File: Decomposing food scraps at Bennett Compost in Northeast Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) This story is part of the WHYY News Climate Desk, bringing you news and solutions for our changing ...

LOS ANGELES -- I was so excited to try the Zero-Waste challenge. I was really confident that I had so many easy solutions for eliminating waste from my daily life. Yet, I was wrong! It was much harder ...

Farm waste like crop stalks could fight climate change by becoming building materials that store carbon for decades instead ...

Robert Sanders, assistant professor of marketing and analytics at the Rady School of Management, explains the major impacts that food going to landfills has on our warming planet University of ...

Households will be given a caddy to separate their food waste from the rest of their rubbish.

Food choices shape far more than our health. They influence land use, water resources, and the amount of heat-trapping ...

Our food systems, including agriculture, land use and methane emissions, mostly from cattle, account for roughly a quarter of our greenhouse gas emissions. Among the solutions to reducing them? A more ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A sense of urgency can be felt on the floors of the Northern Illinois Food Bank in Geneva. Volunteers vigorously work to sort and box up food for donation. But despite their best ...

Cows standing in the middle of a prairie. In bestselling author Michael Grunwald's new book "We Are Eating The Earth," he highlights how agriculture is dramatically contributing to climate change.

This collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 13 - Climate action. Global climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, posing significant risks ...

Anne-Marie Bonneau, blogger, activist and author of "The Zero-Waste Chef: Plant-Forward Recipes and Tips for a Sustainable Kitchen and Planet" and Tamar Adler, award-winning chef, food writer and ...