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Food

Climate Change is Driving Millions to the Precipice of a ‘Raging Food Catastrophe’

In the Horn of Africa, a climate change-induced drought is exposing cracks in the global food system and pushing humanitarian aid to a breaking point.

By Georgina Gustin

Ali Liban Guracho walks past dozens of dead cattle outside Garissa, Kenya. Credit: Larry C. Price
Dan Hurowitz harvests produce at City Farm on Sept. 30, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

A New Push Is on in Chicago to Connect Urban Farmers With Institutional Buyers Like Schools and Hospitals

By Aydali Campa

Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A couple look at Paris skyline from the Montmartre area in Paris, on March 15, 2020. Credit: Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Best-Smelling Vegan Burgers, the Benefits of Short Buildings and Better Habitats for Pollinators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Guambiano man harvests potatoes in the mountains outside Silvia, Cauca, Columbia. Credit: Ann Johansson/Corbis via Getty Images

Incursions Into Indigenous Lands Not Only Threaten Tribal Food Systems, But the Planet’s Well-Being

By Georgina Gustin

weets with bugs from Micronutris company, a leader in Europe in the human diet based on insects, on January 9, 2017. Credit: Patrick Aventurier/Getty Images

Protein-Filled, With a Low Carbon Footprint, Insects Creep Up on the Human Diet

By Emiko Terazono

Cattle are seen after they were driven across the border from Mexico into the United States in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

Wealthy Nations Are Eating Their Way Past the Paris Agreement’s Climate Targets

By Georgina Gustin

Frances Moore Lappé speaks at a New York City event in the late 1970s.

Q&A: 50 Years Ago, a Young Mother’s Book Helped Start an Environmental Revolution

By Evelyn Nieves

A new study matched what people reported eating with the carbon footprint of those foods and then ranked them. Beef was a big part of the difference. Credit: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

America’s Biggest Beef Eaters Responsible for Large Chunk of Climate Emissions

By Georgina Gustin

Coffee's Fate Is Getting Jittery as Climate Change Puts Growing Areas at Risk

By Georgina Gustin

Diet, Including Eating Less Beef, Dropped Americans' Carbon Emissions by 9%

By Georgina Gustin

Report: Cutting Food Waste Saves Companies Money and Combats Climate Change

By Georgina Gustin

Food waste in New York

Tackling Food Waste as a Way to Save the Climate, Too

By Georgina Gustin

drought in Africa

Africa: Droughts to Worsen, With Implications for U.S. Aid

By Katherine Bagley

coffee plant

Group Brews Up Solution to Save Top Coffee Crop

Sarah Butler, Guardian

Can Learning to Cook Save the Planet?

By Leslie Berliant

Turning Food Into Fuel While Families Go Hungry

By Max Ajl

US Government Still Promoting Use of Coal Ash on Crops

By Sue Sturgis

Biofuels Watch: African Land-Grab Deals Questioned

By Stacy Feldman

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