Food
Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Change—and Dream of a Sustainable Future
CHONGWE, Zambia—Benson Chipungu sits in a leather armchair and reaches for the remote to switch off the news. Pieces of fabric hang over the windows, darkening the room against the heat. A gas-powered hand-plough is parked in the corner. On the floors behind his chair, dozens of ears of corn are spread out, a display […]
Read MoreThis grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading
A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?
Read MoreExtreme heat drives up food prices. Just how bad will it get?
New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.
Read MoreHot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.
In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.
Read MoreBottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions.
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
Read MoreUN Food Systems Summit: Why we need more ambition and more action
By Jose Luis Chicoma and Karly Kelso Last week, global leaders gathered in Rome for the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) +2 Stocktaking Moment, a follow-up event to evaluate commitments to transforming their food systems and progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) made in 2021. In short, it was a time to gather […]
Read MoreBeyond greenwashing: How chain restaurants could actually address their climate pollution
Step one is changing the menu.
Read MoreFarmers in Brazil’s Cerrado cotton on to the benefits of agroecology
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 46 cotton-farming families in Brazil’s Minas Gerais began practicing agroecology, a sustainable farming approach that works with nature.
Read MoreAs its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon
Chances are, if you live in North America, you’ve eaten corn from the Corn Belt, a region in the United States Midwest that produces 75% of U.S. corn. Scientists have found that around 35% of the region has lost its most fertile A-horizon soil, more commonly known as topsoil, since European colonization in the 1800s, […]
Read MoreFood banks are struggling to fill their shelves, and it’s not just supply chain issues
Climate change, inflation, and price gouging are also at play.
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