WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Productivity-boosting agricultural innovations in Africa could lead to an increase in global deforestation rates and carbon emissions, a Purdue University study finds.

Why did the European Food Safety Authority claim that glyphosate was not ecotoxic? This is the question environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason poses in her new 23-page report which can be accessed in full ...

For almost all of Homo sapiens' estimated 200,000-year history, our species lived as hunter-gatherers, uprooting wild plants, gathering wild nuts, picking wild fruit, and hunting wild game. And life ...

The Neolithic Revolution—also referred to as the Agricultural Revolution—is thought to have begun about 12,000 years ago. It coincided with the end of the last ice age and the beginning of the current ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution, humans have built and designed new inventions ...