Food & Agriculture

Warming Trends: Americans’ Alarm Grows About Climate Change, a Plant-Based Diet Packs a Double Carbon Whammy, and Making Hay from Plastic India

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In the Latest Rights of Nature Case, a Tribe Is Suing Seattle on Behalf of Salmon in the Skagit River

By Katie Surma

Most Agribusinesses and Banks Involved With ‘Forest Risk’ Commodities Are Falling Down on Deforestation, Global Canopy Reports

By Georgina Gustin

Video: Aerial Detectives Dive Deep Into North Carolina’s Hog and Poultry Waste Problem

By Aman Azhar

Is a State Program to Foster Sustainable Farming Leaving Out Small-Scale Growers and Farmers of Color?

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

The Amazon is the Planet’s Counterweight to Global Warming, a Place of Stupefying Richness Under Relentless Assault

By Georgina Gustin

Groups Urge the EPA to Do Its Duty: Regulate Factory Farm Emissions

By Liza Gross

Video: Carolina Tribe Fighting Big Poultry Joined Activists Pushing Administration to Act on Climate and Justice

Story and Video by Aman Azhar

New York’s ‘Deliveristas’ Are at the Forefront of Cities’ Sustainable Transportation Shake-up

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Pollution from N.C.’s Commercial Poultry Farms Disproportionately Harms Communities of Color

By Aman Azhar

Civil Rights Groups in North Carolina Say ‘Biogas’ From Hog Waste Will Harm Communities of Color

By Aman Azhar

In Baltimore Schools, Cutting Food Waste as a Lesson in Climate Awareness and Environmental Literacy

By Agya K. Aning

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

By Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

Warming Trends: Tuna for Vegans, Battery Technology and Climate Drives a Tree-Killer to Higher Climes

By Katelyn Weisbrod

North Carolina’s New Farm Bill Speeds the Way for Smithfield’s Massive Biogas Plan for Hog Farms

By Aman Azhar

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

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines

By Liza Gross

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross