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This year, animals of all shapes and sizes surprised us with amazing abilities we didn’t know they had. From powerlifting to walking on the underside of water, these are the creature capabilities that most impressed us in 2021.

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The global right has built a sentimental story around the South African white farmer. 

Over the past decade, agricultural innovation has often been framed as a clash of “old” versus “new”: chemistry versus biology, conventional inputs versus emerging alternatives.

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For the first 4 billion years of Earth’s existence, its continents were dusty, barren and rocky landscapes similar to the surface of Mars. But, around 500 million years ago, this all changed.

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The world’s largest solar photovoltaic farms give us an insight into how much acreage is required to produce meaningful amounts of electricity.

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Biomass energy includes biogas, liquid biofuels (biodiesel, ethanol, methanol, butanol), and solid biofuels (typically wood, but could be any solid burned to create energy from heat). Solid biofuels can be burned directly to create energy, but both biogas and liquid biofuels must go through a conversion process to become usable fuel.