Are We Eating Fishy Food?

06/01/2020

“We try to grow what’s been here for hundreds, if not thousands of years.”

From blue corn to bison, narrow federal food-safety codes impact tribal food systems. But advocates are writing their own food laws to preserve Native food sovereignty.

04/16/2020

Today members of the campaign went to Mayor Bowser’s press conference to ask “What about petitioning?” We wrote the Mayor over a month ago and have still not received a reply.

02/29/2020

Nearly 2/3 of the world's farmers are small scale producers which feed the majority of the world's population.

Almost half of Russia’s food is grown in backyard gardens! While most of the world is completely dependent on industrial agriculture, the Russian people feed themselves. As recently as 2011, a full 40% of the food produced in Russia came from small, household gardens called dachas. That number is ...

02/05/2020

“Lobbying documents and emails obtained by The Intercept show a vast strategy by the pesticide industry to influence academics, beekeepers, and regulators, and to divert attention away from the potential harm caused by pesticides. As a result, the global neonic industry generated $4.42 billion in revenue in 2018. In the meantime, the effects are being seen in massive die-offs. Certain insect species are nearing extinction."

Though neonicotinoids are banned in the EU, a sophisticated information war has kept these insecticides — toxic to bees and birds — on the U.S. market.

01/17/2020

Saved: 483 giant sequoias six feet or more in diameter, and the Stagg Tree, the fifth largest tree in the world at almost 35 feet in diameter and 3,000 years old.

"It really was an extraordinary and inspiring outpouring of generosity," the league's President and CEO Sam Hodder told The San Francisco Chronicle. "This is the best of what's left. This is a truly magical place, and it comes at a time when people needed some good news — something that protects t...

01/07/2020

Taylor, the four-year-old English springer spaniel, sniffs out injured koalas after the recent bushfires on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.

01/04/2020

It’s about time

"We call on governments to incorporate explicit safeguards for biodiversity."

12/21/2019

Opossums have natural immunity to Lyme disease ticks are known to carry.

This trail cam photo beautifully demonstrates a symbiotic relationship -- a special interaction between species that provides a balance that can only be achieved by working together.

12/08/2019

Prime Minister of Iceland Katrin Jakobsdottir is now urging governments to prioritize sustainability and family time over obsessing about economic growth — as most developed nations seem to do. Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeion and New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have teamed u...

11/28/2019

By supporting our farmers we can reboot the economy, sustain millions of livelihoods, and be more climate resilient.

Agriculture, food and trade policy expert Devinder Sharma writes: “My understanding is that only agriculture can reboot the economy, sustain millions of livelihoods, and reduce global warming.”

11/21/2019

Anyone who has never had a genuine Italian pasta meal should try and remedy that asap! Pasta comes in all shapes and sizes and one in particular, bucatini pasta, with its tubular shape, is making eco-friendly waves as an alternative to plastic straws. A picture posted on reddit by user u/GranFabio,