Bug species hurts Barbados crops, plants
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A foreign bug species is sucking the life out of crops and native plants across Barbados, which has already been overrun by an infestation of ravenous snails that are rapidly destroying cultivated fields.
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Australia's wheat farmers, fresh from battling the country's worst drought in a century, are now threatened by a plague of locusts which have already begun to hatch from a sprawling "nursery" in the country's outback.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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First, the state doused coastal communities with a pesticide aimed at a crop-eating moth that could cause billions of dollars in damage.
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Science & environment: New survey warns six plant and animal species are facing extinction as lowland heath is being lost
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EDMONTON - An extra 6,000 species of butterflies and other small creatures will be wiped out if their endangered plant and animal hosts go extinct, scientists say.
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Several common species of North American birds have suffered drastic population declines since the arrival of the West Nile virus eight years ago, leaving rural and suburban areas quieter than they used to be and imposing ecological stresses on a variety of other animals and plants, a new study has...
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Blog: Berkeley researchers document the fast-paced recovery of tropical Hypolimnas bolina butterflies from the onslaught of a bacteria that killed only males.
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Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday.
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By Katy Guest  In Nicaragua this summer, they had much the same problem with the bean harvest as we did in Britain. As the sun scorched the fields and prayed-for rain failed to fall, tender legume crops failed. In Britain, we feared that Bird's Eye might have to put up its prices.
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The locust crisis that has devastated crops across West Africa may be even worse next year, experts warn.
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Scientists say a type of fruit bat could be the source of a deadly outbreak of Marburg disease in Africa.
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Six species of reef-building coral could vanish from the Caribbean due to rising temperatures and toxic runoff from islands' development, according to a study released Thursday
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says more funds are essential to combat locust swarms that are devastating crops in West Africa, and warns failure to act quickly, could result in a regional plague by the end of the year.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
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British agricultural authorities issued  a warning to the public on Tuesday after a bat that eluded the  island nation's strict controls tested positive for a strain  that can infect humans.