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UN: food waste alone leaves a large carbon footprint
Our dietary habits have had vastly negative impacts on the natural environment.
Illegal fishing endangers both ecosystems and food security
The EU hands out yellow cards to countries that it considers to be in violation of sustainable fishing practices.
Common farming practices are a risk to global food supplies
Even as more land is being used for agriculture, crop diversity has been on the decline.
In a flood-prone region of Bangladesh gardens go afloat
“If the river didn’t take our land, I wouldn’t need to be here,” says Golam Mostafa Sarder, a teenage boy who is working at a brick factory in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The brick factory requires laborers to work
Japan’s shift to commercial whaling met with mixed reviews
Japan has never really stopped hunting whales, but its decision to leave the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling to resume commercial whaling, effective July 1, has renewed attention to Japan and why its leaders are making the move. The
Honeybee colonies in the U.S. have suffered massive losses
Between April 2018 and April 2019 more than 40% of managed honeybee colonies were lost, according to a survey