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 ...

Rifrullo Café, a cozy farm-to-table restaurant in Brookline, Massachusetts, hums with customers on a steamy July mid-morning. Patrons sip coffee on the shady sidewalk patio. Inside, people hunch over ...

Researchers pry into the intricacies of household food waste in Japan, paving the way to effective strategies for mitigating it Food production is one of the pillars of human civilization and ...

Food waste has often been regarded as an inevitable by-product of today’s food systems, but tackling it is emerging as a critical lever for climate change mitigation, improved resource use and ...

ANCA offers background on food waste in the U.S. as well as tips to minimize and composte old food rather than throw it out.

Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience. She is also the co-founder of Be a Travel Writer, an online course for the next generation of travel ...

The climate debate has long focused on energy and transportation, yet an equally consequential sector has remained largely in ...

This article explores how recycling, reuse, and sustainable innovation are turning waste into opportunity worldwide. In major cities across the world, mountains of plastic bottles, discarded ...

Food waste poses an urgent challenge to environmental sustainability, and in Japan, its scale underscores the complexity of addressing this issue. Approximately 2.47 megatons of food waste from ...

Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate. NPR is dedicating a week to stories and conversations about the search for solutions. There’s a whiteboard on the ...

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.