Russia’s war created a global hunger disaster. Climate crisis is ramping it up
Climate and geopolitical insults to the global food system have a way of intersecting and feeding into each other in hellish ways.
How war in the world’s breadbasket ‘changes everything’
“Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia historian Scott Reynolds Nelson in his astonishing new book Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.
Lab-grown meat’s bloody little secret
These test-tube cells need food to flourish, and researchers found that fetal bovine serum provided the special sauce.
The biblical flood that will drown California
Megafloods could take America’s most precious farmland—and Disneyland—with it.
Unless we change course, the US agricultural system could collapse
Our food supply comes from an environmentally unsustainable system that is going to unravel
A Congresswoman's plan to slow global warming by using the soil
A new bill sponsored by Rep. Chellie Pingree would enlist growers to help slow global warming by using their soil to sponge up carbon dioxide.
Up next: a Green New Deal for farmers
“The current system is killing our soil, and farmers have hardly any incentives to do anything different.”
This amazing new milk is going to change everything
In late 2016, the Swedish company Oatly set up production in North America and began shopping its oat-derived “milk” to New York City’s latte cognoscenti. By the next autumn, oat milk had conquered the city’s “most esteemed coffee bars” at a “practically unheard of” rate, according to the coffee trade magazine Sprudge.