More than 97 percent of California is under at least “severe” drought conditions, raising the specter of difficult agricultural decisions in a state that produces a quarter of U.S. food. Farming is ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — California's drought could bring significant challenges to the state's $45 billion farm industry, as some farmers are already abandoning their crops. Rice farmer Mike Shannon's ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

(Reuters) - The worst drought in living memory is sweeping parts of eastern Australia, leaving farmers struggling to cope and asking questions about their future. For a grahic on Interactive graphic ...

During an interview at WSJ’s Global Food Forum. a farmer from northwestern Illinois says that 70% of the Illinois and Iowa corn crop is in a moderate or severe state of drought. The most widespread ...

Europe’s summer of drought has been impossible to ignore. Rivers dried up, exposing the skeletons of warships and ancient buildings. Images captured by satellite show swathes of the continent’s ...

AgForce members believed further support was needed, including for kangaroo control, business grants, farm labour wage assistance. Two-thirds of farmers in drought-affected areas had not applied for ...

California is home to two of the three redwood tree species: coast redwoods and giant sequoias. The coast redwood is the Earth's tallest tree, growing more than 360 feet tall, with a trunk that can ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Populations of various species of aquatic insects and other invertebrates respond to flooding and waterway drying due to drought in different ways that can be anticipated, ...

The crisis, worsened partly by climate change, has been accompanied by soaring food prices and could have consequences for hunger, elections and migration worldwide. By Somini Sengupta Pandemic. War.

In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a remarkable organism known as Pando stands as the largest living organism on Earth by mass. This colossal stand of genetically identical quaking aspen trees, which ...