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Brown stomach worms eat $2 billion worth of industry profits
2020-11-01 14:00:00| Beef
Identify and control the most economically important parasite in todays beef herds
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The double wonder of worms
2016-11-09 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Montreal, November 9, 2016 — In North America, a whopping 30 to 40 per cent of our residential waste is organic — biodegradable garbage that could be composted but is often sent to landfills. With governments like Quebec's looking to ban organic waste from landfills by 2020, we need to act fast to reduce the amount of food scraps we're throwing out. A study recently published in Waste Management by researchers from Concordia's Faculty of Arts and Science…
Crayfish and worms may die out together
2016-05-25 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Research suggests that bizarre, tentacled worms which live attached to crayfish in the rivers of Australia are at risk of extinction - because the crayfish themselves are endangered. It would be an example of coextinction, where one organism dies out because it depends on another doomed species. Just a few millimetres long, the worms eat even tinier critters in the water or inside the crayfish gill chamber. Their symbiotic relationship stretches back at least 80 million years. The new...
CLU Teams Up with 100 Pounds of Worms to Reduce Food Waste
2016-02-22 23:09:00| Waste Age
Ventura County Star California Lutheran University is teaming up with 100 pounds of worms to compost food waste from its dining hall. read more
Battling climate change - with worms and soil conservation
2015-12-06 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Nicolas Denieul plants his spade in the ground and turns over a clod of soil to reveal a mass of earthworms seething around plant roots fat ones and thin ones, delicate translucent violet and dark brown. "That is magnificent. Ten years ago, I never thought I'd see anything like that!" said Denieul, a cheerful French farmer, his hands full of earth in the biting wind. For 10 years ago, there were no worms roaming about his land, near the western city of Le Mans, where he grows wheat, corn and...
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