Meet Droni – the made-in-India drone unveiled by MS Dhoni
Former captain of India’s national cricket team Mahendra Singh Dhoni unveiled a camera drone called Droniat The Global Drone Expo in Chennai. The Indian…
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The Sustainable Future of Food Must Bring Everyone to the Table
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…
Satellite Data Shows How Russia Has Destroyed Ukrainian Grain
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…
A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Stores. Will the US Bite?
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…
Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
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…
As the Planet Warms, Canada Faces an Influx of Climate Refugees
This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As droughts, deteriorating farmland, and rising…
Why It’s Time to Make Cities More Rural
Those calculations focus primarily on the emissions from heavy machinery and long-distance trucking and shipping. But Elizabeth Sawin, founder and director…
How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply
Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe,…
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers
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…
How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture
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…