Just like fires can contaminate municipal water systems by melting pipes, farms’ and ranches’ water supply systems are at risk. A first-of-its-kind study after the Maui fires explores the harms.

A soil expert explains why flooding rice fields in South Florida benefits the agriculture-rich region.

High levels of market concentration lead to price rises and more ultra-processed food.

The most comprehensive assessment yet of a powerful greenhouse gas shows which countries are driving the increase, and which ones are successfully cutting emissions.

A sense of powerlessness is preventing farmers from adapting to climate change.

Avocados are marketed as a superfood, but growing them for an expanding world market has turned a rural Mexican state into an unsustainable monoculture.

Cassava’s many assets would seem to make it the ideal crop, except for one drawback: It’s highly poisonous. Human ingenuity has made cassava edible for millennia.

Vertical farming - growing plants without soil in huge controlled environments - has huge potential to support traditional agriculture but won’t ever replace it.

Some farmers are bewildered and anxious about changes to the way they work.

Meat is cheaper than it should be – and alternatives are more expensive.