Food & Agriculture

Farm vehicles now weigh almost as much as heaviest dinosaurs – here’s why that’s a problem

The Conversation: What does a modern combine harvester and a Diplodocus have in common? One answer, it seems, may be their big footprints on the soil. A new study led…

Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies

Wired: Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will someday release beagle-sized robots into their fields like a pack of hounds flushing pheasant. The robots, he says, will scurry in the cool shade beneath a wide diversity…

Harvard Grads Aim for Mass 3D Printed Alt Meats with $3M Seed Round

3DPrint.com: Businesses trying to revolutionize the alternative meat industry through 3D printing attracted hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in the last ten years, growing from just a few companies to dozens in the same time frame. One of…

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

Yale Environment 360: The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago. By the middle of this century, it could be…