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India’s crop map may be carrying an invisible environmental price tag. A new study in Nature Communications examines how restructuring...

Groundwater pumping to irrigate cannabis farms in California’s Emerald Triangle may be quietly draining the streams that sustain some of...

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Cadmium contamination and microplastic pollution are colliding in agricultural soils, creating a complex environmental mixture that may affect crops in...

China’s maize harvest is entering a new era of uncertainty, and a new study suggests that the country’s biggest opportunity...

China’s transition toward a sustainable food system will depend less on isolated technological breakthroughs than on whether the country can...

Agriculture may be entering a new era in which crops are judged not only by how much food they produce,...