credit: USFWS Pacific Southwest Region (public domain). Fifteen foxes. That was the count on San Miguel Island at the end of the 1990s, on an island that had carried about 450 of them, a ...