Agriculture

Years after a nuclear disaster wiped out Fukushima’s agriculture, peach growers are banking on Harrods to sell the area’s recovery story

A looming and poorly regulated PFAS threat comes from these chemicals’ common use in pesticides on farms nationwide

A curator at the New York Botanical Garden explains what we can learn about the past and the present from houseplant trends.

Scientists say efforts to tame methane in agriculture can spur the output of another greenhouse gas: nitrous oxide

Finland has decided to vaccinate farmworkers against bird flu—and experts say the U.S. should do the same

H5N1 is running rampant through dairy cows, putting humans at risk of an epidemic

Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture

Understanding how avian influenza jumped into cows can help shape the path to stopping the virus’s spread

Lobbyists’ and politicians’ campaigns against lab-grown meat appeal to emotion, not logic and reason

H5N1 influenza virus particles have been detected in commercially sold milk, but it’s not clear how the virus is spreading in cattle or whether their milk could infect humans

When astronauts return to the moon later this decade, they’ll bring along science experiments to study moonquakes, lunar water ice and extraterrestrial agriculture

Cary Fowler, the U.S. State Department’s leading figure on global hunger, explains a new way to improve nutritious food supply