(Natural News) Plant biodiversity serves as a natural method for controlling pests and can potentially reduce the need for environmentally harmful pesticides, according to a recent study. Researchers from the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) revealed in their report that plant communities with diverse species support insect predator populations while depriving the pests themselves of their preferred food […]

(Natural News) Experts during a debate hosted by the Royal Geographical Society of London made two announcements regarding the nature of bees: one, that they are the most important living beings on the planet, and two, that they are at risk of extinction. As noted by the Earthwatch Institute during the debates, bees around the […]

(Natural News) In a major win for wild salmon, the Court for the Northern District of California ruled on Nov. 5 that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ignored potential environmental consequences in its approval of genetically engineered salmon produced by the Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies. District Judge Vince Chhabria also said that the FDA violated the National […]

(Natural News) The annual spring congregation of egg-laden horseshoe crabs on the east coast provide a vital food source for annual migrations of millions of shore birds. (Article by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. republished from ChildrensHealthDefense.org) The $18 billion gold rush for liability free COVID vaccines now threatens that ancient Atlantic coast ritual. COVID vaccine makers plot to harvest […]

(Natural News) Like many liberal policies, so-called “green” policies aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions are full of contradictions and poor reasoning – not to mention the fact that their stated goal does not have the best interests of the planet at heart. Scientist Charles Rotter takes issue with the fact that burning biomass is […]

(Natural News) Using a deep-sea robot, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) discovered an extensive ecological disaster that has eluded scientists for decades. Sitting on the ocean floor just off the coast of Santa Catalina Island in Los Angeles are rusting, leaking barrels — about 60 in total. A close inspection of deep-sea sediments collected […]

(Natural News) The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Oct. 8 upheld a 2018 French ban on neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides used in agricultural production that are notorious for causing mass bee deaths. The ruling is the latest development in a heated legal row between France and a French agricultural interest group […]

(Natural News) The first nest of “murder hornets” in the U.S. was destroyed Saturday shortly after entomologists from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) located it on private property near Blaine in Whatcom County, Washington. State entomologists have been tracking the massive insects, which were first sighted in the area in late 2019, for months. To find the […]

(Natural News) Fish can pass on health issues caused by endocrine-disrupting chemicals to the next two generations of their offspring, according to new research. Published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the study shows that chemicals found in pesticides and birth control pills, which mimic natural hormones, impact gene expression, cause deformities, alter growth, reduce survival and reduce egg production […]

(Natural News) The diabolical ironclad beetle (Phloeodes diabolicus) is one tough insect. Thanks to its almost indestructible body armor, this beetle can get stomped on or run over by a car and live to tell the tale. Now, scientists know what makes the diabolical ironclad beetle so “uncrushable.” In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers found […]