food security

This Indoor Garden Will Feed You Greens Year-Round

Click & Grow 25 is the latest project by former orchestra conductor Mattias Lepp who felt that the idea of indoor gardens—essentially, a farmer’s market in a box—would be just the tool for staving off future food shortages. His company, founded in 2009, raised $11 million in 2018 to develop new materials and hardware technologies…

Gadgets John Biggs May 11

The World Wastes 1 Billion Tons of Food a Year, and It’s Frying the Planet

If you’ve ever overstuffed your fridge and let some leftovers go bad in the back of it, you’re not alone. People toss more than 1 billion tons of food in the trash every year, according to a new United Nations report. But it doesn’t have to be this way. A Thursday report by the UN…

Earther Dharna Noor Mar 5

New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward Is a Food Desert—But Residents Are Bringing It Back to Life

Calvin Alexander bought his two-story home in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward back in 1978. He and his wife raised five children there, only to nearly lose it all 15 years ago when Hurricane Katrina hit. Still, the family rebuilt. In the Lower Ninth Ward, Alexander remains. “The immediate aftermath of Katrina was that there…

Earther Yessenia Funes Aug 28

Interconnected Ecological Threats Could Trigger ‘Global Systemic Collapse’

Humanity is facing a number of grave threats. Climate breakdown and extreme weather are getting worse, we’re in the middle of the world’s sixth extinction crisis, and food and water shortages are affecting people all over the world. These threats are all serious on their own, but research shows that their combined effects could be…

Climate Change Dharna Noor Feb 7

World Hunger Is On the Rise and ‘Climate Shocks’ Are Partly to Blame, UN Says

A staggering 2 billion people around the world don’t have enough nutritious food to eat, and climate shocks like drought, heat waves, and extreme rainfall have played a large role in their plight, according to a new United Nations (UN) report. At the same time, the world also has an increasing number of people who…

Climate Change Brian Kahn Jul 16

Alaska Natives Are Using Modern Technology to Save Traditional Ice Cellars

The frozen soils on the North Slope have served Alaska Natives as a natural freezer for centuries. Beneath the monotonous surface of the tundra, they’ve dug out chambers known as ice cellars that stay cold enough to keep whale and caribou meat frozen year round. “Its a cultural way of life for time immemorial,” Arnold…

Environmental Justice Brian Kahn Nov 17

What If We Tried to Feed the Entire World With Organic Food?

Buying an organic avocado at Whole Foods may make you feel warm, fuzzy, and morally superior to conventional avocado-buying friends. But can that feeling of moral superiority also feed the entire world? Scientists dug into this question in a study published on Tuesday in Nature Communications. The answer in a nutshell is it’s technically possible,…

Earther Brian Kahn Nov 15

A Staggering Amount of Fish Is Wasted Each Year (updated)

New research shows that industrial fisheries are responsible for dumping nearly 10 million tons of perfectly good fish back into the ocean each year—enough to fill 4,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools. This news comes at a time when nearly 90 percent of the world’s fish stocks are threatened by overfishing. The research, published in the science…

Tech News George Dvorsky Jun 27

Scientists Add 50,000 Seeds to Arctic Doomsday Vault Because Everything Is Awful

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle has received a major deposit of nearly 50,000 seed samples from around the world, bringing the total number of seeds stored at the remote facility to nearly one million. This latest deposit—one of the largest ever—is a critical step in ensuring global food security at a…

Tech News George Dvorsky Feb 22

This New Gadget Could Detect Food Contamination in Minutes

When an outbreak of food poisoning hits, we trace our culinary steps backwards in an attempt to untangle the cause, hopefully before it can hit again. But a new sensor could radically change all that. A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into…

Tech News Ria Misra Sep 21

El Niño Is Fueling One of the Scariest Droughts In Recent History

Imagine if crop yields across the United States dropped more than 50 percent in a single year. It’s difficult to fathom just how catastrophic this would be—but that’s exactly what’s happening in Ethiopia right now, thanks to a deadly, El Niño-fueled drought. The effects of this year’s El Niño—which may go down as the strongest…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Feb 1

The Real Reason Chipotle Hasn’t Been Able to Solve Its E. Coli Problem

Chipotle announced it will be closing up shop nationwide for a few hours as part of its attempt to halt its ongoing E. Coli outbreak. But why hasn’t the company been able to stop the outbreak, or even find the source yet? The answer isn’t in the restaurant chain—it’s in the bacteria. To understand the…

Health Ria Misra Jan 15

This Is How We Can Secure Our Food Supply and Stabilize Our Climate

As the Paris climate summit draws to a close and world leaders scramble to find more ways to make a dent in humanity’s carbon problem, a commonsense but oft-ignored strategy has made its way onto the table: sticking carbon back in the soil. Worldwide, soils contain more carbon than live vegetation and the atmosphere combined.…

Climate Change Maddie Stone Dec 8

The World’s Food Supply Is In Jeopardy But Here’s How We Can Save It

As the world warms, we lose arable land to grow the food we all need to survive. But although our changing climate is one big problem our food supply faces, it’s certainly not the only one—and even fixing the effects of climate change might not generate enough food to feed future generations. “There are 795…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Dec 4

This Is How Much Food It Would Take to End World Hunger

There are over 500 million hungry people in the world—but that number only tells part of the story. The other part of it is the amount of the actual food shortfall. So how much food would we need to make up the gap? There’s now an exact number. The latest International Food Security report is…

io9 Ria Misra Sep 18

On Leaving The Anti-GMO Movement

In this week’s NYT Sunday Review, British author, journalist, and environmental activist Mark Lynas recounts how he was converted to genetically modified food. Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images A lifelong environmentalist, I opposed genetically modified foods in the past. Fifteen years ago, I even participated in vandalizing field trials in Britain. Then I changed my mind.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Apr 24

More Americans Get Food Poisoning From Fruits And Veggies Than From Meat

Are you doing the environmentally responsible thing and trying to eat more produce and less meat? Hey, good on you! Pat yourself on the back. Now brace yourself for some bad news. Vox reports: …a new CDC report from the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration looked at data on US outbreaks between 2008 and 2012.…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Mar 10

Kale, Cauliflower, And Collards All Belong To The Same Species

The species? Brassica oleracea. Its other varieties include cabbage, broccoli, savoy, kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts, to name just a few commercially relevant examples. How did one species of plant come to be so diverse? Selective human breeding and exceptional genetic diversity. Above: A garden plot with several varieties of the B. oleracea at the Jardin…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Feb 19

80% Of Americans Support Mandatory Labels On Foods Containing DNA. DNA!

A recent survey conducted by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics found that 80.44% of respondents supported a government policy mandating labels on foods containing DNA. Not GMOs. DNA, the genetic material contained in every living thing known to science and practically every food, GMO or otherwise. Update: In light of responses to…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 18

Climate Change Could Cut Global Food Output 18% By 2050

The world’s food supplies will be hit hard by global warming, according to a study published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study’s authors advise investing in irrigation and infrastructure to attenuate this loss, but what’s less clear is where these measures should be taken. In fact, we probably won’t know for…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Dec 19

food security

This Indoor Garden Will Feed You Greens Year-Round

The World Wastes 1 Billion Tons of Food a Year, and It’s Frying the Planet

New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward Is a Food Desert—But Residents Are Bringing It Back to Life

Interconnected Ecological Threats Could Trigger ‘Global Systemic Collapse’

World Hunger Is On the Rise and ‘Climate Shocks’ Are Partly to Blame, UN Says

Alaska Natives Are Using Modern Technology to Save Traditional Ice Cellars

What If We Tried to Feed the Entire World With Organic Food?

A Staggering Amount of Fish Is Wasted Each Year (updated)

Scientists Add 50,000 Seeds to Arctic Doomsday Vault Because Everything Is Awful

This New Gadget Could Detect Food Contamination in Minutes

El Niño Is Fueling One of the Scariest Droughts In Recent History

The Real Reason Chipotle Hasn’t Been Able to Solve Its E. Coli Problem

This Is How We Can Secure Our Food Supply and Stabilize Our Climate

The World’s Food Supply Is In Jeopardy But Here’s How We Can Save It

This Is How Much Food It Would Take to End World Hunger

On Leaving The Anti-GMO Movement

More Americans Get Food Poisoning From Fruits And Veggies Than From Meat

Kale, Cauliflower, And Collards All Belong To The Same Species

80% Of Americans Support Mandatory Labels On Foods Containing DNA. DNA!

Climate Change Could Cut Global Food Output 18% By 2050

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