Men in white fur caps proudly ride horses across the steppe, rows of modern machinery glisten, Barbie-pink flamingos strut before clear blue skies and a white yacht cuts through the turquoise waters of the Caspian Sea.

Our dietary habits and ways of food production have had vastly negative impacts on the natural environment. That is hardly news, but it’s worth restating how bad they are for the environment: Not only do agriculture and animal husbandry contribute considerably to global greenhouse gas emissions, but they are also […]

Almost 5 million pigs in Asia have now died or been culled because of the spread of African swine fever (ASF), a contagious viral disease that affects domestic and wild pigs and that was first detected in Asia one year ago this month. While not […]

Photos of seabirds with their necks and legs hopelessly entangled in plastic waste have become commonplace online in a testament to the devastating impacts of plastic pollution. So have images of the plastic contents in the stomachs of dead birds that succumbed after ingesting plastic objects by mistaking them for […]

Issue Post August 8, 2019 Can creation of a separate Indian Ministry of Animal Husbandry, Dairying, and Fisheries bring fresh momentum in growth? Anjani Kumar Smriti Verma Arabinda K. Padhee India’s new ministry can bring more policy focus and resources to bear on important, neglected industries—but also presents certain challenges.

President Donald Trump has reacted to four North Korean missile tests in less than two weeks with little more than a shrug. Instead, he appears to be turning his frustrations about the peninsula on South Korea.

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo The Ebola outbreak in DRC has continued in eastern Ituri and North Kivu provinces for more than a year and is now the second worst outbreak in history. The 2,787 recorded cases have resulted in […]