A new report from the World Resources Institute on its Coolfood pledge initiative observes progress and challenges in curbing ...

Then came the vomiting and crying. She wasn’t gaining weight. Her parents took her to the hospital, and again a few days ...

A large-scale study of food orders at German university cafeterias suggests that climate, health and animal welfare labels ...

The administration’s agenda expands protections for some, but still excludes almost all of the 10 billion land animals farmed ...

Decades of consolidation have pushed thousands of dairy farms out of business, as rising costs for feed, fertilizer, labor ...

Iowans will soon elect their next governor, and the state’s water quality has become a top issue in the campaign. Democrat ...

A survey taken this past spring shows a majority of Iowans say they have experienced negative environmental impacts from ...

Only 2 percent of the ocean appears to benefit substantially from marine conservation areas, challenging a key metric of the ...

Rebecca. L. Root is a multimedia journalist based in Bangkok but reporting globally. She covers humanitarian aid, human rights, global health, development and climate, among other things. Her work has ...

Iowa is the U.S. state with the most factory farms: 10,830 of them, to be exact. The massive scale of animal agriculture in Iowa produces staggering amounts of manure, more than its fields of corn, ...

Claudia is Sentient's Editorial Fellow. Her background is in science journalism and environmental communications and she received a master's of Science Communication from the University of California, ...