Food

Pushing a wheelbarrow filled with 350,000 petition signatures, concerned Californians gathered outside the capitol today to urge Gov. Jerry Brown and the California Water Resources Control Board to stop the...

Beer goes in, beer goes out. Like every liquid we consume, our bodies have a natural way of disposing toxins and the “excess baggage” that we don’t need. Once dispelled,...

South Africa is the latest victim of drought, and only a few weeks remain before the next planting season is set to begin. Unless farmers receive the aid they need,...

Over 50 animals at the Caricuao Zoo in Venezuela’s capital of Caracas have starved to death over the last six months due to massive food shortages throughout the country. Animal fatalities...

Almond milk, soy milk, hemp milk and now... cockroach milk? You may soon have a daring option for diluting your morning coffee, and it makes other trendy milks pale in comparison as far as...

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved nearly 100 pesticide products over the past six years that contain mixtures that make them more poisonous and increase the dangers to imperiled pollinators...

West Texas sits atop one of the world’s largest aquifers. Abundant water from the Ogallala has made the High Plains of Texas into the largest continuous area of intensive agriculture...

Pamela Anderson & Sea Shepherd Join Forces to Oppose Farmed Salmon On July 18, Sea Shepherd, in collaboration with biologist Alexandra Morton, environmentalist David Suzuki and actor/activist Pamela Anderson, launched...

The myth that you can’t get enough nutrients from plant-based foods isn’t true. According to a new study, eating plants isn’t just healthy, it’s substantially more environmentally-friendly than eating beef....

A new report from Oxfam America claims that five common foods are major contributors to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Wheat, soy, corn, rice and palm oil can be...

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Uncovering Los Angeles’ Buried Emerald Just over 10 years ago, South Central Los Angeles was home to one of the biggest urban community gardens in the United States. On June...

WASHINGTON— Food & Water Watch and the Center for Biological Diversity yesterday urged the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm a lower court’s ruling striking down an Idaho law...

Written by Paul Paz y Miño Chevron sending up massive flares in Richmond is not the only sign things are getting hot for the oil giant on the run from...

Phosphorus pollution is causing algal blooms in Lake Champlain and the EPA is cracking down on regional emitters. The excess alga threatens the lake’s water quality, encroaches on wildlife habitat...

Written by Mayu Mishina, senior writer and publications manager for AWF Grace Kipwola is solely responsible for supporting her six kids, including paying school fees for two in secondary school....

China’s new dietary guidelines recommend a substantial cutback in meat consumption, which, according to an anticipated WildAid report, could lead to a 1.5 percent reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions....

When you were a kid and your mom told you to “eat all the food on your plate because poor children around the world are starving,” did you ever wonder...