agriculture

It’s almost impossible to imagine a world without chocolate. Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao pollination. The crop’s…

While that small-scale, low-tech approach may have kept saffron production going over the past few decades, it has also left it on the edge of extinction.“We’re being held back by the idiosyncrasies of the sector itself,” says Fernández.…

Dar es Salaam. When Covid-19 hit the world, many economic activities were disrupted, making it difficult for banks to lend to the dormant businesses. The government responded with a set of measures that did not only address the…

Scientists have been pointing out the “broken” phosphorus cycle for more than a decade: Humanity has unearthed huge quantities of the element, which winds up in waterways instead of returning to cropland.The problem comes down to crap.…

Few vignettes show how much human activity has affected wildlife more than the scene at Florida Power & Light’s plant in Cape Canaveral. Hundreds of manatees bask in an intake canal on its southeast edge, drawn by the warm waters.…

New York CNNBusiness  —  There’s at least one item in the grocery store that is getting less expensive: avocados. A significant supply glut of the buttery fruit…

The race to remove CO2 from our atmosphere is on. In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground. The top meter of the world’s soil holds over three times the amount of carbon currently in our…

The autumn of 2013 was a stressful time for the Craten family, who live outside Phoenix, Arizona. In short order, three family members were diagnosed with the same type of salmonella infection. Salmonella is a foodborne bacteria that can…

This story originally appeared on Canada’s National Observer and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As droughts, deteriorating farmland, and rising sea levels push people around the world from their homes, advocates in Canada are…

Those calculations focus primarily on the emissions from heavy machinery and long-distance trucking and shipping. But Elizabeth Sawin, founder and director of the Multisolving Institute, which promotes interventions that fix multiple…