Durum wheat varieties can withstand 40C heat along the Senegal River basin, and could produce 600,000 tonnes of food. In the northern Senegalese village of Ndiayene Pendao, close to the border with Mauritania, Fatouma Sow is pulling weeds. Her team of female farmers tread carefully among the tall, ripening plants as they prepare to harvest the […]
Eat some crickets and help the world
You’re going to be eating crickets, so just get over it. The UN expects the global population to grow by 2 billion people in the next 30 years, reaching 9.8 billion by 2050 — likely doubling the world’s demand for meat. That’s where munching a bunch of beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, mealworms and other bugs comes in. Insects grow […]
The Uninhabitable Earth
Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak — sooner than you think. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of […]
How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration
How a Warming Planet Drives Human Migration BY JESSICA BENKO Climate displacement is becoming one of the world’s most powerful — and destabilizing — geopolitical forces. …read more
Diet and global climate change
You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and while good dietary choices boost your own health, they also could improve the health care system and even benefit the planet. Healthier people mean not only less disease but also reduced greenhouse gas emissions from health care. As it turns out, some relatively small diet […]