But significant cuts in Lake Erie's phosphorus levels could be achieved with different fertilizing techniques, the scientists said.

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Maybe they don't want a lawn that does not need mowing, watering, and fertilizing like a regular lawn.

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The male's sole purpose seems to be fertilizing the female's eggs, Katz said.

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Kuan-Shu says the ducks cut down on pests such as golden apple snails while fertilizing the rice with their droppings.

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He wades through the rows of fruit-laden plants, which smell faintly of chocolate thanks to the ground cocoa husks fertilizing the soil.

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The answer is that the mutation probably makes the worms breed as self-fertilizing hermaphrodites, rather than as males, so it thrives, selfishly, even as its owner suffers.

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Then farmers can correlate that information with the weather, their fertilizing patterns, seed varieties and they can come up with some predictive analytics on how to improve crop yields.

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Bolstered by increasing soil moisture, longer growing seasons, warmer winters, and the fertilizing effects of more atmospheric carbon dioxide, crop production continues its long and impressive run of ever-increasing yields as global temperatures warm.

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In Shawano (pronounced SHAW-NO), where a dam prevents the fish from going any farther, the water along shore was thick with flapping fins, as groups of males swarmed around each female, forcing the eggs out of her body and then fertilizing them.

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