Researchers from Tel Aviv University have developed a genetic editing method tailored to crop plants, which has influenced ...

The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in ...

In a pristine corner of the Amazon, Brazilian and British scientists have spent more than two decades simulating drought to understand how the rainforest might respond to a drier future.

This is Agritopia, an 11-acre organic farm that’s all that remains after miles of alfalfa, corn, cotton, durum wheat and ...

When I was in college, a sustainability professor had us read a paper proposing an alternative to tradition farming practices ... Every Mechanic Gave Up On Tomatoes Become One of the First ...

fought for 40 years to save the Amazon rainforest and its people after watching the documentary, “Cowspiracy.” The film detailed how the animal agriculture business, particularly the beef ...

Indigenous peoples forced from the Amazon rainforest are finally getting the ... to Treat Them as Bioterrorists For years, a powerful farm industry group served up information on activists to ...

The Amazon rainforest has lost an area about the size of Germany and France combined to deforestation in four decades, fuelling drought and record wildfires across South America, experts said.

The Amazon rainforest stores the equivalent of almost ... And cleared land often is used for farming and livestock grazing that produce greenhouse gases. David Lapola, a professor at the State ...

SAO PAULO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The number of fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest region surged ... destroy forests or other native vegetation for agriculture or other alternative use, with limited ...

the primary driver of wildfires in the Amazon rainforest is deforestation for agriculture, logging, and other economic opportunities. Takumã Kuikuro, a filmmaker and curator from the Indigenous ...

The research, published in the journal Nature, found that climate change, combined with water stress and deforestation, could be pushing the Amazon rainforest ... caused by farming and ...