Jeremy's latest newsletter saves me including an interesting paper on the domestication of avocado in a forthcoming Brainfood. The often humid climate of the tropics means that ancient plant remains ...

How much trouble is agriculture facing because of climate change? There are lots of studies out there that seek to predict the effect of changes in rainfall and temperature on the yield of this or ...

A new global assessment of the state of terrestrial ecosystems has just been published, focusing on the extent of human modification due to "industrial pressures based on agriculture, forestry, ...

Is it possible to distil the ongoing debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources into the contrasting views of two people? For Julia Nordblad of the Department of History of Science and Ideas, ...

A new global assessment of the state of terrestrial ecosystems has just been published, focusing on the extent of human ...

Is it possible to distil the ongoing debate over how to conserve plant genetic resources into the contrasting views of two people? For Julia Nordblad of the Department of History of Science and Ideas, ...