Agriculture

It seems that with the beginning of agriculture around 10,000 years ago, group decision making changed

We need to make better use of land, light and logistics for an increasingly urban population. And we need to incorporate zero-waste and low-energy technologies into the task of food production.

A NASA instrument designed to study the oceans turns out to be useful for studying land, too. The Aquarius instrument reveals levels of moisture in soil around the globe.

Moss offers clues in the search for how molecular signals direct cell growth.

A new USDA program pays farmers to reseed fields with clover, alfalfa and other plants good for grazing that also feed bees. The initiative is an attempt to counteract colony collapse disorder.

The "untouched" rainforests of Southeast Asia may have been more manhandled than previously thought, with humans burning forests to make way for food-bearing plants soon after the last ice age ended.

Examinations of airborne scans of three New England towns revealed networks of old stone walls, building foundations, old roads, dams and other features, many of which long were forgotten.

Genetic research from across the ocean poised to help coffee bean growers in Columbia.

A new approach is helping fight both hunger and overfishing in Mozambique.