Is the USDA’s spending on “climate-smart” farming actually helping the climate?

A new report asks whether supposedly green livestock practices have proven benefits.

What Europe’s egg-hurling farmers can teach us about climate progress

E.U. officials had big plans to slash emissions from farming. Then the protests started.

How much carbon can farmers store in their soil? Nobody’s sure.

Advocates say the long-awaited farm bill could help fix that. 

Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.

Bottom trawling shreds the seafloor. It may also be a huge source of carbon emissions.

Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad…

How to build renewables without threatening biodiversity? Carefully.

Researchers say coupling wind and solar farms with actual farms is a good place to start.

As salmon disappear, a battle over Alaska Native fishing rights heats up

A legal fight is ramping up over who should manage Alaska's dwindling salmon populations — and…

The world now has a roadmap for food and climate. But it’s missing a few things.

For one, the UN's proposal barely mentions fossil fuels.

What would it take to end the meat culture wars?

A COP28 proposal to eat less meat would come amid a right-wing backlash against alternatives.

What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow?

Answering that question shows just how tricky it would be to drop meat altogether.