crops

What to make of the confusing headlines about coffee research.

All of our crops have naturally-occurring predecessors that are found in the wild. But that may not be the case for…

Archaeologists have pinpointed four independent regions where humans first began cultivating crops: China, the…

As both the coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis provoke your anxieties, it’s important to remember all of…

Drought is spreading across farmland worldwide—and it’s only going to get more intense. New research offers a clue…

The world is drying up all around us, but which crops can we use to shift the blame away from our cars, pools, and…

It’s been thirty years since the Chernobyl disaster and radiation levels in plants seemed to have died down. So why…

Scientists have created three new genetically modified crops to combat three of the world’s most troubling crop…

For the past two decades, the number of genetically-modified crops has been steadily skyrocketing around the globe.…

With the world population projected to soar past the 11 billion mark by 2100, we’re going to need to find some…

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is undeniably fascinating: This concrete slab that juts out of the barren snowscape ma…

If you've never lived around farms, it can be easy to miss just how much labor comes with every stage of the growing…

Could we grow a garden in the soils of Mars and the Moon? A new study digs down deep into the interstellar dirt and…

As our bee populations dwindle, could we also be facing down the prospect of a honey shortage?

California is in the middle of a crushing, and steadily worsening, drought. It's also one of our top agricultural…

A plague of locusts sounds like the kind of biblical torment that we'll never really need to worry about. But…

A new study suggests that the world's best-selling weedkiller and the GM maize resistant to it are linked to…