Future crops will need to withstand conditions like climate change, low water availability, rising soil salinity, and attacks by pathogens and insects. Genetic engineering could help address these problems while also reducing the amount of land and other natural resources needed to grow our food.
Source: geneticliteracyproject.org
Restaurants, dentists and other service-style companies that dominate the U.S. economy saw a surge in growth in June as businesses were allowed to reopen,…
In 2017, the world’s largest plastic producers, Dow Chemical, began building roads using recycled plastic waste. In March, the UK plastic road company MacRebur opened an entire factory that does nothing but turn plastics into an asphalt mix for roads.
Barry Callebaut, Ikea, P&G and Toast Ale were among the big winners of edie’s 2020 Sustainability Leaders Awards, announced at an awards ceremony in London on Wednesday evening (5 February).
The Estonian Ministry of Education and Research intends not to grant the right to teach to the private higher education institution Nordic School of Hospitality and Innovation (NSHI) as it deems the sustainability questionable due to NSHI’s plan to mainly enroll foreign students.
At a time when there is an urgent need to act more transparently, organizations across the globe are under mounting pressure to integrate more sustainable practices throughout their supply chains to limit unnecessary waste and conserve the use of resources. Doing so is no easy feat. In a world that is undeniably reliant on expansive, complex supply chains, embedding end-to-end sustainability is a major undertaking. That said, those that do so successfully are likely to create long-term value by better enabling productive and efficient operations.
Following Hurricane Maria, Dominica wants to be the world’s first climate-resilient nation and prides itself as the “Nature Isle.”…