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A trawler in Bangladesh.

Overfishing leads to decline in Bangladesh marine fish stocks & diversity

Abu Siddique 30 Jan 2024
A Caribbean spiny lobster (Panulirus argus).

Report: Human tragedy stalks the prized Honduran lobster industry

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2024
Marmi, a rice farmer, is monitoring the development of rice as the planting season approaches in Buru's Waeapo village.

Maluku farmers sweat El Niño drought as Indonesia rice prices surge

Jaya Barends 25 Jan 2024
An oceanic whitetip shark.

Global shark deaths increasing despite finning bans, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

Con Chim: A window into Vietnam’s past and future beyond rice fields

Giang Pham, Sonal Gupta 16 Jan 2024
A farmer carries a net.

A Mekong island too tiny for industrial farming now points to Vietnam’s future

Sonal Gupta 11 Jan 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
A black bear fishes for salmon.

Salmon and other migratory fish play crucial role in delivering nutrients

Ruth Kamnitzer 3 Jan 2024
A whale shark.

Still on the menu: Shark fin trade in U.S. persists despite ban

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 27 Dec 2023
A coffee cup with beans. Photo by Lotus Head/Wikimedia Commons

U.S. and U.K. lawmakers must wake up to the coffee problem (commentary)

Etelle Higonnet 21 Dec 2023
Wine bottles in a vineyard.

Some hemp with your wine? Study shows better soil, potentially flavors from intercropping

Sarah Derouin 19 Dec 2023

Certificate of origin for Acre’s açaí is a boost for the Amazonian superfood

Tácita Muniz 5 Dec 2023
Roger and Matt store the days catch after a day of reefnet fishing in Legoe Bay, off the shore of Lummi Island Washington.

Last of the reef netters: An Indigenous, sustainable salmon fishery

Liz Kimbrough 21 Nov 2023
Salmon attempt to make it up the falls at Bridge River Rapids on the Fraser River in southwestern British Columbia.

Fish out of water: North American drought bakes salmon

Ruth Kamnitzer 20 Nov 2023
Brazilian environment ministry's IBAMA carryinh out an operation to combat the illegal use of pesticides in western Bahia's Cerrado in 2018.

Study links pesticides to child cancer deaths in Brazilian Amazon & Cerrado

Shi En Kim 10 Nov 2023
Swordfish off the Florida Coast. Image courtesy of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Fisheries managers should act to protect swordfish this month (commentary)

Rick Moonen 8 Nov 2023
Two Antarctic fur seals playing at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia.

Amid record melting, countries fail again to protect Antarctic waters

Francesco De Augustinis 30 Oct 2023
Fishermen on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Oct 2023
Tuna and bycatch on a purse seiner in East Pacific Ocean.

Report: Half of MSC-certified ‘sustainable’ tuna caught with controversial gear

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Oct 2023
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
Santiaga Sánchez seated atop a pile of compost she calls her “brown gold.”

Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
People select fish on Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya.

Kenya’s Lake Victoria floods leave orphaned children to run their households

Mactilda Mbenywe 12 Oct 2023
Local fishermen harvesting seaweed in Bangladesh.

Seaweed: The untapped economic potential for Bangladesh

Farhana Parvin 10 Oct 2023
Ismael Nobre

Cacao and cupuaçu emerge as Amazon’s bioeconomy showcases

Sarah Brown 4 Oct 2023
A farmer holds green vegetables in his farm.

Salinity hinders Bangladesh agriculture; groups respond with seeds & information

Abu Siddique 28 Sep 2023
Cattle in Pará state.

EU bill and new green policies spur progress on Brazil’s cattle tracking

André Schröder 21 Sep 2023
In July 2021, the commercial propagation permit for Malusog Rice was granted, paving the way for its pilot-scale deployment in several provinces a year later.

Is the genetically modified, nutrient-rich Golden Rice as safe as promised?

Keith Anthony Fabro 11 Sep 2023
A dairy cow in a farm in the Netherlands.

In the clash over Dutch farming, Europe’s future arrives

Ashoka Mukpo 8 Sep 2023
Fishing boats in the Sundarbans.

Court order fails to stop poison fishing in Bangladesh Sundarbans

Farhana Parvin 1 Sep 2023
A rancher herds cattle in Mato Grosso, Brazil.

How the Amazon’s ‘greatest devastator’ sold cattle to a Carrefour supplier 

Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos, Hyury Potter 29 Aug 2023
Wheat field in Kansas. Image by Lane Pearman via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Getting the bread: What’s the environmental impact of wheat?

Ashoka Mukpo 22 Aug 2023
A farmer in a rice paddy field.

Bali rice experiment cuts greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields

Claire Turrell 11 Aug 2023

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