Climate Food and Agriculture
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Severe drought in India pushed thousands of farmers to suicide
Why was this drought worse than others? Blame climate change and modernization.
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Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
Its herbicide-tolerant crop is pitting farmer against farmer.
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Climate change turns birds into cannibals
As food becomes scarce, gulls in Washington state are turning to their own kind.
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No peaches or apricots? Blame the Northeast’s warm, wacky winter.
El Niño has made life less peachy for stone fruits.
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Plants have an immune system, too. It’s called soil.
The more microbes, the merrier.
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Species-wide gene editing could potentially save life on earth — or permanently damage it
Top scientists just encouraged more research into this controversial new technology.
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Watch a very buff seed take on his roided-up GMO counterparts
Mr. Seed thinks the agrichemical industry isn’t as sexy as he is.
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The science is in, and this popular weedkiller really might be harmful
In vindication for herbicide critics, EPA says atrazine may harm animals
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Dungeness crabs threatened by, you guessed it, climate change
Ocean acidification is bad for crab larvae, and the fishermen who rely on them.
