There's an interesting piece over at National Review concerning a (quite possibly illegal) iron fertilisation experiment that was done off the west coast a couple of years back. It certainly seems to ...

German-American research team traces the origin. Plants absorb not only nutrients but also toxic metals such as cadmium ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Next summer, if all goes to plan, shiploads of iron-rich dust will be distributed over the Pacific Ocean off the ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

Prof Richard Betts is head of climate impacts research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and chair in climate impacts at the University of Exeter. But while the general principles of CO 2 fertilisation ...

Fertilisation might sound like a science class topic. But even if you haven’t thought much about it, a lot is happening inside your body long before a pregnancy test could show any result. Your eggs ...

Mature ova are released from the ovary into the oviduct where they may be fertilised by sperm to form a zygote. In humans, fertilisation happens inside the woman’s body. This is a process called ...

Sperm unexpectedly inject RNA into the eggs they fertilise, possibly kickstarting crucial development of the embryo, suggests a study of human sperm. The discovery overthrows conventional assumptions ...