Promises to yield powerful genetic tools that could one day eliminate the disease from sub-Saharan Africa After 10 years of research, scientists have finally been able to understand the DNA... Read more
New management is needed for the planet’s most important common resource IN 1968 an American ecologist, Garrett Hardin, published an article entitled “The Tragedy of the Commons”. He argued... Read more
Groundwater extraction for aquaculture is making the land at China’s Yellow River delta sink, and that subsidence is causing local sea levels to rise incredibly rapidly Groundwater ext... Read more
For the first time, the public has been treated to the spectacle of lab-grown meat cooked and eaten via live Webcast. Backed by Google billionaire Sergey Brin, Dutch tissue engineer Mark Pos... Read more
There has been a lot of press, both positive and negative, about a recent United Nations report in which scientists recommended that we start eating insects to fight world hunger. But the ot... Read more
The accelerating disappearance of Earth’s species of both wild and domesticated plants and animals constitutes a fundamental threat to the well-being and even the survival of humankind... Read more
Attention, steak eaters: We are nearing a livestock crisis. With the planet expected to add another 2 billion people by 2050, it will be more difficult and more expensive than ever to keep e... Read more
Securing the critical contribution of wild fish stocks to food and nutrition security in the developing world depends on better governance and management of the fisheries sector. Fish is a k... Read more
Large fish traps in the Persian Gulf could be catching up to six times more fish than what’s being officially reported, according to the first investigation of fish catches from space conduc... Read more
It found that 25 percent of the world’s land is now “highly degraded,” The United Nations has completed its first global assessment of the state of the planet’s land... Read more
It is not unusual for visionaries to be impassioned, if not fanatical, and Willem van Eelen is no exception. At 87, van Eelen can look back on an extraordinary life. He was born in Indonesi... Read more
A crop-yield analysis reveals that warming temperatures have already diminished the rate of production growth for major cereal crop harvests during the past three decades. The people of the... Read more
Food prices are soaring to record levels, threatening many developing countries with mass hunger and political instability. Finance ministers of the Group of 20 leading economies discussed t... Read more
Image via Wikipedia GM Crops Recommended as Key Part of Obama’s “Evergreen Revolution” A former Agriculture Department chief scientist weighs in on President Obama’s... Read more
