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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Turbocharged photosynthesis could turn GMOs into invasive species
A joint team from Cornell University in New York and Rothamsted Research in the UK has successfully replaced a key ...
British farmers union calls for review of insecticide ban as losses mount
The National Farmer's Union of England and Wales (NFU) has called on policymakers to urgently review the evidence showing the ...
Science fiction meets Julia Child: An elegant cookbook for lab-grown meats
Although they've not yet hit the market, a Dutch art collective has created the definitive volume on how to cook ...
Let’s play GMO Jeopardy!
In my discussions about GMOs, I've come to the realization that many of the issues that are raised are not ...
National Resource Defense Council reverses course, acknowledges ‘factory farms’ do not overuse antibiotics
Advocacy groups often claim antibiotic use on 'factory farms' is soaring, hurting animals and even humans who are developing resistance ...
Genome Prairie examines challenges of communicating science of agriculture
Agriculture relies upon science and technology to meet demand in an efficient and sustainable manner, but these technological advances are ...
Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...
Will Starbucks bump latte prices to placate anti-GMO protestors?
Anti-GMO organic activists are again fanning fears about genetic modification as part of a campaign to pressure Starbucks to dump ...
Quarantine expanded as killer bacterium spreads to California orange groves, GMO only hope
As California officials add another 100 square miles of citrus groves to a 1,000 square mile quarantine, Florida growers are ...
Enviro groups solicit Congress to pressure EPA to suspend neonic insecticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting pressure from environmental and sustainable agriculture organizations and members of Congress to ...
Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs
As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...
Interview: Vandana Shiva responds to New Yorker profile
Correspondent Fedrico Rampini interviews Vandana Shiva for the Italian newspaper Repubblica, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the profile ...
Crop breakthrough! No GMOs! Let’s celebrate!–Why advanced farm technology scares us
Are journalists so gun shy about reporting the 'good news' of genetic engineering that they seek false balance in hyping ...
Whole Earth’s Stewart Brand says consumer embrace of ‘healthier’ GM foods inevitable
Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make ...
As Nigerian population explodes, GMOs languish in political purgatory
Officials of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology (NSM) have alerted the Federal Government to brace up to the challenge of ...
New UN food czar: Need small farms, not ‘industrial ag’ to feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises ...
4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address
This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...
Video: Colorado farmers divided over GMO labeling bill
The Palisade and Grand Junction Chambers of Commerce have both come out in opposition to proposition 105, citing the negative ...
Critics say new multi herbicide resistant GMO crops will exacerbate ‘superweed’ problem
Move over, Roundup Ready crops. After gaining USDA approval last week, new generation of genetically modified corn and soybeans is ...
US subsidizes $125 million of organic farming research and conservation
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to announce that it will spend $52 million to support local and regional ...
Kenyan farmer wants the best crop tech for Africa
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they ...
Synthetic biology’s revolutionary and often disquieting impact on our food system
Synbio brings with it new social, ethical and regulatory concerns. The next generation will bring nearly miraculous advances in medicine ...
War of the advertising airwaves underway in Oregon GMO labeling fight
In a TV ad paid for by advocates of labeling genetically modified foods in Oregon, voters are told 64 countries ...
GMO ‘steak chips’: Replacing slaughterhouses with genetically engineered meat
MIT Technology Review checks in with Modern Meadow CEO and cofounder Andras Forgacs. Modern Meadow aims to create leather and ...
Beijing kicks off campaign to improve GMOs image in China
China's government has kicked off a media campaign in support of genetically modified crops, as it battles a wave of ...
African scientists engineering genetically modified livestock vaccines
Agricultural scientists in different parts of Africa have been engaged in application of biotechnology mainly for developing improved crop varieties ...
Are there better alternatives than genetic engineering to develop drought resistant crops?
In the late-1990s, scientists Russell Rodriguez and Regina Redman were conducting research in Yellowstone National Park when they made a ...
