Creating a sustainable human age we actually want to live in.
Vanilla farms help boost the number of species found on land previously cleared for agriculture in Madagascar, scientists find.
Under experimental conditions, pea proteins form a substance that resembles the firm but gooey texture of cheese—a precursor to lower-impact dairy alternatives.
In a ground-breaking study, scientists reveal how the combined power of biodiversity—in this case, pest control and pollination services—is greater than individual ecological services.
The presence of wild peanut traits in modern crops has enabled farmers to cut back on fungicides and other chemical treatments, and even reduce fuel use and emissions.
Water storage is key to feeding an extra 1.15 billion people. But mega dams, say researchers, are a last resort.
Starch-heavy foods such as popcorn and old pizza can be used to make bioplastics and high fiber wastes like tomato peels and eggshells are excellent fillers for tires and other rubber products
Adding super-moisture-absorbent gels to arid soils could liberate farming from expensive irrigation and power systems
Applied to different cultivars, this discovery has the potential to not only slash nitrate pollution, but also agricultural greenhouse gases
Scientists have engineered bacteria that release ammonia, in quantities high enough to feed rice plants