Hassan Al-Hassan, a Syrian farmer known to locals as Abu Hasan, remembers how difficult it had been in the past few years in the village of al-Rabeha in the southern governorate of Homs. “Due to lack of water, we could hardly produce anything,” said Abu Hasan. FAO is helping to restore access to water for over 40 000 families – about [...]

Schools are an ideal setting for teaching basic skills in food, nutrition and health. In many communities, they may be the only place where children acquire these important life skills. Primary schools, in particular, are suitable vehicles for nutrition education. They not only influence children but also target girls, who tend to leave schools earlier. Nutrition lessons can be simple, [...]

It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But when it comes to fruit and vegetables, one third of them never even make it to our grocery store shelves because they are rejected on their way from the farm to the store. While supermarkets have a part to play in this, we must also examine [...]

When one ponders the vast stretches of wheat being culled from the swaths of farmland in the Ukraine the mind doesn’t quickly leap to the thought of a pastry shop in Cairo. Or a bakery in Indonesia.  

“It’s a bee!” someone screams as they jump up from their picnic blanket, knocking over their apple juice and flailing their arms, trying to get away from this flying creature. Does this scene sound familiar?  

Where would you find the world’s largest recreation center and the most natural supermarket? Forests wouldn’t have been your first answer, would it? That’s the thing about forests. They keep secrets.

What does William Shakespeare have in common with Mexican beekeeper Francisco Lenin Bartolo Reyes? Both men understand the importance of the honey bee, a small but invaluable ally of the human race.

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 [...]

The Farmers’ Market has been postponed for Friday 6 March and until further notice.

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

How the beloved figure has become a lightning rod in a heated environmental debate

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"

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

At 5,000 years old, the weapon predates the era when humans first started using tin to make bronze

New research reveals a Tang Dynasty woman's love for sports—and big-eared, braying equids

The pint-sized, mustachioed Gaul immortalized in the French cartoon has spawned films, a theme park and many other spin-offs

The missionary who lived in the house during the mid-1800s delivered vaccinations to locals during a smallpox epidemic

The liquid inside is 3 percent alcohol by volume—and contains 0.13 milligrams of lead per liter

Despite the name, moon won’t have a rosy hue. The name alludes to flowers that bloom in April

The bacterial strain can break down some of the toxic components of polyurethane plastic

Angry historians say the stretch of concrete was one of the largest remaining sections of the inner wall

Visitors can get up close and personal with augmented reality versions of historic globes recently digitized by the British Library

A treasure trove of new fossils unearthed in Australia reveals some raunchily-positioned bugs

Researchers found that almost half of the mountain lions they tested showed signs of plague infection

Starved of resources, these hardy bacteria still eke out a living, suggesting life forms could survive in the harsh habitats on other planets

The art within Shing Yin Khor's virtual world represents a sassy response to the game's built-in natural history museum

A new analysis of ancient ostrich eggs at the British Museum underscores the interconnectedness of the ancient world

Biologist Tagide deCarvalho created this award-winning image of the tardigrade using fluorescent stains

Sourdough librarian Karl De Smedt has traveled the world to gather more than 120 jars of starters

Some 50 artists around the Prenzlauer Berg district displayed works of art for passersby to enjoy

Doctors and nurses are attaching smiling photos of themselves to the outside of their protective gear to maintain connections with patients

Study suggests alleged exoplanet may have been a cloud of asteroid debris

Scientists discover neurotoxin-producing bacteria living on the skin of rough-skinned newts

Earth’s sister planet spins slowly, but its atmosphere whips around at high speeds

The virus tweaks bee behavior to infect new hives and may also spread other hive-killing pathogens and pests

The opossum-sized mammal lived in Madagascar at the end of the age of the dinosaurs