Aquaponics could help feed Martian colonies in the future and offer a sustainable food system on Earth.
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Knowing which fish to buy can be confusing, but certain eco-labels can help decipher whether wild-caught, farmed or organic salmon is best for the environment.
Pared-down packaging designs send a subtle yet powerful message of purity to shoppers – and they’re willing to fork over more cash for these goods, regardless of the actual number of additives.
The important role living roots play for sustaining life belowground should prompt us to rethink forest management.
Urban farms can work in developing countries if farmers and architects are aware of conditions that favour food production in built spaces.
Eighteenth-century Quakers attempted to align their religious beliefs with what they purchased. These Quakers led some of the early campaigns against sugar being produced by enslaved people.
It looks like a broken barbeque brickette, but the newfound meteorite is a capsule of the Solar System’s history that could reveal the secrets of the origin of life.
What criteria should be used to determine whether a food is natural? What if gene-editing techniques produce changes indistinguishable from those that evolve naturally? Is the food still natural?
What does it mean to call a nonfood product like lipstick organic? Federal regulators allow such claims, but have set few standards defining them.
The chocolate industry is undergoing significant change at the moment, both for better and worse. Here are three trends on the positive side of things.
New research suggests people who eat organic plant foods have a reduction in risk of common cancers.
Bill Mollison co-created permaculture - an ambitious alternative to industrial agriculture.
Two independent teams have found compounds including nitrogen and carbon dioxide on Comet 67P, which can form sugars and amino acids.
New organic, non-toxic, water-based batteries that last five times longer than their lithium counterparts have been developed…
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Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences, The Open University
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Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London
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Researcher & author, University of Washington, Bothell
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana
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Professor of Law and Associate Dean for International Affairs, Wake Forest University
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Research Scientist at NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, University of Tromsø
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Senior lecturer in Sustainable and Climate Responsive Architecture, University of Pretoria
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Professor and Head of Department, Architecture, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Museum Studies, Baylor University
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Professor of Climate Design & Sustainability, Delft University of Technology
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Cindy Prescott é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor of Forest Ecology, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Soil Microbial Ecology, University of British Columbia
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, Texas Christian University
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PhD in Disturbance Ecology and Machine Learning, University of Oxford
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Departmental Lecturer and Course Director, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
