Articles by Sr. Staff Writer Nathanael Johnson
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Orange you ready for a tall glass of GMOs?
An insect-spread disease is wiping out orange crops. Gene splicing might help in the short term, but it won't make Big Ag more sustainable or resilient.
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Cultivating an app for how your garden grows
Growstuff lets you track your plantings -- and puts your data to work for a wider community.
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The future is a desert, but we can make it bloom
If we want to keep growing food in a changing climate, there's a lot we can learn from desert farmers.
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Genetic engineering: Do the differences make a difference?
Where you come down on nature -- cradle or battlefield? -- shapes how you think about the risks of genetically modified food.