A new year is when many people pledge to improve their diets – whether to better their own health or the planet’s. One aspect of our diets where we can generally give ourselves a break is how far our ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Getting food from a field to our markets or even our plates creates more emissions than previously estimated. A study published in Nature Food found that the mileage on food (or “food miles”) is ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. local food movement -- which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal -- has -- which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal -- has gone ...

The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, our new research has found. It reveals how ...

‘Food miles’ indicate the carbon footprint of food transport from points of production to consumption. Measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm), estimates can vary widely by employing different calculation ...

Every Thursday and Sunday I walk my frozen banana peels and carrot tops to Columbia's farmers market. It's my small effort to combat food waste, which happens from production to retail to consumption.

Eat Great Meat, a local produce supplier in the UK, analysed supermarket data on the source countries of their ingredients, to reveal the supermarkets, ingredients and meals with the least and most ...

Fresh research suggests transport accounts for one-fifth of total food-system emissions, with fresh fruit and vegetables amongst the most carbon-intensive. To date, carbon footprint assessments of ...