The Eating the Earth column got its name because agriculture has devoured nearly two-fifths of our planet’s land. It also uses nearly three-fourths of our fresh water, generates one-fourth of our ...

Seven shipping containers sit outside a South Carolina women’s prison. Inside four, amid the lights and fans, grow stacked ...

Hamilton is working with 80 Acres Farms to help one of the country’s largest vertical farming companies continue its growth and success in the future. City Council will consider amending the Utility ...

Cities are getting crowded, and figuring out how to feed everyone is a big deal. Traditional farming needs a lot of land and ...

Cities are growing like crazy. More people means more mouths to feed, and doing that in a dense urban environment is tough.

How does climate change affect where and how we live? The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And climate change threatens communities ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Phil Lempert covers breaking news and trends in food and retail. Irving Fain is an indoor vertical farming pioneer who says, after ...

Picture a farm in Avondale growing leafy greens. Maybe you’ve imagined small plants swaying in the breeze alongside the road. But at one West Valley farm, the plants have never seen the sun. These ...

For decades, moldboard plows, disks and field cultivators, all horizontal tillage tools, have been the go-tos for fieldwork. That’s changing as fears about climate change come into focus. Sooner or ...

That sobering statistic means that, while climate change may be humanity’s biggest challenge, another daunting crisis looms alongside it: even if we manage to control the planet’s environmental ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a senior tech contributor who writes about science and technology Strawberries on vertical farming racks at Oishii's new ...

Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), a leading vertical farm technology provider, has secured £22.5m (€26.3m) in Series C funding to support significant global expansion. The announcement comes after ...