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Agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa needs to improve to reduce hunger, poverty, and the destruction of biodiversity.

Romanticized “pop ecology” oversimplifies nature and leads to costly mistakes in real-world crop management.

Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms (PSM) are often reported to have positive effects on crop productivity through enhanced phosphorus (P) nutrition. Our aim was to evaluate the validity of this co...

Do biotech companies lie about the pesticide-saving benefits of genetically engineered crops? The activist group GM Watch says yes. Do they have a convincing case? Nope.

Europe’s farmers are a minority. You wouldn’t know it from the political power they wield.

The big players in the machinery market keep adding pieces towards autonomous vehicles for farming, but how far away is a final product?

Keeping tabs on market trends is important, but accurately gauging when trends begin to turn is a bankable skill.

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature.

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

GreenLight Biosciences ("the Company" or "GreenLight Bio") today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) registration of Norroa™, the first-ever nature-based treatment specifically ...

And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?

The U.S. EPA has announced it intends to remove all greenhouse gas emissions regulations on light, medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles.

Africa's quiet biotech revolution

Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. Not all of the readers came for the science. Continue reading...

After 20 years, the UN's FAO is re-embracing ag biotech and gene-editing to improve food sustainability, marking a significant shift in its messaging.

Spacecraft can get a significant boost by stealing energy from planets

According to Professor Paul Gauthier, vertical farming is no longer in its proof-of-concept phase. We’ve crossed that threshold. What comes next isn’t about whether we can grow food indoors—but whethe...

As Canadians increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for quick answers about health problems, a new study warns relying on tools like ChatGPT for self-diagnosis could be risky.

Canada has a world-class group of people who work in the “Everything is Bad” industry.

If that five-star rating feels like a lie, it probably is

If you thought Tesla’s Superchargers were fast, wait till you get a load of the latest chargers from China's CATL, the world's biggest supplier.