Four threats to global food security and what we can do about them
Feeding nine billion people by 2050 is possible – if we start applying some science.
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Five ways cannabis can contribute to a green future
If grown on an industrial scale, hemp could provide multiple benefits for the environment and the economy.
Climate change: how elephants help pump planet‑warming carbon underground
Efforts to preserve biodiversity and slow climate change make natural bedfellows.
UK drought: are farmers facing the crop failures of 1976 all over again?
Unlike this time, the dry summer of 1976 followed a particularly dry year.
A common soil pesticide cut wild bee reproduction by 89% – here’s why scientists are worried
EU-banned pesticides could not only threaten wild bees where they eat, but where they sleep too.
Hacking plant ‘blood vessels’ could avert food crisis
Today’s wars are not about food, but not too far in the future they could be. The number of people dying of starvation has been falling for decades, but the decline in the numbers of hungry people is slowing…
High levels of ‘forever chemicals’ found in Lancashire residents’ blood – what I’ve learned from studying exposed communities for over a decade
Residents near a Lancashire chemical plant have high Pfas levels in their blood. A decade of research shows what that can and can’t tell us.
Tigray in Ethiopia was an environmental success story – but the war is undoing decades of regreening
We used satellite imagery to track the decline of vegetation since the civil war began.
Feeding the world: archaeology can help us learn from history to build a sustainable future for food
A new IPCC report has called for radical changes in food production to avoid catastrophic climate change. Rice-fish farming and mixed crops could help.
Decontaminating Fukushima: have the billions spent been worth it?
Japan has undertaken extensive efforts to decontaminate land in Fukushima – whether they were they right to do so is a complex question.
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