The impacts of climate change, ranging from extreme weather events to rising sea levels, will make it much harder to feed a growing population, two new...
Warming and cooling trends caused by the climatic phenomena El Niño and La Niña could significantly reduce maize, rice and wheat yields by up to 4%,...
Rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide may cause some crops to become significantly less nutritious in the coming decades, with potentially significant impacts on the health...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
BBC presenter Alys Fowler is urging gardeners to make use of their time off this Easter by making their gardens more bee-friendly, in an effort to...
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, has warned that conflict and social unrest could escalate if the world fails to create a plan to...
Almost a quarter of Europe’s bumblebee species are threatened with extinction, including some that are essential to European agriculture, a new study has found. Researchers from...
All things are connected. This sentiment, which goes right to the heart of sustainability, was the central theme at a recent Intelligence Squared event. Water, Food,...
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability is the latest report from the hundreds of experts at the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The second...
World hunger could be prolonged for decades because our global food system is “woefully” unprepared for the impacts of climate change, an Oxfam report has warned....
Climate change will hit crop yields in temperate and tropical regions earlier than first thought, a new study has found. The study, published in the journal...
David Cameron’s official scientific advisers have called for genetically modified (GM) crops to be expanded in the UK. The Council for Science and Technology (CST) has...
The UK government is discussing how to regulate farmers so their poor land use does not amplify the effects of future flooding. After the wettest winter...
As people from all corners of the world are living off an increasingly similar diet, decreasing crop diversity is making the global food system more vulnerable...
A shipment of more than 20,000 crops from more than 100 nations has arrived at a ‘Doomsday vault’ in the Arctic Circle, as part of a...