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Nearly 21 million farmers in 452 counties across China have adopted recommendations from scientists in a 10-year agriculture sustainability study to reduce fertilizer use...

Scientists have discovered that a simple genetic modification may result in crops needing up to 25 percent less water than unaltered plants to produce the same yield...

Scientists have discovered that a simple genetic modification may result in crops needing up to 25 percent less water than unaltered plants to produce the same yield...

Cultivating crops in Dubai's harsh climate isn't easy -- but indoor vertical farms could offer a solution. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)'s first such facility, Badia Farms, recently launched in the glitzy emirate. The...

As our technology is advancing, so are our farms. Indoor farming company Bowery is constructing what they describe as the "most technologically-sophisticated commercial indoor farm in the world." It's their second, but this...

As our technology is advancing, so are our farms. Indoor farming company Bowery is constructing what they describe as the "most technologically-sophisticated commercial indoor farm in the world." It's their second, but this...

The Hollywood star now has a second life as a fearless animal activist and eco warrior – and, he reveals, it all started with Babe, his film about a talking pig

Scientists at the University of Sheffield have learned that farming with crushed silicate rocks mixed into the soil could improve global food security, increase crop yields, promote soil health, and reduce greenhouse gas...

Tucked inside the lush boreal forest in Canada's Northwest Territories, you'll find something unexpected. There, cheek to jowl with the ever-encroaching trees sits a thriving farm with snuffling pigs, lush fruit trees, and...

If this year’s $120m juicing flop gave you reason to doubt in human ingenuity, take heart in these incredible inventions to come: from an artificial kidney to a breast pump you might actually want to use

Although frost has arrived in most subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, farmers still carry on even in the most extreme cold climates with the help of innovative technology and thoughtful design...

There is enough food for everyone, says Chrissie Hynde – if everyone takes only their fair share and stops eating animals. Others suggest improving farming production methods, tackling population growth and taxing meatAlthough...

99 percent less water and 4,000 lettuce heads every 10 days: Los Angeles-based Local Roots achieves all that in their shipping container farms. And today they announced they've also reached cost parity with traditional farming....

The Ogallala aquifer, one of the world's largest underground bodies of water upon which many ecosystems and communities in the American West depend, is in rapid decline due to over-exploitation of its resources...

Until recently the battle to avert catastrophic climate change – floods, droughts, famine, mass migrations – seemed to be lost. But with the tipping point just years away, the tide is finally turning, thanks to innovations...