The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be
As people's incomes increase, they tend to switch from "starchy staples" such as grains, potatoes and roots to meat ...
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The Floods, the Farms, and the River That Roared Back
Those words aptly describe the scene I encountered in January, some 70 years after the novel was published. Drought ...
The Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Has a Troubling Twist
published a report The United Nations said today that we are ignoring a major part of the superbug problem: ...
The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Spain’s Saffron Crop
While this small-scale, low-tech approach may have kept saffron production alive over the past few decades, it has also ...
Crispr Wants to Feed the World
ten years later Its discovery, the implications of Crispr genome editing are profound and far-reaching, and we're only just ...
The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem
scientists have Point to the "broken" phosphorus cycle for more than a decade: Humans have unearthed vast amounts of ...
Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
4 am One morning last October, animal rights activist Raven Deerbrook was sitting in bed in a cheap hotel ...
Why Non-Farmers Should Care About John Deere’s Repair Memo
tractor company John Deere has faced a lot of criticism for its tight control over its products. If anyone ...
Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
Deere's new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can order or purchase tools, ...
The Food Chain Should Be a Food Circle
During 2020 In the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns about food supplies are running high. This has prompted ...
