agroforestry, rarities, homogenisation

BBC Future

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There has been a resurgence of interest in agroforestry. 🌳

While growing crops under the canopy may not feed the world, it can help save forests from the axe.

BBC.COM

How farming in forests could sustain the planet

No one wants to see English submit to boring homogenisation. Using a few lexical rarities might offer some respair

The smaller and more local a word, the more danger it faces of dying out

How to keep lexical treasures from keeling over

ECONOMIST.COM

Richard Strauss and Dresden, a Bond Unbroken

By REBECCA SCHMID

To mark the 150th birthday of the German composer, the Staatskapelle orchestra is playing a major program of his works, including some rarities.