Food

Climate-smart agriculture, the road to sustainable food

From palm trees harvested for their oil destroying an increasing portion of Indonesia’s and Malaysia’s rainforest alongside its biodiversity to the progressive but already dramatically…
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Recycling Myth: Plant-based bioplastics are not as ‘green’ as some think

Some bioplastics are compostable, but they generally require an industrial composting facility to process these materials. Many towns and cities do not have access to…
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Diets for a better future

Here, there, and everywhere. No place is safe from plastic pollution. In a report published in the journal Science, researchers show that even the most…
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Microplastics are contaminating the fruit and vegetables we eat, according to separate scientific studies published this week

Here, there, and everywhere. No place is safe from plastic pollution. In a report published in the journal Science, researchers show that even the most…
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