On a special episode (first released on November 13, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure. Meanwhile, ...

The fastest way to start a fistfight among environmentalists is to bring up the topic of biofuels — plant-based liquid fuels like ethanol that could potentially take the place of petroleum. Biofuel ...

What we eat and how we produce it is the number one threat to nature. Food systems are the biggest driver of biodiversity loss and produce around a third of all greenhouse gas emissions. We produce ...

A few years ago, Long Vue attended a salmon run — an annual event when salmon migrate to rivers in order to spawn — because he thought it would be fascinating to see so many fish swimming upstream. As ...