Agriculture

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Even West Africans Who Don’t Catch Ebola Are Being Hurt By the Disease

Ebola’s toll is more than just a body count

October 20, 2014

Cool Finds

Instead of Growing Meat in a Lab, Why Not Make It Out of Plants?

“Plant blood” is the secret behind the I-can’t-believe-it-isn’t-meat company, Impossible Foods

October 10, 2014

New Research

Pollution From Hawaii Is Giving Sea Turtles Gross, Deadly Tumors

Nitrogen runoff gets into the turtles’ food and causes tumors on their faces, flippers and organs

October 2, 2014

Anthropocene

Six Weird Ways Humans Are Altering the Planet

From deep holes to flying sheep, some signs of human activity might really perplex geologists in the far future

September 30, 2014

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The USDA Approved a New GM Crop to Deal With Problems Created by the Old GM Crops

Weeds became resistant to the herbicide partner of older genetically modified crops

September 25, 2014

New Research

Once Mexico Had a Wealth of Corn; Now It’s Left With a Genetically Boring Monocrop

This lack of diversity does not bode well for food sustainability and economics in light of climate change

September 5, 2014

The Best and Worst Places to Build More Roads

Road works today are “basically chaos”—but a new global road map could be key to protecting agriculture and nature

August 27, 2014

New Research

Scientists Are Hacking Tomatoes To Make Them Keep Growing All Night Long

Geneticists are working to circumvent the tomato’s circadian rhythm

August 21, 2014

Art Meets Science

These Sculptures of Giant Tomatoes Are Ripe For the Picking

What physical traits do humans find desirable? Artist Jessica Rath looks in her grocery store’s produce section for answers

August 20, 2014

Google Thinks These 18 Teenagers Will Change the World

The global finalists of this year’s Google Science Fair take on cyberbullying countermeasures, tar sands cleanup and wearable tech

August 8, 2014

New Research

Fish Oil Could (One Day) Come From Plants

A field trial of genetically modified oilseed plants that can make fish oil hopes to help fish farming become more sustainable

August 5, 2014

Cool Finds

Japan’s Massive Indoor Farm Produces 10,000 Heads of Fresh Lettuce Every Day

The innovative farming solution could help cut down on food waste

July 23, 2014

New Research

Raising Beef Uses Ten Times More Resources Than Poultry, Dairy, Eggs or Pork

If you want to help the planet but can’t bring yourself to give up meat entirely, eliminating beef from your diet is the next-best thing

July 21, 2014

New Research

This New Carbon Capture Project Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Fish Food

A Norwegian project hopes to reduce both pollution and lessen pressure on krill stocks

July 17, 2014

Trending Today

People Really Need to Stop Bringing Giant African Land Snails Into the US

Sixty-seven baseball-sized giant African land snails were confiscated at the Los Angeles International Airport

July 16, 2014

New Research

The Ongoing Drought Will Cost California $2.2 Billion and 17,000 Jobs

California is facing its greatest water loss on record, and it’s not likely to get better any time soon

July 16, 2014

New Research

Popular Pesticides Linked to Drops in Bird Populations

This is the latest in a string of studies suggesting that some pesticides impact birds as well as pollinators

July 10, 2014

New Research

Mesopotamian Irrigation May Have Helped Out a Parasite That Now Infects 200 Million People

A parasite egg found in a grave in the Middle East gives scientists a window into how disease spread in prehistory

June 27, 2014

Cool Finds

Goats Evicted In Detroit

An attempt at urban farming runs afoul of city ordinances in Detroit

June 13, 2014

New Research

Europe Was Probably Colonized By Island Hoppers

New genetic research shows that people and agriculture likely spread across the Mediterranean by going from island to island

June 12, 2014