Hacker News with Generative AI: Biodiversity

'The dead zone is real': why US farmers are embracing wildflowers (theguardian.com)
Between two corn fields in central Iowa, Lee Tesdell walks through a corridor of native prairie grasses and wildflowers. Crickets trill as dickcissels, small brown birds with yellow chests, pop out of the dewy ground cover.

Agriculture, Environment, Biodiversity, Sustainability

17 points by robaato 32 days ago | 0 comments

Biodiversity loss due to agricultural trade three times higher than thought (phys.org)
Exporting agricultural products from tropical regions to China, the U.S., the Middle East, and Europe is three times more harmful to biodiversity than previously assumed.

Biodiversity, Agriculture, Trade, Environment, Science

40 points by wglb 45 days ago | 5 comments

Why are Indian and African wildlife so similar? (wanderingthru.com)
How and why is Indian and African wildlife so similar? This is a question that we as guides often get asked when guests are interested in exploring these two special places. This not only includes the large mammals, but birds and vegetation too.

Wildlife, India, Africa, Evolution, Biodiversity

6 points by rkwz 72 days ago | 3 comments

Svalbard Global Seed Vault evokes epic imagery and controversy (theconversation.com)
Two-thirds of the world’s food comes today from just nine plants: sugar cane, maize (corn), rice, wheat, potatoes, soybeans, oil-palm fruit, sugar beet and cassava. In the past, farmers grew tens of thousands of crop varieties around the world. This biodiversity protected agriculture from crop losses caused by plant diseases and climate change.

Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Science, Environmentalism

6 points by PaulHoule 77 days ago | 0 comments

Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists (bbc.com)
Scientists say there has been an alarming lack of progress in saving nature as the UN biodiversity summit, COP 16, draws to a close.

Politics, Environment, Science, Biodiversity

10 points by Brajeshwar 86 days ago | 2 comments

Species in Pieces (species-in-pieces.com)
30 species. 30 pieces. 1 fragmented survival.

Conservation, Biodiversity, Endangered Species

67 points by microflash 98 days ago | 7 comments

Botanists identify 33 global 'dark spots' with unknown plants (theguardian.com)
Botanists have identified 33 “dark spots” around the world where thousands of plant species are probably waiting to be discovered, according to new research.

Botany, Science, Biodiversity, Exploration, Discovery

6 points by mykowebhn 119 days ago | 0 comments

No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories (nature.com)
A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support.

Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity, Conservation, Science

9 points by morea 137 days ago | 0 comments

Where are all the butterflies? (butterfly-conservation.org)

Environmental Issues, Conservation, Biodiversity

11 points by geox 182 days ago | 1 comments

Biodiversity enhances immune regulation among daycare children (2020) (science.org)

Biodiversity, Immune System, Children, Health, Science

132 points by getwiththeprog 231 days ago | 23 comments

There are more than 1k varieties of banana, and we eat one of them (theguardian.com)

Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Botany

16 points by sea-gold 245 days ago | 4 comments

“No Mow May“ Won't Fix Our Biodiversity Problems (motherjones.com)