As a way to meet growing demand for its wildly popular, sustainably grown premium strawberries, Jersey City-based vertical indoor grower Oishii will begin using robots to assist with farming tasks. In ...

Picture a farm in Avondale growing leafy greens. Maybe you’ve imagined small plants swaying in the breeze alongside the road. But at one West Valley farm, the plants have never seen the sun. These ...

How does climate change affect where and how we live? The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And climate change threatens communities ...

Your next package of lettuce could be coming straight outta Compton. Last week, I toured a 100,000-square-foot indoor vertical farm operating in a gritty part of Compton, California. The urban farm ...

The most delicious strawberry I’ve ever tasted came from my grandparent’s garden, in Sofia, Bulgaria. It was the size of a gummy, looked like a woodland ruby, and tasted like it had grown in the Swiss ...

With its modular, space-efficient design, Opollo Farm is a fully automated vertical farm that uses advanced robotics to boost local food supply and deliver harvest-ready crops in as little as 15 days.

On a special episode (first released on November 20, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: AI applications in vertical farming have the potential to usher in a new model that not only yields a high volume of ...

One of the world’s most high-tech indoor vertical farms is located in Compton. We visit to understand the role indoor farming plays in the future of food. The background: Compton was once an ...

Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive ...

Swing by the Summit or Jersey City farmers markets later this month and, in addition to peaches, you’ll find strawberries for sale. Market regulars might raise an eyebrow at this: the choicest local ...

Could the news on the environment get any worse? Every day, we are inundated by stories about extreme weather events, including floods, hurricanes, extreme heat, a global water crisis due to severe ...