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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Viewpoint: For the developing world, ‘nature-friendly’ organic and regenerative farming lags in production and sustainability
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In the UK effort to align more with Europe, will it mothball its recently relaxed policy on gene-edited crops?
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Supreme Court may consider blocking further suits targeting the weedkiller glyphosate, which global regulatory agencies have found safe
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Viewpoint: Organic proponents are wellness vaccine-skeptic grifters but with better branding
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Viewpoint: Why nuclear expansion should not be held hostage to oudated science and imagined health risks
With the return of nuclear energy to the public square and serious efforts among policymakers to commercialize a new generation ...
Europe’s small step to unwind its science-free precautionism of crop biotech
The European Union recently agreed to ease restrictions on new genomic techniques (NGTs) for food, in the most significant change to ...
How once food-poor India’s advanced seed genetics usurped China’s global dominance of rice production
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Can AI’s enormous power demands resuscitate the low-carbon nuclear power industry?
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Viewpoint: European farmers protest the nightmare of the Green Deal and other science-rejectionist EU agricultural regulations
Over the past two years, farmers throughout Europe have mobilized on a scale that should dominate news headlines. ... European farmers are ...
Politicization of Health & Science: Year in Review
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Glyphosate’s climate dividend: Weedkiller reduces greenhouse pollution equal to taking 21.8 million cars off the road each year
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Well-intentioned but scientifically misguided activist claims of what constitutes biological diversity hinder actual biodiversity and agricultural progress
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Viewpoint: RFK, Jr., MAHA, and USDA close ranks in support of ‘regenerative agriculture’. Here’s why this trendy concept is bad policy
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Europe pursues three different regulatory paths in efforts to open the gates to agricultural gene editing
The landscape of agricultural innovation in Europe is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. New Genomic Techniques (NGTs)—including highly ...
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Scientists in South Korea have discovered a rapid molecular “switch” that reprograms plant growth in response to cold stress. The ...
Organic food consumer snapshot: Okay benefits but only if cost premium is under 5%
Understanding what truly drives consumers to choose organic or locally produced foods requires looking beyond assumptions and into real behavior ...
Corporate control, ecological challenges and food safety: Challenges await expansion of the gene-editing crop revolution
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Viewpoint: U.S. and Europe lagging behind China’s embrace of crop gene editing
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The expanding role of robotics in agriculture … on Earth and in space
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Yield, resilience and profits: Seed technology is put to the test
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Utopian fantasy or realistic tools? Deploying synthetic biology to jump crop yields sustainably
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Will South Korea join the rest of the science world in deregulating genetically engineered crops?
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Viewpoint: The rosy-eyed view of the changes that could be coming with the EU’s approval of agricultural gene editing
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Viewpoint: India needs to refine its view of the benefits and limits of crop biotechnology
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Most people have no clue how gene edited could tweak crops, but when the benefits are clear, they are receptive
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