National Geographic UK - 03.2020

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People have the wrong idea about what hap- pens when they drop clothes into a donation bin, Boer said; they think the clothes ar ...

was ending up in bins, as were nearly 400,000 tons of potatoes a year. In all, Britons were toss- ing one of every three bags of ...

The world’s largest indoor vertical farm, operated by Aerofarms at its headquarters in Newark, New Jersey, aims to raise vegetab ...

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In Prato, Italy, where wool cloth has been produc 3,500 companies employing 40,000 workers pro the wool is sorted by color, wash ...

ced since the 12th century, some ocess discarded textiles (above). After ded (below), it’s spun back into yarn. ecycled into new ...

cafeterias. “The most important thing for us is to make volume,” she said. “These kinds of places have a thousand people that ne ...

MATERIALS PRODUCTS SERVICES CONSUMER MINIMAL DUMPING AND POLLUTION CO M PO ST IN G AN D (^) M ICR OBI AL (^) D IGESTI ON RE PU R ...

fertilize the corn, I asked? Too expensive, was the answer—but if a plant like Nienhaus’s were there, only the nutrients would n ...

Luca Locatelli’s photos of Dutch agriculture in the September 2017 issue are on exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Se ...

THE SECRETS OF BEES A PHOTOGRAPHER’S EXPERIMENT WITH A WILD NEST YIELDS UNPRECEDENTED IMAGES SHOWING HOW THE INSECTS DEFEND THEM ...

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PREVIOUS PHOTO With tubular tongues, western honeybees in Langen, Germany, slurp up water to carry back to their nest, where it ...

Not from varroa mites, pesticides, colony collapse disorder, or any of the many other perils now facing honeybee populations acr ...

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At work These photos, which show a natural honey- bee nest, add clarity to the way honey bees live in the wild. Here, worker bee ...

Heated defense To guard their nest from predatory hornets, the bees go into a defensive stance at the entrance to the cavity. Th ...