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Around the world, on separate continents with no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming simultaneously.
Science & Energy

The Biggest Technological Development in Human History Happened All Across the World Around the Same Time, by Groups of People With Zero Contact With One Another

By Noor Al-Sibai

American farms are incredibly dependent on immigrant labor that can't be replaced. Mass deportations would cause food production to plummet.
Future Society

If Trump Actually Goes Through With His Deportations, Grocery Prices Will Spike Brutally

By Frank Landymore

The synthetic "butter" not only tastes like the stuff, it's calorically dense and is made out of the very gas killing our planet, too.
Climate Change

All-American Startup Making “Butter” From Carbon in our Atmosphere

By Frank Landymore

China is constructing giant towers with well over a dozen stories to farm pigs, The New York Times reports, a massive drive to stabilize prices.
Science & Energy

China Growing Pigs in Huge High Rise Buildings

By Victor Tangermann

Farmland and flatulence: the essential Bill Gates crossover. The founder's climate fund just invested $12 million into cattle fart and burp-reducing feed.
Climate Change

Bill Gates Gives $12 Million to Flatulent Australian Cows

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Welcome to "Nemo's Garden," a beautiful underwater garden off of Italy's Northwestern coast. The underwater greenhouses are called "biospheres."
Science & Energy

Divers Growing Veggies in Underwater Greenhouses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, those who live in the developed world can still eat your delicious burgers and not destroy the Earth — just not too many.
Climate Change

Scientists Identify Exact Number of Burgers You Can Eat Without Destroying the Earth

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Scientists told national French news outlet AFP that human urine may be a way to better fertilize agricultural produce and reduce climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Say Key to Feeding World May Be Human Urine

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Scientists inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.
Agriculture

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

A massive lawsuit alleges that the extensive use of the pesticide chlrpyrifos caused neurological damage in developing embryos and young children.
Agriculture

Lawsuit Claims That Common Pesticide Causes Brain Damage in Children

By Dan Robitzski

Corcoran, California has been sinking into the Earth for years due to overpumping from underground water reservoirs by farms and the agricultural industry.
Science & Energy

An Entire Town Is Getting Swallowed by the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The idea of deep space explorers growing their own food just became more feasible with the discovery that worms can still hunt pests in microgravity.
Off-World

Scientists: Worms Could Kill Pests on Space Vegetables

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers have released into the wild a strain of genetically engineered diamondback moths that could suppress the pest population in a sustainable way.
Agriculture

Scientists Release Genetically Engineered Moths for First Time

By Kristin Houser

The day after the feral hogs meme was born, these researchers published a study about the very real problem the animals pose for farmers.
Science & Energy

Assault Rifles Won’t Solve Your Feral Hog Problem, Say Scientists

By Kristin Houser

Authorities in Colombia have quarantined four plantations after noticing symptoms of the banana disease TR4 amongst the crops.
Science & Energy

Bad News: A Banana-Killing Fungus Has Likely Reached the Americas

By Kristin Houser

Solar Foods is using renewable energy and the carbon dioxide polluting our air to create an environmentally friendly alternative protein.
Food

A Finnish Startup Is Making Food out of Carbon Dioxide

By Kristin Houser