Sustainability & Climate Change
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Growing animal muscle and fat cells inside rice grains and calling it beef: One of numerous genetically engineered products shaking up our ecosystem
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Viewpoint: Trump appoints climate change hoax promoter to head influential government policy project
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Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Europe’s AC debacle underscores fatal flaw in green activism
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As the EU loosens restrictions on agricultural gene editing, it remains years behind the rest of the world on equally-safe GMO foods
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Viewpoint: Will new breeding techniques help make European agriculture more competitive?
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Viewpoint: Europe’s rejection of air conditioning is the poster child for misunderstanding how to mitigate the impact of climate change
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2,300 endangered species: Controversial de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences joins U.S. effort to preserve their DNA
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Viewpoint: In this age of disinformation, how can scientists and farmers promote food literacy
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Viewpoint: Europe clears the way for gene-edited crops — but fear-driven restrictions still slow their full potential
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Viewpoint: CRISPR-hating activists air their grievances about gene editing farming innovation
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EU bureaucrats are finally catching up to the gene editing revolution in food and agriculture
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Viewpoint: In the science misinformed grifter game plan, the organic-food-is-healthier myth might be the worst.
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Viewpoint: How politicized science became a political religion
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Viewpoint: Why are there no approved bioengineered insect-protected (Bt) apples?
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Viewpoint: Trump’s Reflecting Pool algae fiasco points to a bigger culprit: Climate change
In his battle to clean the murky waters of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump has tried draining, painting, hydrogen ...
Trump and climate change skeptics misrepresent updated climate-emissions scenarios to claim projections were bogus
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Activist organization accuses Trump of protecting methane-generating stripper wells to benefit billionaire and donor Jeffrey Hildebrand
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Viewpoint—‘The gleeful efficiency of an arsonist’: Administration’s health and science research cuts are ‘sabotaging’ America’s future
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Viewpoint: Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario. Is that proof that climate change is a hoax, as Trump claims?
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Viewpoint: How Earthjustice became the poster child for the abuse of special interest activist funding
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