Environment

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced approval of the first two nonbrowning apple varieties, Arctic Golden and Arctic Granny apples…

Cute, clever, incorrect. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations's Forest Resource Assessment for 2005 used the word "alarming" 20 times to describe the trend lines for…

New research has identified the mechanism used by plants in stress conditions to sense low oxygen levels - and scientists then used that knowledge and advanced breeding techniques to reduce yield…

Trilemma - a quandary posed by three alternative courses of action. “Agriculture is having increasingly strong global impact on both the environment and human health, often driven by dietary changes…

There are concerns about climate emissions because of resistance to clean technologies like nuclear power that have led to increased use of coal. Solar power will be the best solution in the future,…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska has been a center of debate on the trade-offs between environmental protection and oil drilling for decades. Alaska Region US Fish&Wildlife Service,…

Peak Oil, which was supposed to have happened in 1992, set off the craze of declaring 'peak' everything, to such an extent it is a running joke now.(1) The good news for Peak Oil believers is that…

Put innovative farming techniques in the right hands. CGIAR Climate, CC BY-NC-SA By Sayed Azam-Ali, University of Nottingham Africa will be able to feed itself in the next 15 years. That’s one of…

There are tens of thousands of human-made chemicals circulating today and some have been bad despite studies that didn't initially find harm, yet almost every chemical is under siege by environmental…

Crops genetically engineered to produce proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) to control insect pests have been planted on a cumulative total of more than a billion acres worldwide…