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Food and farms

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
Food and farms

Can agriculture and solar farms coexist? It depends

At a test site in Colorado, researchers and farmers are collaborating to figure out what works — and what doesn't — when it comes to agrivoltaics.

By Alison F. Takemura . 15 November 2022
Food and farms

Is insect protein a climate solution?

Climavores podcast hosts Michael Grunwald and Tamar Haspel serve up some hot takes.

By Mike Munsell . 19 September 2022
Podcast

Should we eat bugs, farmed fish or soy?

Introducing Climavores: a show about eating on a changing planet.

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By Stephen Lacey . 15 September 2022
Food and farms

What exactly is 'climate-smart agriculture'?

The new climate law will direct big bucks toward regenerative farming practices. But is that good climate policy?

By Michael Grunwald . 12 September 2022
Solar

Mixing solar power and agriculture: A blueberry farm does a test run

A farmer in Maine has teamed up with a solar developer and university researchers to find out how his berries fare when partially shaded by solar panels.

By Kari Lydersen . 12 September 2022

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