Sustainability/Climate Change
Are romantic notions about organic agriculture harming the environment?
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Cornell researchers find glyphosate herbicide unlikely source of Monarch butterfly decline
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EPA finds neonic seed treatments safe for most crops, but questions remain about cotton, citrus
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Is the problem really GMOs or overpopulation?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UCLA's Institute of the Environment ...
Talking Biotech: Key Gene CEO Arjen van Tunen talks weed crisis; Curt Hannah on corn; Folta on Borlaug award
Key Gene CEO Arjen van Tunen talks weed crisis; Curt Hannah talks corn; Folta on Borlaug award after year of ...
Contrary to EPA, new report finds neonicotinoids boost yields in soybean fields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The class of insecticides ...
RNA interference technology may help stop citrus greening disease
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U.S. importing more livestock feed as demand for organic eggs, meat, milk increases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. America may export more grain ...
Consumer review: Central Florida local organic restaurants fall far short of sustainability hype
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Is shifting from GMO sugar beets to sugar cane detrimental to environment?
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Are GMO crops a ‘quick fix’ that perpetuate unsustainable agriculture?
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OK Sen. Inhofe asks EPA to be ‘mindful of science’ in neonicotinoids review
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Are gene banks doing enough to conserve genetic diversity of our food crops’ wild relatives?
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Talking Biotech: World Coffee Research’s Hanna Neuschwander talks origins, growing threats to coffee
Hanna Neuschwander from World Coffee Research on solutions to coffee plant troubles ...
Universities luring young people back to farming with ‘sustainable agriculture’ degree programs
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Could genetically engineering key species allow endangered habitats to survive climate change?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitham is studying the ...
Drought tolerant rice varieties offered to Asian farmers struggling with El Niño’s low rainfall
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Philippine Rice Research Institute ...
GMOs could address climate change but campaigning NGOs blocking it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotechnology is a platform ...
If you care about the future of our planet, here’s why you should support GMOs
Farmers describe how GMOs have enabled them to reduce their use of the older, more toxic insecticides, and reduce their ...
Maryland expected to ban neonicotinoids in household pesticides
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“Sustainable intensification” in farming vs the alternative: Food shortages and unrest
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Genetic engineering allows crops to use water, soil nutrients more efficiently
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers with Arizona State ...
Talking Biotech: Talking about bananas as a food crop, challenges; Leena Tripathi offers GE answers to threats to bananas
Are GE bananas key to GMO acceptance?; Banana biotech leader talks GE solutions to threats, pests ...
‘Beepocalypse’? How US honey bee population is fairing
There has been an ongoing vigorous debate about the health of the American bee population. Bees play a key role ...
First U.S. commercial-scale producer of cellulosic ethanol is shipping fuel
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poet Inc., the nation’s ...
Chronic exposure to neonicotinoid pesticide has no adverse effect on bumblebees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In recent years, many ...
Pesticides, fertilizers derived from microbes offer new frontier in agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chemicals are out. With ...