Springtime is one of my favorite times of year. After a season blanketed in snow or draped in cold, the earth begins to ...

MEXICO CITY — Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 13, 2024) While chemical companies persist in pushing simplistic solutions to complex problems, there is a large amount of evidence that organic farming presents ...

Bees leave an electric trace on pollinated flowers, telling other bees the flower is tapped out. A study found fertilizers change that electric field and put bumblebees off from fertilizing. Bees are ...

Kashmir’s saffron fields are shrinking as climate stress, urbanisation and policy failure push farmers and field guards out ...

ADA, Minn. — Hidden behind rows of trees, sits a half acre of zinnia flowers, showcasing their array of colorful petals dotted in the black soil. While it’s not the typical crop you find in northwest ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) —Farmers, who depend on the ebbs and flows of the weather to cultivate their crops, are on the front line on the climate crisis. This year alone, cempasuchil producers said they lost ...

Lucia Ortíz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to cemeteries across Mexico. Here, in the winding ...