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In a flood-prone region of Bangladesh gardens go afloat
“If the river didn’t take our land, I wouldn’t need to be here,” says Golam Mostafa Sarder, a teenage boy who is working at a brick factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The brick factory requires laborers to work
Saving water in Pakistan and India by feeding thirsty crops with drops
Thanks to drip irrigation, parts of the Cholistan Desert are now bearing fruit for local farmers.
Growing insect meat in the lab could be a green alternative
Growing insect meat in the lab requires much less water and space than raising cattle.
Changes in how coffee is grown can make your cuppas truly green
Environmental sustainability can be achieved with simple techniques in coffee growing.
Old mattresses in refugee camp reveal new way to grow food
Before you think there’s already too much polyurethane foam in the world, check out what scientists are doing at the new Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield in the UK. The university says it is growing salad greens
Minnesota banks on protecting endangered bumblebee
In the northern Midwest state of Minnesota, the government has agreed to nearly $1 million in funding to pay residents to tear out their lawns and plant gardens in the hopes of saving an endangered bumblebee. The money will cover