The food we eat and the farms that produce it contribute to the crisis too. The core issue is the expanding agricultural ...

Extreme heat is already wiping out soy, coffee, berries, and Christmas trees. Farm animals and humans are suffering too.

A new report explores how China is aligning policy, capital and tech to become the world's alternative protein capital, ...

In November 1979, I escorted Gov. Robert D. Ray and first lady Billy Ray to the Thai-Cambodian border, where we witnessed thousands of Cambodians who had escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide starving to ...

Scientists tend to talk about warming thresholds in terms of long-term averages rather than single-year bursts, but a monster ...

UN projections reveal dramatic demographic shifts over the next 35 years, with sub-Saharan Africa surging and traditional powers like China, Japan, and Russia declining in global standing. From Uganda ...

Activists have claimed for years that climate change caused by fossil fuels puts our food supply under grave threat. Ironically, the war against Iran has revealed that lack of access to fossil fuels ...

When lightning strikes a paddock, it does more than scorch grass and scare the cows. The electrical discharge breaks apart nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere, converting them into a form that falls ...

In Nature this week, researchers describe an initiative that is greening some of the world’s drylands — including deserts, shrublands and other water-scarce regions. The Great Green Wall of China, ...

But in low-income regions, most people depend on a few cheap staples such as wheat and rice to provide more than half their ...