Producing and distributing food is responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But food systems are highly vulnerable to the droughts, floods, fires and heat waves made more intense by climate change. ...
Ecology
Nov 19, 2025
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When two people book the same flight, they can get wildly different carbon footprints from online calculators. Many carbon calculators leave out big chunks of climate impact or rely on oversimplified assumptions.
Environment
Nov 18, 2025
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A low-fat vegan diet is associated with a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and cumulative energy demand (CED) compared to the Standard American Diet, according to research by the Physicians Committee ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2025
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A new study has given new insights into people's understanding of the environmental impact of the food they eat and shown that they often misperceive it, supporting the need for environmental impact labeling.
Environment
Nov 10, 2025
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Websites produced for COP conferences emit up to 10 times more carbon than average internet pages, new research published in the journal PLOS Climate suggests.
Environment
Nov 10, 2025
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Every product we touch has a footprint. A phone, a fridge, a hospital syringe. Each begins and ends in the same place: the planet's resources.
Environment
Nov 2, 2025
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Many carbon calculators used by airlines and travel companies are dramatically underestimating the real climate damage caused by air travel, according to new research from the University of Surrey.
Environment
Oct 29, 2025
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When you think about your environmental footprint, what comes to mind first? Maybe the flights you take, the car you drive or whether you choose the train instead. Perhaps it is the plastic you try to avoid, the clothes you ...
Environment
Oct 28, 2025
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As the world marks UN World Cities Day on 31 October—a call to make cities more sustainable—a new international study published in Communications Earth & Environment warns that the global construction sector's carbon footprint ...
Environment
Oct 27, 2025
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Wasted food is a financial and environmental bummer. It costs U.S. consumers $728 every year, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, and emits the annual equivalent planet-warming greenhouse gases of 42 coal-fired ...
Environment
Oct 21, 2025
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