Green Consumerism
New wheat cultivars could feed more people more sustainably
Wheat and barley are staple food crops whose production needs to increase dramatically to meet future food demands.
Decarbonizing the global food system is a big step towards mitigating climate change
Agriculture alone accounts for a third of global emissions, and its impacts could increase further still.
Yummy? Fly larvae could be an ‘ecofriendly and nutritious’ foodstuff
"If you care about the environment, then you should consider and be willing to eat insect protein," a scientist says.
Less money spent this Halloween could help the environment
It requires 10,000 liters of water to produce a kilogram of chocolate.
Even babies consume large amounts of microplastics
In all, infants consume as many as 1.6 million polypropylene microplastic particles on average every single day.
Wasting waste: we must do better on recycling plastic
Current recycling commitments will only reduce annual plastic flows to the ocean by 7%. That's depressingly low.