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While we might get our vitals checked in an annual health-check, but it’s not always as easy to tell how healthy our oceans are.

UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis releases its 2022 Ocean Health Index score

Meat production from cows and pigs, and rice, wheat and seed oil crop production have the worst environmental impacts.

Researchers map the environmental pressures of global production for all foods on land and ocean.

The analysis looked at greenhouse gas emissions, water use, habitat disturbance and pollution, such as effluent or fertiliser run off from farms.


The true environmental pressures of our global food system are frequently elusive and challenging to evaluate in an era of industrialised farming and complicated supply chains.

Get latest articles and stories on Lifestyle at LatestLY. Researchers at UC Santa Barbaras National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS) have mapped for the first time the environmental footprint of the production of all foods. Lifestyle News | Research Maps out Environmental Footprint of Food.

The recent analysis of nearly 99% of all land- and sea-based food production reveals the ecological impact of the food we consume.

In an age of industrialized farming and complex supply chains, the true environmental pressures of our global food system are often obscure and difficult to assess.