Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BARCELONA, Spain — Last summer in Europe marked a turning point for agriculture, with searing temperatures that broke historical ...

Europe’s summer of drought has been impossible to ignore. Rivers dried up, exposing the skeletons of warships and ancient buildings. Images captured by satellite show swathes of the continent’s ...

A new agricultural threat is quickly spreading through Europe, and it's only a few millimeters long, according to Euractiv. Farmers in Germany are raising the alarm about a tiny insect, known as the ...

Mushrooms that don’t brown. Wheat that fights off disease. Tomatoes with a longer growing season. All of these crops are made possible by a gene-editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. But now its ...

PARIS, June 23 (Reuters) - The return of rain to northern Europe should help wheat crops after a hot, dry end to spring and may avert dire yield losses seen in drought-hit Spain, analysts and traders ...

Healthy soil is critical to securing the future of food and long-term competitiveness of the potato sector as well as the ...

LUX, France (AP) — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River ...

The Global Drought Observatory reported early this year that Europe is recently experiencing one of the worst droughts in history. The report informs the public that the lack of rain and worsening ...

LONDON -- Wheat crops in western Europe appear in generally good condition despite heavy rains and flooding in parts of Britain and France, analysts said Feb. 20. Parts of Britain have been under ...

BARCELONA, Spain — Last summer in Europe marked a turning point for agriculture, with searing temperatures that broke historical records, and droughts that dried up rivers and caused crops to shrivel.