Brazilian researchers and collaborators found that Beauveria caledonica can be used for biological control of banana borers and Fusarium wilt, which are serious threats to a tropical and subtropical crop of the highest economic importance. The soil fungus supplements traditional banana plantation management strategies.

With a new NSF grant, a paleontologist at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum will see if a 3-million-year-old fossil record can predict the fate of mollusks in the Western Atlantic as climate change intensifies.

According to the article, Brazil has had more success than any other country with the use of biofertilizer to provide nitrogen for soybeans. The inoculation of microorganisms into the soil boosts yields, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and saves some USD 10 billion per year in imports of synthetic fertilizer.

Incremental change has not slowed the pace of the climate crisis. For researchers working with some of the hardest hit farmers in low- and middle-income countries, radical, transformative action is needed to speed up change