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单词 monoculture
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“Exactly. That’s what monoculture means: Everything the same. After enough orchids build up in an area, there aren’t enough hummingbirds to pollinate them. You know, to spread the seeds.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z
Most New World fields thus came to be mixed gardens of many crops planted together, rather than monoculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
One is that agriculture in much of the Old World came to involve broadcast seeding and monoculture fields, and eventually plowing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z
This decline is due in part to ever-expanding farmland covered by a single kind of crop plant — agricultural monocultures. Coffee, brought to you by bees: How restoring habitat is a win-win for forests and farmers alike 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z
Further, planting monoculture tree plantations has drawbacks, especially with regard to biodiversity. New Zealand wants to tax cow burps (yes, you read that correctly) 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z
Instead, emboldened by a shriveling monoculture and an influential generation of internet-first auteurs who molded culture in their image via persistence and vision, Cain is intent on bringing the industry to her world. The Most Famous Girl at the Waffle House 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z
As Berlanti observed, American film is veering ever closer to becoming a monoculture, defined on one hand by giant, spectacle-heavy “events” and on the other by scrappy, subversive independents. Do ‘middle-class’ movies have a future in corporate Hollywood? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z
Is Hollywood heading into an era of liberated pluralism or a monoculture dominated by one voracious talent-hungry company? Perspective | An existential question animates this year’s Oscar race: What, exactly, is a movie? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z
She’d point to a patchwork of mainland fields where Auburn is working with farmers to move toward crop rotation as a way to survive changes in weather patterns that frustrate their traditional monoculture. Too much seawater, too little drinking water: Fiji’s fight to withstand climate change 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z
Local people need better economic prospects, but according to the destructive logic of the past few decades, that means burning the forest and clearing the land for cattle or monocultures. Bees in Amazon 'are greatest ally to halt rainforest destruction' 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z
“It’s not just about individual plants,” he explains, “but the life they support. Lawn monocultures don’t support life.” Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z
But some advocates say that would require a fundamental shift away from chemically supported monocultures and confinement livestock operations. How will California’s climate ambitions reshape food and agriculture? 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z
It’s no longer possible to keep up with everything happening in television, movies, music and digital media, but the Super Bowl is one of the last gasps of the monoculture. The Super Bowl Is Problematic. Why Can’t We Look Away? 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z
The crumbling of the monoculture means that you probably won’t ever have to squint to make out any of these artists from the other side of a football stadium, but that’s a good thing. Review | Can classic rock survive the death of classic rock stars? 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z
At the heart of “Coffeeland” is a balance sheet demonstrating that the costs of an economy devoted to the monoculture of coffee decidedly outweighed the benefits. How Coffee Ruined a Country 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z
Another positive for sustainability, says Lew, is that some farmers are growing sugarcane outside a monoculture system, in conjunction with shade-providing cocoa and bananas. Searching for ethical sugar 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z
“At the heart of ‘Coffeeland’ is a balance sheet demonstrating that the costs of an economy devoted to the monoculture of coffee decidedly outweighed the benefits.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z
Maybe, in this climate-conscious era, we are thinking outside the strict geometry of the lawn, which Mattei describes as “ecologically dead” — a “monoculture” in a world that needs biodiversity. There’s a water crisis. Why do we still have lawns? 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z
“A tourist monoculture now dominates a city,” Mr. Settis writes, “which banishes its native citizens and shackles the survival of those who remain to their willingness to serve.” Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
This is partly because monocultures, by definition, produce just one crop on a given plot of land, while smaller, diversified farms allow intercropping— using the spaces between rows of one crop to grow another. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z
The two key monoculture crops are corn and soybeans. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z
Now when I drive all I see are two things: almonds and pistachios--in near monocultures. Most of America’s Fruit Is Now Imported. Is That a Bad Thing? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z
She was a bit of monoculture emerging from our ever-fragmented consumption habits. Pandemic TV hero Lorraine Bracco on why ‘The Sopranos’ was a quarantine hit and that house in Sicily she bought for a buck 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z
Everyone is talking about the end of the monoculture. Pop culture, considered: Chuck Klosterman on his new book of essays 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z
There’s just one critique of venture capital that Mallaby says is deserved — the need for the industry to diversify beyond a “monoculture” that is “too white, too male, too Harvard/Stanford.” ‘The Power Law’ Is a Funder-Friendly Look at the World of Venture Capital 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z
Industrial banana farming is pesticide-intensive because bananas are grown in massive monocultures, without crop rotation. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z
I think it’s a kind of monoculture, which is very dangerous. Andrew Solomon: “The conditions I’ve written about have been brutally stigmatized” 2012-11-24T22:00:00Z
This isn’t monoculture, à la Ms. Swift, but a polyglot of alternative and outsider styles that, taken together, constitute something like a new mainstream. Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago Welcomes a Polyglot of Styles 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z
In such a situation, he said, biomass-based SAF could actually have a negative impact by promoting the clearing of forests for monoculture plantations. Could Air Someday Power Your Flight? Airlines Are Betting on It. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z
CleanStar has steered clear of monoculture crops in favour of sustainable farming methods. Africa innovations: 15 ideas helping to transform a continent 2012-08-25T23:05:54Z
The musician, writer, and publisher Damon Krukowski, a longtime critic of the streaming business, calls it the return of the monoculture. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z
I’m talking about the so-called monoculture, and I’m not sure whether we were supposed to be nostalgic or gleeful about its so-called passing. The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z
Modern orchards, with their reliance on dwarf trees, varietal selections, clonal rootstocks and chemically supported monocultures, are weak and practically require industrial crutches. The Best Wine Books Are Not Always About Wine 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z
Mainstream radio and MTV used to be these odious industry forces, but nowadays, we seem to miss the comforting gravitational pull of the monoculture they once embodied. Perspective | How did YouTube become the most popular music streaming site? By sounding like the world itself. 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z
They are not the monoculture of the athletics track and, rather than setting runners apart from everyday life, entangle us within it. Runners v pedestrians: who should give way to whom? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z
As I look at it now, 80s pop culture was exactly that – a culture not a monoculture. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z
“Twenty years ago, I didn’t know what a pedal steel was. There was this monoculture of white males,” Lam said. The Pedal Steel Gets Its Resurrection 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z
Looking at the summer of 2016, it’s still hard to determine whether a monoculture is something we want or we don’t. The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z
There was this burgeoning zine culture that was very much against the monoculture that the mainstream was in the early ’90s, and this crowd became our audience. Daniel Clowes's 'The Complete Eightball' Comes Out Next Month 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z
Rodger’s rampage may be a function of his own profound distress, but it also shows how a sexist movie monoculture can be toxic for women and men alike. In a final videotaped message, a sad reflection of the sexist stories we so often see on screen
It's also a cautionary tale with a hopeful outlook, as eco-friendly trends signal a revival of bee colonies decimated by pesticides and "monoculture" crop farming. May 22 at SIFF: John Jeffcoat's 'Amplified Seattle' rocks the Neptune 2010-05-21T19:15:00Z
The “monoculture”, that sense of all of us enjoying mainstream events together, has already been frayed by the rise of the internet. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z
There's a lot of problems when you're continuing to support a system where monoculture exists. Big Meat is wasteful, polluting and powerful 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z
We’re not one psyche, one color, one culture, not all J. D. Vance’s cousins, and certainly not without hope, but the rest of America seems keen to reduce us to a pitiable monoculture. Barbara Kingsolver: By the Book 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z
They remind us of the importance of plant diversity and are antidotes to the reigning practice of monoculture farming. Take a middle path in weed control 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z
The question for audiences, in a post-#OscarsSoWhite world, is: How much more of this cinematic monoculture are we willing to accept? In Hollywood, must ‘white’ always equal ‘universal’? 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z
Maybe these similarities are a sign of an irrepressible capitalist monoculture, or maybe they’re a sign of a primal desire for the colorful, the exciting, the plenty, the hygienic. Real Food, No Filter 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z
Vast acreages of grain, a practice called monoculture, define much of Midwestern farmland, but Gill prefers to grow a diversity of fruits and vegetables. Perspective | The key to a family farming renaissance? Niche crops. 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z
What residents resent now is the shift to one industry, a monoculture. How San Francisco broke America’s heart 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z
Though it is the monoculture of capitalism, not Asia, that is on display. Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1% 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z
We need to increase awareness of agro-ecological farming methods and secure local people’s land-holder rights — a crucial step to preventing large foreign corporations from buying up land for monoculture farming. How changing your diet could save animals from extinction 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z
Cherry plainly didn’t like what he saw in the cosmopolitanism that threatened to efface the relative monoculture of his youth. The Firing of Don Cherry, Hockey’s Self-Appointed Gatekeeper 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z
His cattle monoculture wasn’t doing that well financially, and it was becoming less satisfying. At White Oak Pastures, Grass-Fed Beef Is Only the Beginning 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z
One group he might not want to party with are the younger generations, for whom the monoculture is a distant concept, flocking to these celebrations. It’s the Anniversary of Everything! 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z
As long as we’re elevating the form here, a theory: Is gossip the new monoculture? Gossip explains our culture. And nobody explains it like Lainey Gossip. 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z
Rather than increasing the diversity of foods, GMOs have increased monocultures and reduced the variety of foods. A mammoth meatball hints at a future of exotic lab-grown meats 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z
But the chain-store monoculture that might have seemed inevitable as the Ukrainian community fell away hasn’t been the neighborhood’s fate. The Chinese Crayfish Craze Hits the East Village, at Le Sia 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z
There’s an undeniable warm-fuzziness in knowing your heroes grew up on the same diet of MTV and monoculture that you did. Country-music fans get what they want. Even if what they want is Motley Crue
And so monocultures have allowed, even caused, says Lundgren, pest populations to explode. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z
Regardless of demographics — white residents have long been a minority in New Haven — producers of commercial and nonprofit work have overwhelmingly selected repertory and instituted policies that in essence ensured a monoculture. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z
And if you are a Poptimist — the strain of music critic who exalts popular taste over stuffy old critical biases — the disappearance of the monoculture is a good thing, too: It sets taste free. The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z
“I think it’s too commonly misconstrued that there’s some sort of nebulous, uber-White-person monoculture, and I think that’s a danger,” he says. Perspective | A star opera singer is changing classical music with a radical idea: Listening 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z
The region’s plantation monocultures in cotton and sugar made regular use of imprisoned former slaves, including women.  Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z
America isn’t weakened because people don’t submit to a monoculture; it’s strong because it can absorb the peoples and aspirations and talents of the rest of the world without erasing their cultures. Coca-Cola’s “It’s Beautiful” Super Bowl Ad Brings Out Some Ugly Americans 2014-02-03T04:32:25Z
Nixey delivers this ballista-bolt of a book with her eyes wide open and in an attempt to bring light as well as heat to the sad story of intellectual monoculture and religious intolerance. How Christians Destroyed the Ancient World 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z
Local food provides many other benefits.The smaller-scale farms that produce for local and regional markets require more human intelligence, care and work than monocultures, thus providing more employment opportunities. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z
Not the topsoil of those farms, “one of the jewels of global agriculture” formed over millenniums, depleted by monoculture and left to wash away in the increasingly uncontrollable and erratic deluges caused by climate change. The Full Measure of America’s Farming and Food Crisis 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z
The pursuit of these luxuries, Kilomba noted, brought catastrophe: plantations, monoculture, enslavement. Grada Kilomba’s Rituals of Resistance 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z
But one thing that’s becoming clear: While there is plenty of diversity — of opinion, of musical style, of offerings in television and movies — the monoculture is as strong as ever. The Revenge of Monoculture: The Internet gave us more choices, but the mainstream won anyway 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z
In these times of fragmented à la carte media, there are only so many monoculture moments, so artists are clamoring to be a part of the few that do remain. How Old-Fashioned TV Still Drives the Music Industry 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z
It's grown in vast monocultures that wreck the soil and require all sorts of chemicals to support a robust harvest. How iceberg lettuce wedged its way into American culture 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z
And while there aren't well documented health impacts associated with GMO crops themselves, engineered traits like herbicide resistance have enabled the proliferation of chemical-intensive monocultures that seriously harm biodiversity both on and off the farm. Why heirloom seeds matter 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z
The monoculture agriculture there," Weissenberger writes, "requires more and more fertilizer and pesticide use. Conservation-photo award winners at the Burke: beautiful, brutal, complex 2012-07-13T19:37:03Z
They're the only single domesticated crop capable of sustaining life as a monoculture. The Humble Potato Is Exalted in the Mountains of Peru 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z
Mormonism’s political monoculture may well be shrinking the gene pool of potential converts who will remain comfortable in LDS pews. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z
This requires a diversity of crops, but diversity in itself leads to fewer pest problems than one finds with monocultures. The food industry isn’t going to ditch pesticides any time soon, but you can in your own garden 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z
The United States’ dependency on Mexican lime monocultures has made matters worse. The real reasons for the great lime crisis 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z
David Starkey claimed at a conference I attended in 2011 that outside London, people in these isles lived in a "white monoculture". Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z
Large-scale agriculture has helped drive climate change, polluted lakes and bays with nutrient runoff and accelerated species losses by turning natural landscapes into monoculture crop fields. Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z
U.S. corporate agriculture tends toward monoculture farming — in the simplest terms, one giant farm specializing in one crop. Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research? 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z
But watching more than three in a row fills one with a creeping dread about the pervasiveness of Instagram-flavored monoculture, a Scandi-Brooklyn aesthetic sameness that reaches shore to shore. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z
The 61-year history of the Grammys is tied to the idea of network TV as a monoculture, and the show once presented a rare chance for millions of people to share a live musical performance. Music Lives in the Present. Can the Grammys Escape the Past? 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z
In other words, they are the opposite of industrial monocultures — huge farms that grow just one crop. Unlike a globalized food system, local food won’t destroy the environment 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z
The battle, they say, is against monoculture, not farmers who maintain healthy soil and feed their communities. No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z
Namely, that there is no political will to build housing — resulting in a social and economic monoculture. Roundup: SFMOMA's big donor agreement, housing and density in NorCal and SoCal, Peter Doig's strange trial 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z
“La Rambla is the centre of this economic monoculture, and we’re working towards bringing local people back to the city’s most emblematic street.” La Rambla: plans to transform Barcelona's tourist rat run into a cultural hub 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z
“I wondered if in today’s world there is still a place for monoculture,” he said. Zane Lowe, the D.J. Scratching Out Beats 1 for Apple 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z
In the name of fighting climate change, countries and companies have often invested in failed mass tree plantings or monocultures of commercial, nonnative species that hurt biodiversity. How much can trees fight climate change? Massively, but not alone, study finds 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z
But wherever they are located, he says, monocultures degrade the soil and reduce biodiversity. Does the paper industry need to cut its water usage? 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z
In comparison, carbon-capture plantations are usually monocultures and are dominated globally by just five tree species -- teak, mahogany, cedar, silk oak, and black wattle -- that are grown for timber, pulp, or agroforestry. Carbon-capture tree plantations threaten tropical biodiversity for little gain, ecologists say 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z
"Industrial monoculture is not a place for insects to flourish. On the contrary - it is killing them." Farmers turn to tech as bees struggle to pollinate 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z
For example, monocultures of corn attract large populations of mice, which tend to harbor potential zoonotic pathogens. Incubator or barrier? Exploring the links between agriculture, biodiversity and the spread of pathogens 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z
Fish feeds use monoculture and GMO corn and soy, and/or enormous volumes of wild fish, taken from subsistence fisheries that communities depend on. Ban irresponsible aquaculture in WA waters and beyond  | Op-Ed 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z
When these systems get out of balance — as when we dam a river or plant extractive monocultures or send tons of CO2 into the atmosphere — destruction follows. Why bring a child into this broken world? Take an Antarctic expedition to find out 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z
Our literature may even be “healthier” because we’ve disabused ourselves of the need for a monoculture, which was, after all, “an instrument for the perpetuation of a white, male, heterosexual elite.” Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z
Some will die in their new habitat, but others will outcompete the locals and turn a diverse ecosystem into a monoculture. The Pacific garbage patch hosts a new threat | Faye Flam 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z
The soil is degraded from decades of monoculture. Meet the Climate Hackers of Malawi 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z
“Economics, legislation, and habit” enable plantations to persist, Milakovsky said, despite increasing concerns that the monocultures do relatively little to support native species and can suck up scarce water. Scientists plan a comeback for Ukraine’s war-ravaged forests 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z
Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land. The next frontier in farming? The ocean 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z
Apart from being costly and flawed, a carbon sequestration-based strategy also neglects the ecological and social value of grasslands by converting them to monoculture forests, which do not provide the same ecological benefits. We Must Stop Treating Grasslands As Wastelands 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z
Since then, the academy has been moving toward becoming an ideological monoculture. Opinion | How to restore intellectual diversity on college campuses 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z
They’re also being planted alongside native trees like sweet gum, tulip trees and bald cypress, to avoid genetically identical stands of trees known as monocultures; non-engineered poplars are being planted as experimental controls. For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z
A lot of this has to do with the evaporation of the monoculture — that pre-digital state of being where airtime and magazine pages were finite resources. Perspective | How Beyoncé, Drake and Taylor Swift landed on pop’s permanent A-list 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z
In the monoculture palm plantations, animals consumed as much as in the old-growth forest, but their species diversity plummeted. News at a glance: Logging’s effects, endangered abalone, and a contract for UC postdocs 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z
He blames domestication for the rise of monoculture, which he says leads to a larger, more sedentary human population in which disease can spread rapidly. What Is a Dog Anyway? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z
It’s the cheat code for what was once our country’s defining monoculture. Why is Ralph Lauren so good at ‘prep?’ 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z
The site has become a key refuge for Eurasian skylarks, a bird that requires open fields that, in the countryside, have been largely overrun by crop monocultures. Pioneering urban ecology finds surprising biodiversity in Berlin’s green spaces 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z
As with everything else, today’s Q Scores must contend with social media, which laid waste to the monoculture and created a new type of celebrity. Whatever happened to the almighty Q Score? 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z
Prof Fennell warns that monoculture farming - growing one crop species in a field at a time - is not sustainable. The firms making flour from mushrooms and cauliflower 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z
It was shackled by debt, hampered by the Great Recession, challenged by changes in consumer taste and, critics said, undermined by listeners’ aversion to a radio monoculture that Mr. Mays had helped usher in. Lowry Mays, Who Revolutionized the Radio Industry, Dies at 87 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z
And while I savor those, I’ll just enjoy pumpkin spice as a bit of popular monoculture in these fractious times. Perspective | Pumpkin spice won. It’s time to accept it and move on. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z
But you already know what I do: If money were all it took to make the next fantasy monoculture phenomenon, it would’ve happened by now. Review | ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ is beautiful, banal boredom 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z
A: Unfortunately, when you look at the legacy of carbon projects, probably the majority of projects were primarily monoculture timber plantation types. Pachama CEO talks holding carbon emitters accountable 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z
Now that’s common throughout all of mankind as we get into the monomyth that Joseph Campbell basically elucidated, that those stories in one form or another are shared across humankind, it’s kind of a monoculture. George Miller on making every film unique, from 'Furiosa' to 'Three Thousand Years of Longing' 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z
Loss of biodiversity reduces large-scale monocultures but reinforces genetic homogeneity contributing in the loss of crop diversity. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
Co-founder Czoski, an interaction designer and new media artist, points out that “learning from nature is one of our biggest values. Our desire is to support ecosystems and not to be a monoculture.” Seattle event AUGMENT aims to show that art and tech can get along 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z
When large areas are used for grazing, or to grow monocultures for long periods, fertilizers and pesticides can change soil structure and microbiomes in ways that degrade soil and prevent secondary succession. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
So we have set an internal target of having projects only with an overwhelming majority of native species and avoid monoculture tree plantations. Pachama CEO talks holding carbon emitters accountable 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z
Moreover, the fact that they can’t see just how badly this exchange went for their side shows what a big mistake it was to let academia and media institutions turn into left-wing monocultures. Opinion | A Berkeley professor’s Senate testimony didn’t go how the left thinks it did 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z
The carbon these monocultures store is mostly released in a decade or so, when the trees are harvested, the researchers wrote. Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z
“There is not one singular African aesthetic, nor is African fashion a monoculture that can be defined,” said Christine Checinska, the museum’s first curator of African and African diaspora fashion. Your Monday Briefing 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z
This monoculture has been shown to be harmful to the environment. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z
Modern monoculture farming only increases crops’ vulnerability to infection. What Did COVID Teach Us about Preparing for a Plant Pandemic? 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z
Planting monocultures of nonnative trees won't boost biodiversity, the researchers point out, despite such endeavors being incentivized as a climate change solution. Biodiversity solutions also fight climate change 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z
"We have to shift the aesthetics from monoculture lawn to something else," Ms Berstler argues. Is it the end for the lush lawns of Los Angeles? 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z
In some areas, mountain pine beetles had laid waste to densely planted monocultures of lodgepole pines and other conifer species preferred by lumber companies for their commercial value, which left only more kindling for fires. A megafire raged for 3 months. No one’s on the hook for its emissions.
On China, Symon said its domestic political system, which he described as an "enforced monoculture", was stirring domestic discontent. Australia's neighbours at risk of manipulation - spy chief 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z
The ’90s are the sort of peak moment of what — I think the phrase would be a national monoculture where, in the ’80s, you’re very much limited by where you live. The 1990s made the NBA a global phenomenon. The Showtime Lakers paved the way 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z
Chowdhary, a researcher at the University of Illinois, works surrounded by corn, one of the most productive monocultures in the world. In farming, a constant drive for technology 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z
The BBC found a different kind of problem in Mozambique, which has allowed private companies to plant large monoculture plantations as part of its contribution to the AFR100 forest landscape restoration initiative. How phantom forests are used for greenwashing 2022-05-02T04:00:00Z
For example, monoculture agriculture often reduces tree shading, making it hotter in a given spot. Climate change, big agriculture combine to threaten insects 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z
In some systems, the plants were genetically identical—a monoculture. A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z
When researchers from University College London and the University of Edinburgh evaluated national commitments toward reforestation and restoration, they found that 45 percent involved “planting vast monocultures of trees as profitable enterprises.” Tree Planting Is Booming. Here’s How That Could Help, or Harm, the Planet. 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z
The result: horizon-to-horizon, industrial monocultures saturated with chemicals and tended by massive and increasingly expensive machinery. In farming, a constant drive for technology 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z
Twenty years ago, however, I would have said guidebooks contributed to an informational monoculture I found aggravating. Travel guidebooks aren’t dead, but they’ll never be the same. Maybe that’s a good thing. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z
Most also agree that existing monocultures, so important to European forestry’s past, cannot ensure its future. Germany’s trees are dying. A fierce debate has broken out over how to respond 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
For each plant with a different genetic makeup that the researchers added to the mix, the insects’ extinction rate fell by nearly 20 percent, compared with monocultures. A Single Gene in One Species Can Cause Other Species to Go Extinct 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z
We know how to improve biodiversity and the health of the soil by changing from monocultures and industrial farming to regenerative agriculture, permaculture and so on. In conversation with Jane Goodall on climate change — and remaining hopeful for the future 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z
Meanwhile, monoculture — the strategy of sowing huge fields with a single crop — achieves higher yields but also puts more pressure on soil and increases the risk that plants will succumb to pests or disease. Could this new version of an old grain help fight climate change and feed the world? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z
There are more insects, amphibians, reptiles, fish, birds and mammals in these landscapes than in the barren green deserts of modern monoculture. Agroecology Is the Solution to World Hunger 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z
Those receiving funds must plant a mix of species, the ministry has said, though owners not taking funds can still plant monocultures. Germany’s trees are dying. A fierce debate has broken out over how to respond 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
At its core, the movie wants to deliver a message against the monoculture pervading society. Review | ‘Free Guy’ could have been both smart and fun — but this summer flick has an identity crisis 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z
This sort of content was once part of an inescapable monoculture — a part it was easy to assume that the internet, with its tendency toward the niche, was destined to eradicate. The Internet Demands Uplifting Videos. So He Stages Them. 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z
He points to the monocultures of spruce trees dotted around the mountain sides. After Deadly Floods, a German Village Rethinks Its Relationship to Nature 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z
The monoculture commercial conifer planting of the 1980s caused severe habitat decline. Timber shortage due to 'unprecedented' post-lockdown demand 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z
The monocultures nurtured only a fraction of the biodiversity found in native deciduous forests, but as long as there was enough rain and temperatures stayed cool enough, the spruces thrived. Germany’s trees are dying. A fierce debate has broken out over how to respond 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
“In people’s minds it’s ‘Genetic engineering equals monoculture equals the broken food system.’ Learning to Love G.M.O.s 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z
"If you want to create a monoculture with maximum pounds of grass," then grazing "cattle would produce that outcome." When the bison come back, will the ecosystem follow? 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z
Many of the forests, replanted by timber companies, have had much of their ecological diversity replaced with monocultures of Douglas fir. How a descendant of loggers discovered that trees cooperate 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z
This isn’t an agribusiness, there are no neat rows of monoculture crops on flat, denuded land. Two King County communities look to the land to heal generational trauma 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z
Areas where deciduous trees such as beech and oak would have grown naturally were planted in monocultures of fast-growing evergreen spruce and pine. Germany’s trees are dying. A fierce debate has broken out over how to respond 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z
This is the first time I’ve seen “monocultures” referenced in a regulatory filing. Oatly investors should beware climate change 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z
Many of them were once monocultures, dependent on an extractive industry like timber or coal, and now must find a way to be relevant within a globalized, service-oriented economy. Review | HBO documentary ‘Our Towns’ visits 6 American cities and finds unity, not division 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z
Outbreaks of infectious diseases are more likely in areas of deforestation and monoculture plantations, according to a study that suggests epidemics are likely to increase as biodiversity declines. Coronavirus live news: EU to unveil planned vaccine export rules; Germany scraps strict Easter shutdown 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z
And woke capital, Harwick argues, is actually the creation of a labor cartel: the highly progressive monoculture of professional workers. Opinion | The Substack controversy’s bigger story 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z
Intensive industrial monoculture farming is depleting America’s soil, polluting its lands, and contributing to an outsized portion of global carbon emissions, thanks to a dependence on global supply chains and chemical pesticides and fertilizers. 'We're trying to re-create the lives we had': the Somali migrants who became Maine farmers 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z
Mr. Kukielski’s definition of a modern rose garden at any scale: “Not a monoculture, but a mixed border.” The Smart Way to Grow Roses 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z
The scientists compared the situation to one in agriculture known as the “monoculture effect.” Scientists look at how some Yellowstone wolves avoid mange 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z
Twenty years ago, MTV was at the center of the pop music monoculture, and its flagship show was “Total Request Live,” a daily countdown broadcast live from the studio in Times Square. I was an MTV VJ during peak Britney. 'Framing Britney Spears' made me ashamed ... and hopeful 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z
In essence, trees would be planted as monocultures on public lands, just to get cut down in the hopes that carbon would remain stored in the cut wood products. Republicans want to plant 1 trillion trees — and then log them 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z
He added that "unsustainable palm oil plantations and other monocultures that replace the rainforest are always planted in the lowland and riverine landscapes, leaving struggling wildlife to survive in remnant, least productive, highland forests." Nature lovers see the ravages of climate change up close 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z
Like humans, bees require diversity in their diet and placing them in monocultures disturbs their nutrition levels and impacts their brain functioning, making them more susceptible to diseases. Meet the bee brokers: 'You never stop learning about bees, they're just incredible' 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z
“We are trying to remove the coconut monoculture and allow the native forests to get a foothold.” To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z
Westerners began managing traditional hunting grounds and sacred waters with a profit-first mentality, planting monocultures and building hotels. 'We're at a crossroads': who do the fish of Hawaii belong to? 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z
Add to that the news it’s moving out of Silicon Valley because of “increasing intolerance and monoculture,” and you end up with a picture of a company that doesn’t have a lot of growth potential. Palantir still relies heavily on government contracts despite push for more corporate customers 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z
Cuba became something of an organic farming pioneer in the 1990s, developing techniques like worm composting, soil conservation and the use of biopesticides, to replace imported supplies and large scale monoculture. Facing crisis, Cuba calls on citizens to grow more of their own food 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z
Ellis agreed and predicted that colleges will soon become a "complete monoculture," with unhealthy results for society. Longtime college professor warns students are taught 'contempt for ideas that don't fit' radical worldview 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z
The palms are more drought and salt tolerant than native trees—advantages that help them establish dominance and spread as a monoculture. To save this palm-filled paradise, biologists must kill the trees 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z
Mr. Moore dismissed that notion outright, arguing that companies simply aren’t looking hard enough, aren’t recruiting at historically black colleges and universities, and have a monoculture that overlooks black talent. ‘Corporate America Has Failed Black America’ 2020-06-06T04:00:00Z
It jumped to humans because we had been pushing and pushing high-density urban population centers more deeply into wilderness areas, destroying that natural buffer and replacing it with monoculture crops and concrete. Opinion | How We Broke the World 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z
And this time, instead of feeling like a stifling monoculture, it felt reassuring, like a dispatch from some consensus reality we’d all forgotten we’d ever inhabited. What’s the Point of a Celebrity in a Pandemic? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z
She said she is worried about creating a monoculture of restaurants as everyone’s primary imperative becomes survival. As restaurants in some states fire up again, proprietors wonder if the rich dining landscape will ever be the same 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z
Plastic grass, decking and monoculture lawns, chemical fertilisers and pesticides. 'Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z
These “nonessential” farmers work smaller plots of land and grow a variety of crops, which is better for the environment as compared with the monoculture model widely practiced by agribusiness. Opinion | Ralph Northam was wrong to close Virginia’s farmers markets 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z
Diverse ecosystems, in nature and in politics, are always more resilient than monocultures. Opinion | How We Broke the World 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z
By contrast, monoculture conifer plantations — wrongly favoured by some governments — destroy biodiversity and damage natural ecosystems through soil acidification, depletion and compaction, among other detrimental effects. From conference traveller to tree planter 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z
As a result new cacao farms are usually created by entrepreneurs who cut down trees and create chemical-intensive monoculture plantations, which both pollute and reduce biodiversity. How Chocolate Can Help Save the Planet 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z
The paper suggests using products from several companies to avoid a “monoculture”, and calls for the concept of trustworthiness to be anchored proposed tweaks to Germany’s telecoms and IT security laws. Merkel's conservatives set to stop short of Huawei 5G ban in Germany 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
As for the US position, take a long walk in the American midwest and you’ll go a month across a monoculture desert and not see a wildflower. Brexit, the most pointless, masochistic ambition in our country's history, is done 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z
They are grown in relatively small quantities in the northern hemisphere, which makes them more environmentally friendly compared with a monoculture operation. Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z
But California’s almond industry places them in a monoculture where growers expect the bees to be predictably productive year after year. 'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z
Like Canute defying the tide of history, Daft Punk attempted a kind of monoculture reenactment on their 2013 album Random Access Memories. Overload and isolation: the decade that warped popular culture 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z
We do not yearn for a white “monoculture.” Editorial Roundup: 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z
Dairy is bad, but plant milks frequently mean destructive monocultures. A-Z of climate anxiety: how to avoid meltdown 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z
The only drawback with this trendy and guilt-free option is that most oats come from mass-produced, monoculture operations where they are sprayed with the Roundup pesticide right before harvest. Almonds are out. Dairy is a disaster. So what milk should we drink? 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z
Swift prefers the excitement of delayed gratification and the possibilities of preserving a monoculture for her to dominate. Love the game: Drake and Taylor Swift's decade in pop dominance 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z
Occasionally, your streaming selection will coincide with large numbers of other people – the waning flickers of the monoculture drawing you all to the same spot. Overload and isolation: the decade that warped popular culture 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z
Soy monocultures are an increasing threat, particularly in the south. The Amazon: on the frontline of a global battle to tackle the climate crisis 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z
Churning up and reusing soil for monoculture lowers its ability to store carbon, and deforesting large swaths of land does the same. Should the age of humans have a geological name? 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z
“They can have a really diverse wild diet, or they can thrive on a diet that is essentially monoculture,” Conrad said. Turkeys in the northwest: Conservation success or nuisance? 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z
It aims to replace the forest with livestock farming, monoculture crops, mining operations and huge hydropower plants. To save Brazil’s rainforest, boost its science 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z
Just this week a study published in Science Advances found that biologically diverse fields yielded more crops than farms practicing monoculture. New study pinpoints the places most at risk on a warming planet 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z
“A monoculture of this would be so wonderful,” he says. As he does for his Ballard shop, Curtis Steiner curates the uncommon for his own garden 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z
Vast expanses of monocultures provide banquets for certain pests. The Struggle to Save Heirloom Rice in India 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z
Further distaste grew as insects threatened profitable agricultural monocultures supported by slavery and industrialization. How to Develop an Appetite for Insects 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z
To increase efficiency, hedgerows and copses have been eliminated and farmland agglomerated into increasingly larger tracts of monoculture. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
Although you wouldn’t be wrong to say that New Square is a small, insular monoculture, in epidemiological terms it has the characteristics of an international city. The Message of Measles 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z
Broccoli exemplifies the “green revolution,” begun after World War II, when our munitions factories were repurposed for mass production of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides, and large-scale industrial, monoculture farming began. Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes! 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z
But it is important to realize that homelessness is not a monoculture. After 18 months reporting on the homeless crisis, this is what I learned 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z
According to Prof Kema, the main problem stems from the overreliance on Cavendish varieties for export, which he describes as a "monoculture". Do we need to worry about banana blight? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z
Over the decades, Wolfe became convinced that diversity – the very thing that modern agriculture was eliminating with its herbicides and monoculture – was the key to resistance. Flour power: meet the bread heads baking a better loaf 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
Even the use of exotic clones and monocultures is sometimes justified. Tree plantations: we must get them right 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z
This is true in a literal sense, and yet the novel still managed to signal its contempt for the insular monoculture of Franco’s Spain, obsessed as it was with questions of national identity and belonging. Spain’s Most Celebrated Writer Believes the Fascist Past Is Still Present 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z
“The monoculture nature of oil palm plantations means that they tend not to support species that are dependent on forest environment like the orangutan.” Orangutan numbers drop as much as 30% in Malaysian palm oil estate... 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z
“It’s industrial monoculture – a green barrier all around us. It’s horrible.” The wrong kind of trees: Ireland's afforestation meets resistance 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z
Other scientists said avoiding monoculture plantation forests and respecting local and indigenous people are crucial to ensuring reforestation succeeds in cutting carbon and boosting wildlife. Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z
"If we think insects will suddenly change the catastrophic effects of monoculture and mass production, we will be sorely disappointed," he argues. ‘How crickets have hit the high street’ 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z
Early landscape designers frequently recommended that roses be concentrated only in rose gardens, in the process creating a monoculture conducive to pests and diseases. New shrub rose hybrids are easy to care for, easy to love 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z
As well as eroding the soil, which causes a loss of fertility, these monocultures are more vulnerable to disease, drought and other impacts of climate breakdown. Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z
“Most of our spruce monocultures in lower and mid-laying areas will probably disappear, in years or in a few decades.” Climate change to blame as bark beetles ravage central Europe's... 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z
The worry — expressed by a number of theorists and writers over several decades — is that theoretical physics has become a monoculture too focused on a small clutch of concepts and approaches. A struggle for the soul of theoretical physics 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z
However, plantations are the most popular restoration plan: 45% of all commitments involve planting vast monocultures of trees as profitable enterprises. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z
In truth, sharecropping, coupled with a cotton monoculture, was a terrible model for economic development, and, indeed, left the South long impoverished. How the South Won the Civil War 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z
The game remains one of the last remnants of monoculture in an increasingly fragmented media landscape: the last nine Super Bowls rank among the 10 most-watched programs in American history. Super Bowl overnight TV ratings hit 10-year low amid New Orleans protest 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z
In today’s scattered pop culture landscape, live television continues to offer a glimpse into the monoculture of yesteryear. Review | The best part of ‘Rent: Live’ was Vanessa Hudgens. The worst part? It wasn’t live. 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z
Meanwhile, Facebook, which is conducting an audit of alleged anti-conservative bias, also saw 100 employees complain about the company's "political monoculture" in August. The top scandals Facebook, Google and Twitter dealt with in 2018 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z
Few conservationists, for example, think that this should include planting a monoculture of Eucalyptus trees for regular harvest. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z
In lieu of any other connection, the monoculture unites us all! Opinion | Safe Topics to Discuss This Holiday Season 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z
“If they cannot coexist, we’re driving toward monoculture of a particular weed control system, and history has shown repeatedly that is a system that will fail.” Beyond damaging crops, dicamba is dividing communities 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z
Instead of the U.S. farm bill supporting intensive monocultures that deplete soil, it should support restorative practices that rebuild soil. Soil and Seaweed: Farming Our Way to a Climate Solution 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z
She added: “It’s a monoculture of thought, and that’s a real problem.” Silicon Valley’s Keystone Problem: ‘A Monoculture of Thought’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z
That definition urgently needs an overhaul to exclude monoculture plantations. Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z
Hemingway describes a situation in which farmers are ripping up relatively biodiverse citrus groves to feed rocketing demand for almonds, creating a monoculture fed by increasingly deep water wells that threaten statewide subsidence issues. Ditch the almond milk: why everything you know about sustainable eating is probably wrong 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z
Any kind of farming inevitably results in biodiversity loss: the immense diversity of forests and woods is cleared for the monotony and monoculture of the crops we need for our food, feed, fibers, and fuel. GMOs are better for the environment than you’d think 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z
Large plantations that grow for export are monocultures, meaning they grow only banana plants. Science’s search for a super banana 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z
Without intervention, the land would become a monoculture of invasive reeds that can break down and form dense mats, which might ultimately make flooding issues worse, Flynn explains. Surrendering to Rising Seas 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z
“Jane Jacobs’s ‘intricate ballet’ of the streets is being rapidly eradicated by a predatory monoculture,” the Harper’s author depressingly concludes, name-checking the enthusiastic urbanist who wrote “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Another ‘Manhattan moment’: Seattle’s new $19,265-a-month apartment 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z
In some areas, large swaths of monoculture exist naturally and are replanted as such. For Cash and Pride, Replanting Canada’s Forests by the Millions 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z
The chip kingdom is unlikely to become a dull monoculture again anytime soon. Artificial intelligence is awakening the chip industry’s animal spirits 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z
What is the role of modern, large-scale monoculture farming in vulnerability to the disease? Science’s search for a super banana 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z
“I feel like ‘Saw’ was released in the last days of the monoculture,” he says. 'Upgrade' director Leigh Whannell brings sci-fi action thrills to our tech-obsessed times 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z
Since the 15th century, some land has become the exclusive domain of specific kinds of crops and crop systems: fields of monocultures designed to bring in flows of cash. How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
They looked at individual isolates of bacteria, monocultures pampered with an assured source of glucose and freed of the need to contend with other microbes. A Population That Pollutes Itself Into Extinction (and It’s Not Us) 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z
The same point about the impossibility of loving a square could be made about the Big Business monoculture. Opinion | Conservatives should be wary of Big Business 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
"If you clear the forest they're all gone. If you convert the forest to a monoculture you certainly can't have gorillas and chimps." 'Guns, germs and trees' determine gorilla's fate 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z
I think, inherently, social tools create kind of a monoculture. Why did the Instagram of music fail? 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z
Just as autoworkers on the line assemble simplified, interchangeable parts and fast-food workers manufacture standardised burgers, so did African slaves work specialised jobs in a simplified landscape of sugar monoculture. How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z
Still, humans are a monoculture, a single macrobial strain, with none but ourselves to keep the petri dish clean. A Population That Pollutes Itself Into Extinction (and It’s Not Us) 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z
And when they return home, does the impersonality of that monoculture encourage them to engage with their neighbors? Opinion | Conservatives should be wary of Big Business 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
The primary culprit, researchers speculate, is the intensive use of pesticides on vast tracts of monoculture crops, especially wheat and corn. 'Catastrophe' as France's bird population collapses due to pesticides 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
The studies noted that the dwindling bird populations followed the intensification of agricultural practices over the last 25 years, pointing to the widespread use of pesticides on monoculture crops, notably corn and wheat. Birds in rural France wiped out at 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
Presumably, though, we also don’t want a planet that’s nothing but pavement, cattle farms and monoculture farmland. Should Some Species Be Allowed to Die Out? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z
There are other kinds of ambition, however, and if big business tends toward monoculture, there is biodiversity out on the fringes where strange creatures flourish on the forest floor. What the cancelation of shows like 'One Mississippi' and 'I Love Dick' may portend for the future 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z
A major consequence of purchasing goods at Walmart and Costco instead of local farms and small businesses is a leveling of regional distinctions and particularities, replacing unique local cultures with a national or international monoculture. Opinion | Conservatives should be wary of Big Business 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z
Growing only one variety of a plant is known as monoculture - and it's a practice that became increasingly common across the world in everything from forest plantations to fruit. Battling to save the world's bananas 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z
The uniqueness of breweries like Hull’s were replaced with more of a monoculture nationally. Entrepreneur resurrects local lager for New Haven community 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z
This was mainly because the dominant non-native, fast-growing monoculture plantations were linked to a decrease in floral diversity, associated with bee and bird population declines, as observed in Sichuan province. Satellite images show China going green 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z
“Rotten” even offers up hard-boiled, insider vernacular in its exploration of “agro business monoculture,” “food fraud” and, worst of all, “honey heists.” 'Rotten' gets to the bottom of the food chain 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z
But experts say it is likely to reflect the insect situation in places like North America, where monoculture and pesticide use are widespread. The German Amateurs Who Discovered ‘Insect Armageddon’ 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z
But monoculture crops are incredibly susceptible to disease. Battling to save the world's bananas 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z
There’s less harm in removing monoculture spruce plantations and replanting with oak and other broadleaf species, ecologists say. Beetles are ravaging Europe’s oldest forest. Is logging the answer? 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z
The local Balinese schools were all about learning “by rote,” he said; at the other end, the traditional expat-driven international schools were a “monoculture” of privilege. The School Prepping for Apocalypse 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z
And just like cattle, salmon are not supposed to be crowded into small spaces and fed monoculture diets, so they need extreme measures to keep them alive and healthy enough to eat. As Wild Salmon Decline, Norway Pressures Its Giant Fish Farms 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z
Despite two deaths in the past year, the Nasa Indians – the biggest, most organised and most militant of the 20 indigenous groups in the valley – have staged waves of monoculture clearance and occupation operations. Battle for the mother land: indigenous people of Colombia fighting for their lands 2017-10-28T04:00:00Z
A self-appointed social critic recently warned against fostering “a monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence.” Perspective | Colin Kaepernick blacklist risks hurting the NFL’s real priority: Its bottom line 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z
Damore says the company’s left bias “has created a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence,” a standpoint most common among people who throw around the word “snowflake.” Actually, Google manifesto writer, the number of women in tech is declining — thanks to guys like you 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z
It is an accelerating sequence that has turned Portugal “from a pretty diverse forest into a big eucalyptus monoculture,” Mr. Camargo said. Portugal Forest Fires Worsen, Fed by Poor Choices and Inaction 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z
He said the company’s political biases created “a politically correct monoculture that maintains its hold by shaming dissenters into silence.” A Crisis Forces Google to Uphold Its Values While Fostering Debate 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z
Google computer scientist James Damore triggered the uproar when he published a memo last week blasting the search company’s “politically correct monoculture” and progressive gender... Google’s Diversity Problems 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
Barren monocultures of maize have been replaced with a landscape that looks more like African savannah. 'It is strange to see the British struggling with the beaver': why is rewilding so controversial? 2017-07-03T04:00:00Z
The Sully Plantation – situated close to the Little River Turnpike toll road – was a neighbour, pioneering modern farming techniques that were more forgiving than the local tobacco monoculture. Chantilly in the spotlight: inside the secretive Bilderberg's 'home from home' 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z
Sumatra has changed remarkably in the last few decades, from an island of villages and wilderness to one of vast monoculture plantations of pulp and paper and palm oil. Conservationists plan expedition to secret ‘Noah’s Ark’ in Sumatra 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z
“Nature is strongly against monoculture, which is one reason we have to use massive amounts of herbicide and pesticides,” says van Henten. Technology: The Future of Agriculture : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z
Sprawl eats up huge areas in very inefficient ways, destroying arable land and creating monocultures. Where is the world's most sprawling city? 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z
Travelling from Sumatra's oil-palm monoculture, currently eating into elephant territory, to the encroachment of Brazilian soya fields on jaguar habitat, he argues that a transition to sustainable farming is overdue. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z
By retreating to neat homogeneous monocultures, most separatists will end up doing what all self-segregationists do, fostering narrowness, prejudice and moral arrogance. Embrace, don’t retreat from, our cultural and ideological differences 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z
"It's a quiet but staggering crisis unfolding right under our noses that illuminates the unacceptably high cost of our careless addiction to pesticides and monoculture farming," its author, Kelsey Kopec, said in a statement. Hundreds of North American bee species face extinction: study 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z
Those include the ubiquitous Earthbound Farms, which grows its lettuces in monocultures, and Aurora Organic Dairy, which has been criticized for running its operation like an industrial factory farm. Why Whole Foods is now struggling 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z
It remains one of the last remnants of monoculture in an increasingly fragmented media landscape. The Super Bowl is America's biggest stage for play-acting as a united nation 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z
Other areas are dense and dark and deep, the legacy of close-spaced industrial planting in monocultures of Douglas fir. Saving the Port Gamble Forest, a natural jewel, from development: 'It’s our heritage and it’s our future' 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z
"Rather than using the opportunities offered by Brexit to encourage a move towards a diverse and ecologically sustainable farming system, this government seem determined to dive headlong into encouraging damaging monocultures." Migrant farm workers may stay after Brexit but red tape goes - BBC News 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z
What we have learned is that if you go for monocultures, you are vulnerable to disaster. 'I was so hungry I ate water lilies': southern Africa's food crisis in a dozen dishes | John Vidal 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z
“The intention is to replace pluralism with a religious monoculture.” 'Islamist hyperextremism' could bring world to brink of catastrophe – report 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z
Some blue-collar neighborhoods that supported Mr. Trump have been portrayed as monocultures, the opposite of supposedly more diverse, cosmopolitan cities that favored Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic candidate. Can Trump Save Their Jobs? They’re Counting on It 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z
Jon Rose, vice president of real estate for Pope Resources, said the company will after the last round of logging replant a more natural forest, instead of the industrial monoculture in some areas today. Saving the Port Gamble Forest, a natural jewel, from development: 'It’s our heritage and it’s our future' 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z
Big Mike was so popular with consumers in the west that the banana industry established ever larger monocultures of this variety. The banana as we know it is in imminent danger 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z
By combining traditional farming methods with modern technology, he wanted to create a process that damages the environment less than does the monoculture agriculture that the government subsidizes. Can Cuban science go global? 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
GMOs, although they do contribute to things like monoculture, are a practical answer to at least one of the problems of industrial agriculture. G.M.O. Labeling Law Could Stir a Revolution 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z
“However, I would equally not want to live in a world where astronauts are a monoculture, like they were in the past,” Waldman said. The first female space shuttle commander will speak at the GOP convention. Huh? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z
Nature is using its tools to repair the land by ridding it of this nonnative, poorly adapted monoculture of vines. The inconveniences of living near a vineyard 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
The vast worldwide monoculture of genetically identical plants leaves the Cavendish intensely vulnerable to disease outbreaks. The banana as we know it is in imminent danger 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z
By a description in the journal Nature, “a diverse tidal wonderland became a black monoculture of mussels.” Bob Paine, ecologist who identified ‘keystone’ species, dies at 83 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z
The Democratic Party’s cautious monoculture had nothing to invoke as standards for subsequent political decision-making. Ralph Nader to Bernie Sanders: 'It Ain't Over Til It's Over' 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z
And here’s the wonderful rub: Europe is not a monoculture. Dear Britain: Elena Ferrante, Slavoj Žižek and other European writers on Brexit 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z
A global science body set up to assess the ecological health and biodiversity of the planet is struggling to solve its own lack of diversity: a monoculture of natural scientists on its staff. Major biodiversity panel desperately seeks social scientists 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z
If there’s a lesson to be learned from the sad history of Gros Michel, it’s that reliance on a large and genetically uniform monoculture is a risky strategy that is prone to failure. The banana as we know it is in imminent danger 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z
Van Aken started the project as a way of trying to avoid “massive monocultures” of foods he was discovering. Van Aken’s ‘Tree of 40 Fruits’ planted in southern Indiana 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z
The burning of rainforests for monoculture production sends out killing smog-palls that settle into the sediment across entire countries. Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z
Maybe the monoculture continues on, unabated, outside us, while we peek at it through tiny holes in our self-built huts. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z
This is true in most cases of reforestation, particularly if a mixture of native trees is planted or re-planted, rather than an exotic monoculture. Emissions reduction: Scrutinize CO2 removal methods
But the trees tend to be grown as a monoculture and sprayed with pesticides, limiting biodiversity. Should you rent your Christmas tree? - BBC News 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z
It’s that danger of becoming a monoculture, where everything is Disneyfied. In media universe, the force is strongest with Disney, Universal 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z
If you think diversity means political correctness, consider its opposite - groupthink and monoculture, says Mr Carver. VW and the never-ending cycle of corporate scandals - BBC News 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z
Laberge too was skeptical of the monoculture that dominated fusion science. Inside the Quest for Fusion, Clean Energy’s Holy Grail 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z
Ideally, customers should demand more varieties to break the monoculture, he says. Are Bananas Really Worth the Calories? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
European regulators worry about a “monoculture” in which watchdogs in effect steer lending to favoured types of borrower. Whose model is it anyway? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
For example, in Venezuela, when he sees the effects of monoculture and deforestation, he talks about harmful, human-induced climate change. Why Is the Man Who Predicted Climate Change Forgotten? 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z
The team sees the entire project as fitting in with the greater revival of the Hamakua coast, as small-scale farming moves in where plantation monoculture once dominated. Reviving history: Papaaloa store reopens 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z
U.S. and Cuban stakeholders should remain wary of anything that hints at a new economic monoculture to support tourism at the expense of sustainable, equitable internal development. What the U.S. and Cuba Can Learn From the Past 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z
“The monoculture turns forests into factories, and means that bananas are very susceptible to disease, requiring lots of damaging pesticides to sustain the crop,” he says. Are Bananas Really Worth the Calories? 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z
Or, for most of us, in the monoculture of our digital universe: Google. Right to be forgotten: Swiss cheese internet, or database of ruin? 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z
He saw what happened in European colonies where cash crops and monoculture destroyed the forests, creating soil erosion. Why Is the Man Who Predicted Climate Change Forgotten? 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z
The diagnosis includes changing patterns of marine and freshwater flows, but is primarily eutrophication - an overload of nitrogen-heavy nutrients pouring into the waterway, causing large sections to become a monoculture of nuisance algae. River, bay in Connecticut ‘sick’ from ‘nuisance’ algae 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z
Ireland’s population was decimated by the effect of monoculture during the potato famine. Another ‘Too Big to Fail’ System in G.M.O.s 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z
It’s a deliberate throwback to the monoculture of old radio, before audience fragmentation and well before on-demand streaming services. Apple didn’t reinvent radio. It went back to the basics. 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z
In an organization the size of JPL, achieving a technological monoculture is incredibly unlikely. OpenStack Gathers The Faithful 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z
Modernized farms needed access to millions of bees to pollinate vast monocultures, but only for short periods of time. The beeline : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z
Honeybees' health may also suffer from the low pollen diversity found in crop monocultures. Entomology: The bee-all and end-all : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z
There’s no one factor causing these die-offs — pesticides are almost certainly playing a role, but so too are the acres upon acres of monocultures that have supplanted honeybee habitats, along with parasites and disease. Here’s how the White House plans to save our imperiled honeybees 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z
It’s not good, he said, to have a monoculture. Ex-Army Corps commander undertakes tree-planting project 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z
The researchers surveyed previous studies and found that conversion of forest to rubber monoculture significantly decreases the number of bird, bat, and insect species. The tires on your car threaten Asian biodiversity 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z
It defies individual resistance, creates big winners and big losers, and tends toward global monoculture—the extinction of difference at the species level, a monoculture of agenda at the institutional level. Climate Change vs. Conservation 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z
The losers are nations that are oil monocultures, and businesses or policies everywhere anchored in expensive oil. Peak Oil Price? Winners And Losers At The End Of The Era of The $100 Barrel 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z
"My suggestion to government is that it needs to diversify its source of income and do away with a monoculture economy," says Mr Kyaure before answering a query about a price. How oil prices have upset Nigeria's women 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z
Unlike large plantations which are monocultures, small farmers often plant several different species of staple crops, like potatoes, improving the resilience of their food and increasing its diversity. Small farmers hold the key to seed diversity: researchers 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z
But rubber yields are lower than in monoculture plantations where rubber trees completely supplant original trees and shrubs. The tires on your car threaten Asian biodiversity 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z
Dr Horst’s other clever idea is to use not an algal monoculture, but rather an entire miniature ecosystem of his own creation. Strange brew 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z
Many maintain that classic Green Revolution strategies to increase productivity through high-yielding monocultures are the best solutions to food security. Solving Hunger in Ethiopia by Turning to Native Crops
It's a monoculture, and I had been living in a diverse urban neighborhood for 18 years prior to moving there. Greek Letters at a Price 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z
"How many resources are going to monocultures and how many are going to diversifying food production systems?" Small farmers hold the key to seed diversity: researchers 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z
If we weigh “evidence” by the pound or the page, we risk moving toward a monoculture of C.B.T., a result I would consider unfortunate, since there are many ways to influence people for the better. Why Doctors Need Stories 2014-10-18T04:00:00Z
Because mobile isn’t an operating systems monoculture as the desktop was, stealing logins is now the simplest avenue for many hackers. After Snapchat and Dropbox, it's time to realise that the modern web is hostile 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z
These monocultures were then maintained with irrigation, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and sometimes tractors and other machinery. Solving Hunger in Ethiopia by Turning to Native Crops
Coffee in the sun; consumers in the dark Jha said shade farms far outlive their peers, existing in some places for hundreds of years, while monoculture sun farms exhaust their soil resources after mere decades. How Green Is Your Coffee? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z
If you grow such plants as a monoculture, there won’t be enough food to support wild pollinators year round. Einstein And The Bees. Should You Worry? 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z
The reed is rarely the monoculture it is accused of being. Phragmites: A Fluffy Path to Global Rule 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z
Williams observed, “a monoculture precludes a diversity of thought and creates an inbred ecosystem.” Should Your Health App Be Culturally Sensitive? 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z
Reclaimed land was turned into monoculture “polders” for grazing cattle. Polder and wiser 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z
The draft, marked as sensitive, added that: "Left unchecked, it would confine schoolchildren within an intolerant, inward-looking monoculture that would severely inhibit their participation in the life of modern Britain". Leaked report reveals 'aggressive Islamist agenda' in Birmingham schools 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z
The reason is a rapidly disappearing habitat, since vast swathes of lowland forest are being cleared – legally and not – for commercial monoculture cultivation, particularly palm oil. Five Species That Are Quietly Dying Off While Nobody Pays Attention 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z
In the monoculture that comics supposedly inhabit, feminism is a pejorative, and it conjures up visions of man-hating womyn who'd love nothing better than to castrate the baby men who live in their mom's basements. Wonder Woman's feminism matters. So why would the comic industry reject it? 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z
They created a parallel universe, a republic of opulence, to counter the boot-to-the-guts monoculture of conservative Britain. Choose life! Why video games could do with a 1980s' touch 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z
Well, first there's the aforementioned monoculture problem: a significant proportion of the world's computers – in both businesses and homes – are running an elderly operating system that is vulnerable to hacking. Still running Windows XP? That's the way Bill Gates planned it 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z
In 2013 these massive monocultures occupied some twenty million acres of land — an area about three times the size of Massachusetts. Your morning routine is destroying the environment 2014-05-04T20:00:00Z
And what they want to do is plant on marginal soil that has been damaged by tobacco monoculture and/or coal mining. Why America’s fired up about hemp 2014-04-19T20:00:00Z
Many organic foods are industrially farmed, using monoculture and unsustainable farming practices as well, and these practices are just as harmful to food security as when they’re used on GMO crops. GMO Labeling Debate Follow-up 2013-11-11T23:15:00.780Z
Vázquez says the dangers of today’s agave monoculture are more than agricultural or even environmental. The Tequila Curse 2013-10-17T23:54:14Z
The Microsoft monoculture presented hackers and other malefactors with a colossal and lucrative target. Still running Windows XP? That's the way Bill Gates planned it 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z
Organic farming can be done using monoculture, with heavy pesticide use and in unsustainable ways. Variolation, Aviation, and Genetic Modification: Progress in the Face of Fear and Danger 2013-10-17T14:45:06.717Z
That would also ensure production of locally consumed staples rather than encouraging "monoculture," or production of single crops like soy, for export markets, Oxfam says. Cargill may have broken law over Colombia land buying: Oxfam 2013-09-27T04:11:38Z
If the concern is monoculture, or if you want to promote no-till agriculture, let’s pass laws or subsidies addressing THAT. GMO Labeling Debate Follow-up 2013-11-11T23:15:00.780Z
In the United States, antiquated federal policies subsidize the overproduction of a small number of crops — primarily maize, rice, soybean, wheat and cotton — and incentivize monoculture farms. Perspectives: Legislating change 2013-09-25T21:50:47.057Z
Of course, that was before we replaced so much diverse habitat with monoculture. The Mind-Boggling Math of Migratory Beekeeping 2013-09-12T14:16:20.567Z
Suggested measures include investing intensively in mixed agricultural systems, and abandoning the practice of monoculture. Brazil Faces Drop in Crop Productivity 2013-09-03T22:45:00.840Z
The massive mat of monoculture rolled across the U.S.—vast adjacent fields, each consisting of a single crop—is a relatively new kind of man-made ecosystem that has replaced much more diverse wild habitat. Farming a Toxin To Protect Crops, Pollinators and People 2013-09-03T12:45:00.583Z
Putin is building a political monoculture that will make Russia the lowest of low imagination-enabling countries. Op-Ed Columnist: Obama, Snowden and Putin 2013-08-14T01:13:20Z
Maize monoculture degrades soil so it requires more inputs, particularly nitrogenous fertilizer. Perspectives: Legislating change 2013-09-25T21:50:47.057Z
The problem isn't pesticides, or GMO foods, or monoculture or shipping bees all over the country and feeding them high-fructose corn syrup, it's a combination of all of these things. Wild Bees Won't Survive in a Human-Dominant World 2013-08-11T16:50:29Z
Around 9,000 families a year in a nation of fewer than 7 million people migrate from the countryside to cities because of soy monoculture, according to BaseIS, an Asunción-based social research center. Paraguay's Rural Farmers Fear the Spread of Soy 2013-08-11T05:05:24Z
Many of the world's soils are losing nutrients, and with the rise of monocultures, and loss of fruit and vegetable varieties, our fresh food contains less 'goodness' than 50 years ago, some experts say. The rise of 'superfoods' 2013-08-09T16:08:53Z
His thesis is simple: the soaring costs of warfare led to the increasingly punitive taxation of farmers who were trapped growing cereal monocultures vulnerable to the cold springs and cool, wet summers. Summer books 2013-07-11T15:50:23.720Z
Honey bees and monoculture: nothing to dance about Matina Donaldson-Matasci is a postdoctoral researcher studying social insect behavior at the University of Arizona. Honey bees and monoculture: nothing to dance about 2013-06-07T13:45:00.287Z
We are finding that the sites are becoming a monoculture and certain species are becoming harder and harder to spot. European shrub threatens US frogs 2013-05-13T08:04:10Z
"Dependence on one supplier" is the new monoculture. Boot up: Bitcoin gaming, Android leads tablets, a year offline, and more 2013-05-03T07:30:00Z
Here's a rundown of the event: A passionate argument about the need for a plurality of browsers and the dangers of a WebKit monoculture. State of the Browser 2013: conference writeup 2013-04-23T14:16:34Z
Rob Knight: Biofuels will be made from complex and robust communities of microbes rather than the monocultures that we attempt to use today. Ten Predictions for the Future of Your (Microbial) Health 2013-03-19T12:45:03.283Z
That leaves us with a less diverse American agricultural landscape, with even more land devoted to corn monocultures. It s Time to Rethink America s Corn System 2013-03-05T15:45:00.580Z
Alternatively, I wondered whether some might be preadapted to colonize and persist in another open habitat, albeit one with a monoculture of soy, or on cattle ranches where the grass was cropped to the ground. Can Endangered Animals Coexist with Big Ag? [Excerpt] 2013-02-22T19:15:00.507Z
The Irish were often left with land that lacked adequate topsoil and key nutrients and supported only the monoculture of potatoes. Your Next Vacation: Quarantine on Grosse le 2013-02-04T15:45:00.257Z
If you become a monoculture, you are at great risk of perishing. Alpha males and adventurous human females : gender and synthetic genomics 2013-01-23T01:15:05.200Z
The “monoculture” of money released by banks all interconnected to each other and all vulnerable to the same things makes real resilience impossible, Lietar contends. The Real Deal With Davos 2013-01-22T20:44:00Z
Given enough time, most massive monocultures fail, often spectacularly. It s Time to Rethink America s Corn System 2013-03-05T15:45:00.580Z
The point is that land once converted to agriculture will likely never go back to native vegetation but rather will be converted to the next big monoculture. Can Endangered Animals Coexist with Big Ag? [Excerpt] 2013-02-22T19:15:00.507Z
Within a year, the total number of species had halved: a diverse tidal wonderland became a black monoculture of mussels. The Man Whose Dynasty Changed Ecology 2013-01-16T18:15:00.270Z
As supermarkets tend to favour big suppliers – factory farms and large acreage monocultures over smaller and more diverse suppliers – they help to create conditions where the economics for the latter just can't stack up. How best can the government curb supermarkets' power? 2012-11-26T12:51:55Z
But among the biggest challenges is the monoculture of the computer “ecosystem” of desktop, servers and networks, he said. Profiles in Science Peter G. Neumann: Rethinking the Computer at 80 2012-10-29T19:17:51Z
A more resilient agricultural system would start by diversifying our crops, shifting some of the corn monoculture to a landscape rich with a variety of crops, pastures and prairies. It s Time to Rethink America s Corn System 2013-03-05T15:45:00.580Z
Farming surplus land will also require a departure from long-standing practices of industrialized monoculture farming, according to the study. Growing Biofuels on "Surplus" Land May Be Harder than Estimated 2012-10-19T15:45:01.700Z
In short, he says, the tendency of the Internet toward openness will eventually pave the way to a “very rich and varied ecosystem,” rather than the current social media monocultures. What Will the Internet Look Like in 5 Years? 2012-07-27T16:03:16Z
If circumstances require a change of direction, the monoculture at the top of VW may react slowly. Volkswagen: VW conquers the world 2012-07-05T15:28:41Z
The grey monoculture of state communism, once the west's great fear, has been replaced by a gaudy monoculture. Barbaric Sport by Marc Perelman, translated by John Howe - review 2012-06-22T07:00:02Z
As a large monoculture, it is a vulnerable house of cards, precariously perched on publicly funded subsidies. It s Time to Rethink America s Corn System 2013-03-05T15:45:00.580Z
But resiliency has little practical meaning when talking about the spread of urbanization, monocultures in agriculture, large–scale destruction of the Amazon, or projects such as the Alberta Tar Sands development. Dot Earth Blog: Critic of Conservation Efforts Gets Critiqued 2012-04-10T17:29:52Z
“We don’t want to create new monocultures,” said Sheila Karpf, legislative and policy analyst for the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington. Tackling the Riddle of Putting a Zebra in Your Tank 2012-01-09T22:42:37Z
"A lot of times, when a plant or animal wants to migrate, it runs into a monoculture agricultural zone, or it runs into a city," he said. Changing Climate Will Make Massive Shifts in Earth's Vegetation 2011-12-16T17:15:00.253Z
The students seem to be aware that when a scientific discipline suppresses diversity, it can succumb to groupthink just as easily as an ecological monoculture can succumb to disease. Letters: Letters: Economics and Ideology 2011-12-10T19:50:06Z
There's another crucial difference from California: in Winfree's study area most farmers plant a variety of crops rather than monocultures. The Pollinator Crisis: What's Best for Bees? 2011-11-09T21:45:04.113Z
In China, 'forest' includes uncut primary forest, regenerating natural forest and monoculture plantations of non-native trees. China's new forests aren't as green as they seem 2011-09-21T17:20:02.833Z
I thought Wilcox’s defense of GMOs on ecological grounds was especially odd given that twice earlier in the essay she acknowledges organic agriculture’s value in reducing crop monocultures. Myths: Busted - Clearing Up the Misunderstandings about Organic Farming 2011-08-15T12:45:12.733Z
What concerns me most about any company hocking seeds is the practice of monoculture. Monsanto ? the black stain on the biotech industry 2011-08-11T10:00:00Z
About 20 million hectares of the developing world is now planted with this monoculture. Agriculture: The wheat stalker 2011-06-29T17:20:50.097Z
Vast monocultures — such as the almond orchards of central California and the soybean fields of Argentina — bloom for only three or four weeks each season, offering no food for bees the rest of the time. The Pollinator Crisis: What's Best for Bees? 2011-11-09T21:45:04.113Z
Plantation monocultures harbour little diversity; they provide almost no habitat for the country's many threatened forest species. China's new forests aren't as green as they seem 2011-09-21T17:20:02.833Z
I keep hearing organic proponents talk about this as the classic case of monoculture gone awry. Myths: Busted - Clearing Up the Misunderstandings about Organic Farming 2011-08-15T12:45:12.733Z
But is the support for the cocoa crop tying the farmers into a single crop, monoculture? Chocolate high 2011-03-07T07:54:34Z
Bananas, cacao and bee-pollinated crops are all threatened with collapse in part because of their monoculture management. Can ecological models explain global financial markets--and make them more stable? 2011-01-20T00:15:02.240Z
Federal subsidies now mostly reward large farms for planting monocultures of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice. A Political Wish List 2011-01-13T14:15:00.233Z
He was worried that the most intense production of pineapples is based in Costa Rica's flat Atlantic region where the humidity is highest and pests on the monoculture plantations are the most troublesome. Costa Rica will pay the price for cheap fruit 2010-10-04T13:21:00Z
This is absolute monoculture, and that and the climate provide the perfect conditions for pests and diseases. Bitter fruit: The truth about supermarket pineapple 2010-10-01T23:04:00Z
Moderate and conservative views are common; a campus monoculture of liberalism is not. Crossroads County: Fewer Young Voters See Themselves as Democrats 2010-09-03T02:08:00Z
In some areas, like the Okinawa islands, damselfish engage in extensive weeding and maintain a monoculture of red algae in their beds. Observatory: Damselfish Cultivate Their Algae Gardens 2010-06-21T21:21:00Z
But another appeal of Hastings has been that it’s not an upscale monoculture but a diverse village, with working-class families who’ve been here for generations and newcomers staking their claim. Our Towns: Tax Revolt Over Schools in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 2010-03-11T05:00:00Z
A vast amount of land has been cleared for development, that is, cities and monoculture farms, so land based photosynthesis and transpiration must have significantly decreased. 2010-01-17T23:02:00Z
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