Emissions don't just come from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas. Food waste sent to landfills contributes up to 10% of all emissions, equivalent to more emissions than that of ...

Global food waste helps to drive climate change due to the methane released by decomposing organic matter. With emissions from food loss and waste now nearly five times the emissions from the aviation ...

Harvard Law School’s Emily Broad Leib opened the event, noting that 31 percent of the U.S. food supply becomes surplus, even ...

File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

Journalists around the world can register to attend a free webinar. The Climate Project at MIT is hosting the webinar ‘Reporting on food, waste and climate in America.’ The webinar features five MIT ...

This year is expected to be the hottest on record, but 18-year-old activist Shrusti Amula is refusing to feel down about the future of the planet. Instead, she’s working to reduce the impacts of ...

Long Beach residents are getting new green bins as the city rolls out a new recycling program for food waste. The final phase of the rollout in L.A. County’s second-largest city is set to wrap up by ...

Food accounts for about one-quarter of all human-caused heat-trapping pollution. Meanwhile, extreme events fueled by our warming climate are impacting every stage of the food supply chain and driving ...

LOS ANGELES -- I was so excited to try the Zero-Waste challenge. I was really confident that I had so many easy solutions for eliminating waste from my daily life. Yet, I was wrong! It was much harder ...

An Oct. 20 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) includes a graph that shows global wheat, rice and coarse grain production has increased along with global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels ...

Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. Millions of tons of food waste end up in landfills each year. But alternatives like composting, anaerobic digestion and even ...