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Insects are disappearing from UK farms. Why, and what can be done?

Michael Garratt, Simon Potts, Tom Breeze | 
Insect populations are declining worldwide at a rate of almost 1% per year. This decline is alarming. Insects play a ...
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Greenwashing or greening agriculture? Food companies developing efforts to prevent carbon in soil from leaking into the atmosphere

Meg Wilcox | 
Jason Johnson, Stonyfield Organic’s farmer relationship manager, fires up the AgriCORE soil sampling tool in a pasture with sweeping views ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — How do organic pesticides compare to synthetic pesticides?

Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — How do organic pesticides compare to synthetic pesticides?

Kayleen Schreiber, Marc Brazeau | 
Many consumers choose to buy higher-priced organic produce because they believe organic foods are not grown using pesticides and therefore ...
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Viewpoint: Outdated organic technology? By rejecting gene editing, growers left with more disease-prone, pest-infested crops

Paul Temple | 
East Yorks mixed farmer Paul Temple suggests that in closing its mind to new genetic technologies, the organic sector may ...
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GLP podcast and video: Hawaii’s wildfires explained; Why more young people are getting cancer; Aspartame hysteria could boost sugar intake

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Invasive grasses are the key to unraveling the cause of Hawaii's devastating wildfires, according to a local expert examining the ...
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Social justice environmental activists move to block gene editing to control invasive species and promote biodiversity. Here’s why they’re misguided

Stuart Smyth | 
Hawaii has emerged as ground zero for efforts to raise the awareness of the dangers of invasive species. Just last ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Garbage in, garbage out’ — How AI is already skewing news coverage of complicated science issues like the safety of glyphosate

Kevin Folta | 
Here's a great example of how bad reporting and the war on glyphosate play hand-in-hand. I don't know anything about ...
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Reduce synthetic fertilizers and improve yields? The microbiome revolution comes to agriculture

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
If manipulated correctly, they can help us cure cancer, understand how we can adapt to rising temperatures, play a role ...
Grasshoppers under siege: Here’s how climate change depletes insect populations and threatens the global food supply

Grasshoppers under siege: Here’s how climate change depletes insect populations and threatens the global food supply

Amber Dance | 
It’s tough out there for a hungry grasshopper on the Kansas prairie. Oh, there’s plenty of grass to eat, but ...
Sequestering carbon on a gigaton scale: How gene editing can address climate change by reducing atmospheric emissions

Sequestering carbon on a gigaton scale: How gene editing can address climate change by reducing atmospheric emissions

Val Giddings | 
Hardly a day goes by without another piece praising the potential for gene editing to help solve climate change. Nevertheless, the possible contributions of biology and biotechnology have been conspicuously ...
Viewpoint: From ‘Save the Whales’ to ‘Let Children Go Blind’ — Greenpeace’s descent into science rejectionism

Viewpoint: From ‘Save the Whales’ to ‘Let Children Go Blind’ — Greenpeace’s descent into science rejectionism

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
From the early days of Greenpeace when its members were dodging harpoons and Japanese whalers in outboard motor boats – ...
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Green transition: How agriculture can drive climate change solutions

Val Giddings | 
It is widely recognized that we must transition our energy economies to a greener, more sustainable state. This will only happen ...
Insect-resistant Bt GMO crops have helped cut pesticide use. Now Nature is pushing back

Insect-resistant Bt GMO crops have helped cut pesticide use. Now Nature is pushing back

Dan Charles | 
In 2006, a small airplane started buzzing each cotton field in Arizona, a thin, dust-like cloud trailing behind it. The ...
Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 5: Soil health ― When synthetic pesticides are more sustainable than 'natural' organics

Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Part 5: Soil health ― When synthetic pesticides are more sustainable than ‘natural’ organics

Kayleen Schreiber, Marc Brazeau | 
Most consumers believe organic farming avoids pesticides and prioritizes the health of the environment more than conventional farming. However, this ...
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GLP Podcast/Video: Cell phones and cancer; Do you need a COVID booster? The case for/against eating bugs

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
There's no evidence that cell phone use causes brain cancer, so why do so many people, some scientists included, believe ...
Viewpoint: Scotland's Green Party leads an "obstinate and visionless" opposition to sustainable gene edited crops while UK and Europe edge towards embracing agricultural science

Viewpoint: Scotland’s Green Party leads an “obstinate and visionless” opposition to sustainable gene edited crops while UK and Europe edge towards embracing agricultural science

Rachael Hamilton | 
In recent months, the pace of global policy developments in relation to gene editing has often been hard to keep ...
Viewpoint: How to restore public trust and regulatory fairness in the face of aggressive, coordinated disinformation efforts by anti-technology environmental activists

Viewpoint: How to restore public trust and regulatory fairness in the face of aggressive, coordinated disinformation efforts by anti-technology environmental activists

David Zaruk | 
During my lifetime, Western societies have enjoyed innovations that have immensely improved public health and the quality of life as ...
Why we overeat — and how studying voracious locusts may help us learn to curtail a dangerous human vice

Why we overeat — and how studying voracious locusts may help us learn to curtail a dangerous human vice

Tim Vernimmen | 
This story starts in an unusual place for an article about human nutrition: a cramped, humid and hot room somewhere ...
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Should University Agricultural Research Scientists Partner With Industry?

Paul Vincelli | 
Studies show research on GE crops is not significantly influenced by conflicts of Interest. However, it is important to remain ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-agrobiotech activists claim European farmers who support relaxing the EU’s de facto ban on cultivating GMO and gene-edited crops are dupes of Big Ag. Here are the facts

Steven Cerier | 
Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified ...
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GLP podcast and video: PFAS bans could do more harm than good; Risks and benefits of ‘magic mushrooms’; ‘Ultra-processed’ foods are nutritious

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
There are growing calls to ban PFAS chemicals to protect public health. The problem is, these substances are used in ...
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Africa faces the world’s largest food and hunger crisis. Why then are Africans so skeptical of genetically modified crops that could produce more and healthier food

Ademola Adenle | 
Hunger and undernourishment are two elements of food insecurity that have plagued Africa for years. And the menace is growing ...
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5x increase in rice yields? New CRISPR-created variety could help fight fungal pandemic decimating world’s rice crop

Kristin Houser | 
Thanks to CRISPR, farmers may finally have a good defense against rice blast, a fungal disease so devastating, it’s known ...
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Viewpoint: EU gene-editing regulations requiring traceability and labeling to ‘protect co-existence’ with organic crops could stop innovation in its tracks

Petra Jorasch | 
Major new developments in gene editing are now taking place with increasing frequency, as the world looks to harness the ...
Meet the beetles: Mealworms could be a food of the future

Meet the beetles: Mealworms could be a food of the future

Ricki Lewis | 
I have a special fondness for the yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor. As a child, I fed the mealworm stage of ...
Growing more ancient grain millet could help American farmers adapt to climate change

Growing more ancient grain millet could help American farmers adapt to climate change

Eva Tesfaye | 
The Midwest is known for its rows and rows of corn and soybeans that uniformly cover the landscape ...
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GLP podcast and video: Dunning-Kruger debunked? The evil industry, noble activist myth; The real Vandana Shiva

Cameron English, Cami Ryan | 
The less informed someone is about a topic, the more likely they are to overestimate their knowledge of it. This ...
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