Articles for tag: Environmental, Farming, Global Agriculture, nature, PLANTdex, wildlife

Are Some Crops Worse for Wildlife? New Research Has the Answer

Jan Otte

Agriculture sustains the world, but at what price to nature? A pioneering new study has created a tool to quantify the unapparent environmental cost of producing crops showing dramatic regional differences and surprising culprits. The study, led by researchers at the University of Oxford and University College London, presents PLANTdex, a high-resolution scoring system that ...