Can the Dairy Industry Reduce Its Environmental Impact?
In the climate world, dairy has come under scrutiny due to carbon dioxide and methane emissions from belching, manure, and land use.
Food and Agriculture
Feed Conversion Ratios Help Explain Meat’s Outsized Climate Impact
Why is all meat accused of being worse for the climate than plants? The feed conversion ratio helps explain why.
Lab-Grown Meat: Future Climate Solution or Icky Science Experiment?
Lab-grown meat has the potential to be a more safe, ethical, and sustainable meat alternative. But the industry is facing a lot of hurdles.
Why Is Palm Oil So Controversial?
Seeing deforestation, habitat loss, climate change, and land theft, experts are calling for sweeping changes to the palm oil industry.
What Are the Environmental and Economic Issues Facing Rubber Production?
Natural rubber is widely considered a more eco-friendly and better product than synthetic rubber, but it still presents some issues. Natural rubber contributes to deforestation, biodiversity loss, pollution, and more. But climate change and disease also threaten natural rubber. And…
Cattle at Hillsborough Farm Are Helping to Fight Climate Change
Cattle living at a Hillsborough farm are helping to fight climate change. Duke Farms is using them in a practice known as rotational grazing that helps remove carbon dioxide from the air, storing it in vegetation and the soil. The…
Climate Change Makes It Harder to Grow Coffee Beans, What Does That Mean for Us?
Coffee is a ridiculously sensitive plant, meaning even the tiniest changes in climate can eliminate many of the world’s current coffee growing regions and put farmers who often make as little as $2-3 per day in an even more difficult…
How Can the Chocolate Industry Be Greener and More Humane?
The chocolate industry is under the control of three companies called the cocoa traders who essentially force the cocoa farmers in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana to sell their cocoa at ridiculously low prices. This setup pushes farmers into poverty, and…
How Temperature Rise, Late Frosts, and Wildfires Are Changing the Wine Industry
Winegrowing is all about controlling the slightest variations of flavor. With climate change causing warmer temperatures that change wine flavor, wildfires that turn grapes smokey, and sudden frosts that can entirely ruin a harvest, wine lovers certainly have reason to…
NJ town launches pilot food recycling program
It’s a first-of-its kind food recycling effort in north Jersey that hopes to save both money and the planet.
How A 24-Year-Old CEO Makes Sustainable Tees from Milk
Today's young people are taking global and local food waste issues into their own hands.
The Lobstermen of the Eastern Yucatán: Photo Essay
The spiny lobster faces climate change and overfishing around the Caribbean, but it’s thriving in Maria Elena bay thanks to this collective.