UK has banned this Video on Palm Oil and its impact on the environment, made by Iceland Foods out of UK. Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that is derived from the palm fruit, grown on the African oil palm tree. Oil palms are originally […]
Scientists say we’re growing too few good ones. If everyone in the world were to eat the recommended amount of vegetables, fruit, and protein, there wouldn’t be enough to go around. This finding comes from a new study at the University of Guelph, Canada, that delves into the question of […]
If the latest projections prove to be accurate, we need to plan for about a 10% increase in the needed supply of food, drinking water, and energy, and in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, as compared to the projections for the same year from 2002. Population growth is […]
The Earth is running out of wilderness, as farmland and city landscapes are increasing. Humans use about 40% of the land on Earth for farmland. Land on Earth in this case includes Antarctica and the far north. In fact, most of the land that hasn’t been farmed is […]
Conservationists on Canada’s West Coast are raising a red flag. A diver and BC government captured video and took various samples of what some fish farms release into the ocean. The video footage caught the attention of government scientists who confirmed the presence of the highly-contagious piscine reovirus […]
Neonicotinoids, the world’s most widely used insecticides, will be banned for use in fields within six months. A near total ban on pesticides linked to a decline in bees will come into force in the EU by the end of the year. Members states have backed the ban […]
The hype around cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple, fuels speculation and a potential bubble that might burst around these decentralized digital currencies. One of the biggest issues might not be a future crash, but the very real and immediate problem of how much electricity it takes to produce new […]
We can feed landfills or we can feed people. What side do you choose? Somehow we keep forgetting a very important finding: We could feed the world with what we grow now, if only we didn’t throw so much away. Canada wastes about $30bn worth of food per […]
The Idea A number of breweries in northern England are making a craft beer, Toast Ale, by substituting part of the malt it would otherwise have used with leftover bread. The beer was conceptualized to make use of discarded bread in an effort to fight food waste: in Britain, […]
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