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Biofuels are causing environmental damage Dave Reed/Alamy Certainly. Plants convert sunlight into food (stored energy), so transforming that food into fuel seems like it should yield…

Climate change will lessen the availability of most staple crops, including corn Jon Rehg/Shutterstock Despite farmers’ best efforts to adapt, increasing global temperatures have the potential…

According to court documents submitted on Monday in a deletion lawsuit, the Agriculture Department plans to reinstate climate change information that was removed from its website…

African farmers who produce some of the world’s most respected coffee are scrambling to comply with the new European Union environmental regulations, which require that the…

The discovery of stone tools, hearths and cooked food waste at a cave site in Latniya on the Mediterranean island of Malta indicates that hunter-gatherers had…