AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
The Netherlands is having to make big changes to its agriculture industry. Is it possible for major meat producing countries like the US to follow? Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since...
AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the last four decades, a new study has found. Successive recent governments have used environmental concerns to justify ramping up their war on the green shrub, but the research...
ClimateChange, Blogs, GoodNews
A teenager from Arizona died after being exposed to weather above 40 degrees celsius. Climate change will cut short many lives, especially in poor communities. Last summer I packed my bags and left humid New York to spend a month reporting in the dry desert heat of...
AnimalAgri, ClimateChange
Most people who buy tuna fish have no conception of the environmental and ethical impact of the industry. Was the tuna at your local supermarket caught sustainably by people treated humanely and paid a living wage? Greenpeace released its second annual report Monday...
AnimalAgri, ClimateChange, GoodNews
Scientists analysed the effects of animal feed on greenhouse gas emissions and found feeding chickens and salmon is costing our planet in a big way. Most of the environmental effects of farmed chicken and salmon arise from the food the animals are reared on, new...
