Global financing is heavily skewed to industries that harm rather than preserve nature, according to a new report that calls for an urgent scale-up of nature-positive spending. The world spends 30 ...

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A young Michigan homeowner charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting a teen burglary suspect acted in self-defense and “didn’t have a choice,” his attorney told Newsweek. Dayton Knapton, 24, of ...

The first-place winner of the 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition captures a self-pollinating flower. Jay McClellan via Nikon Small World in Motion Video Competition Nikon has revealed ...

Breeding potatoes is notoriously difficult. First, commercial potato cultivars don’t self-pollinate, which has historically prevented breeders from creating stable, genetically pure inbred lines ...

1 Plant Reproductive Biology, Genetic Diversity and Phytochemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, Kashmir, India 2 Department of Botany, University of Kashmir, ...

Pollination is a simple act that causes a ripple effect. It’s defined as the transfer of pollen from one plant to another. Plants reproduce when the pollen grains from a male flower are brought to the ...

The role honey bees play in agriculture is essential, especially for crops that aren’t self-pollinating. This is the case with almonds, for example, where a drop in the local bee population directly ...

What do you get when a tomato and a tuber-less plant meet in the Andes? A potato, nature’s starchy lovechild and one of humanity’s most vital crops. In a prehistoric twist of fate, a natural ...

While it's nice to blanket your garden with pollinator-friendly plants, the pollen carriers may still give your place a miss. Not out of chagrin or unfounded enmity, but because it got too cold, or ...