California filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Trump administration to block new rules that allows farmers to use more water from the state’s largest rivers, citing the rules’ failure to protect endangered fish species.
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The worst locust outbreak that East Africa has seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years of civil war, officials said Tuesday.
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Long-standing human stressors like agricultural runoff, overfishing and warming ocean temperatures brought on by climate change are in part responsible for large-scale coral reef die-offs.
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Nearly wiped out by agricultural pesticides in the 1950s, Louisiana’s state bird the brown pelican has made a tremendous comeback. Now, thanks to 150,000 cubic yards of Mississippi River sand and help from $18.7 million of BP’s multibillion-dollar settlement for the catastrophic oil spill a decade ago, one of the pelicans’ essential nesting grounds is also coming back.
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High-altitude and polar regions previously unsuitable to support agriculture are now being looked at for future farming opportunities, but research shows bringing agriculture to these areas could significantly impact biodiversity, water resources, and greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
Read moreIn a field bathed in winter light, Hasan Siber patiently harvests his olives. It’s a common sight in Cyprus, but his “oil for peace” represents a rare glimmer of hope on the divided Mediterranean island.
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Watch out at the Oscars on Sunday for Hatidze Muratova. You can’t miss her. She will be the only Turkish-Macedonian peasant in the starry audience at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
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France’s agriculture ministry said Thursday that it was increasing surveillance of fields to stave off a ruinous virus affecting tomatoes that has already been found in neighboring countries.
Read moreA resident sued San Diego and its city forester in superior court for refusing to designate 110-year-old pepper trees in the Kensington Park subdivision as heritage trees, but ordering them removed.
Read moreUtah sued Gordon Creek, gas and oil exploration, for a pipeline spill that killed more than half an acre of vegetation, in Carbon County Court.
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Dog detectives might be able to help save ailing citrus groves, research published Monday suggests.
Read moreTechnology has played an important role in agriculture for years but it’s become a life and death matter at dairy farms these days, as low milk prices have ratcheted up pressure on farmers to seek every possible efficiency to avoid joining the thousands of operations that have failed.
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A long-running dispute over patents related to cattle semen sorting technology continued Wednesday, with a Texas company claiming in a new lawsuit that a Wisconsin breeder is still infringing on the patents after it was told by a judge to stop.
Read moreScientists have conducted the first successful field release experiment of a genetically modified moth that could fundamentally change how crops are protected from pests.
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France said Tuesday it will ban the controversial but widespread practices of live-shredding day-old male chicks and castrating piglets without anesthesia, in a move cautiously welcomed by animal welfare activists.
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According to a new study by U.S.-based experts, global warming of just 3.6 Farenheit could see the world’s wine-producing regions shrink by more than half.
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A French court on Tuesday handed suspended 500-euro fines to two Romanians who organized a massive harvest of prized wild mushrooms from a forest where authorities have strictly limited how much a person can gather.
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Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. Is this another effect of a changing climate? Yes, researchers say. An unprecedented food security crisis may be the result.
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Several oyster farmers along France’s Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts have been forced to halt sales since December after their sites were contaminated by the highly contagious norovirus, which they blame on overflowing sewage treatment plants.
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Drought-breaking storms dumped desperately needed rain on some bushfire-ravaged parts of eastern Australia on Friday, giving joy to many farmers who faced losing precious livestock and crops.
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