Emissions don't just come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. Food waste sent to landfills contributes up to 10% of all emissions, equivalent to more emissions than that of ...

Producing food and getting it to people's plates entails a significant expenditure of energy and resources. Unfortunately, approximately one third of all food produced globally is not consumed and ...

As global food loss and waste continue to rise, innovative recycling strategies are urgently needed. A new study highlights that the transition from landfill disposal to a circular bioeconomy can ...

Food waste has often been regarded as an inevitable by-product of today’s food systems, but tackling it is emerging as a critical lever for climate change mitigation, improved resource use and ...

Our global agrifood system is a major contributor to anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and requires urgent transformative changes to overcome climate change and inefficient use of Earth’s ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

Cows standing in the middle of a prairie. In bestselling author Michael Grunwald's new book "We Are Eating The Earth," he highlights how agriculture is dramatically contributing to climate change.

Food waste poses an urgent challenge to environmental sustainability, and in Japan, its scale underscores the complexity of addressing this issue. Approximately 2.47 megatons of food waste from ...

Food waste may become a powerful climate tool thanks to tiny reusable beads that capture carbon directly from the air.

Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. Patrons sip coffee on the shady sidewalk patio. Inside, people hunch over ...

Household food waste is an important contributor to global food loss and waste and greenhouse gas emissions, but not much is known about what types of food are wasted the most and by whom. Now, ...