Climate Food and Agriculture
All Stories
-
![An aluminum single-serve coffee pod against a black and blue background]()
![An aluminum single-serve coffee pod against a black and blue background]()
Why it’s so hard to create a truly recyclable Keurig coffee pod
A company is betting on aluminum to solve K-cups’ sustainability problem. But experts say it’s complicated.
-
![]()
![]()
Climate takes its toll on the ‘cherry capital of the world’
The erratic weather adding to the troubles of Michigan's cherry growers is impacting farmers everywhere.
-
![An illustration of three people -- a woman with goats, a person with suspenders and a sun hat, and a woman in a blue dress near yellow plants -- under a darkening sky with moon and sunset]()
![An illustration of three people -- a woman with goats, a person with suspenders and a sun hat, and a woman in a blue dress near yellow plants -- under a darkening sky with moon and sunset]()
Extreme heat is forcing farmers to work overnight, an adaptation that comes with a cost
Farmers and fisherfolk across the world are shifting into nighttime work to escape perilous heat.
-
![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
![metal rings float on a sparkling blue sea, they are cages for a fish farm]()
How Trump could bring fish farms to the Gulf of Mexico
"If we care about climate change, we shouldn't have them in our oceans."
-
![]()
![]()
Don’t blame Biden for inflation. Blame the climate.
Inflation was a defining issue in the presidential election. Here's how climate change is making everything more expensive.
-
![Rows of corn and native grasses near wetlands]()
![Rows of corn and native grasses near wetlands]()
Protection of wetlands could come down to farmers, says a new report
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.
-
![Senator Debbie Stabenow speaks with an aide before a committee meeting]()
![Senator Debbie Stabenow speaks with an aide before a committee meeting]()
The Senate’s new farm bill would prioritize the climate. Too bad it’s basically doomed.
Democrats and Republicans can't seem to agree over what belongs in the nation's leading agricultural policy.
-
![View of a cattle ranch in the Jiangsu province of China]()
![View of a cattle ranch in the Jiangsu province of China]()
The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem
Development banks sent $2.3 billion to industrial animal agriculture last year, according to a new analysis.
-
![an illustration of a peach with the outline of a trail carved into the flesh]()
![an illustration of a peach with the outline of a trail carved into the flesh]()
Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it
The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?
-
![A group of people walk in front a banner that reads:]()
![A group of people walk in front a banner that reads:]()
Trump’s second term is already derailing food talks at COP29
At the U.N. climate summit, agricultural emissions are being sidelined — again.
