It’s a slippery fish — that final food safety rule for water used on crops before they’re harvested. The goal of the rule is threefold: to prevent people getting sick from foodborne pathogens, to ...

Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to extend the compliance dates for the pre-harvest agricultural water provisions as outlined in ...

Researchers report evidence of bread-making that precedes the emergence of agriculture. Bread is an important foodstuff in modern cuisine, yet its origins are not well understood. The discovery of ...

The image on the left depicts a reconstruction of pre-agriculture land cover, and the chart on the right shows carbon emissions from forest, grassland, wetland, and shrubland.