Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis and artificial intelligence, a new initiative unveiled Sunday.
When the state Department of Environmental Conservation came out with permits in 2017 for large animal farms operating within watersheds, environmental groups complained that the permits violated the federal Clean
NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA —The full extent of Hurricane Florence's environmental damage isn't yet known in North Carolina, where waste from factory farms, coal ash, and other pollutants are contaminating floodwaters still on the rise after the largest East Coast deluge north of Florida in history.
Scientists are noticing fewer flying insects that aren't really pests, like moths and butterflies. A variety of reasons are suspected but they all lead back to what humans are doing do the environment.
President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is taking a step to boost transparency for the country’s ethanol mandate, a move that could draw rare mutual applause from both farmers and oil refiners.
In Montana's Broadwater County, partnerships are a key component in both running a successful ranch and allowing opportunities for hunters while also protecting fish.
Operation BBQ Relief plans to feed Wilmington residents as they recover from Hurricane Florence. It's supplying food to the Salvation Army and people who need food.
Traditional communities in Brazil's savannah, lacking land deeds, have been displaced by large-scale soy growers, and forced to resettle in impoverished cities like Campos Lindos.
Wasps are aggressive and useless, people believe. But wasps are just as important as bees for pollinating our crops, say scientists. They're calling for a public relations campaign to overhaul wasps' bad image.
US environmental regulators are under increasing pressure over a controversial pesticide known for laying waste to nearby crops as well as the harmful weeds it is meant to control.
At least 1.7 million chickens have died from flooding in the state. The impact is now coming into focus — including overflowing pools of hog manure and waterlogged sweet potato fields.
Bayer asked a California judge to throw out a $289 million jury verdict awarded to a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, gave him cancer.
Mosquito larvae have been observed ingesting microplastics that can be passed up the food chain, researchers said Wednesday, potentially uncovering a new way that the polluting particles could damage the environment.
Climate change has increased the vulnerability of the state’s low-lying eastern plain, expanding the size and water mass of hurricanes by as much as fifty per cent, with ocean levels creeping up.
The cost of farmland is prohibitively expensive. Iroquois Valley Farms, a socially conscious investment company, aims to help organic farmers get into and stay in business.
The developer of the Carla variety, which originated in the Dominican Republic and is sold in Florida, is suing a Miami company alleging patent infringement.
