Agriculture & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earthโs land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Glyphosateโs contributions to cutting greenhouse gas emissions
I get many emotive emails about the evils of glyphosate, many of them from sources who also send me anti-vax ...
Agriculture is both victim and contributor of climate change. Hereโs how plant breeding can help turn the tide
Climate change exerts an unparalleled impact on agriculture.โฏย Yet the sector also contributes 20% to the annual increase to human-driven ...
Viewpoint: Activists attempt to create a scandal over retracted 25-year-old narrative summary on glyphosate safety falls flat
[W]e learned that an old narrative review published 25 years ago about glyphosate has been retracted. Of course, as soon ...
Personalized health: When it comes to medicine, one size no longer fits allย
Vive les diffรฉrences. A new health study has found that the classic recommendation of eight hours of sleep may not ...
Viewpoint: Media and science misinformation are rampant and corrupting. Finland believes they have a solution
In an era defined by โfake newsโ, public trust in institutions is increasingly under threat, along with our ability to ...
10 Top Breakthrough Technologies
What will really matter in the long run? That's the question we tackle each year as we compile this annual ...
Viewpoint: Lancetโs reputation as a leading science journal takes another hit in its capitulation to MAHA fearmongering over ultra-processed food
The new Lancet Series on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) draws on decades of global data, mechanistic evidence, and more than 100 ...
Gene editing opens the door in Indonesia to dramatic advances in sustainable farming but skeptics remain
Like other developing countries, Indonesia is facing aย familiar dilemma: how to feed a growing population while protecting its extraordinary biodiversity ...
Whatโs at stake as Europe attempts to depoliticize its agricultural biotechnology regulations and bring them more in accord with science
The current European regulatory framework relating to new genomic techniques (NGTs) is undergoing a thorough review. The ruling of the ...
Viewpoints: Republicans lean into MAHA โwellness agendaโ to prevent midterm losses as Trumpโs popularity totters
When a "Make America Healthy Again" summit was held at the posh Waldorf Astoria in Washington, the line of attendees ...
GLP podcast: Everybody’s wrong about RFK, Jr.’s dietary guidelines
Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public healthโor they're ...
Restrictions on synthetic dyes and ultra-processed foods: RFK, Jr.โs MAHA movement policies gain traction in statehouses
When one of Adam Burkhammerโs foster children struggled with hyperactivity, the West Virginia legislator and his wife decided to alter ...
Viewpoint: With indiscriminate cuts to food programs, the U.S., not nature, is destabilizing global agriculture
[L]ately, the United States, not nature, has created the biggest uncertainty for global agriculture. Until last year, when the Trump ...
Viewpoint: Franceโs Le Monde endorses bizarre activist conspiracy disinformation about the โdangersโ of gene-edited crops
Le Monde published on December 10 (date on the web) and 11 (date of the print edition, published the day ...
2026 will decide the legal future of the herbicide glyphosateโand could alter the shape of global agriculture
2026 is set to be a pivotal year for the fate of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and other ...
Viewpoint: Why RFK, Jr.โs promotion of โnatural medicines and foodโ is simplistic, often ignorant, and sometimes dangerous
Often, weโre given a choice between certain things โ such as foods, medicines or procedures โ that are deemed natural, ...
Bayer on SCOTUS: Itย should not face liablity in state courts forย alleged health damages caused by its weedkiller Roundup (glyphosate) when independent federal agencies have reviewed thousands of studies and labeled itย safe
The U.S. Supreme Court today announced that it will review the Durnell Roundupโข case. Monsanto petitioned the court to hear ...
Supreme Court agrees to review Bayerโs request to block lawsuits claiming federally-approved herbicide glyphosate causes cancer
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review Monsantoโs appeal seeking immunity from lawsuits related to its popular herbicide, Roundup ...
Chemophobia & Monetized Activism: Year in Review
Chemophobia โ the reflexive fear that โchemicalsโ are inherently dangerous โ stokes public anxiety about health and the environment. It ...
Viewpoint โ Lysenkoism 2.0: RFK, Jr. is more dangerous than the 1930s Soviet scientistย Trofim Lysenko, whose crackpot views killed millions of people and set back Russian science for decades
We donโt need to look to dystopian authoritarian theocracies portrayed in science fiction novels and movies to know that it ...
How MAHA policies are fast-changing the ingredients in popular foods
Make America Healthy Again. Ozempic. Fibermaxxing. Powerful forces are pushing the U.S. food industry to make what could be the ...
Bloated advice: MAHA influencers are flooding social media with misinformation on gut health
โI had one patient who saw a TikTok video about doing a colon cleanse, bought something over the counter to ...
โA whole lot of (methane) gasโ: Grass-fed beef is not better for the climate, experts agree
Roughly a quarter of all global greenhouse gases come from food production, and beef accounts for the single biggest share ...
Viewpontโ’Weight gain is not a necessary component of a highly ultra-processed dietโ: A nuanced look at Americaโs โdeadly dietโ
In the past half century, nutrition scientists have blamed health conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and heart disease on many ...
Viewpoint: Americaโs upside-down, upside-down food pyramid is bad science
Health Warning:ย Like every other Food Pyramid released in the last two weeks, this article is satire. Although most of the ...
Viewpoint: For the developing world, โnature-friendlyโ organic and regenerative farming lags in production and sustainability
Across the UK, we face an extensive and growing set of land-related environmental targets - spanning climate change mitigation, biodiversity ...
AI is a revolutionary tool to increase global farming output and food productivity
With the world's population projected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, the global agricultural sector faces a defining challenge ...
