Spy Cams Reveal the Grim Reality of Slaughterhouse Gas Chambers
[ad_1] At 4 am one morning in October of last year, animal rights activist Raven Deerbrook sat on a bed in a cheap hotel in East Los Angeles, looking at…
This Seriously Hipster Bean Is Coffee’s Best Hope for Survival
[ad_1] But in the right hands, liberica can be a revelation. In 2016 Davis visited some coffee farmers in Uganda and tried a brew of their local beans. The taste…
Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
[ad_1] Deere’s new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can subscribe to or buy tools, software, and documentation from the company or its authorized…
Florida Is Fighting to Feed Starving Manatees This Winter
[ad_1] Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an…
The Food Chain Should Be a Food Circle
[ad_1] In 2020, during the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns around food supply were high. This prompted big changes to the way some food is produced: There was a…
Wine Is Getting Pricier Thanks to a Logistical Nightmare
[ad_1] A fine wine can be a lot of things: oaky, fruit-forward, maybe even chewy. But wines of recent vintage also have the bouquet of a logistical nightmare, due to…
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
[ad_1] In June, a vast new vertical farm opened on the outskirts of the English town Bedford. At a swanky opening event, members of the UK Parliament heard that the gleaming…
America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading
[ad_1] Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new saplings sprouting…
To Ditch Pesticides, Scientists Are Hacking Insects’ Sex Signals
[ad_1] Proving that this way of producing pheromones works, and that they’re effective, has taken almost a decade. “We are now looking at scaling up the process and introducing them…
Truffles Are Becoming Even More Expensive. Blame Climate Change
[ad_1] “The biggest finding that we had was that truffles were responding to these hot and dry summers,” says Steidinger. He and colleagues found that a temperature anomaly of just…
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
[ad_1] But even if the platforms’ accuracy improves, it’s hard to know whether they would be able to detect a completely new organism that scientists have never seen before. Richard…
This Ancient Grain-Sowing Method Could Be Farming’s Future
[ad_1] Today, Ethiopian farmers are feeling the pressure to grow modern monoculture crops, thanks in part to a national push to become an agricultural powerhouse. “If you export grains, you…
Sustainable Farming Has an Unlikely Ally: Satellites
[ad_1] The race to remove CO2 from our atmosphere is on. In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground. The top…
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
[ad_1] The autumn of 2013 was a stressful time for the Craten family, who live outside Phoenix, Arizona. In short order, three family members were diagnosed with the same type…
The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table
[ad_1] How can we feed the world sustainably? Right now, 325 million people are acutely hungry. 35 million Americans don’t know where their next meal will come from. The world’s…
Satellite Data Shows How Russia Has Destroyed Ukrainian Grain
[ad_1] Almost 10 million metric tons of Ukrainian grain has been affected by the Russian invasion, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery. One in six of Ukraine’s grain…
A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Grocery Aisles. Will the US Bite?
[ad_1] In December 2004, plant scientist Cathie Martin went to the greenhouse to check on her tomatoes. The tiny fruits, about the size of gumdrops, were still green. These miniature…
Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
[ad_1] There are some big caveats, however. Firstly, even if the European Commission does get its way, new regulations will apply only to gene-edited crops and not the kind of…
As the Planet Warms, Canada Faces an Influx of Climate Refugees
[ad_1] This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As droughts, deteriorating farmland, and rising sea levels push people around the world…
Rurbanization: It’s Time to Make Cities More Rural
[ad_1] Those calculations focus primarily on the emissions from heavy machinery and long-distance trucking and shipping. But Elizabeth Sawin, founder and director of the Multisolving Institute, which promotes interventions that…
How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply
[ad_1] Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s…
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers
[ad_1] If crops could feel envy, it’d be for legumes. Bean plants have a superpower. Or more accurately, they share one. They’ve developed symbiotic relationships with bacteria that process atmospheric…
How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture
[ad_1] Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but we can work through that,” Lloyd Wright, a retired farmer and former…
Extreme Heat Is Becoming More Dangerous for Farmworkers
[ad_1] And it’s only going to get worse. In a 2020 paper, University of Washington researchers calculated that the average number of “days spent working in unsafe conditions” due to…
Plant-Based Burgers Aren’t Denting People’s Beef Addiction
[ad_1] Another way to figure out the impact plant-based meats are having is to look at how price changes impact the demand for various kinds of meat. A study of…