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Desert Grassland Restoration: Using Cattle to Stop Erosion

  • Chris Gill

Chris Gill

21 Mar 2016
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Second in a series on “animal impact”, this video shows cows being used to re-grow grass in deadspots, and how cows can help stop erosion by healing gully headcuts.

Animal Impact Made Easy #2 from Christopher Gill on Vimeo.

Sounds Emitted by Plants Under Stress Are Airborne and Informative

Sounds Emitted by Plants Under Stress Are Airborne and Informative

Scientists have discovered that stressed plants emit ultrasonic sounds that reveal when they're thirsty or injured. The findings could transform agriculture by enabling farmers to detect crop stress earlier while deepening our understanding of how plants interact with the world around them.
10 Sep 2026 1 min read
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Peculiar Plant Could Help Us Reconstruct Ancient Earth’s Climate

Ancient horsetail plants are helping scientists unlock Earth's distant climate history. Their extraordinary ability to concentrate water isotopes offers a new window into prehistoric humidity, water cycles, and ecosystems dating back hundreds of millions of years.
09 Sep 2026 3 min read
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Restoring Biodiversity - 9/8/2026

Invasive species overwhelm islands. Water law locks scarce resources into old patterns. And forests deprived of fire begin losing the very biodiversity we thought we were protecting.
08 Sep 2026 3 min read
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