Food & Agriculture

FDA Greenlights First Cultivated Meat Company

Upside Foods is just a few steps away from selling lab-grown chicken in the U.S. market.

By Aryn Baker / Berkeley, Calif November 17, 2022

TIME Tastes World's First Cultivated Steak

We tried the world’s first lab-grown steak, no cows required.

By Aryn Baker/ Rehovot, Israel November 9, 2022

Extreme Heat Is Stressing Cows, Risking Global Dairy Supply

Heat and drought are straining the world's dairy cows, threatening the supply of everything from butter to baby formula.

By Elizabeth Elkin and Pratik Parija/Bloomberg November 1, 2022

How Healthy Soil can be a Powerful Climate Solution

More and more companies are relying on regenerative agriculture—based on old farming practices—to help maintain and restore soil health

By Jennifer Fergesen October 21, 2022

Climate Change Worsening Africa's Food Crisis

While exacerbating droughts and floods, climate change also fuels migration and makes food imports less reliable.

By Emily Barone October 5, 2022

The 'Slow Food' Movements Wants to Stop Climate Change

Farmers gathered in Italy to lament climate change's impact on their crops, and discuss climate-safe alternatives

By Aryn Baker September 28, 2022

Bill Gates on Climate Action: Rich Nations Must Help Africa

TIME speaks with Bill Gates about what rich countries owe the rest of the world when it comes to climate change adaptation

By Aryn Baker September 13, 2022

Dutch Farmer Protests Show How Messy Climate Action Will Be

Tackling climate change means rapid, wholesale transformation of the global food system.

By Ciara Nugent July 29, 2022

The Next Hottest Alternative Milk Comes from Microbes

The dairy industry is a big polluter. A new type of milk offers a more climate-friendly option

By Aryn Baker July 22, 2022

Food Supply Will Take a Double Hit From War and Climate Change

"If we continue on this trajectory, to 1.5°C or even 2°C, all hell will break loose"

By Aryn Baker April 29, 2022

Vegan Documentarian Tells the Inside Story of Lab-Grown Meat

Liz Marshall’s Meat the Future charts the birth of a new technological innovation that grows meat from stem cells instead of animals

By Aryn Baker April 5, 2022

Germany Rolls Back Environmental Rules To Boost Domestic Crops Threatened by Russia's War in Ukraine

Germany will allow farmers to sow crops for feed in previously ecologically protected areas as Russia's war in Ukraine impacts supply

By IRINA ANGHEL/BLOOMBERG March 11, 2022

Climate Change Will Mean More Expensive Grocery Bills For Everyone: IPCC Report

The topline of the official press release of the latest report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) calls global warming “a threat to human wellbeing and health of the planet,” while...

By Aryn Baker February 28, 2022

China’s 5-Year Plan is a Blueprint for the Future of Meat

China's new 5-year plan includes meat grown from stem cells, no slaughter required

By Aryn Baker January 27, 2022

Farmers Globally Need to Prepare for Serious Cash Crop Disruption

Scientists unpack how rising temperatures will upend where avocados, cashews and coffee grow

By Aryn Baker January 26, 2022

Inside the Project to Genetically Modify Rice to Emit Fewer Greenhouse Gases

A cup of tea in 2006 changed genetic engineering forever. Jill Banfield, a University of California at Berkeley ecosystem scientist and 1999 MacArthur Foundation fellow, had become curious in 2006 about mysterious repeating DNA sequences...

By Eric Roston / Bloomberg January 3, 2022

Food & Agriculture

Agroforestry Could Save Brazil’s Rain Forests

Israel Is the Center of Alternative Meat Tech

Thanksgiving Food Waste Is Out of Control

Study: The Most Climate Friendly Pet Food