Turning campus dirt into communal garden plots transforms universities into hubs of positive environmental change from the ground up.
Tag - sustainability
Alun Salt
Tales of tea, still stirring emotions in 2020
Tea leaves might not predict the future, but they have a powerful connection to our past.
Nigel Chaffey
Plants can prepare soils to give other plants protection against pests
It's known that microbes in the soil can help plants fight pests. Now research published in New Phytologist shows that plants can be used to create anti-pest microbiomes.
What Nature Does for Britain by Tony Juniper
If you want to make the case for Botany's importance anywhere in the world, then this is the book for you.
Can intensification be sustainable?
Contemporary interest in agricultural sustainability can be traced to environmental concerns that began to appear in the 1950s and 1960s. However, concepts and practices about sustainability date back at least to the...
Jules Pretty
Bananas, disease, diversity, research and The One Show
Our favourite fruit, the banana, is threatened by fungal, viral and bacterial diseases. This was discussed on the BBC TV programme ‘The One Show’ on 13 May, to include an interview with Pat Heslop-Harrison...
Editor Pat Heslop-Harrison