Five years ago, Google starting measuring the quantity and value of food being tossed at its facilities. It’s still got a long way to go, but it’s an object lesson in how focusing on a problem can bring solutions.
Diplomats and scientists from 130 nations gather in Paris next week to vet and validate the first UN global assessment of the state of Nature in more than a decade, and the news is not good.
The three priority areas which have been identified are due to their potential harm to fish that consume the worms and other bugs that live in the contaminated sediment.
Two sisters who grew up on a farm in southern Manitoba are coming to Winnipeg this summer to teach kids about the future of AI in farming and how to code for it.
One-third of all food worldwide ends up in the garbage, with industrialized countries contributing the most. A new foodsharing platform wants to help tackle the impact this has on our climate.
At first glance, the news seems good: tropical deforestation declined for the second year in a row, according to new satellite data. But digging in a little deeper reveals a more complicated, grimmer reality.
As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pushes for indigenous assimilation, the Amazon’s Sateré-Mawé people asserts its indigenous identity and land rights.
The scale of climate change can be difficult to comprehend. Many diverse environmental issues - pollution, warming oceans, and increasing temperatures - are combining to make the future look, well, less bright.
CO2 is stripping the food we eat of essential proteins and nutrients as well as warming the planet, says the lead author on last year’s IPCC report at TED in Vancouver.
A new study from researchers at the University of Guelph has found when bees encounter both a common neonicotinoid pesticide and Varroa mites, it can lead to premature death.
Asian women, especially Hmong, are at higher risk of mercury contamination than any other ethnic groups in the Twin Cities, according to a study released Tuesday.
Mike Rosmann left seminary to become a clinical psychologist for farmers. Now, as historic flooding ravages the Midwest, he's never been more overwhelmed.
Global warming is having a serious impact on economic growth across the world — and it's worse for poor places that already had a lot of catching up to do, a study by two Stanford University researchers shows.
Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle believe there's a way to revive Montana's struggling rural economies, preserve good soil and save lives at the same time: organic, sustainable farming of nutritious foods.
A team of researchers at York University has warned that the American bumblebee is facing imminent extinction from Canada, and this could lead to “cascading impacts” throughout the country.
African swine fever, which harms pigs but not humans, has swept across the country, the world’s largest pork producer. And the government knows about only some of the cases.
