— -- U.S. farmers and those in developing countries helped drive a surge in new plantings of genetically modified crops around the globe in 2011, even in the face of resistance from Europe and ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) — Meetings planned in four states will ask people what they think about using genetically modified crops on refuges to provide food for migrating waterfowl. The U.S. Fish and ...

A stark and heart-wrenching paradox haunts the modern world: while nearly one-tenth of humanity goes to bed hungry, a tidal ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, studied genetically enhanced crops as a tool to remove carbon from the atmosphere. The next-generation crops could capture about 1 gigaton of ...

German life sciences giant Bayer believes a change to EU policy on gene-edited crops has the potential to reshape Europe’s ...

Kenyan farmers like Gilbert arap Bor are losing money every day and food security for all is challenged because farmers have not been allowed to plant biotech crops. Kenyan farmers like me are losing ...

Even as some U.S. consumers reject foods containing ingredients from genetically modified plants, farmers continue to embrace the technology. In 2013, crops grown from seed engineered to withstand ...

Greenpeace may be committed to "saving the whales," but it's happy to let poor children go blind and die. Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can ...

Genetically modified (GM) crops are widely used around the world, but their effects on the environment need to be explored more. New research, published in Science on August 30, 2024, takes a look at ...

All farmers know they’ll have to endure the occasional dry period, but what has happened to the American Midwest this summer has been practically biblical. By the end of July, over 60% of the U.S. was ...

Robert Shapiro: ‘How can we double or triple food output in a sustainable manner without destroying large parts of the living systems and soil on which we depend?’ - Michael L Abramson/Getty Images ...

By Henry A. Onwubiko“A nation that cannot control its own seeds cannot decide its destiny.” –Captain Ibrahim Troure Genetic engineering, the manipulation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the hereditary ...