The year we finally woke up to the climate emergency
Schoolchildren skipping class to strike, protests bringing city centres to a standstill: armed with dire warnings from scientists, people around the world dragged the climate emergency into the mainstream in 2019. Spurred on by Swedish wunderkind Greta Thunberg...
Olive farms in danger due to climate change
Harvest reduction of a staple cooking oil due to extra rains, colder temperatures and a bacteria that affected the trees are all part of climate change. Olive oil is commonly grown in the Mediterranean, Europe and California. In fall 2018, the olive harvest in...
2019: The year the world was startled into talking about nature
Some big numbers from nature made news in 2019. They were enough of a shock to get people talking about the dwindling diversity of plants, animals and other life on Earth, and what to do about it. Some of that dramatic news came from the Amazon, where satellites...
Food production in jeopardy if the planet continues to warm
When it comes to agriculture and seafood production, 90{85424e366b324f7465dc80d56c21055464082cc00b76c51558805a981c8fcd63} of people will live in areas where both of those sectors are diminishing by 2100. New projections show that food production may be in jeopardy if...
Food companies must make a bigger effort in tackling climate change
Investors are starting to give meat suppliers a warning that has already sent ripples through the coal industry: make better progress in tackling climate change or risk being shunned. The threat of divestments in the livestock sector — one of the top...
