GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, are the topic of plenty of debate. But what are the facts? Are GMO foods really safe to eat?

For thousands of years, monstrous herds of animals roamed the earth. These beasts covered vast swaths of land in search of food, water, and safety from predators. Their presence was integral, both as a food source for hunters and as ecological regulators.

Don’t expect much joy in writing about climate breakdown.

The Chugach people of southern Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula have picked berries for generations. Tart blueberries and sweet, raspberry-like salmonberries — an Alaska favorite — are baked into pies and boiled into jams. But in the summer of 2009, the bushes stayed brown and the berries never came. 

inety people are gathered along a trench—maybe 20 feet long, five feet deep, and three feet wide—in the Montana prairie. It’s an overcast spring day, with a cool breeze stirring the grass.

As concern grows over human-induced climate change, many scientists are looking back through Earth’s history to events that can shed light on changes occurring today. Analyzing how the planet’s climate system has changed in the past improves our understanding of how it may behave in the future.

The Carbon Tax Bill will come into effect in from 1 June 2019 – bringing added costs for some South Africans.

South Africa’s biotech crop adoption went up a further 3% in just one year between 2017 and 2018, a new report has revealed.

The world’s carbon budget—the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that humans can still pump into the atmosphere before we no longer have a chance of keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius—is almost used up.

There’s no shortage of ideas for solutions to the climate crisis.

Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon pool, accounting for over three times more carbon than all plants on earth.

As the effects of climate change intensify and paths for limiting global warming narrow, politicians, media and environmental advocates have rallied behind “carbon farming” as a mutually beneficial strategy for society, the environment and farmers.

It’s 2021 and we are facing a problem that threatens the very foundations of our planet. The funny thing is, you probably haven’t heard about it.

Climate change is a threat to all aspects of our lives. Every degree of global warming is likely to increase the intensity and frequency of climate extremes, such as drought and flooding. In a bid to address this, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – an intergovernmental body of the United Nations – has released a key report which looks at mitigation of climate change.

Crop biotechnology has significantly reduced agriculture’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by helping farmers adopt more sustainable practices such as reduced tillage, which decreases the burning of fossil fuels and retains more carbon in the soil according to my recently published.

Canola (Brassica napus) is an oilseed crop belonging to the Brassicaceae family, which also includes mustard, cabbage, and broccoli. It was developed in Canada in the 1970s through selective breeding of rapeseed to reduce levels of erucic acid and glucosinolates, compounds that made traditional rapeseed oil less suitable for human consumption. The name "canola" is derived from "Canadian oil, low acid," reflecting its origin and improved properties.