Environmental News

Getting your dad to eat more healthy plant-based foods used to mean sneaking him a meatless meal and hoping he wouldn’t notice. But a new survey reveals that less than one-third of men over 45 are willing to change their diet to benefit the planet, whereas half of Millenial…

The T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies has just announced a new certificate program examining the environmental impact of food systems as well as the increasingly important issue of sustainability as the threat of climate change grows...

Costa-Rican Diplomat Christiana Figueres, an instrumental architect of the Paris Climate Agreement, will now be lending her expertise to Impossible Foods after joining the company’s board of directors. Figueres’ new role makes sense given the shared aim of the Paris Climate Agreement and Impossible …

Consumers are not only reaching for vegan options in the grocery store but in beauty stores as well. Cosmetic companies are adapting to consumers' needs for vegan and cruelty-free products, with L'Oreal taking a huge step by banning badger, goat, and all other animal hair in…

According to a new study, if meat prices reflected the environmental impact of production, the days of McDonald’s dollar menu would be over. A study conducted by scientists at Augsburg University in Germany and published in Nature Communications found that if the toll of animal agriculture on the en…

The sunshine state, Florida, was called out by Oceana for having more wildlife harmed by plastics in the oceans than any other state in the United States, according to a report by the international ocean advocacy group.
Fifty-five percent of injured marine life includes sea t…

Hungary is the latest country to ban the fur farming of mink, foxes, polecats, ferrets, and coypu following minks testing positive for COVID-19 around the world in countries such as the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and Sweden...

Thanksgiving commences the holiday season in America, where the yearly feast proclaims the upcoming winter celebrations. For years now, the days following Thanksgiving have been an annual American tradition, where consumers flock to stores seeking out holiday bargains on products –– in w…

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson just announced a plan to ban the sale of all fossil fuel cars by the year 2030. This new measure is part of an effort to increase electric vehicle sales and contribute to the UK’s “Green Industrial Revolution...

College dining halls typically feature meat-heavy menus with a few vegetarian or vegan options, but Oxford students are hoping to change that. Students voted to ban lamb and beef from the majority of campus eateries with the goal of making the university more environmentally-friendly...