Nathanael Johnson
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The Senate may soon scuttle state laws that force food companies to put GMO labels on their packages.


Digging deeper, it’s not as simple as it looked.


Cruz is betting he can win Iowa without embracing ethanol. It’s a big gamble.


It’s finally raining in California. But the state is deep in water debt.


It looks like this pesticide is worse for honeybees than the evidence previously suggested.


Debates rage over what to do about genetically modified organisms, but we rarely stop to ask a more basic question: Do GMOs really exist?


We’ll need a 70 percent increase in food production by 2050.


Labeling would reverse the vicious cycle whereby consumer fear of the unknown pushes companies to fight for secrecy.


There’s a potential solution: redirecting swollen rivers onto farmland to recharge groundwater.


A Q&A with the former New York Times columnist, who’s joined a meal delivery startup.