Climate change is coming for your morning joe. Startups are betting that substitutes made out of date seeds and chickpeas are the answer.
https://grist.org/food/beanless-coffee-sustainable-alternative-climate/
A toxic grass that threatens a quarter of U.S. cows is spreading. Can it be stopped?
https://grist.org/agriculture/this-grass-has-toxic-effects-on-us-livestock-and-its-spreading-fescue/
New research shows that climate change is already fueling heatflation, with worse to come.
https://grist.org/economics/heatflation-study-extreme-weather-food-prices/
In cities like Tucson, Arizona, neighbors are planting trees to provide shade — and food.
https://grist.org/food/heat-hunger-food-forests-edible-parks-tree-planting/
Dragging nets along the ocean bed wrecks marine life, but researchers can’t agree on how bad it is for the climate.
https://grist.org/food/bottom-trawling-damages-seafloor-source-carbon-emissions/
Plastics, taxes, and expensive desserts: Grist reporters weigh in on the climate trends that will shape the year ahead.
https://grist.org/culture/24-predictions-for-2024-climate-trends/
For one, the U.N.'s proposal barely mentions fossil fuels.
Oysters stabilize shorelines, trap carbon-rich sediment, and help marshes grow.
A COP28 proposal to eat less meat would come amid a right-wing backlash against alternatives.
Answering that question shows just how tricky it would be to drop meat altogether.
https://grist.org/food/thought-experiment-ending-meat-consumption/
Sustainable diets have been around for ages, but an emerging cookbook genre signals a new appetite for change.
https://grist.org/culture/climate-cookbooks-sustainable-eating-low-waste-kitchen/
The inside story of how AppHarvest's indoor farming scheme imploded — and took its blue-collar workforce down with it.
https://grist.org/agriculture/appharvest-indoor-farming-morehead-kentucky/
As waters warm, Alaska Native families confront a world without the fish that fed them for generations.
https://grist.org/food/salmon-vanishing-yukon-river-way-of-life-alaska-native/
In cities across the U.S., hundreds of refrigerators stocked with free food are reducing waste — and methane emissions.
https://grist.org/food/community-fridges-food-security-climate-solution/
Natural disasters hit farmers with a $22 billion bill last year. Only half of that was covered by insurance.
Palm and soy are taking over the world's cropland. Enter Zero Acre Farms.
https://grist.org/food/cooking-oil-deforestation-startup-sugarcane-solution/
As federal agencies prepare to deregulate transgenic chestnuts, Indigenous nations are asserting their rights to access and care for them.
https://grist.org/indigenous/transgenic-american-chestnut-indigenous-rights/
Agricultural emissions would fall by almost a third. But getting there wouldn't be easy.
https://grist.org/agriculture/what-if-the-world-cut-meat-and-milk-consumption-half/
Changing the habits of this small group could go a long way toward cutting the country's planet-warming emissions.
https://grist.org/food/beef-guzzlers-small-group-americans-eat-half-cow-meat/
"The sun is beating down on this metal box.”