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A rebuilt global crop model puts the wheat lost to drought at 9.7% of yield on average, the loss to heatwaves at 5.8%, and the loss in seasons when heat and drought arrive together at 13.3%. Yuchuan…
The Food and Drug Administration closed its outbreak investigation into recalled iceberg lettuce on Oct. 2 and reported that two of the samples it collected in Mexico tested positive for Cyclospora,…
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Animal and Plant Health Agency have confirmed 2,485 cases of bluetongue in the UK in the 2026 to 2027 season, more than the three…
The American West is answering two problems on the same ground, and the two answers have been drawn up separately. There is not enough water, so farmland is taken out of production. Fire keeps…
Extreme cold days in China's rice-growing regions roughly doubled in frequency over the past two decades, and the cold cut the national rice yield by about 5%, according to a study published Sept.…
Farmers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh who enrolled in government-supported agroforestry programs planted 89% more commercial trees than those who did not, according to a peer-reviewed,…
Researchers at Nanjing University report that China's long shift in diet began by improving health and easing pressure on the environment together, then split into a trade-off: health gains continued…
The map of what America grows has been sliding north. As the climate has warmed, corn and soybean have pushed farther toward the Dakotas, and the good years have moved with them. A paper published…
Replacing beef and lamb with poultry across 181 countries would cut the world's food-related greenhouse gas emissions by 37% over the rest of this century and still leave the 1.5 °C climate target…
Cut the pollution at its source and the water should clean itself up. That is the logic behind decades of farm-runoff policy: reduce the fertiliser, and the nitrate that fouls groundwater should…
We tend to picture plastic pollution as something that happens to the ocean: bottles on beaches, a gyre of debris in the Pacific. But some of it is going the other way, into the ground under our…
Researchers at Pesticide Action Network organizations estimate that 402 million to 433 million cases of unintentional acute pesticide poisoning (sudden poisonings that were not deliberate) occur…