“Last week, the FDA reported that 20 percent of the milk it had sampled from retailers across the country contained fragments of bird flu, raising concerns that the virus, which is spreading among ...

Here’s a gimmick for a book that could have gone wrong: a confessional narrative of interactions with poor, desperate people, centered with details of the food that you’ve cooked and shared with them.

The three federal agencies that share jurisdiction over genetically engineered plants and animals said on Wednesday that they would update and streamline biotechnology regulations in five areas, ...

Geoffrey Hawtin and Cary Fowler, founders of the “doomsday” seed bank in Norway, are this year’s winners of the $500,000 World Food Prize “for their longstanding contributions to seed conservation and ...

Many of the most important questions environmentalists must face are about tradeoffs. What steps are we willing to take to fix our climate problems? What do we do when our proposed green solutions ...

Farmers are beginning to regard energy production on their land, such as solar, wind, and carbon capture usage, as a factor in driving land values upward, said a Purdue University survey on Tuesday.

Neighbors needn’t test: The USDA said “surrounding farms are not required to be tested” if bird flu is found in a dairy herd, under its order that lactating dairy cows be tested for the H5N1 bird flu ...