Food and Agriculture

GhostFood truck gives you a taste of life after climatepocalypse

This art installation lets you experience what it might be like to eat simulated cod, chocolate, and peanut butter once those foods are wiped off the map.

Jess Zimmerman Climate & Energy

Winery plans to chop down California redwoods to make room for vineyards

As the world warms, winemakers are moving into new regions. Along the California coast, that's bad news for redwoods.

John Upton Climate & Energy

Seal meat and foie gras burger is straight up trolling

The "Phoque Bardot" is the ultimate trollburger.

Jess Zimmerman Food

GMO corn crop trials suspended in Mexico

A Mexican judge ordered a halt to GMO corn field trials planned by Monsanto and other international companies because of concerns about environmental impacts.

John Upton Food

An anti-GMO wave rising from Kauai?

It's just one little Hawaiian island, but it's also a big biotech testing ground, so Kauai's move to regulate could ripple widely.

Nathanael Johnson Food

This gadget makes your phone smell like meat so vegans don’t feel deprived

The Hana Yakinikui phone accessory emits a meat smell so your food doesn't have to.

Jess Zimmerman Food

Dramatic charts reveal climate change’s effects on oceans

The oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic, starved of oxygen, and less productive. Here are the results, in technicolor.

John Upton Climate & Energy

The end of Meatpaper and the state of the fleischgeist

Before the feisty magazine bit the dust, it helped bring us a little bit closer to everyone -- and everything -- involved in this carnivorous life.

Nathanael Johnson Food

Rejoice, animal lovers: Oktoberfest goes vegan

For the first time in two centuries, the German celebration includes soy cutlets, fake pork, and vegan wine.

Holly Richmond Food

Yum! Climate change means more mercury in fish

Mercury makes its way up the food chain from itty bitty killifish to tuna to us! Truly the gift that keeps on giving.