Food and farms

Food and farms

Cattle are a huge climate threat. Smarter ranching can help

Ranchers in Brazil are testing new and improved techniques that can lower the climate impact of beef production by using less land and curbing cattle's burps and farts.

By Michael Grunwald . 17 April 2023
Fun stuff

Canary Live Boston: Watch the event on Thurs., April 6 at 6:00 PM ET

We're broadcasting our event live from Greentown Labs in Somerville, Mass. this week.

By Nicholas Rinaldi . 5 April 2023
Podcast

The greenhouse gas you don't hear enough about

Nitrous oxide has a global warming potential 273 times higher than carbon dioxide, and it lasts in the atmosphere for a century. So what can we do about it?

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By Shayle Kann . 48 min . 16 March 2023
Food and farms

There's a push underway to help more US farms save big with clean energy

Advocates say revamping the 20-year-old federal Rural Energy for America Program could give cash-crunched small farms some much-needed breathing room.

By Kathiann M. Kowalski . 6 March 2023
Podcast

This episode is trash

How the food we waste heats up the planet, and how we can fix it.

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By Shayle Kann . 33 min . 19 January 2023
Food and farms

Afraid of high-tech food? Get over it

Too many Americans are squeamish about cultivated meat, alt-protein processed foods and GMOs, but we'll need to get used to them to avert a climate catastrophe.

By Michael Grunwald . 17 January 2023
Air travel

The smelly, greasy truth about how sustainable aviation fuel is made

Join our reporter as she tags along with a truck driver dumpster-diving for used cooking oil — all in the name of curbing aircraft emissions.

By Maria Gallucci . 12 January 2023
Food and farms

Tomatoes and solar panels could go well together

Agrivoltaics — agriculture paired with solar arrays — could help the U.S. tomato industry in increasingly hot and dry regions, research suggests.

By Kari Lydersen . 29 November 2022
Food and farms

Climate-friendlier meat just got a step closer to your plate

Upside Foods, one of more than 100 startups working on cultivated or lab-grown meat, is the first to earn a key approval from the U.S. FDA.

By Maria Virginia Olano . 23 November 2022
Food and farms

Video: How solar panels and crops can thrive side by side

Step into the field to see agrivoltaics up close.

By Alison F. Takemura . 21 November 2022