Even a casual reading of history shows that under the right circumstances any one, or any combination, of political turmoil, climatic extremes, or resource abuse can bring down a society. Alarmingly, ...

An agricultural revolution is gearing up as a technological explosion is starting to energize nearly all facets of farming. Today, robots—aka agbots, agribots and farmbots—are taking on many farm ...

Depending on who you listen to, artificial intelligence may either free us from monotonous labour and unleash huge productivity gains, or create a dystopia of mass unemployment and automated ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Since the dawn of the Agricultural Revolution, humans have built and designed new inventions ...

The chancellor emeritus of Washington University in St. Louis stressed the need for a fourth agricultural revolution, or an "evergreen revolution" where science and "sensible public policy" combine.

As a growing population and climate change threaten food security, researchers around the world are working to overcome the challenges that threaten the dietary needs of humans and livestock. A pair ...

BERKELEY, Calif., March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "Imagine filling up your car's gas tank, but instead of the fuel staying put, it leaks out before you even start the engine. And by the time you get to ...

For almost all of Homo sapiens' estimated 200,000-year history, our species lived as hunter-gatherers, uprooting wild plants, gathering wild nuts, picking wild fruit, and hunting wild game. And life ...

The Green Revolution refers to a transformative 20th-century agricultural project that utilized plant genetics, modern irrigation systems, and chemical fertilizers and pesticides to increase food ...

Near Bowling Green, Ohio, 800 ugly-tempered farmers last week assembled at Wallace Kramp’s place to watch a finance company foreclose its $800 mortgage. Bidding began at 15¢ for a spring harrow. When ...

The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution is one of the most thoroughly-studied episodes in prehistory. But a new article shows that most explanations for it don't agree with the evidence, and offers a ...