Much of the work of environmentalists around the globe is dedicated to the preservation of ecosystems, including fighting ...

Monoculture palm oil production has come at the cost of rainforest habitat, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. Researchers are conducting experimental trials in Malaysian Borneo to see if ...

Making The Shift To Open Source While there are distinct benefits, there may also be growing pains when transitioning from an IT monoculture to open-source.

Ethan Zuckerman explores how the Crowdstrike outage reveals how optimization has made computing far more vulnerable than it ought to be. "The lesson of the potato famine—don’t rely on a single crop, ...

Aug 08, 2024 07:33 PM IST As Wayanad faces devastating landslides, it's time for Kerala to reconsider its monoculture plantations.

Mexico passed a law in 2003 that prohibited clearing forests for commercial agriculture, but by this time campesinos in Michoacán were already growing Hass avocados on a large scale.

Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.

Rotating crops, conserving soil nutrients and deploying other strategies to “diversify” agriculture all at the same time can deliver major benefits for the environment and people alike—including ...

Monoculture can really be a good option when it comes to containers. Andrea, who is a trained horticulturist and now serves as a Master Gardener, chose to group several containers together on her ...

These planting projects, called monoculture tree plantations, focus on creating large swathes of a forest made up of a single tree species like pine or eucalyptus.

But that's not really what the Super Bowl is; it doesn't lend itself to that brand of nostalgia, even when shared. Unless you're a fan of a team, who was invested in the outcome itself such that ...

Schoolchildren from Our Lady Immaculate Schools join members of Dublin City Council and the Darndale Together Implementation Oversight Group planting 3,000 native trees, including oak, birch ...