Monoculture
The agricultural practice of planting only one or two crops over large areas. In the United States, corn and soybean are the only crops grown on most farms in the central Midwest, while on...
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In the world, there are many types of natural cultures. The two main types are monoculture and polyculture. Monoculture is where a biome or habitat has only one dominant species, hence "mono." The ...
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Berlin (dpa) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic
Union (CDU) Tuesday outlined plans for a new party programme that
includes the controversial issue of a guidin...
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Coastal state forests are experiencing a resurgence in Swiss needle cast disease, a fungus that kills the evergreen needles on Douglas fir trees by interrupting the process of photosynthesis.Aerial...
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Rio de Janeiro (dpa) - As Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da
Silva on Friday ended a regional tour in Panama, it appeared his
efforts to convince his peers of the value...
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LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters) - The world's scarce resources are
being depleted at a wholly unsustainable rate despite urgent
warnings sounded two decades ago, the United Nations'
Environment Programme...
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Cloning and Biotech Progress
The recent FDA decision that meat from cloned animals is safe for human consumption seems logical enough. A protein is a protein. But even if we can eat such me...
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The beginning of President Bush's five-nation Latin American tour sparked protests across the region, with thousands of demonstrators and police clashing in Brazil and students in Colombia lobbing ...
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Jaen, Spain (dpa) The olive tree is both loved and respected In
many Mediterranean countries, but in the Spanish Andalusian region of
Jaen, it is held in such esteem ...
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Hong Kong (dpa) - As Chinese visitors flood in to Hong Kong for
the Lunar New Year holiday, the numbers tell a tale of unrivalled
tourism success: A city which has seen its ...
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Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise ...
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Robert Elmes spent the month of August in Berlin. He borrowed a spare bike from a friend, one of those antique-looking, function-over-form contraptions that many Berliners ride, so he could cruise ...
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Monoculture
Monoculture Vs. Polyculture
Merkel's party outlines plans for new political programme
