Democrats' verbal targeting of everything from plastic straws to cheeseburgers is stoking fears among anti-Trump forces that they're unwittingly playing into Republican culture wars.
Carlos Nobre, Brazil's leading expert on the Amazon and climate change, discusses the key perils facing the world's largest rainforest and lays out what can be done to stave off a ruinous transformation of the region.
Seventy percent of previously forested land in the Amazon is now used for raising cattle, with animal feed crops covering a large part of the remainder.
A damning new report from the World Resources Institute reveals just how seriously human beings need to address our current eating habits if we're to have any hope of stopping climate change.
Last Christmas, South Carolina State Representative Randy Ligon happened to read an article about cell-cultured meat. He asked his daughter, a biology graduate student, what she thought.
In addition to population growth, urbanization and the rise of the middle class in developing countries are increasing global demand for food, especially animal protein.
The plant-based burger company called regenerative grazing the “clean coal of meat” in a recent report. That hasn’t gone over well amongst carbon ranchers.
Climate change may progressively affect human health for the worse, requiring prompt and resolute action to stabilize it, reports a consortium of 27 leading scientific academies in Europe.
Kristina Marusic is the recipient of a Michelle Madoff Award of Environmental Excellence for her reporting on environmental health and justice in Western Pennsylvania
Covering Climate Now is an admirable, much-needed effort putting our planet front and center—but let's not overlook decades of strong journalism from the beat's pioneers.
