What you should know before biting into cooked chicken meat sent to the U.S.
How safe is chicken imported from China? 5 questions answered
Why your tuna could have 36 times more pollutants than others
Location matters: Catches from highly industrialized areas are far more polluted than those in the West Pacific.
Does smelling food make you fat?
Fatty food made mice double their weight — unless they lacked a sense of smell.
Why you might want to go easy on the avocado
'Good fats' may lead to fatty liver disease and other health problems, new research shows.
Providing clean water for a growing population
A new method to squeeze every drop from brine will alleviate water shortages in arid regions.
Using seaweed to kill California's least favorite ant
Hydrogel baits could help control Argentine ants, the subject of 85 percent of the state's pest control services.
7 challenges for achieving global food security
UC Davis’ Helene Dillard leads the charge for more sustainable, equitable food systems.
Thinking inside the cardboard box
UC Berkeley engineers use materials at hand to solve global problems, like roofing material made from recycled cardboard.
Climate change to reduce wheat yields by as much as a third, new model suggests
Agricultural technology can help bridge the gap.
Solid Golds: Sustainable seafood is the goal
UCLA alumni and brothers Mark and Jonathan Gold on how to achieve it.
Graduate students compete to make food more sustainable
Patagonia Case Competition held at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Ready for a better beer?
Newly sequenced barley genome could lead to better beer, whiskey and understanding of other crops.