When I was in New York for Climate Week, I spotted a restaurant advertising “Save the planet, eat local.” Even at many of the events I attended, organizers went out of their way to highlight the local ...

Meal kits reduce food waste but often create more packaging. Now companies are redesigning materials, delivery systems, and ...

Food has a major impact on the environment, given that the production, processing, transport, preparation and final consumption of the food require a lot of water, produce high carbon emissions and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Noma Nazish writes about actionable ways to live well. New stats from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) reveal that ...

Food scraps emit greenhouse gases like methane, which can instead be captured by wastewater plants that are designed to process organic matter.

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive. Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of ...

You value independent local news, so become a sustainer today to power our newsroom. You might remember our food waste guide from earlier this year — we received questions from more than 500 of you ...

Raffaele Mezzenga has turned chicken feathers into fuel cell membranes, found myriad purposes for the milk protein whey, and used black bean proteins in aerogels for capturing carbon dioxide from air.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grocery stores on the Pacific Coast have made the biggest reduction in food waste ever recorded in the United States, according to ...

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks. So you’d think we’d show gratitude for spreads of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and pies by not throwing the food away. But somehow the equivalent of about 8.2 ...

A study by the University of the Basque Country (EHU) has identified the optimal combinations of taxes and subsidies for reducing the environmental footprint of food consumption. Researchers from the ...