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As global demand for wood products is projected to rise over the coming decades, the world is expected to log about 3 million square miles of forestland.

The world's richest man has made public statements that deny basic science about the role of agriculture in heating the planet, say experts.

In Garysburg, North Carolina, a plant that claims to be carbon-neutral has endangered residents and local forests.

These are the arguments spun by big beef titans to persuade consumers that meat eating has negligible impact on the planet

Https://youtu.be/g6gZHbfK8Vo Bloomberg:Italy’s right-wing government provoked immediate controversy when it proposed banning the production of lab-grown meats to “safeguard our nation’s heritage.” The farm lobby cheered, scientists protested, and the conflict began to sound eerily akin to Europe’s protracted battle over genetically modified crops. I could only think: Here’s another hugely promising technological frontier stymied by false claims and misguided…

The world faces two inescapable, major environmental crises: the loss of biodiversity and global climate change. This workshop will bring together researchers from C-PREE at Princeton University and the Centre for Natural Climate Solutions at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to investigate how the world might simultaneously tackle both crises via the deployment of natural climate solutions.   Portions of this workshop will be open to the Princeton University community, including most...

There is an unforgiving math at the interface of agriculture and the environment.

Swapping steaks for crickets can cut greenhouse gas pollution and slow species extinction, but persuading people to eat them will be tricky.

To realize the potential of biofuels, the industry needs to pay attention to how feedstock crops change soil carbon

Policymakers could finalize revisions to the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive by year end, even as forest activists offer new evidence denouncing wood pellets as an energy source, and calling for an end to subsidies.