University of British Columbia

Twenty-five years ago, when almost every American farm and ranch organization was denying the existence of climate change, William E. Rees and a colleague developed a method to measure how much “nature” was required to support a people or an economy. They called that measurement an “ecological footprint.”

A new study indicates that insects like honey bees in many cases can do a better job of pollinating soybeans than the plants can do on their own.