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The terraced hills of the Andes, the rice paddies of southern China, the oasis systems of the Maghreb: agriculture molds landscapes and places. Agriculture also shapes livelihoods, lifestyles, food traditions and cultures. What kind of plants grow or can’t grow, how they are harvested and what people eat define people’s lives.  Because our natural resources are under great strain, we need [...]

Elvis Cortés Hernández grabs his lunch and sits down with his friends. We’re at the General Lázaro Cárdenas school in Ajalpan, deep in the heart of Mexico’s Puebla province and the ten–year–old is chatting about the school’s vegetable garden, one element of its progressive food policy. “I like to eat in the school dining room because they give me carrots, [...]

Four years into the 2030 Agenda, there is still a large gap in data to understand where the world stands in achieving its shared goals, the SDGs. To support [...]

Four years into the 2030 Agenda and there is a pressing need to understand where the world stands in eradicating hunger and food insecurity, as well as ensuring sustainable [...]

The 2019 Report of the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP) examines the role of the TCP to deliver FAO technical assistance for agriculture, food and nutrition in response to countries’ most [...]

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Supai is so remote, mail is delivered by mule train

Autumn Ray's goal: 59 national parks before she turns 40 in four years

An independent survey finds that although NPS's annual budget is around $3 billion, Americans are willing to pay much more

Early conservation research and scientific expeditions laid the groundwork and helped to convince the public national parks were a good idea

These parks are less popular, but no less spectacular

Ancient trees are disappearing from protected national forests around the world. A look inside $100 billion market for stolen wood

For the first time, the indigenous community is allowed to gather the cherished plant on protected land

Harjo, a member of the Muskogee Creek Nation, says the appointment "honors the place of Native people in this country, the place of Native people’s poetry"

The British Navy knew it couldn't completely disguise a ship to protect it from attack during WWI. So they turned to 'Dazzle Painting'

During WWII, Nazi forces were preparing to take the coastal city of Tobruk and tighten their grip on North Africa

A British frigate fires on the USS Constitution - but its shots either miss or rebound off its tough oak hull

Wildfires leave behind a patchwork of forest densities that can give bats more room to fly and hunt

The snails are an invasive crop pest that are known to eat more than just coffee rust

Winds on WASP-76b blow gaseous iron into cooler regions, where it condenses and falls to the planet’s surface as liquid

The pint-sized institution, which opened last year, is filled with 1,000 feline-themed knickknacks that journeyed with their owners from Ukraine

Perhaps it was not just a massive slice that made Pizza Rat a true New Yorker

"This could be the oldest and longest-lived team ball game in the world," says one archaeologist

The cats also cross the road an average of 4.5 times in six days, putting themselves in danger

After 85 years, officials plan to remove the old, undetonated bombs that were part of a 1935 plan to divert lava flow on Mauna Loa

New research hints at how different environments impact animal behavior and the spread of infection

The puzzling glyph, which bears some resemblance to the "squatting man" motif, suggests that insects have long held a place in human lore

The positive outcomes won’t be immediately apparent, but will help reduce the strain on our healthcare system

Museums are closing their doors amid the coronavirus crisis, but many offer digital exhibitions visitors can browse from the comfort of home

The findings further refute the outdated notion that humans' capacity for complex artistic expression evolved exclusively in Europe

But the scientists still aren’t sure what the birds are saying

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A new study shows how city-dwelling coyotes thrive by feasting on human-linked food sources

The vineyard deploys a daily bird-based battalion to pluck snails and insects off their plants

The tremors, which arrived in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, was the worst the Croatian capital has seen in 140 years