Science
Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast
Ian Sample hears from the Observer science and environment editor, Robin McKie, and from Glenn Stone, a research professor of environmental science at Sweet Briar College in Virginia who is also an anthropologist who has studied golden rice, about why it has taken so long for this potentially life-saving technology to reach the fields, if it is the silver bullet so many had hoped for, and whether this ban is really the end of the storyBotanist Robin Wall Kimmerer: ‘The clock is ticking but the world will teach us what we need to do’ – podcast
Robin Wall Kimmerer, a botanist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, tells Madeleine Finlay what we can learn from the most ancient plants on Earth, why we need to cultivate gratitude for the natural world and what western science could learn from Indigenous knowledge