Reducing your carbon footprint could start with your dinner. A new report, published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, ...

University of Michigan researchers evaluate an urban garden in Detroit. Credit: Dave Brenner, University of Michigan. A new University of Michigan-led international study finds that fruits and ...

Those discussions, which concluded Saturday, came right on the heels of the annual Bonn Climate Change Conference, which sets the foundation for the United Nations' yearly climate gathering. In Bonn, ...

As climate change intensifies, more people are eyeing food systems as a source of carbon emissions. Many people have moved to a more plant-based diet, which has a lower carbon footprint than meat and ...

Only around 1.1% of the world's population is vegan, but this percentage is growing. For example, in Germany the number of ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, January 14, 2022 (ENS) – Americans who eat beef could slash their diet’s carbon footprint as much as 48 percent by swapping just one serving a day for a more planet-friendly ...

It wasn’t until the late 1960s that food products were required to label their ingredients. As processed foods began to rise in popularity, many people failed to recognize the relationship between ...

New calculations show that the European countries have great potential for reducing the demand for global food resources and the associated GHG footprint. Researchers have estimated the climate ...

The food system is the biggest threat to biological diversity and one of the worst drivers of the climate crisis By the time the food we eat gets to our table, it has travelled a long way – from ...

In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often obscure and difficult to assess. “Everyone eats food, and more and ...