Agriculture
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Kelp Waits to Take Its Place in America's Stomachs
By Wynne Parry published
Nutritious and environmentally friendly, seaweed could be the crop of the future in North America, but hopeful growers and marketers of "sea vegetables" face challenges.
Fossilized Creek Beds Offer Up Ancient Climate Change Clues
By Andrea Mustain published
Deciphering story of old waterways might aid understanding of climate change.
Ancient Civilization Cut Path to Demise
By Live Science Staff published
The ancient South American Nasca civilization may have caused its own demise by clear-cutting huge swaths of forest, a new study found.
The Science of Hunger: What 1 Billion People Feel
By Live Science Staff published
What hunger does and how people around the world suffer its consequences.
Pollution Reduces Rain Vital to Crops
By Live Science Staff published
Air pollution in China has cut the amount of light rainfall by 23 percent over the past 50 years.
Heat-Tolerant Corn Could Prevent Future Starvation
By Stuart Michael Hutson published
Hybrids that yield unusually large seeds are nutritional powerhouses that could help counter global warming's effects on crops.
Birth Defects Tied to Season of Conception
By Robin Lloyd published
Spring and early summer is the nation's season of risk for conceiving a child with birth defects, a new study finds.
Small Farms Sprout in Economic Drought
By Christopher Wanjek published
Tens of thousands of small farms were created since 2002, according to new data from the Census of Agriculture.
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