Agriculture & Food

Researchers at the National Cancer Institute reported Oct. 15, 2026, in PLOS Medicine that older US adults who ate the most ultra-processed food were no more likely to develop colorectal cancer than…

Small rivers on the plain between the Ganges and the Yamuna in northern India have most likely stopped being fed by the groundwater beneath them and now leak into it instead. Groundwater model…

The hottest hour of a summer day in a Chinese city tends to arrive around lunchtime, which is also the hour when several million people decide what to eat. For a growing number of them the answer is…

Agriculture has raised calcium inputs to cultivated Mollisols in the United States four- to five-fold, according to a geochemical model of US soils published Oct. 13, 2026, in Communications Earth &…

For decades, the story of how a cattle pregnancy survives its first three weeks has had one hero. The embryo, by then a flat sheet of cells stretching itself along the inside of the uterus, pours out…

Mowing a solar farm is a stubborn expense. Grass and brush grow up between the panel rows, they shade the cells, and somebody has to keep cutting them. So solar operators have increasingly swapped…

Researchers at Virginia Tech report that two meals matched to within 1.6% on calories, fat, carbohydrate, protein, fiber and salt still produced different responses in the body, depending on whether…

Order a microplastic from a catalog and a sphere arrives. It is smooth, round and the same material all the way around. It is also nothing like the thing it stands in for. Plastic in the world is not…

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,…

Around midday on March 12 and 14, 2024, at the end of the Chilean summer, Millie Spencer and Robert Clasing flew a small drone over the bare ice of a volcano in Chile's Ñuble region. The wind over…

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization published the 2026 edition of its flagship forest assessment on Sept. 28, at the opening of the agency's Committee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome. The report puts…

Researchers modeled the shapes of two odor-detecting proteins from the antennae of a moth whose mating chemistry nobody had studied, predicted the molecule those proteins pick up, and then confirmed…