by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2022 | ScienceWire
Despite the obvious potential of insects as human food, animal feed, and fertilizer, writes Robin Donovan (@RobinKD) for Neo.Life, scientists disagree about the future of an industry that seeks to convert them into products that can be safely shelved in grocery...
by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
For the American Physical Society’s Physics magazine, Rachel Berkowitz explains how cellular networks can offer critical rainfall data to the smallholder farmers across Africa who feed most of the continent but lack access to weather-prediction systems used in...
by Susan Keown | Oct 5, 2021 | ScienceWire
Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) writes for the Guardian about new research in Oregon on the impact of poor air quality on cows’ milk production. In recent years, wildfires have filled the air with harmful smoke — another insult to animals already stressed by high heat — and...
by Susan Keown | May 17, 2021 | ScienceWire
ICYMI: In her Best of the Northwest-winning story for bioGraphic, Virginia Gewin (@VirginiaGewin) shows us why ranches may be Florida’s best hope for saving endangered species like the Florida panther and the burrowing owl that rely on lands that would otherwise be...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
For Anthropocene, Lynn Schnaiberg has a new take on insects as a sustainable protein source. Lynn’s piece is not about crickets, ants, or mealworms for our dinner table but as feed for farmed fish or meat. The black soldier fly (or its larvae, actually) could solve...
