Food and Agriculture

Study on GMO corn requires a non-GMO grain of salt

Yes, the study showing negative health effects in rats that ate GMO corn sounds frightening. But that's why you might want to be skeptical.

Philip Bump Food and Agriculture

Americans are eating so many friggin’ avocados these days

Consumption of avocados went up 30 percent in the first half of 2012. What's up with all the avocados, y'all?

Philip Bump Food and Agriculture

Bee boulevard: An urban corridor becomes a haven for native pollinators

By transforming a mile of parking strips into a corridor of pollinator-friendly gardens, Seattle's Pollinator Pathway reimagines the relationship between cities and nature.

Claire Thompson Cities

There’s arsenic in your rice — and here’s how it got there

A new study found arsenic in 200 samples of both conventional and organic rice and rice products. The science also has big implications about our farming practices -- and their chemical legacies.

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture

Something’s (not very) fishy about the Atlantic Ocean [VIDEO]

Weird conditions off the New England coast have fishermen puzzled. Is this the face of global warming, or just the latest curveball from an unpredictable climate?

Grist staff Climate & Energy

Join us for a Twitter chat about green slime

Did toxic blue-green algae make your summer a bummer?

Grist staff Food and Agriculture

This awesome lady scientist explains microorganisms to geeky chefs

There's a friendly lady microbiologist at Harvard named Rachel Dutton who is willing to field chefs' inquiries about their fermented creations.

Sarah Laskow Food and Agriculture

Stay out of the water: A toxic algae slideshow

As summer comes to a close, as many as 20 states have reported green slime caused by industrial agriculture in their lakes and waterways. As these photos illustrate, it's a problem that has become hard to ignore.

Grist staff Food and Agriculture

Growing Power scores $5 million to feed our nation’s hungriest cities

Will Allen's urban farming powerhouse plans to put a sizable grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation toward funding “community food centers” in Detroit, New Orleans, and parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, and New Mexico.

Christopher Weber Cities

Ingredient-delivery services let you make ‘home-cooked’ food without picking up a knife

For those who crave a home-cooked meal but find the process of making food entirely from scratch … unnecessary, new services are springing up to combine the benefits of delivery […]