How can we prevent food waste and world hunger?
Combatting food loss and waste is a key component of the fight against climate change. Each year, 1.3 billion tons...
Here are 12 ways to feed the world sustainably
Most global nutrition forecasting shows we’re in a world of hurt. Global warming and poor farming practices are...
Scientists discover how to stop banana peels from browning
Understanding and changing how banana peels brown could help the world save tons of food that go to waste each...
7 biggest threats to the environment - why we still need Earth Day
This Sunday is Earth Day, and while it's a time to celebrate our planet, it's also a prime opportunity to take...
Tired of red tape, indigenous leaders are creating their own climate fund
Local communities wrestling with the impacts of climate change on food security have also struggled to get funds...
The organic farm teaching sustainable growing techniques in Canada's cold, dark north
Tucked inside the lush boreal forest in Canada's Northwest Territories, you'll find something unexpected. There,...
New Orleans golf course transformed into city’s biggest urban farm with an Eco-Campus
A former golf course in New Orleans' City Park has been transformed into the city's biggest urban farm—Grow Dat...
This farm in New York only grows food for donation (10 tons and counting)
Artist Dan Colen needed an escape from New York City. So he purchased Sky High Farm in New York's Hudson Valley...
50,000 new seeds deposited in Arctic Circle's Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Nearly 10 years ago, a group of scientists got together to build the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle,...
MIT's "food computers” produce reliable crops anywhere
Hunger is an ugly social menace we would love to see resolved. It looks like MIT researchers may be getting close...
COP22 kicks off in Morocco with controversial presence of fossil fuel industry representatives
Days after the historic Paris climate deal went into effect, world leaders have again convened to discuss tactics...
This weird breed of mutant corn could solve world hunger
As the Earth's population grows and climate change wreaks havoc on agriculture across the world, food security...
This element, essential to all life, is rapidly disappearing from the planet
Of the many things threatening the world’s food supply, the element with the ability to wreak the most havoc...
France becomes world's first county to ban supermarkets from throwing away food
In an effort to tackle the dual problems of food waste and poverty, France just passed a groundbreaking law that...
Chicago's FarmedHere plans to expand vertical indoor farming to 20 new locations across the country
Serious indoor agriculture used to be reserved for people who were into black lights and excessive incense burning,...
