At first glance, funding climate action through soil carbon credits instead of taxpayer dollars may seem like a win-win ...

A wave of new policies is making climate-related disclosures mandatory for a large swath of the global economy, including ...

The author presents an argument that two distinct biologies are being created from the original Atlantic salmon: wild (Salmo salar) and domesticated (Salmo domesticus). The author explains why escaped ...

Under federal antitrust law, only direct purchasers or direct sellers (direct parties) have the right to a remedy for antitrust harm. However, 14 states and the District of Columbia have passed ...

Wall Street Journal | Op-Ed | By HOLMAN W. JENKINS JR. If mankind rejects the benefits of gene splicing, there will be a better reason than one company's public relations miscues. Monsanto was on a ...

With the prospects for a new farm bill uncertain, Washington grain growers are bolstering lobbying efforts for a large federal subsidy program. "I know a lot of people, who, if they wouldn't have got ...

To be broadcast as a FRONTLINE special on September 21, 22 & 23 at 9 pm. (Check local listings.) David Sutherland's film THE FARMER'S WIFE is a landmark documentary portrait of three years in the life ...

Like the polar bear, Wisconsin?s only mammal on the state?s endangered species list could also become a victim of global warming. Research conducted by a state wildlife biologist indicates that in ...

An 11th-hour effort has sprouted to stop a controversial peat-mining operation that was about to be developed near Big Falls. Access roads already are being built to the site, in the Pine Island State ...

"Historic evidence shows that Basmati is a distinctive cultivar developed by the farmers of India and Pakistan at least 250 years ago, and grown in many parts in these two countries ever since," says ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

The global food system has three principal vectors: (1) the corporate model of industrial and transgenic agriculture, (2) a variety of alternative models concerned with the sustainability of rural ...