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A woman eats fried scorpions as a snack in Beijing. / Credits: Reuters

Getting water to the world’s people will take up to half of annual global infrastructure ... / Credits: Reuters

Fishermen unload fish from a ship's storage freezer at Peru's northern port of Chimbote / Credits: Reuters

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A dead cow is seen at livestock watering wells at Dambas village in northeastern Kenya. ... / Credits: Reuters

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Environment: Animation The world's staple foods Which crops feed the world and who is producing them?
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The Dragonfly vertical farm concept designed by Vincent Callebaut Architects would mix housing and ... / Credits: Vincent Callebaut

Environment: Interview Vertical farming takes root Dr. Dickson Despommier has for over a decade argued that we should grow food in ... more

A man eats noodles while monitoring market prices inside a brokerage in Taipei, Taiwan. Financial ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment World Food Day: Fix the system World Food Day is a time to reflect on our broken food system and ways to fix ... more

Two bees busily collecting pollen from a sunflower in Utrecht, Holland. Bees and other insects ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Ecosystem services: What is nature worth? Putting a price on nature will protect biodiversity better than traditional ... more

Environment Biodiversity loss spells economic crisis Economically, our destruction of nature could be even more self-defeating than ... more

Farmers plant rice seedlings on the outskirts of Yingtan, in China's Jiangxi province. Many farmers ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment Biodiversity benefits: Rice-fish farming in China China has revived a 2000-year-old practice of raising fish in rice fields - ... more

In Japan food is thrown away if it is not sold by the last third of its shelf life / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Food banking helps feed hungry in Japan With millions starving, how can we throw away so much edible food? Charles ... more

No optical illusion but hard fact: Environmentalism reaches a crossroads. With an ever-rising world ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Combining conservation and development Fenced-off conservation areas detached from civilization won’t save endangered ... more

Quechua Indian farmers display native potatoes at the International Potato Center (CIP) ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Genetically modified food and biodiversity Genetically modified crops could help feed the hungry, says Krystyna Swiderska ... more

Two transgenic pigs are irradiated under ultraviolet radiation showing their green fluorescence ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment Genetics and food: Evolution 2.0 Humans have altered nature for thousands of years. Is genetic engineering only ... more

Thai farmers spraying their rice field with herbicides. Certain GM crops make such treatment even ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment Killer genes battle pests and weeds Big yielding, nutrient-packed crops that survive drought, salty water, even ... more

Environment GM crops: The inevitable revolution? Genetically modified crops feed the world’s livestock, cotton mills, and ... more

Environment The massive carbon footprint of the global food supply chain Every meal we eat contains ingredients from all over the world. Food production ... more

Workers harvest soybeans in Mato Grosso state in western Brazil. Soybean is the top GM crop, taking ...

Environment GM crops: Top ten facts and figures Learn ten key facts and figures about GM crops: what crops dominate; where they ... more

Severe drought is drying up drinking water in cities and towns across Australia, threatening to ... / Credits: Shutterstock

Environment Dealing with drought - Australia looks to drinking sea water Australia is the driest continent on earth, although coastal areas have had ... more

A man waters the harvest in an urban garden in Havana. Cuba's urban agriculture movement, developed ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Support Cuba's organic farmers In Cuba you can see glimpses of farming’s future after peak oil, says scientist ... more

A properly cared for rice plant can produce rice for 20 years. On average, farmers need 2,000 ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment Green agriculture: A food revolution With global food demand set to grow by 50 percent by 2030, the new century ... more

The health of the soil in our fields is vital for future food security. We need to treat it with ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment Sustainable farming: Saving the soil Agriculture is severely threatened by global warming, yet it is also a major ... more

Clever water and soil management enable this Indian farmer in the Adarsha watershed project to grow ... / Credits: James Tulloch

A woman takes a drink using a LifeStraw personal, a portable water purifier that kills bacteria and viruses.

A child collects water using a Q-Drum portable container.

A man empties freshwater from a Watercone into a bottle.

A small fog collector is one of several energy- and water-saving features at the Chartwell School in Seaside, California.

Clay pot filters purify water by passing it through the pores of a ceramic fired in an open fire.

Kenyan toddler with a Peepoo bag of biodegradable material.

Children playing on a PlayPump Water System, a merry-go-round that pumps groundwater into an adjacent water storage tank.

Iysha Zawde stands next to the 1,500-liter rainwater harvesting jar outside her home in Wakiso District, Uganda.

Sewage is treated at Aqwise plant in Yavne, Israel.

Lime-storage silos at the Tuas desalination plant in Singapore, which produces 110 million liters of freshwater every day.

During a drought, the Water Feature in front of the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia is shut down.

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Corn plants struggle to survive in drought-stricken farm fields in Ferdinand, Indiana, July 24, ... / Credits: Reuters

Environment U.S. drought sparks food system debate As the drought across America sends food prices skywards for the third time in ... more

A fog-catching net in the foothills of the Chilean Andes. / Credits: Anna Westbeld

Environment Water solutions: Farming the fog Many people in water-stressed regions get fresh water only once a week if at ... more

A man takes a bite from a hot dog in Hollywood, California / Credits: Reuters

Environment: Interview Sustainable food - Meat once a week The world food system is catastrophically broken, says Tim Lang, Professor of ... more