biodiversity Rare small water frog is the amphibian of the year 2023 The small water frog has been named "Lurch of the Year" by the German Society for Herpetology and Terrarium Science (DGHT). photo © Axel Kwet/DGHT/dpa Small amphibian, big award: little is known about the small edible frog. And it's difficult to pinpoint. That got the experts on the scene. The small edible frog is rare, little researched - and next year it is also the amphibian of the...
myth or true? Today is Dormouse Day - what this old farmer's saying means for the weather "If the edible dormice is wet, it rains non-stop," says an old farmer's saying. The hit rate for this day is not even particularly high. © Ralf Hirschberger / DPA 06/27/2022, 10:18 am 3 min reading time June 27th is Dormouse Day. Friends of farmer's rules pay particular attention to the weather on this day. This day is not even that important for...
Status: 05/30/2022 08:12 a.m German farmers expect a good rapeseed harvest. Because of the consequences of the Ukraine war, prices have skyrocketed at the same time. Edible oils are scarce in some places. How are producers reacting to this? Germany glows yellow - rapeseed fields as far as the eye can see, almost 46,000 hectares in Hesse alone. In the middle of the Hessian granary, the Wetterau, farmer Jan-Peter Loth cultivates 200 hectares of it. His harvest promises to be...
Status: 04/25/2022 2:26 p.m Indonesia halts palm oil exports This should cause the price of cooking oil to continue to rise. Other products such as ice cream, baked goods, pizza or chocolate could also become more expensive. With an export stop for palm oil, Indonesia, as the world's largest producer of the coveted vegetable raw material, wants to combat shortages and rising prices in its own country. The export ban should come into force next Thursday, announced President Joko Widodo....
Squatting in the greenery, Margaux and Charline patiently pick up, one by one, the many sage flowers that embellish this little corner of greenery. “Taste! It has a sweet taste, ”says Margaux. Under the tooth, the flower releases delicate aromas, which make you forget, for a moment... that you are in Marseille, on a roundabout of L'Europe Marcel-Brion in the 10th arrondissement, stuck between a nearby bus and the highway below.For the past three years, two to three times a...
Based on Bite Attack "Holy ears!": Mike Tyson launches edible ears The moment Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield's ear in the fight. Today, Tyson sells ear bites containing cannabis extracts © star combo Jack Smith/Instagram/miketyson / Picture Alliance 03/16/2022 2:34 p.m 2 min reading time Nearly 24 years ago, Mike Tyson bit off a piece of the ear of then heavyweight world champion Evander Holyfield in a fight in Las Vegas. Now the former boxing pro has used the...
Status: 02/21/2022 09:32 a.m Organic raw materials from canteens and gastronomy: The British group BP starts the production of its more sustainable aviation fuel in Emsland. Among other things, used fats are used. The British mineral oil and energy company BP is now producing aircraft fuel in Emsland with a small proportion of cooking fat residues. The organic raw materials come from canteens or catering establishments, for example. A spokesman explained that it is about used and leftover fats and...
You have to see it to believe it, as Saint-Thomas could have said. Near Place Viarme in Nantes, a strange activity of growing edible mushrooms has been set up for a year now in the Martray chapel. Behind plastic curtains, on rolling shelves glued to each other, myriads of small shiitake trees grow on hundreds of clear substrate blocks. Knife in hand, Romain Redais, co-creator of the Urban mushroom (with Camille May), detaches one by one these fleshy and fragrant...
