Environmental News

Farmers are under pressure to shift from raising animals to growing plant-based crops, and meat and dairy farmers across the country are seeing their livelihood threatened. To quell this growing stress, Miyoko’s Creamery has teamed up with Mercy for Animals (MFA) and Animal Outlook (AO) to launch the first toolkit specifically designed to help farmers transition away from industrial animal agricul

These days there is a food label for everything. Looking for vegan, gluten-free, non-GMO, and even soy-free foods? There is a clear label that signifies the products best for you, but never before has there been a label for the environment. Now...

It may be April, but we promise we're not fooling you with this news: Your next alternative protein could be made from air. If that sounds crazy, let us explain. Using an intricate process that compresses recycled carbon emissions, the food technology start-up Air Protein is making vegan steak, chicken, pork, and seafood, literally out of thin air. Air Protein boasts...

Do you find yourself thinking about the planet when buying groceries? Or do you avoid meat and dairy to lower your carbon footprint? If so, then you're a "climatarian" the term for someone who considers the impact of their food choices on the planet as they make their selections. Fully...

Yes, “eco-anxiety” is a real thing. From the UN's recent IPCC reports warning of the impending climate crisis marked by rising seawater and dwindling species, it can be hard to stay positive and feel that, as individuals, we can actually do something meaningful to effect change. Some of our apathy or concern stems from...

Teaching kids about climate change is a tough conversation, but with the climate crisis worsening, environmental education is essential. Instead of projecting fears about global emissions, the United Kingdom is introducing a nationwide course on the climate crisis that will teach students how to protect the planet. Int...

Don't call kids picky eaters – they may have a good reason behind their food preferences. A new study examined how our perceptions of food and animals change as we age, analyzing how kids look at food and its relationship to animals. In general, ki...

When it comes to the environment, we all want to choose foods that do the least damage to our climate. One thing that is clear: Any dairy-free plant-based milk is better than cow's milk for the environment, since the amount of water, grain and land, machinery, and greenhouse gas emissions involved in raising cows is one of the highest contributors to global warming, according to scientific researc

There's a reality of dairy and meat farming that most people would care not to think about: Belching, farting cows. This is what cows do as they turn cheap grass feed into energy, and one woman entrepreneur has a vision of how to lower the amount of gas that cows produce by feeding them seaweed...

The world may seem just inches from the point of no return to combat climate change, but the United Nation's latest report reassured us that there is still time left – under one condition: We take swift plant-based action. Coinciding with this call to ...