Meeting the dietary needs of honey bees is tough for South African beekeepers
Beekeeping cannot depend on a single forage source. This makes the business of ensuring bees have what they need to stay healthy a precarious business.
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“Pathogen hunters”: citizen scientists track plant diseases to save species
The impact of plant disease may be reduced if people are made aware of the many pathways for plant-killing microbes -- and why preventing their spread matters to us all.
Renewable jet fuel could be growing on Australia’s iconic gum trees
Eucalyptus oil is useful for lots of things – what if that list also included carbon-neutral aviation fuel? Chemistry suggests it could.
Low flammability plants could help our homes survive bushfires
You might think having trees around your home is the worst idea during a bushfire, but some plants can actually help repel fire.
Death of a landscape: why have thousands of trees dropped dead in New South Wales?
2,000 square km of forest have dropped dead in New South Wales, indicating big changes to the environment.
Plantations provide cover for lost trees but they are also under threat from pests
Invasive pests threaten the world's much-needed planted forests, as trees are declining.
Australia’s gum trees at risk
Heat waves, droughts and floods expected under climate change will alter environmental conditions so much that many eucalypts…
Money doesn’t grow on trees, but gold does!
Gum trees in the Kalgoorlie region of Western Australia are absorbing gold particles from deep in the soil, and depositing…
Gum trees reveal possible gold ore deposits
Eucalyptus trees in the Kalgoorlie region of Western Australia are drawing up gold particles from the earth and depositing…
Unravelling the mystery of eucalypt scribbles
Some natural phenomena are so familiar to us that they feature in our lives and culture, yet we know precious little about them. Sometimes we don’t even know how little we know. Take the subject of our…
Climate change, fire may wipe out Australia’s giant gum trees
As Australia gears up for another risky bushfire season this summer, some of its most iconic and valuable forests are at…
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