Agriculture

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,...

Rice may be getting a powerful nutritional upgrade. A new meta-analysis published in npj Sustainable Agriculture reports that combining genetic...

Brazilian aquaculture has revealed an unexpected bacterial threat that could reshape disease management in one of the world’s fastest-growing food...

Nitrogen fertilizer has helped transform modern agriculture, but its success comes with a costly paradox: crops often receive more nitrogen...

Timber harvesting may leave a forest standing while quietly damaging the plants needed to keep it alive. A new study...

A plate of food may look like a personal choice, but multiplied across millions of households, it becomes a force...

New York University researchers have identified a molecular switch that tells plants when they have absorbed enough nitrogen, a discovery...

Barragán Fonseca, K.Y., Mertens, D., Beschoren da Costa, P. et al. By-products of insect farming as a novel sustainable biofertilizer...

It is a mystery that has puzzled scientists for years. How can the world’s only winged mammals carry viruses that cause severe disease while rarely becoming...