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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GLP Podcast: ‘Big Fears, Little Risks’ — Documentary featuring GLP experts tackles GMO, vaccine skepticism
The evidence is in: genetic engineering promotes sustainable farming; vaccines save lives; and nuclear energy is our best hope of ...
Scorching western drought weakens honeybees, threatening almond and fruit crops
A scorching drought is slashing honey production in North Dakota, the top producing state of the sweet syrup. That means ...
Reducing meat consumption to tackle climate change: What role will Africa play?
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Climate warming could increase land available to grow crops — but also boost the spread of plant diseases
The agricultural impact of climate change would be a little more straightforward, if it occurred in a world where crops ...
Viewpoint: Investing in agricultural technology is key to addressing climate change
Agricultural research and development may not be as flashy as other climate policy proposals, such as the establishment of a ...
Transitioning to a meatless, plant-based future is a win for the environment — but means major upheaval for farm and meatpacking workers
A largely plant-based future would be a win for livestock, 99 percent of which is raised in factory farms, and ...
‘Climate beneficial food’: Here’s the skinny on the emerging movement to better align agriculture with sustainable production
From complex labels to opaque sourcing and unclear carbon impact, 6 in 10 consumers say it is hard to know ...
‘Activists are working hard to take the farm animal out of the food equation’: Farmers push back on plant- and lab-grown meat movement
[B]eef is being threatened by activists from many different angles. There has been a growing campaign to take beef (and ...
Podcast: Are we on the edge of an ‘insect apocalypse?’ GLP Founder Jon Entine debunks this pervasive myth
Could we be on the edge of an insect apocalypse — one that results in 'ecological collapse that would break ...
Viewpoint: World’s ‘well, wealthy and worried’ deny the science behind GMOs. Here’s why their opposition is so dangerous
The Well, the Wealthy, and the Worried are the folks who think they can afford to overlook the incredible benefits ...
‘Local food cannot simply be equated with sustainable food’: Independent study challenges conventional wisdom of always ‘buying local’
If there's one thing everyone should know about science, it's this: what the evidence shows about a topic and what ...
How GMOs can help farmers tackle climate change
Going forward into the future, agricultural scientists using techniques such as gene editing can help make crop and livestock species ...
Can the clean meat revolution address agriculture’s ecological challenges?
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Biotechnology research and development is the cutting edge of Africa’s hoped-for sustainable green revolution
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Academic study: ‘We challenge the widespread appraisal that organic farming is the fundamental alternative to conventional farming for harnessing biodiversity in agricultural landscapes’
Biodiversity continues to decline rapidly, despite decades of repeated national and international policy efforts. Agricultural intensification is a major driver ...
The debate over sustainable food systems needs a new ecosystem
Europe needs more sustainable food systems to cope with dramatic changes to our natural environment, economic instability, and rapid societal ...
Biodiversity surprise: In Quebec, there are 25% more species than 500 years ago, challenging ecosystem catastrophists, Nature reports
[Mark] Vellend, who teaches at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, poses a question to his students every year: ...
Biotech beauty: How technology advances are revolutionizing the skin care, cosmetics and beauty market
Until recently the beauty industry could be split into two camps. In one corner, there’s high-tech, lab-made contenders – like ...
6.3 billion tons of plastic: That’s how much waste we’ve generated. Fungus and bacteria might be part of the solution
Samantha Jenkins was studying a number of types of fungus in a research project for her company, when one of ...
‘So far, the clean meat industry has proven more adept at churning out optimistic timelines than it has at offering consumers an alternative to meat from animals’
So far, the [clean meat] industry has proven for more adept at churning out optimistic timelines than it has at ...
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Net carbon zero by 2050? Here’s the reality behind the slogan
Over 120 countries — from highly industrialized nations like Canada, Germany, and the UK to developing economies such as Myanmar, ...
Breeding to battle potato late blight disease in Uganda: What once took 46 years, now takes just a few with biotechnology
[A new variety of] potato— named 3R potato— could help protect farming families… in Uganda and possibly elsewhere in Africa ...
Viewpoint: How proposed legislation billed to ‘save the bees’ will actually harm them — and the economy
The myth about endangered, disappearing honeybees lives on — with potentially dire implications. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, an Oregon Democrat, just ...
Are biofuel vehicles a more sustainable alternative to electric battery-operated cars?
[I]n a recent article in the Los Angeles Times and related video, Evan Halper argues that we may be trading ...
Textile transformation: Turning recycled carbon emissions into athletic apparel
Recycling carbon is a fundamental element of the circular economy, which will keep fossil carbon in the ground, reducing pollution ...
Catastrophic claims of an ‘insect armageddon’ misrepresent the science
“The insect apocalypse is here,” said the New York Times in 2018. “Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’,” said ...
