Food and farming
Having strong ties to home is the most frequently given reason why people continue to stay in Himalayan villages facing the impacts of climate change...Read More
Almost 10,000 chickens died from heat stress en route to a slaughterhouse on the day UK temperatures hit 40C for the first time. Soaring tem...Read More
Climate change poses a risk to global food security. Weather and climate extremes, such as prolonged drought, heavy rainfall and heatwaves, can le...Read More
In the second of a new series explaining how key commodities are affected by and contribute to climate change, Carbon Brief looks at coffee – from ...Read More
Women working in agriculture “tend to do so under highly unfavourable conditions” – often in the face of “climate-induced weather shocks and ...Read More
Greenhouse gases resulting from rotted and otherwise wasted food accounts for around half of all global food system emissions, according to a new stu...Read More
Fertiliser emissions could be reduced to approximately one-fifth of current levels by 2050 without the need for developing new technologies, a new st...Read More
Olive trees in Lebanon – historically renowned for the high-quality olive oil they produce – are under threat from rising temperatures, new resea...Read More
Nearly 20,000 delegates from across the world will soon be arriving in Montreal for the second part of COP15, the much-delayed and much-anticipated U...Read More
Agriculture has a huge impact on the environment. Food production takes up more than one-third of Earth’s land, is responsible for one-third of hum...Read More
The “threat” posed to UK farms by the expansion of solar power has emerged as a campaign issue for the final two candidates in the race to become...Read More