Courts are ruling against genetically engineered crops, but where does the Obama administration stand?

Can meat be a part of an environmentally sustainable diet?

Footprints, offsets, and conversion factors: The jargon of sustainability can confuse even the most environmentally sensitive among us, particularly in the supermarket aisles. Here’s a handy...

The USDA’s new Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative is a nice symbol, but will it actually change anything?

After 10 years of promises, protocols, and initiatives, the children of West Africa remain at the mercy of the cocoa industry.

For the first time, a large Florida tomato grower agrees to increase wages and eliminate worker abuse in its fields.

Thanks to the current administration’s inaction, the Gulf of Mexico will soon become home to unsustainable fish farms.

In his new book, Catching Fire, Richard Wrangham, Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University, makes the case that cooking was the definitive evolutionary step that made us humans what we...

What does it take to make people care about climate change? In France and the U.S., very different kinds of arguments.

Portraits of a sixth-generation family farm in its final day.