Goodall went on, sharing other reasons why eating meat can be harmful to the environment, noting that industrial animal agriculture requires an abundance of land, water, fossil fuels, pesticides and ...

"We need to start treating the limited land we've got as our most precious resource Michael Grunwald explains, "because it needs to produce much more food to sustain us and absorb much more carbon to ...

The Green Revolution got off to a rocky start. In the fall of 1944, Norman Borlaug, who would become known as the revolution’s father, moved to Mexico to set up a plant-breeding program. Right away, ...

Last year, the United Nations predicted that Earth’s average temperature could rise more than 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit (3 degrees Celsius) by 2100 if we don’t reduce global emissions. That level of ...