Articles by Twilight Greenaway
Twilight Greenaway has been reporting on food, agriculture, and the climate for nearly two decades. She served as Grist's food editor from 2011 to 2012 and as an editor at Civil Eats from 2014-2024. She is currently working for the Climate and Equity Reporting Project through UC Berkeley Journalism, writing and editing stories about greenhouse gas reduction efforts in California.
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Farmers, beekeepers, brewers: Book takes on New York’s food makers past and present
In her new book, "Eat the City," author Robin Shulman digs in to the Big Apple's food producing past and takes a romp through its lively present.
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Drought: Bad for the Gulf ‘dead zone’ after all?
The nation's drought-withered corn fields aren't taking in anywhere near the amount of nitrogen fertilizer that farmers put on the ground last spring. And the excess could show up in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mixed blessings: A smaller Gulf dead zone offers less to celebrate than you’d think
This year's unusually small Gulf dead zone bucks the upward trend and will give aquatic life a chance to rebound. But it's no reason to breathe easy about nutrient runoff from agriculture.
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GMO potatoes: Is the biodiversity shortcut worth it?
The Irish potato famine should have taught the food and farming world that crop diversity is crucial. But the genetically engineered potato on trial in Ireland suggests that we haven't actually learned much.
