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Scott Olson/Getty Images Finding the best ways to do good. President Joe Biden has a plan to tackle climate change. His major infrastructure program, the American Jobs Plan, is mostly a blueprint for doing just that. It’s exhaustive — the summary alone clocks in at 12,000 words — and that’s encouraging. But in all those words, something crucial is missing. Nowhere does “meat” get a mention. Likewise, “animal agriculture” appears exactly zero times. If Biden is serious about staving off climate disaster, our meat system is not something he can afford to ignore. At least14...

There’s a Booming Business in America’s Forests. Some Aren’t Happy About It. The fuel pellet industry is thriving. Supporters see it as a climate-friendly source of rural jobs. For others, it’s a polluter and destroyer of nature. A tree being dragged to a wood chipper, a first step toward being transformed into wood pellets and shipped overseas.Credit... Photographs and Video by Erin Schaff Gabriel Popkin and Erin Schaff traveled to Northampton County, N.C., to examine the climate controversy over a fast-growing industry. April 19, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET GARYSBURG, N.C. —...

Jo-Anne McArthur/We Animals/naturepl THE Great Barrier Reef is already in a critical state. Rising sea temperatures are killing corals faster than they can recover. As temperatures continue to increase, more and more of the reef will die, along with the rich variety of life and the AUS$6 billion tourism industry that depend on it. It is one headline-grabbing example among many. The continued rapid warming of the planet would wipe out many species, even if it were the only change happening. As it is, a sixth mass extinction in Earth’s history is already under way as farms replace forests and...

By MikeB (not verified) on 13 Apr 2015 #permalink @- RA Venter GMO’s sound like a great solution to the problem that we’re facing, however, one had to consider the effects on our health if we consume GMO’s. Are they not considered harmful to the human body? No. (Or at least, only by those with a serious woo problem) "Another great idea would be to educate people in the more impoverished areas and teach them to grow and harvest their own food supplies. Communal gardens?" People growing their own food in communal gardens is hopelessly inefficient. The reason we are able to sustain the pre...

Listen to the story. U Saw Mhue Dee, U Saw Benjamin and Daw Naw Lay Lay explain the process of growing elephant foot yam, sheltered from the afternoon heat under a stilt house in Paungdawgyi Village.  Credit: Share Many private companies are making pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions in the coming decades. But much fewer are taking it a step further — going carbon-negative by paying back the carbon emitted during a company’s lifetime. The most high-profile company to pledge to counteract their historic emissions was Microsoft last year. Another company pledging to address l...