A lab for crops, a city climate experiment and busy beavers
The Netherlands: Putting plants through their paces
How will the world feed 10 billion people with less land, less water and more unpredictable weather? The Netherlands, also known as the "Silicon Valley" of agriculture and seeds, knows a thing or two about it.
It's already the world's second-largest exporter of agricultural products after the United States, despite being a fraction of the size.
Now, in some of the country's greenhouses, scientists are using high-tech means, as well as reams of data, to figure out which crops will be most resilient in a changing climate.
Can we build a climate-proof crop?To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
A German city is reinventing itself amid a new climate reality
In Oc...