A London museum says it has agreed to return to Nigeria artefacts looted in the 19th Century from the Kingdom of Benin. (Sunday August 7th, 2022 — BBC online)

Long before humans invented the internet, the trees and plants hand created their own web for communication between individuals and species. This may sound crazy, but there�s a lot of science to back this up. Trees and fungi are connected through a dizzyingly complex underground network. Welcome to the Wood Wide Web. (Sunday August 7th, 2022 — ZME Science)

Neuroscientist Julio C. Hechavarr�a [SS1] from the Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Goethe University and his team are investigating the brain activities associated with vocalisations in Seba�s short-tailed bat. (Friday August 5th, 2022 — EurekAlert!)

Very early. At the beginning of my career, when I was working in Tasmania (Australia), I met Bill Mollison, one of the designers of permaculture, like Masanobu Fukuoka. I was seduced by the idea of ​​an agriculture that respects ecosystems. When I returned to Champagne in 1994, permaculture was hardly practiced. The closest method turned out to be biodynamics, which has essentially the same objectives, but with a somewhat esoteric aspect which I do not necessarily adhere to. I went to taste the wines of Anne-Claude Leflaive, Dominique Lafon and Fleury, which I found very inspiring. These tastings convinced me to move in this direction. (Friday August 5th, 2022 — California18)

The 88 individual footprints were were discovered on a remote desert Air Force training site that was once a wetland (Thursday August 4th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

The Waldorf School of Baltimore (WSB) understands the key to education is human connection, with teachers at every level, known to go above and beyond to ensure their students feel supported, secure, and special. (Thursday August 4th, 2022 — Baltimore Fishbowl)

Seventeen-year-old Anika Puri created a machine-learning-driven model that analyzes the movement patterns of humans and elephants (Thursday August 4th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Biodynamic and other environment-friendly practices do not impact the flavor or taste of wines. These movements were born largely out of a desire to encourage environmental and social change. Hence, this factor fuels the demand for organic wine from consumers that are more concerned about environmental health and from consumers who believe that biodynamic wines are better and cause less-intense hangovers. (Wednesday August 3rd, 2022 — Digital Journal)

�The residential house will enable us to open our doors to even more young people who are in desperate need of our services and support. While Murtle Market will provide meaningful training and work opportunities for 54 young people aged 16 to 25 who have complex additional support needs. (Tuesday August 2nd, 2022 — Aberdeen Live)

�We carefully tend our member�s plots but encourage them to come here to cultivate their land and gather their own produce so that they can enjoy having contact with nature,� says Eleni Apergi. �We can advise them on how to farm their produce, and they are free to use whatever farming methods they choose, such as Biodynamic farming, for example � as long as it�s organic. (Monday August 1st, 2022 — Greek City Times)

Regenerative farming practices have always been the cornerstone of biodynamic farming, but the practice is becoming increasingly organic as farmers recognize the essential role that soil, plants and animals play in keeping their farms healthy. and integrated into conventional agriculture. (Monday August 1st, 2022 — Eminetra Canada)

In hindsight, it is a fitting image for the 52-year-old. While his wines� black and gold label imposes old world grandeur, Duroux has been pushing innovation at the 207-year-old estate since taking charge in 2004. One of his greatest achievements was convincing his bosses to adopt biodynamic practices, an agricultural approach that priorities organic material, biodiversity, and often times lunar-based farming cycles. Since 2017, Ch�teau Palmer has been certified as fully biodynamic, and remains one of the handful of Bordeaux wineries that farm this way. (Friday July 29th, 2022 — Lifestyle Asia Hong Kong)

Better camera tracking and a crackdown on poaching have led to higher estimates of the top predator�s abundance (Friday July 29th, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

As I show in my new book, �The Mind of a Bee,� the latest research indicates that even tiny-brained bees are profoundly intelligent creatures that can memorize not only flowers but also human faces, solve problems by thinking rather than by trial and error, and learn to use tools by observing skilled bees. They even appear to experience basic emotions, or at least something like optimism and pessimism. (Friday July 29th, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)

Small, bug-like creatures can transfer pollen to red seaweed underwater (Friday July 29th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

With a commitment to preserving the environment and the pure quality of their terroir, they employ organic, biodynamic and ecological practices that in 2021 won an International Gold in Sustainable Practices at the 'Best of Wine Tourism' awards presented by the global network, Great Wine Capitals. (Thursday July 28th, 2022 — Jamaica Observer)

Standing here, in the Guadiana Valley of the Extremadura region in south-western Spain, I imagined how different this dusty and arid flatland would have appeared 2,500 years ago when it was a hub of trade and worship for Tartessos, a mysterious Iberian society that thrived between the 9th and 5th Centuries BCE � and then abruptly disappeared. (Thursday July 28th, 2022 — BBC online)

Born in Zofingen, Switzerland in 1925, Eva Aeppli grew up in Basel, where she studied anthroposophy under the field�s progenitor, Rudolf Steiner. Only by passing through the unique artistic universe of Eva Aeppli can a spectator come to understand how her work encompasses fictions that come to her in dreams, or the alternate states that she transmutes into her unique compositions, filling otherwise inanimate objects with life, and thereby situating them such that they never escape the omnipresence of death constantly present in Eva�s work. (Wednesday July 27th, 2022 — Whitehot Magazine)

Since 1988, Mumbulla School for Rudolf Steiner Education has been thoughtfully developing and enhancing their Bega campus. (Tuesday July 26th, 2022 — Bega District News)

The 560-million-year-old specimen, which was found in Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, is likely a forerunner of cnidaria - the group of species that today includes jellyfish. (Monday July 25th, 2022 — BBC online)