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- 1Climate crisis affecting children's nutrition, report warns▼Climate crisis is affecting children's nutrition
New reporting highlights that the climate crisis is having a measurable impact on children's nutrition worldwide. Extreme weather, droughts and crop failures are disrupting food supplies, leaving children more vulnerable to malnutrition. Experts say the findings add urgency to calls for climate action and stronger food security policies to protect the youngest and most at-risk populations.
- 2New method decodes insect sexual communication for crop protection▼Crop protection: A new method for understanding insect sexual communication
Researchers have introduced a new method for understanding how insects communicate sexually, knowledge that could improve crop protection by disrupting pest mating. The announcement, reported by Phys.org, offers a research tool rather than a finished product, and could eventually support pest-control strategies such as mating disruption that reduce reliance on chemical insecticides.