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GM crops good for environment, study finds
13 Jun 2012: Plants engineered to repel pests use less pesticides, allowing natural insect predators to thrive and spread to non-GM fields
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20 Jun 2012: Letters: Researchers in China have discovered increased insect resistance and increased numbers of pests developing in and around GM cotton crops
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20 Jun 2012: Other lives: Plant pathologist and virologist who saved the British watercress industry
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13 Jun 2012:
Plants engineered to repel pests use less pesticides, allowing natural insect predators to thrive and spread to non-GM fields
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12 Jun 2012: The Bonn Challenge is a global land restoration initiative that aims to tackle the issue that is increasingly concerning scientists
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11 Jun 2012:
Country diary: Brue Valley, Somerset: Some deplore the great seasonal outburst of yellow as spoiling the native scene, but a woman walking her dog on the river bank was struck by its beauty
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6 Jun 2012:
Country diary: Cleethorpes: Charles Darwin mimicked the action of a butterfly's proboscis by poking a sharp pencil into the flower's nectar spur, then withdrawing it with a sticky pollinium attached
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30 May 2012:
Martin Robbins: The Rothamsted protest was an embarrassment for the Green Party, and a sad reminder of the anti-science attitudes that still infest both the party and the broader environmental movement
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25 May 2012: Paul Simons takes a look at the dramatic display of flowers in the wild
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24 May 2012:
Plant-monitoring app and hardware sensor aims to keep your foliage alive. By Stuart Dredge
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23 May 2012:
A solitary Lady's Slipper, found in the Dales years after the species was declared extinct, has a growing family through propagation. Some of them are about to allow us a peep.
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22 May 2012:
A decade ago anti-GM protesters tore up fields and Britain roundly rejected so-called 'Frankenfood'. Now, as researchers trial new crops, activists are once more squaring up to the scientists. But have the arguments changed?
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18 May 2012:
Fascination of Plants Day is a chance to celebrate plant scientists working to feed the world, improve health and develop sustainable energy supplies
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15 May 2012:
Country diary: Wenlock Edge: This extraordinary plant's erotic reputation was enhanced in a 1655 translation of Dioscorides, which claimed it 'stirrs up affections to conjugation being dranck with wine'
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Audio slideshow,
10 May 2012:
Britain's few remaining hay meadows are at their most beautiful in June, when they burst into flower. Kevin Rushby heads to the North Pennines and learns about their rich biodiversity
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4 May 2012:
Ian Sample: It's hard to imagine campaigners and scientists will resolve their differences, but they must seize this opportunity for open dialogue
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