agriculture, Tag

You may remember seeing scare stories like these in the media. Claim: Climate Change will Cause a Global Corn Crop Failure  Global Warming Will Cut Crop Yields – Assuming No Adaption Reality bites in two ways; 1. Actual...

Over the past few weeks, millions of people have bought nutritious, tasty treats that they won’t eat, and after Halloween, the majority will end up throwing them in the trash...

The Mallee district is set to become home to a huge new, but the development has sparked concerns over the loss of prime agricultural land.

The Mallee district is set to become home to a huge new, but the development has sparked concerns over the loss of prime agricultural land.

The habitat of the Malayan tiger — one of the world’s most endangered tigers — is being threatened by a strange fruit. Because of a growing demand in China for durian, a 'smelly' and controversial fruit, Malaysian forests...

When you cook at home, there is nothing better than using fresh, seasonal produce as ingredients in your recipes. But it can be difficult to remember what is in season near you throughout the year. Luckily, there is an app...

While the meat industry's negative impacts on the environment have proved troublesome for some time, an assembly of scientists from various European research institutes have released a thorough analysis of the Earth's food...

Bee vandals have struck again, this time at the Grateful Acres Farm northeast of Des Moines, Iowa. Last week, farmer Jake Knutson discovered that someone had trashed three of his strongest hives with cinder blocks, logs and...

Online farmers markets are becoming increasingly popular with the rise in demand for locally sourced produce. With an industry that makes hundreds of millions annually, online farmers markets provide consumers with fresh...

For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perfecting its agricultural robots to tend its indoor farms. After first testing its systems on a small scale, the company is opening its first fully autonomous...

Scientists agree that the dairy industry has an overall negative affect on the environment. For starters, it takes a lot of land, fertilizer and water to grow food for the cows. It also takes a lot of energy to process raw...

A plan to build a solar farm that would have been bigger than the nearest town has been nixed by a council in Victoria's south-west.

Taipei-based design practice BIAS Architects recently completed “Greenhouse as a Home,” an experimental installation that reinterprets the living areas of a traditional house as five climatic zones...

A plan to build a solar farm that would have been bigger than the nearest town has been nixed by a council in the state's south-west.