By Georgina Gustin

Some of the country’s biggest food companies are making a small dent in their greenhouse gas emissions, but most are failing to make substantial and critical reductions, even as consumers and government regulators are pushing harder for them to do so.

By Georgina Gustin

A longtime agriculture industry watchdog has sued Tyson Foods, alleging the company misleads consumers by marketing “climate friendly” beef and by promising to slash its climate-warming emissions.

By Georgina Gustin

A destructive cocktail of herbicides, including a key compound in the lethal defoliant Agent Orange, is being used to chemically deforest huge areas of Brazil as ranchers there seek new, less detectable ways to clear forests for grazing cattle.

By Caroline Marshall Reinhart

A new University of California Riverside study on California agriculture and climate proposes a plan for new water capture, storage and distribution systems throughout California that will sustain agriculture and keep up with climate trajectories. 

By Sean Sublette

Meteorological summer—the three hottest calendar months of the year—was the fourth hottest on record in the U.S. in 2024, with the worst of the heat in the Southwest, the Gulf Coast and the East Coast, according to a report released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 

By Cassandra Stephenson, Illan Ireland and Phillip Powell, Tennessee Lookout

This story was originally published by The Tennessee Lookout.

By Ruchi Shahagadkar

The Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future, a collaboration between Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Schmidt Sciences, has awarded funding grants to five projects focusing on developing solutions to advance circular bio-economies with biomass feedstocks across the country. Projects based in California, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin will receive up to $47.3 million in funding to work toward a bio-economic model that is powered by renewable energy and minimizes waste generation. 

By Liza Gross

On a Southern California spring morning in 1973, a tanker truck driver jackknifed his rig and dumped the agricultural fumigant he was transporting onto a city street. A Los Angeles Fire Department emergency response team spent four hours cleaning up the chemical, 1,3-dichloropropene, or 1,3-D, a fumigant sold as Telone that farmers use to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms before planting.

By Georgina Gustin

As much of the world heads into the fall harvest season and agriculture once again enters international policy conversations, humanitarian groups are calling for fundamental changes to the global food system—not only to feed the world’s hungry but also to enlist more farmers in solving the climate crisis.

By Georgina Gustin

Soon after Vice President Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz as her running mate this week, pictures of the Minnesota governor began to spread across social media—of Walz holding a piglet, of Walz on thrill rides at the state fair, of Walz and his rescue dog.