The world has a poop problem. A big one. By 2030, it will be a 3.7 billion-tonnes-a-year problem, and that’s just accounting for faeces produced by farmed animals. This, by any measure, is a lot of ...

More pet owners are feeding their companions insect-based foods to offset the large amount of carbon emissions produced by the meat industry. According to preliminary research, even when insects are ...

Winter is a busy time at bird feeders—here’s what ornithologists recommend to attract the widest variety of birds.

Insect feeding behaviour is a complex interplay of anatomical specialisation and physiological processes that enable insects to exploit plant tissues for nutrients. A key tool in deciphering these ...

The world’s population is growing, and so is the challenge of feeding everyone. Current projections indicate that by 2050, global food demand could increase by 59% to 98% above current levels. In ...

The topics of insect cognition and sentience are highly controversial and hotly debated. 1 I recently read an essay by insect sentience experts Helen Lambert, Angie Elwin, and Neil D’Cruze called ...

South America has the most biodiversity of any major region today and according to an international team of researchers, that biodiversity began at least 52 million years ago. "What defines ...