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Food prices: Cutting biofuels could compensate for loss of Ukraine’s grain exports

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By Michael Le Page A wheat field in Ukraine Maksym Belchenko/Getty Images The war in Ukraine has already caused food prices to shoot up as global markets anticipate a loss of wheat and maize exports from one of the world’s largest producers of these crops. But Europe and the US could more than compensate for … Read more

World’s smallest snail: Newly discovered land snail could fit inside a grain of sand

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By Chris Simms Angustopila psammion is the smallest known land snail Contributions to Zoology 2022 A newly discovered snail species is the smallest yet found on land. Angustopila psammion, discovered in cave sediment in northern Vietnam, has a shell just 0.48 millimetres high and a shell volume of only 0.036 cubic millimetres. This makes the … Read more