Tag: agriculture

As people’s incomes rise, they tend to switch from “starchy staples” like grains, potatoes, and roots to meat and dairy ...

Those words aptly describe the scene I encountered in January, some 70 years after the novel’s publication. Drought seemed a ...

While that small-scale, low-tech approach may have kept saffron production going over the past few decades, it has also left ...

Scientists have been pointing out the “broken” phosphorus cycle for more than a decade: Humanity has unearthed huge quantities of ...

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant ...

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce ...

This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As droughts, deteriorating farmland, and ...

Those calculations focus primarily on the emissions from heavy machinery and long-distance trucking and shipping. But Elizabeth Sawin, founder and ...

Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but we can work ...