ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

How animal agriculture is destroying the planet

Animal agriculture is often blamed for climate change, biodiversity loss, competition for food resources, and water scarcity. But do you understand the link? Meat production is often blamed for climate change, biodiversity loss, competition for food resources, and...

Environmental disaster has collapsed civilisations in the past

ClimateChange, Blogs

Ever wonder if there’s a link between environmental disaster and the the collapse of some historical civilisations? Here’s what happened. The Roman Empire fell more than 1,500 years ago, but its grip on the popular imagination is still strong, as evidenced...

Big Meat gags scientific research into livestock emmissions

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews

Big Meat is guilty of suppressing research that could help us learn about the true extent of animal agriculture’s impact on the planet. Lately, we’ve been writing a lot about methane, the second-largest contributor to the climate crisis—and focusing mostly on...

What’s stopping us from replanting the Amazon?

ClimateChange, AnimalAgri, Blogs

Is saving the Amazon as easy as replanting trees and vegetation where it has been destroyed? According to experts there are many complications. Milton da Costa Junior nosed his pickup through a remote stretch of the western Brazilian Amazon to check on his babies. The...

Oatly campaigns for climate labelling

ClimateChange, GoodNews

Sustainable dairy company, Oatly, wants to see climate labelling on all food products in the UK. Oatly has launched a campaign calling for all food and drink producers in the UK to adopt climate labelling. The company, which already makes its emissions data public,...

Is extreme weather becoming the norm?

ClimateChange, Blogs

In an era of increasing weather whiplash between floods and droughts, can we learn to embrace the rains? In mid-November 2021, a great storm begins brewing in the central Pacific Ocean north of Hawai‘i. Especially warm water, heated by the sun, steams off the sea...