Persistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa.

From raising vast populations of livestock to razing forests for crops, many of the ways land is being transformed for human use are a far cry from sustainable. How can this be reversed?

Incredibly strong wind speeds have been recorded periodically across the US Plains and Canada’s Prairies this spring.

For obvious reasons, the most physically demanding jobs — roofers, pile drivers, fishermen, lumberjacks, take your pick of many others — are primarily filled by people no older than 40. But farming, a mixture of hard work and long hours, even as technology automates some tasks, is a dramatic outlier.

Hybrid rye could fit in well to tillage farmers’ systems and encourage more fodder production agreements between tillage and livestock farmers.

Like it or not, genetic modification is going to be an important tool to feed the planet’s growing population.