Agriculture

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

Halophytes that thrive in increasingly saline soils could help feed people and livestock

Spreading crushed stone across farm fields could inexpensively pull CO₂ from the air while also increasing yields. But it would require a mountain of mining

Outside groups often offer their solutions for climate adaptation in Africa. But the best people to manage the climate crisis are the people in those communities themselves. For climate adaptation to succeed in Africa, let communities and local leaders show the way

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