A new year is when many people pledge to improve their diets – whether to better their own health or the planet’s. One aspect of our diets where we can generally give ourselves a break is how far our ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Getting food from a field to our markets or even our plates creates more emissions than previously estimated. A study published in Nature Food found that the mileage on food (or “food miles”) is ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. local food movement -- which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal -- has -- which used to be elite, expensive and mostly coastal -- has gone ...

‘Food miles’ indicate the carbon footprint of food transport from points of production to consumption. Measured in tonne-kilometres (tkm), estimates can vary widely by employing different calculation ...

The desire by people in richer countries for a diverse range of out-of-season produce imported from overseas is driving up global greenhouse gas emissions, our new research has found. It reveals how ...

Every Thursday and Sunday I walk my frozen banana peels and carrot tops to Columbia's farmers market. It's my small effort to combat food waste, which happens from production to retail to consumption.