Climate Food and Agriculture
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No peaches or apricots? Blame the Northeast’s warm, wacky winter.
El Niño has made life less peachy for stone fruits.
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Plants have an immune system, too. It’s called soil.
The more microbes, the merrier.
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Species-wide gene editing could potentially save life on earth — or permanently damage it
Top scientists just encouraged more research into this controversial new technology.
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Watch a very buff seed take on his roided-up GMO counterparts
Mr. Seed thinks the agrichemical industry isn’t as sexy as he is.
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The science is in, and this popular weedkiller really might be harmful
In vindication for herbicide critics, EPA says atrazine may harm animals
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Dungeness crabs threatened by, you guessed it, climate change
Ocean acidification is bad for crab larvae, and the fishermen who rely on them.
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Organic industry sales put Monsanto’s to shame
Organic food just keeps getting more popular.
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This herb could be the secret to curbing cows’ climate-changing burps
Researchers are studying whether oregano could rein in methane emissions from dairy cows.
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You better learn about this new technology before it transforms the world
Watch this painless explainer on gene drives.
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The feds are trying to figure out what “natural” food is. Don’t get your hopes up.
There's still time to tell the FDA what you think the "natural" label should mean.