As the global population grows, we’ll have to find ways of feeding the planet without accelerating climate change.

Rounding out this list of high-yielding dividend stocks is Canada-based Bank of Nova Scotia, also known as Scotiabank. At around 6%, that's a high payout for a top bank stock that is known for ...

Edible plants are breaking out of the bed—and thriving in wild new places. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Search for: ...

Silent famine . In 1884, the first correlation between beriberi and a dietary factor was made by Takaki Kanehiro, a Japanese Naval doctor.

Boothby's Blonde cucumber is a high-yielding, heirloom variety ideal for ... Boothby’s Blonde cucumbers are free from the bitterness that many customers find off-putting in other cucumber varieties. .

It's a trait that the green revolution, the 20th Century agriculture boom which introduced high-yielding varieties of crops grown in optimum conditions of water, soil and Sun, exacerbated.

Without high-yielding crops, we would be millions of hectares deeper into wild habitat than we currently are, the model confirmed. Not only have they brought 226 million metric tons of additional ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for breeding high-yielding corn in the U.S., appear to have lost a portion of ...

Dagmar is a high-yielding, semi-solid sawfly variety, known for higher protein and good end-use characteristics. “It took a while for Dagmar to get a foothold after it was released,” Cook said. “Part ...

Upstream Biotechnology, a Durham-based developer of innovative crop varieties resilient to environmental stress, and Bene Seeds Inc., a California-based provider of high-quality tomato seed products, ...

The Green Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s marked a turning point in Indian agriculture. Spearheaded by agricultural scientists like Dr. M.S. Swaminathan, the movement introduced high-yielding ...