Food and Agriculture

New guide helps you scrimp and save without eating toxic junk

Have you ever been shopping for groceries and wished someone would help you find the foods that are the least toxic and processed for the best price? A new guide does just that.

Twilight Greenaway Food and Agriculture

Amid drought, farmers flood social media

Parched farmers are using Twitter as a social-media-style rain gauge, a help line, and an open channel to their urban customers.

Christopher Weber Food and Agriculture

Feed 9 billion people? We can do that, but it’s not going to be pretty

Stanford biology professor Peter Vitousek says that our population bomb doesn't need to cause an all-out apocalypse.

Zachary Brown Food and Agriculture

Lawyers go after processed food industry with tactics that worked on Big Tobacco

In an effort to supplant government regulation, a group of high-profile lawyers plans to use the financial costs of obesity and diabetes to sue large processed food companies.

Tom Laskawy Food and Agriculture

Farmers are dealing with corn shortages by feeding cows candy instead

If you worry about the fact that cows eat so much corn, you might be happy to know that cows are now eating expired candy.

Sarah Miller Climate & Energy

Keeping the peace between beekeepers and their urban neighbors

As beekeeping becomes more popular in urban areas, some nearby residents are turning to vandalism. Experts share tips for beekeepers who want to get along with their neighbors.

Mary Catherine O’Connor Food and Agriculture

Deadly Salmonella outbreak in Kentucky linked to cantaloupe

Wash your melons, gang.

Philip Bump Food and Agriculture

This man knows when you’re lying about honey

Did you know that people sell fake honey? They take supermarket honey and try to pass it off as fancy stuff you get for $30 at a farmers market. Is […]

Sarah Miller Food and Agriculture

These companies don’t want GMOs labeled in California

Here's a visual breakdown of the 20 companies that have put the most money into fighting California's Prop 37. Can you guess who's at the top?