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Rio+20 Earth Summit: Leaked Draft Reveals Conflict Among Countries
The latest draft text that 180 governments are expected to sign up to at the end of the Rio+20...
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Groundwater Depletion Threatens U.S. Food Security
Researchers believe the nation’s food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture. The study, which...
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Leaf ‘Stamp’ Could Detect Crop Diseases
Crop diseases could be detected earlier and more easily if a new method that stamps a leaf with a...
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Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating
Is there an ethical argument in favor of flesh consumption? That is, can a meat-eating human find solid moral...
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A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity
Carson C. Chow deploys mathematics to solve the everyday problems of real life. As an investigator at the National...
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How to Feed the World While Earth Cooks
A conference on feeding the world must also feed itself. For the New America Foundation’s recent “Feeding the World...
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Plant Diversity is Key to Productive Vegetation
Vegetation, such as a patch of prairie or a forest stand, is more productive in the long run when...
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Plant Study Flags Dangers of Warming World
Plants flowering 8.5 times faster than predicted; changes have knock-on effect for food chain, ecosystems
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Organic Farming Is Rarely Enough
Organic farming is sometimes touted as a way to feed the world’s burgeoning population without destroying the environment. But...