Germany’s decades-long shift from from coal to renewable energy has brought both challenge and opportunity — and there are lessons for the rest of the world ...

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Scientists suggest genetic engineering can save biodiversity, create disease and climate resistant plants and even prevent mosquitoes from carrying malaria ...

Recent woes have drawn unprecedented attention to the worth of fresh, clean water. Can it change the way we pay for the world’s most undervalued resource?

Sheep Graze Higher Among the four different types of livestock featured here, mutton and lamb will see the second largest percentage increase in per capita consumption between 2014 and 2024. At 1.9 ...

Ensia is a solutions-focused nonprofit media outlet reporting on our changing planet. Published by the Institute on the Environment.

Open-source breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply, making seeds available for others to breed with in the future.

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Researchers around the world are learning from indigenous communities. Here’s why that’s a good thing.

As a crop, corn is highly productive, flexible and successful. As a system, the same is not true.

But a number of researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases like COVID-19, the viral disease that ...

Production of palm oil — a ubiquitous ingredient — is devastating for the environment. Solutions are complex, but they are out there.