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A new corporate alliance has ag giant Monsanto looking to the complex network of microbes beneath our feet for their next generation of products.

Every year, thousands of people flock to see a bull race called The Karapan Sapi. This is not your average bull race.

Though carbon dioxide is the more common greenhouse gas, methane is 23 times as harmful — and cow flatulence is one of its main sources. Here are six things we could do to help ease cow digestion.

Huge, hulking glaciers and smaller floating icebergs cover giant swaths of the planet's surface - around one tenth of the world - and are found in over 35 different countries.

Meet Tim Meyers, who has been growing organic food on 17 acres of permafrost for his hometown of Bethel, Alaska for the past six years.

As natural disasters occur with more force and frequency, an energy grid based on electricity has begun to look quite tenuous. America is forced to look at its dangerous reliance on refrigeration.

In theory, farmers should be poster children for the locavore movement. They have fridges and fields (or home gardens, in the case of some larger farms) stuffed with gorgeous produ...

While high-end prosthetics are advancing by leaps and bounds, devices that can hold up to farming remain elusive.

The idea comes from Professor Jack Schultz at the University of Missouri, who earned a brief mention in Michael Pollan's amazing article on plant intelligence in the New Yorker.