South inundated after torrential rain sparks flooding
Water rescues were underway Tuesday in Louisiana’s capital region after torrential rain that started a day earlier caused dangerous flash flooding in parts of that...
To Stop Food Waste, We Need to Confront Our Food Anxiety
Humans throw away about 1.3 billion tons of food a year, or—at the very least—one third of all food in the world. If you loaded...
Securing a swift return: how a simple brick can help migratory birds
Many swifts flying back to Britain will find their summer nests lost to building renovations. But bird bricks are offering them an alternative home
How flood protection can paradoxically put people at risk
Governments who build defences against rising seas can actually increase their citizens' risk of being flooded—if they fail to take account of the 'safe development...
Global food security: Climate change adaptation requires new cultivars
Climate change induced yield reductions can be compensated by cultivar adaptation and global production can even be increased.
California Farmers Facing Drought Are Choosing Empty Fields
In some areas of California it’s so dry that farmers aren’t even bothering to plant crops this season. Growers north of San Francisco have begun...
The central challenge for regenerative agriculture advocates: Not undermining the movement by ‘overselling’ its limited and targeted advantages
The term regenerative farming first popped up in the mainstream media in a 1987 New York Times article about what eventually would be widely referred...IEA: End fossil fuel expansion now for net zero energy emissions by 2050
The International Energy Agency has mapped a path to net zero emissions for the first time – and it involves ending investment in new coal,...