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agriculture

Volcanoes and Wine: Why a match made in hell tastes like heaven

Earth

Volcanoes and Wine: Why a match made in hell tastes like heaven

From Etna to Vesuvius, Santorini to Stromboli, volcanoes have long been linked to excellent wines. New book Volcanoes and Wine explores this unlikely terroir

Culture

World's hungriest caterpillar is wreaking destruction around the world

Life

World's hungriest caterpillar is wreaking destruction around the world

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banana farming

Environment

Bananas have benefited from climate change – but they won’t in future

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Inside China's attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields

Technology

Inside China's attempt to boost crop yields with electric fields

Features

Should we eat local to cut food miles, or does it make no difference?

Environment

Should we eat local to cut food miles, or does it make no difference?

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Cows

Environment

We could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane

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Fishmeal

Technology

Turning CO2 into animal feed could make it greener for us to eat meat

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rubber tapping

Life

The world's supply of rubber is in jeopardy. Can we find new sources?

Features

How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

How quantum sensors can improve our lives and agriculture

Video

trowel

Environment

The idea that there are only 100 harvests left is just a fantasy

Headlines warn that our soil is becoming so degraded that we are heading for an agricultural Armageddon. Can that be right? James Wong investigates

Comment

Environment

Vineyards sit in moon-like craters on a volcano in Lanzarote

Regulars

Environment

Deforestation in the Amazon could raise local temperatures by 1.5C

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Comment

To feed 11 billion people, we must share crop seeds as a common good

Comment

Environment

When humans are wiped from Earth, the chicken bones will remain

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