We see them each and every day: at the grocery store, the farmer’s market and as side orders served with your favourite dish. In many countries, they are part of the cultural heritage and are consumed on a regular basis. In other parts of the world, they hardly garner a mention except when served as soup on a cold winter’s [...]

The oceans have it all: from microscopic life to the largest animal that has ever lived on Earth, from the colourless to the shimmering, from the frozen to the boiling and from the sunlit to the mysterious dark of the deepest parts of the planet. Oceans are an essential component of the Earth's ecosystem -- a source of biodiversity, food, and [...]

More with less. This is the challenge and the mantra for our future. There will be many more of us in the years to come. We will go from a population of 7.6 billion today to 9.8 billion in 2050; yet, with our current rate of usage, there will be less fresh water, less arable soil, less available land for [...]

Soil is a finite resource, meaning its loss and degradation is not recoverable within a human lifespan. Soils affect the food we eat, the water we drink, the air we breathe, our health and the health of all organisms on the planet. Without healthy soils we wouldn’t be able to grow our food. In fact, it is estimated that 95 [...]

All over the world, holidays mean the return of certain specialties: Olivier salad for New Year’s in Russia, Red bean porridge for solstice in Korea, Haleem for Ramadan in India and the Middle East, Mince pies for Christmas in England, Pogača bread for Orthodox Easter, Banana cakes for Lunar New Year in Vietnam. Whatever the holiday is and wherever in [...]

When one ponders the vast stretches of wheat being culled from the swaths of farmland in the Ukraine the mind doesn’t quickly leap to the thought of a pastry shop in Cairo. Or a bakery in Indonesia.  

Four years into the 2030 Agenda, there is still a large gap in data to understand where the world stands in achieving its shared goals, the SDGs. To support [...]

FAO will attend the fourth Annual Strategic Consultation with the Government of Japan on Tuesday 21 January 2020, in Tokyo, Japan. The objective is to review the progress of [...]

For the first time, the indigenous community is allowed to gather the cherished plant on protected land

The National Cherry Blossom Festival has moved online due to the novel coronavirus pandemic

Pizza and pasta are pretty obviously out, but what are the other no-nos?

After abdicating the British throne, Edward was appointed governor of the Bahamas, where he temporarily lived in a lavish home in Nassau

"This could be the oldest and longest-lived team ball game in the world," says one archaeologist

The positive outcomes won’t be immediately apparent, but will help reduce the strain on our healthcare system

The vineyard deploys a daily bird-based battalion to pluck snails and insects off their plants

The exact molecule behind the Minamata mercury disaster, caused by a chemical plant’s wastewater, remains a point of disagreement

Hundreds of museums are participating in an online attempt to spread joy as COVID-19 keeps their galleries empty

The Internet Archive describes the downloadable collection of more than one million books as a library, but critics call it piracy

New research details the first forensic investigation of the Sylt concentration camp, located on the Channel Island of Alderney, since the end of WWII

Female dolphins, it seems, aren’t immune to the allure of a harmonizing boy band

The classically trained actor is reading a sonnet a day on Instagram

Called "Social Distancing, Haiku and You," Alan Nakagawa's project will result in a sound collage that interweaves a multitude of voices

Sourdough librarian Karl De Smedt has traveled the world to gather more than 120 jars of starters

Perhaps the cigar-shaped object is a shard from a shredded planetary body, a computer simulation suggests

From shy to bold with shades in between, dolphin personalities are surprisingly similar to ours

The project hasn’t yet been greenlit, but a proposal just got major funding to explore the potential for the lunar observatory

The two NASA astronauts will lift off from historic launch pad 39A, used for the Apollo and space shuttle missions

Fears around the pandemic are causing sleep patterns to change and strange dreams to linger in people’s memories

Traditionalist "two-spacers" can still disable the function

A citizen science project aims to chart the microbial diversity present in starters all over the world

The actor is one of 17 celebrities slated to participate in newly announced read-alongs of the series' first book

Narrated by Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar Richard Kurin, the 24-part video series blends history with modern mainstays

Airing on the aquarium's Twitch channel at 4 p.m. EST today, the two-hour session will focus on the video game's diverse insect population

With Washington, D.C. COVID-19 state of emergency, Smithsonian officials say museums to close Saturday, March 14; events canceled through May 3

In an official statement, the Institution announced temporary closures beginning Saturday, March 14

View these vivid illustrations by Japanese artist Kōkichi Tsunoi of the varieties of trees presented to the United States in 1912

How do you select one image to represent half a century of photography and art? You don’t

When this publication first appeared five decades ago, it was happy to join the fray

Venturing into the wilderness for often weeks at a time, nature photographer Dawn LaPointe is used to social distancing

Do some armchair traveling and see the breathtaking vistas of all 50 states while learning about their histories