Researchers in southern Africa have pieced together an explanation to the mystery of why so many endangered vultures test positive for lead poisoning.
The study was mammoth. It cost $54 million, and involved some 1,000 researchers and 65,000 local bureaucrats. But academics around the globe are calling the results an agricultural miracle.
A sense of community is crucial to thriving as a human, so much so that it could be the most important component in an emerging concept for saving lives.
One of America’s most powerful food lobbying groups has been neutered, largely abandoned by its own industry after failing to adequately contain or respond to changing consumer tastes that food makers have found threatening.
New research shows people who suffer from overweight and obesity are at greater risk of dying sooner than people who don’t. The finding pokes holes in the so-called “obesity paradox.”
Veganism is creeping into the mainstream as multiple trends converge to create the perfect conditions for people to consider a lifestyle that avoids all meat and animal products. Global health authorities are warning against eating too much red and processed meats, environmentalists bemoan how much animal agriculture negatively contributes to climate change, and a consumer craze for different sources for protein have them considering more plant-based and cellular agriculture options.
A microscopic organism is poised to challenge a centuries-old sector of the food industry, potentially putting a lot of cows out of business.
In its effort to lead the global push against climate change, the world’s second-largest economy has assigned soldiers to tree-planting duty, spent billions of dollars on cleaner energy (pdf), and has actively pushed some of its cities away from using coal.
A wave of activism among American teenagers is rippling across the country as high-school students respond to calls from their peers in Parkland, Florida to join them in demanding that lawmakers adopt stricter gun control measures.
When the market throws him for a loop, Warren Buffett looks to poetry. No, really.
You know things are pretty bad when America’s most-hated legacy airline (as measured by a 2017 consumer-satisfaction poll) doesn’t even want to associate with you.
Every year, the world’s third-richest man pens a much-anticipated letter (pdf) to shareholders of his company, Berkshire Hathaway. This year, that letter opened with news that 2017 had proven far from normal.
In recent decades, as obesity and its associated maladies like heart disease and cancer have become a global epidemic, a cottage industry has arose to hawk supposedly clear paths for people aiming to shed excess weight. These have included dieting fads (paywall) like intense calorie counting and paleo eating that rapidly go in and out of fashion, and even DNA testing kits that promise a more precise way to build a healthy, personalized dieting regimen.
With their elected officials locked in a stalemate over enacting stricter gun control, American students are turning to their own handmade tools to try and protect themselves in the event of a school shooting.
Alien life has been depicted in films and television shows in all manner of ways. In some cases, fictional humans reacted with violence: There was all-out chaos in Independence Day; there were baseball-bat attacks in Signs; and Sigourney Weaver barely survived in Alien. In others, on-screen people felt ok with visitors from deep space: ET was cute; Alf was odd; and Fox Mulder and Dana Scully kept an open mind.
Walk down the aisles of your nearest grocery store, and you’ll experience a colorful kaleidoscope of the modern food system—featuring packaged goods from breakfast cereals to potato chips, cookies, and sausages. These foods are tasty and omnipresent, and they could be killing us.
The world’s largest burger chain today (Feb. 15) said it was launching an effort to revamp its iconic Happy Meal, an effort to slash calories and make them healthier for the kids who clamor for them.
Chipotle just made a deal with the devil in a bid for resurrection.
For all intents and purposes, the Amazon molly should be on a crash course to extinction. Shockingly, it’s not only survived, but thrived.
Blue Apron may be losing money, but that hasn’t deterred Donald Trump from proposing the high-end meal-kit company be a loose model for the federal food stamps program.
A major sector of the American meat industry is finally taking aim at cell-cultured meat, sparking what promises to be a spirited debate over the future of high-tech meat and how people will buy it.
The American government is cracking down on kratom, a plant native to southeast Asia that many in the US are turning to for relief from pain, depression, and symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
For decades, scientists have debated what caused the globe’s fifth mass extinction, which marked the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago.
The key to a long life of mental acuity depends, in part, on how secure a person feels about getting older in the first place.
