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Participants of Terra Madre Asia Pacific celebrate day 5 of the regional 'good food' event. Image courtesy of Slow Food.

Philippines hosts new Asia-Pacific hub for sustainable agriculture, cuisine

Keith Anthony Fabro 21 Jan 2026
A model of a woolly mammoth at the Royal Victoria Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2018. Photo by Thomas Quine, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0).

‘De-extinction’ isn’t just misleading — it’s dangerous, ecologist says

Mike DiGirolamo 6 May 2025
The National Family Farm Coalition protests genetically engineered salmon at an event in Berea, Kentucky in August 2024.

Campaigners celebrate as firm making first-ever GMO fish ceases operations

Edward Carver 31 Dec 2024

In sub-Saharan Africa, ‘forgotten’ foods could boost climate resilience, nutrition

Claudia Geib, Elodie Toto 26 Jul 2024

Transgenics contaminate a third of Brazil’s traditional corn in semiarid region

Adriana Amâncio 1 Sep 2023
Canopy in fall.

Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears

Juliette Portala 27 Jul 2023

Stem cells may make ‘impossible possible’ for near-extinct Sumatran rhino

Basten Gokkon 15 Nov 2022
Nepal seed bank

Community-based seed banks in Nepal help conserve native species

Abhaya Raj Joshi 14 Jul 2022
ransgenic zebrafish expressing different fluorescent colours.

GM fish engineered to glow in the dark are found in Brazil creeks

Sue Branford 6 Apr 2022

In Nepal, a messy breakup with hybrid seeds is good news for organic farming

Johan Augustin 18 Feb 2022

Land scarcity and disease threaten a multifaceted indigenous crop in Ethiopia

Maheder Haileselassie Tadese 19 May 2020

Meet the first gene-edited reptile: An albino lizard

Malavika Vyawahare 28 Aug 2019

Greenpeace fires back at Nobel laureates calling for end to campaign against genetically engineered food

Mike Gaworecki 1 Jul 2016

Brazil poised to break global moratorium on GM Terminator seeds

Sue Branford 20 Oct 2015

‘Canary in the cornfield’: monarch butterfly may get threatened species status

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Sep 2014

U.S. citizens willing to spend billions to protect monarch butterflies

Paul Sutherland 3 Apr 2014

Migrating monarch butterflies hit shockingly low numbers

Jeremy Hance 31 Jan 2014

Frankenfish or scientific marvel?: giant GM salmon await U.S. approval

Suzanne Goldenberg 7 May 2013

Scientists a step closer toward creating biofuels directly from atmospheric CO2

Mongabay.com 29 Mar 2013

Bolivia takes step to boost agriculture and curb surging deforestation

Mongabay.com 28 Jan 2013

The genetically modified ‘Frankenfish’ salmon soon in a plate near you

Sonia Gandiaga 10 Jan 2013

15 conservation issues to watch

Jeremy Hance 14 Mar 2011

GM crop contamination may be product of sloppy handling, not cross-pollination

Emily Kirkland 4 Jan 2011

Seeing the forest for the test-tube trees

Daniel Strain 15 Jan 2010

Transgenic plant may thrive under global warming-induced drought

Mongabay.com 26 Nov 2007

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