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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GM corn and cotton varieties developed by Kenyan scientists ready for field trials
Kenyan scientists have used modern biotechnology to develop two crop varieties that are expected to be released in the country ...
Talking Biotech: Plants that ‘protect themselves’ and reduce pesticide may be future of crop biotechnology
Genetic engineering pioneer Calgene's Maurice Moloney on developing plants that 'naturally' fend off pests ...
Diet and land: Why organic farming is ‘less sustainable’ than conventional
[Editor's note: Steven Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine.] Perhaps the biggest problem with ...
Video: Food Evolution—Neil deGrasse Tyson-narrated documentary on GMO debate—set for June 23 release
Food Evolution aims to take a look at the science underlying the heated rhetoric of the GMO debate. Filmmaker Scott ...
‘Doomsday’ arctic seed vault ‘flooded’ because of global warming? Not so fast
A failure at a fail-safe vault. The irony is delicious, but that’s not the whole story. On its website, the ...
Flower power: Decoded sunflower genome could unlock increased oil, stress tolerance
Take that, sunflowers. The convoluted genetic code that has thwarted scientists for so long has finally been cracked. Scientists published ...
After labeling bill fails in Canada, GMO critics press retailers not to sell GM foods
Members of the Canadian Parliament voted against approving mandatory labeling of genetically modified [GMO] foods in a vote on May ...
Mary-Dell Chilton: 78-year-old ‘mother of genetic modification’ still innovating
[Mary-Dell] Chilton...led a collaborative research study at Washington University in St. Louis, and although GMO tobacco was never commercialized, it ...
‘Science mom’ challenges meal delivery service Blue Apron’s non-GMO food policy
Blue Apron's non-GMO policy stirs up a hornets' nest of reaction by pro-science moms on a quest to take on ...
Black market GM cotton seeds flood Chinese market, cutting pesticide use and boosting yields
China is one of the world’s top cotton producers partly because of a widespread sowing of banned seeds, according to ...
Microbiologist, former Greenpeace supporter: Opposition to GMOs ‘responsible for death of poor people’
[Editor's note: The following article has been translated from Dutch and lightly edited for clarity.] [Editor's note: Hidde Boersma is ...
5 reasons why it’s so hard to know whether ‘organic’ food is really organic
Regulating [food] supply chains to ensure, for example, that “organic” foods deserve their labels is hard. Here are five reasons ...
Non-browning GM Arctic Apple set for fall consumer launch
The company behind the non-browning Arctic Apple is gearing up for its commercial launch with U.S. retailers this fall, following ...
Neonicotinoid corn seed treatments likely ‘far exceed demonstrable need’, study says
Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common ...
Video: How are CRISPR crops regulated differently than GMOs?
Critics say the Obama Administration balked on an opportunity to update Reagan-era guidelines on how agencies like the Department of ...
To revive monarch butterflies, plant milkweed in yards and on wild lands, study says
If Monarch butterflies are going to stay off the endangered species list, they need more to eat. And it’s up ...
Anti-pesticide, anti-nuclear activist named France’s new environment minister
The new French president stunned businesses by appointing Nicolas Hulot, an anti-nuclear and anti-pesticide environmental activist, as the country's environmental ...
India’s agriculture ministry has ‘no reservations about promoting GM mustard’
The agriculture ministry ... said it has no reservations about GM mustard, which has been cleared by an expert panel ...
Plants vs pathogens: CRISPR-created crops fend off pests, add nutrition
Potato blight sparked the Irish famine in the 19th century, causing a million people to starve to death and another ...
Evolution could push back against CRISPR gene editing of insects to stop Zika and malaria
Research published [May 2017] suggests that gene editing, a revolutionary cut-and-paste technology that allows bespoke adjustments to an organism’s genome, ...
New GE rice variety boosts plant’s immune system to fight multiple diseases at once
Plants don’t have a bloodstream to circulate immune cells. Instead, they use receptors on the outsides of their cells to ...
Maine approves 3 genetically engineered blight resistant potatoes that reduce pesticide use
With little fanfare, the Maine Board of Pesticides Control unanimously approved ... the registration of three new types of genetically ...
To feed 1.4 billion people China technologizing its agriculture sector–Will it be enough?
China’s 1.4 billion people are building up an appetite that is changing the way the world grows and sells food ...
Infographic: India poised to dramatically increase its global GMO footprint
GM crop footprint in India is all set to grow once the government gives its final nod to GM Mustard, ...
GMO rescue of American chestnut tree may take longer than anticipated
The nearly century-old effort to employ selective breeding to rescue the American chestnut, which has been rendered functionally extinct by ...
Less milkweed due to herbicide likely contributed to early monarch butterfly declines, study finds
[Monarch butterfly] numbers ... are shrinking. New research at Michigan State University, published in the current issue of the journal ...
Talking Biotech: Can ‘vertical farming’ help feed world’s growing population?
What is the potential for agriculture to move indoors—and into cities—as we try to feed more people on less land? ...
