Test PB Collection: FTE

A recent find in Oregon has weed scientists, botanists, land managers, and plant conservationists throughout the Pacific Northwest and California really excited over a tiny insect.

...

Farmers, researchers, consumers and policy makers are making progress toward addressing the challenge of producing food to feed a world population of 9 billion in 2050. The optimistic signs were everywhere on the closing day of the fourth annual Water for Food Conference in Lincoln, Neb., June 1.

Most scorpions glow under an ultraviolet light, but now a discovery on Alcatraz Island reveals that a certain species of millipedes will, too.

Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) has a vision for California a vision in which farmers make more money while using less water and protecting the environment.

In this issue... Super Field Day and So. Section Field Day Wrap-Ups, Fair Information, Enrollment Information, and so much more...

There's always something special going on at the Bohart Museum of Entomology on the UC Davis campus. But this Sunday, June 3, something even more special "may" occur. That's "may" because a California dogface butterfly "may" emerge from its chrysalis during the Bohart open house, set from 1 to 4 p.

The confluence of global climate change and population growth is brewing a perfect storm that threatens the availability of sufficient fresh water to grow food to feed the world by 2025, warned Colin Chartres, the director general of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.

If you've ever been to Angel Island or Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, you may have seen them. Bumble bees. And sometimes if you're fishing in the Bay, a bumble bee may land on your boat.

UC's Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) proposed the idea of creating a formal partnership with the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Water for Food Institute at a meeting May 29 with Water for Food executive director Roberto Lenton and senior research scientist Marc Andreini.